ToastedRavioli, toastedravioli@midwest.social

oversight of chemicals

Weird way to say “being anti-fluoride”

Not to defend any of that stuff, but this has nothing to do with tourism. Theyre firing people on the media side to replace them with AI

Im not going to dispute the reality that doing whatever you want on your own property, assuming its large enough that youre basically alone, is kind of de facto legal in the sense that you most likely wont get in trouble for doing it.

But, that doesnt make it actually legal. The way that most state laws on DUIs are written you can get a DUI doing a lot of things that are nothing like driving a car on a public roadway.

One example: a Zamboni DUI in Fargo, ND where the defense contested that you cant get a DUI on a zam under state law

Defense attorney Lindsey Haugen said during the bench trial Tuesday that the law is not clear whether a Zamboni is considered a vehicle, or whether it is illegal to drive the machine on the ice while drunk. He also said witnesses are hazy on whether Anderson drove the Zamboni on a road behind the arena to dump ice or whether that road was accessible to other vehicles.

But Municipal Court Judge Stephen Dawson said state law is written to include vehicles “such as” a Zamboni.

Afterward, Haugen said his research of DUI law found specific vehicles such as tractors, snowmobiles, recreational vehicles and boats, but he found no references to a Zamboni.

Looking at this, you can clearly see that the law in ND outlines a ton of stuff that tends to happen on private (or otherwise closed) property and not on a roadway using a car. Boating is an obvious example since its in the water, but recreational vehicles definitely refers to ATVs and side by sides or whatever they call them. Tractors are driven on roadways sometimes but obviously most of their use is on private land. Snowmobiling also doesnt occur on open roadways, and at most occasionally crosses them.

If a snowmobiler is drunk and hits a snowshoer or crashes on a privately owned mountain, they still will get a DUI. If a guy operates a zamboni drunk in a private non-profit ice rink they still get a DUI. If you got drunk and went go-karting you could get a DUI.

If you get wasted and do donuts on your own private field, whether in a snowmobile, a truck, or a zamboni, legally you could definitely get a DUI. But you wouldn’t probably get one. There is a worthwhile distinction to be made there. If you and a friend get wasted and take the ‘boni out to whip shitties in your private field, but he flies off and dies, you’re definitely getting a DUI in the investigation of that death

It’s all very “if a tree drives drunk in the middle of a forest, but no one is around to see it, is it a DUI?” The answer is still yes, or at least it would be in a world where trees drive cars

You 100% can. People have gotten DUIs for operating a Zamboni while drunk, which is a vehicle that drives entirely in a closed environment not on the roadway.

You can get a DUI for driving anything while intoxicated that requires a drivers license to operate, regardless of where you are operating it. You can also get a DUI for operating anything on a roadway while intoxicated regardless of if it requires a license, like a bicycle, ATV, golf cart, etc.

That said, people who get blasted and drive around their own privately owned fields are not likely to get caught. That doesnt mean that just because they dont get caught that its not illegal to do

Its amazing that since then we haven’t had much success in even landing anything unmanned on the moon, let alone manned. The fact that they weren’t ripped to shreds like most other things weve ever tried to land, using that era’s technology, is absolutely fucking bonkers

E: Im assuming someone downvoted this bc they think Im saying this as in “the moon landing was fake” or something, which is not the case. Its just incredibly difficult to land something on the moon successfully, even with all the modern technology that we have. Resilience (2025), Hakuto-R (2023), Luna 25 (2023), and Beresheet (2019) all crashed in attempts to land on the moon using modern sensors and flight equipment that have infinitely more capability than what the US used to put men on the moon. The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) used a 1.024 MHz processor, 2 KB of RAM, and 72 KB of read-only memory. You would need 4,000,000 times more RAM to simply play kerbal space program.

