You mean it’s not legally binding when Marco Rubio says “tch-tch-tch… now don’t you do that.”

Yeah and even though I live in a county that has a free and easy hazardous waste dropoff service, it’s still a pain to drive out there. I’m sure a lot of people who care less than me still dump shit in the ground because their grandpa did it that way. And many cities and counties won’t even offer a hazardous waste service…

Who is “you people” and how do you get that? I just spent the whole comment talking about how we don’t allow dumping in the storm drains.

Yeah that’s a good point. Can you imagine getting a ticket because you spilled your coffee?

The fact that that happens is not a reason to allow free dumping into the storm drains though. There’s not a ready solution for motor oil drips that happen to leak from a truck. There is a solution to homeowners wanting to dispose of 4 quarts of oil after an oil change.

The dumping laws make sense, this was just a stupid application of them.

This is one of those times it pays to actually read the article. The fine has been thrown out. Whatever patrol men ran up and fined her for polluting waterways were clearly overzealous and the council threw the charge out when she appealed it.

The storm drains in my area all have prominent “no dumping” signs on them, because they do drain to sensitive waterways that would impact wildlife and the environment if they were polluted. But I think the main thrust of this is keeping people from dumping their anti-freeze and motor oil and old gasoline and paint and shit like that.

So on the one hand, I kind of understand the instinct to say “hey don’t dump your shit there, that’s a storm drain” but obviously a few sips of coffee isn’t going to hurt anything.

His crime goes unpunished a lot, unfortunately, at all levels of society. But this is just absurd. He doesn’t get to call himself the Duke of Derpingshire anymore. Oh no! And the fact that they let him continue to be a prince because “what can we do he’s a prince” 🤷 ! How about cast him out, disembowel him in the town square, hang his remains in a gibbet from the battlements. Like the kings of old!

Dude take a break from the Marxist revolution to recognize there is more than one dynamic in the world.

Perhaps they can work out an exchange if the healthcare workers are willing to release some of the IDF soldiers they have taken hostage.

Jim Jefferies disappeared from the Riyadh festival lineup after he said on Theo Von’s podcast: ‘One reporter was killed by the [Saudi] government – unfortunate, but not a fucking hill that I’m gonna die on.’

What a fucking loser. He threw his soul away AND lost the payday. Lose-lose fucking loser.

You make a good point. I think sadly it will not rise to the point of actual effect. It will inflame people who support her, and those folks are likely already inflamed over Gaza. Many others don’t give a shit about her or actively hate her, and they will either gloss over this or say “that’s what you get” or even “good.”

My own mother, who is a feminist and wildlife advocate, loves to repost FB memes about her being an unrealistic virtue signalling twat who perfoms a low-carbon image while still not living up to the humble standards of the elbow-grease-powered older generations. It’s sad. Greta is incredibly polarizing, and some people just hate her for being young and idealistic.

On the whole I don’t see this affecting anything. We live in an era of mutually exclusive mental models of reality and they can be incredibly well insulated.

At the very least, the word can be used figuratively to describe the decay and breakdown of social fabric. Personally I find it refreshing to hear an entire society held accountable, not just a few mustache twirling villains at the top.

I like how you cast everyday breakdown of social fabric as “corruption.” We usually only apply that word to leaders but you’re right it can pervade every level.

I see, hence the layoffs.

I didn’t even realize Bosch was involved with autos, but apparently:

Bosch − the world’s biggest auto supplier, making everything from braking and steering systems to sensors

Can you explain? What “here” are we all at that capitalists should know they aren’t welcome at?

Well I’m glad someone gets so many laughs out of it!

It has been for a long time. Pork-laced ammunition is popular among MAGAts, who believe it will allow them to kill Muslims and send them straight to hell.

Who’s talking about that anywhere?

As an American, my message to my friends in Europe is, to paraphrase Musk: “Whether you choose Trumpian right wing thuggery and nationalism, it is coming to you. You either fight back or you die.”