That and “are insurance companies pushing this to avoid payouts since cat 5 now wouldn’t be ‘the worst’ one?”

additional hypothetical layer: if post malone were arrested, would he receive similarly sympathetic coverage?

carlos ghosn approves

irrespective of political affiliation, deflect, add qualifications, reframe yourself as the “real victim” and/or double down are all preferred alternatives to “admit you were wrong”

banking on helmut swooping in with some awful take on how “women should be thrilled to be harassed by christian” to take some heat off of him.

interesting, Australian law is pretty identical to US laws in that regard but i thought in australia people only ate succulent chinese meals

Most american states with a few exceptions have single party consent laws, which means that anything in public can be filmed and only requires the filming party’s consent. I don’t agree with it, but it’s how the law is currently written

I’ve seen more liberals go into denial/deflection mode than call out their own. Pulling trump-stuff like “that one person at the protest showing a swastika or saying blatant bigoted stuff was a plant by our enemies to make us look bad” instead of some sort of acknowledgement or introspection that an element of that…

douche-bro trifecta if he was trading crypto at the time

I don’t know, israel/gaza discourse kind of exposed “do as i say, not as i do” from plenty of far-left spheres.

featuring Ice Cube (who gets a pass for...reasons?)

Good thing abandoned is gonna reveal itself as the real next silent hill game ANY DAY NOW

red bull promo car with the giant can-spec only

of all the “tangentially related to a vehicle” stories that i wouldn’t want to read...

williams has been making strides in the right direction since circling the toilet in the late teens, though they’ll admittedly remain a minnow on the grid for the forseeable future

wesley kagan seems thoroughly entrenched between numbers 2 and 3, though his 3 seems to be more for his own personal amusement (recent video on a cnc machine had a large portion of him rebuilding an ancient industrial band saw)

hahahaha yeah, i kept thinking “it’s odd these young people are so into hockey and getting into fights about the stanley cup. On the other hand, i never thought kate bush would have a career renaissance via tik tok”

good grief i’m behind the times. I just found out the stanley cup hubbub is not about ice hockey

Yeah, this sounds like “employee thought they were being helpful by allowing someone to do something against protocol while not thinking of potential consequences”

hopefully having a lot of supply on hand at launch forces bot buyers/scalpers to sell at retail price since the alternative is “walk into gamestop and it’s available without markup and without issue”