He’d be stupid not to. I think he has a valid case.

2km over? That’s wild. I caught a ticket in New Zealand a few years ago, but I was going 10km over (in my defense, 25 kmph is an insanely low speed limit if you’re not in a school zone, which I wasn’t) so I took my lumps, paid the fine, and correctly assumed that the infraction would not show up on my license/insurance…

“I’ve passed every random drug test I’ve been given” still isn’t terribly compelling. It is entirely within reason for the richest, weirdest man on the planet to keep a stash of body-temp pee in his office in the event he IS actually drug tested. People like him need to be tested in the presence of an unbiased…

Oh, that’s right. I would posit that a dude declaring himself the Alpha automatically means you’ll be replaced as soon as he thinks you’ve aged out or let yourself go, but that could be true for the second, third, and fourth wives, not just the starter.

I don’t think she called herself the starter wife. I’m pretty sure that’s what Elon called her on their wedding day.

Dangling my legs and jumping out of a plane at 12,000 feet was one of the scariest things I’ve ever done. I don’t think I would’ve had the guts to do it myself - thank goodness for tandem instructors who do it every day.

I spend a lot of time on the r/treelaw subreddit and I see stories like this ALL the time. Some scammer (or shitty neighbor) lies to a landscaping company about being the property owner and pays to have trees removed. And then they’re on the hook for treble damages, which with trees is No Joke. I feel like it…

Sorry, not a good excuse. You and your wife know her legal name and you know when it’s required vs optional. If she doesn’t want to use it at all, or occasionally forgets when it matters most (i.e. when she MUST use her legal name), then she should just change it legally. I know it’s a big hassle and could be a…

Well sure, but then how would your local megachurch’s absolute worst members buy their second yachts???

I mean, it’s both. The system that exists in Vietnam has, by design, never enabled a free press (all media is state-run), and then when the richest man in the country needs a hand with taking down a journalist, politicians are happy to step in.

Sometimes I get really worried that “proper disposal methods” like deep well injection sites and carbon sequestration is going to come back to haunt us in the not-too-distant future. We can’t just keep shoving toxic shit under the earth’s surface indefinitely, right?

Fascinating, thank you!

To be fair, Times Square since 2005 or so has been almost entirely Disneyfied. It’s very safe... and 33rd/7th is Herald Square anyway.

I worked in Times Square on and off for several years, including once as an event manager at a bar on Restaurant Row. I had to bring my paystubs with me on my way in to working NYE because NYPD had cordoned off a very large perimeter and weren’t letting anyone through unless they could prove that they lived and/or…

Ute = SUV, as in Sport Utility Vehicle. I’ve never heard a pickup referred to as a ute.

I do that too. Sometimes I’ll flash my lights and honk if I’ve been riding their tail for a minute and they either haven’t noticed or don’t give a shit. And, as MountainBikingAndTrackDays said in their reply, I’ll also sometimes give up and pass them then hop right back in front of them.

Adams is former NYPD and still drinking the kool-aid - of course he thinks the money spent was cost-effective.

I agree that they are rats with wings, and I hate them too, but we humans are the reason they’re invasive vermin, and animal-hating vigilantes scare the shit out of me.

They were probably impaired, if I had to hazard a guess.

I’m worried that the fumes that would come off an extended burn would probably create an air quality nightmare in those communities. Not a good solution as EV production scales.