I dont believe the moon landing was faked whatsoever. Russia was watching every step of the way and would have happily pointed out if it had never happened. This was the height of the cold war. But instead they congratulated the US on its achievements. That said, its fucking insane that we were able to do it. Modern equipment has a less than 50% chance of landing safely, the odds of them being successful back then were infinitesimally smaller

Im sure they covered it on the local nightly news roundup of “people who got shot today”, an STL classic

Tbf, 500,000 and 5,000,000 are basically the same number. So easy to mix up /s

I would say, as a person no longer practicing any type of religion but that was also intensively raised catholic, that this is basically my belief system.

I still hold valuable many of the virtues that I learned, partially (not nearly entirely), through being raised as a christian. Like tolerance, empathy/sympathy, being charitable, being patient and kind, etc. But that is also why I drifted away from the religion upon becoming old enough to see that catholicism/christianity doesnt exactly inspire those traits in people in the holistic sense. And then go on to learn how much religion has been used as a tool of control, and a legitimization of a litany of awful things in the world.

They practice those virtues towards one another, but treat the rest of the world as others of varying degrees. Most christian denominations are hardly tolerant of each other, let alone anyone outside that sphere. Hell, a lot of christian denominations are even intolerant of separate sects of their same religion. Obviously from there its easy enough to jump to severely judging other people based on their (a)religion, “lifestyle” aka being LGBTQ, or anything else that dosnt fit within their belief system or (usually very narrow) worldview.

I remember when I was a teenager, a woman approached me on a train platform and asked me for money, and my strongly religious father chided me afterwards for giving her money because she might have just been a scammer. (He is charitable to be fair, but only gives money to formal organizations and the church). That was a big moment for me being like, how is that practicing real charity to refuse someone in that situation if you can help them? People say the same about “what if they buy drugs with it?” Ethically, I have always believed that removing agency from the person asking you for money, by refusing out of that type of belief, is not very “christian” in the sense of its virtues.

What if the person genuinely needs it, but you refuse because you think they dont, or that theyll use it negatively, and then they suffer further hardship? Giving without expectation is charitable, and giving the person agency to make the right choice is patience and tolerance. But christianity doesnt necessarily align with that concept, despite the fact that I cant imagine jesus being like “That homeless guy might buy alcohol, I shouldnt give him the $5 he asked for”

It was a huge victory for the people with inside information that knew exactly when to pump and dump the stock market

My assless chap shorts beg to differ

Hopefully Noem is available, Ive heard the one thing shes good at is putting down sick puppies

Yes, I understand it would be an awesome war crime

And nothing about that phrasing in modern parlance sounds odd whatsoever

“If he were to do that… it would be the commitment of a great war crime.”

“Great” and “war crime” probably should not be in the same sentence. Especially adjacent to each other

Im a big fan of doing small amounts, but sometimes it definitely gets you feeling like

The “speak softly” era of American diplomacy is over, but the big stick is still bigger than ever. There is effectively a zero chance of anyone being willing to go toe to toe with the big stick. Although its possible the current leadership runs itself out of resources to wield the big stick against a large enough coalition of other countries. That part remains to be seen while we waste time fighting Iran for no reason

There are pictures from the St. Louis vs St. Louis world series in 1944 that show young kids having beers and smoking cigarettes. Considering that was decades later, I can only imagine what kids were up to in the 1920s. Surely they were drinking and smoking too

1-8-5-0-5 dash 7-4-2-7

Neighborhood pride

I live at higher elevation, and the UV is literally “extreme” (13-14 on the whatever-it-is scale) any time it is remotely sunny. Going outside is still very enjoyable any time. Dude probably lives somewhere with half the UV and is worried about the sun as if he is a vampire

Some people are just illogical. If your only conception of going outside is standing in full sun on the street and huffing the exhaust pipes of passing cars then thats more of a problem with lack of imagination. Parks exist, shade exists, going outside of town exists… literally endless ways to avoid all of these impossible challenges

It was fundamentally founded in the concept of “a king having power over everyone is unfair, but obviously having a ruling class of oligarchs is okay”, and basically has never moved from that point. Just rich white dudes mad at one more powerful rich white dude. They never intended to give up an inch of their own power. They were just salty about the king

Sad day for the marines when they had to stop eating flesh