Probably a dumb question, but what is ASMR?

In California, you can also buy alcohol from a Costco without a Costco card. It’s against the law to have “alcohol clubs” or some shit like that, so they can’t stop you from going in, loading up on booze, and checking out without the card

Yeah, I had to read that a few times

How the hell is any of this legal?

eh https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article220293610.html

I wonder what impact, if any, SFUSD’s lottery system has on the segregation of the schools? It’s my understanding that they started the system to reduce segregation by having all of the city’s kids mixed together, regardless of what area of the city they’re from. But, just like anywhere, there is nothing stopping…

From the USA Today, so grain of salt, but this report looks particularly worrying: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/10/16/donald-trump-jeff-sessions-mueller-russia-matthew-whitaker-partisan-column/1641682002/

Come on, TED!

Yeah, the idea that the GOP is the party of “rule of law” when all of the top campaign people have pled guilty and TWO of the Trumpiest GOP congressmen are under indictment for financial crimes is a fucking joke.

Also, if you watch the surveillance video, not only was it not assault, but after he brushes by her, she does some weird hip gyration thing in the direction of the 9 year old she said just assaulted her. It’s about 0:30 in:

He likes it because it feeds his delusions of grandeur, while also showing the 239 lb version of Trump that only exists in his mind.

I know it was considerably different circumstances (GOP candidate credibly accused of being a child predator), but Alabama was able to do it! And I think if any Democrat had a good shot, it’d be Bredesen. He’s pretty well-liked even among conservatives in TN, right?

I was thinking that I’d love to witness his first time meeting all of the Justices/going into the SC for the first time. RBG probably stared daggers his way (and maybe a snarky comment), and I’d have loved to see that.

I don’t know, I’d like to believe that Manchin won’t be the deciding vote to confirm. If Flake, Murkowski, and Collins were all going to vote yes, then I think he would be happy to be the 52nd vote to confirm. I don’t know if he wants to risk being the deciding vote that puts Kavanaugh on the court for decades, but…

His life is so ruined, if he doesn’t get confirmed, he has to live with being on the second most powerful court in the country

I was gonna say— the reason he’s so beholden to Putin is because he got into bed with and laundered money for the Russian mob following the fall of the USSR/when he was declared persona non grata at any respectable American bank. They assassinate people on foreign soil, I think a couple of broken legs would be the…

And increasing rates of opioid/alcohol overdoses: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/23/521083335/the-forces-driving-middle-aged-white-peoples-deaths-of-despair

This is anecdotal, but I know of only one restaurant in San Francisco (where I live) that has completely abandoned the tipping model. The food is probably a little more expensive than it would be at another restaurant, but it’s good enough quality/close enough to what you’d pay factoring in tip that people are willing…

My take is that it’s really a dog whistle for the changing demographics in the country (and likely the world to some extent). At least in the US, the population is going to continue to get browner and there will be fewer WASP-y ass white people in the coming decades. I think they use the term white genocide to talk…