I think what’s truly amazing about cop talk is that most all the guys writing these reports usually have a two year degree at best and yet will use words like they’re writing a Dostoevsky novel.

Oh, man. I’m a defense attorney and “cop talk” is so infuriating.

“After exiting my cruiser, I approached the domicile with my standard issue service weapon remaining holstered on my right side. After surveying the grounds, I indicated my presence by activating the doorbell. When the occupant responded and unlatched…

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Does this count?

Hey now! That car was snapped together...erm...finely crafted by folks making well north of $60,000/yr. And just to make sure the flow of highly desirable machinery doesn’t stop because someone called in sick - they even pay $60k+ to have reserve workers sit in a lunchroom. The artisan-ship doesn’t stop there either.…

Thats giving way to the sunken costs fallacy. The money invested in the program is gone for good or ill. It only costs $170k to replace the equipment dropped, so that is the cost of the strike.

Driver of modern supercar going 60mph on Tail of the Dragon:

It makes a horrible kind of sense. These women are basically hearing “all your suffering was for nothing” if FGM is successfully ended. They went through it—probably with no anesthetic—they’ve probably constantly dealt with persistent infection and endless pain at the very least, and they were told that it was their…

I’m a woman. I’m also trans. I was circumcised. That’s by definition female genital mutilation. GTFOH if you want to pretend they’re apples and oranges. Stopping people from slicing up children’s genitals isn’t a zero sum game.

I am not surprised in the least that this doctor is a woman. FGM is often insisted upon by the women who have themselves endured it. I’m no fan of Ayaan Hirsi but she is clear that her father opposed the procedure, and her grandmother secreted her away from the home to undergo it. As well as another case profiled on…

 I don’t believe it’s a suicide. She was a successful black Muslim woman in a position of authority. That will poss off both racists and sexists.

Unless the Gen 2 variant completely redesigned the power train that’s a false statement.

I owned NOTHING but Toyotas for the first 25 years of driving. I too was really turned off by ANYTHING domestic- GM especially due to the crappy issues my parent’s had with theirs when I was a little kid in the early 80's.

Actually, wouldn’t maple syrup for transmission fluid be a more Canadian thing?

Because consumers are sort of dumb and prone to buy from brand and model recognition than actual qualities of the said product.

**CLICKBAIT ALERT**Car that’s for sale everywhere outsells car that’s not. News at 11!

One of my favorite things to do during road trips is look up Yelp reviews for the porn/adult/strip club shops that you drive past out in the rural midwest. They are, without fail, delightful.

They’d offered everyone the option of $400, later increased to $800, a new ticket, and a hotel room for the night. That nobody thought this was enough should have been taken as a hint, rather than as some sort of act of war.

I’m now picturing a WNBA game where the mop boys are darting out in between play to mop up sweat and the stray uterus.