Of course not. You think local cooperation and assistance is shitty now, try informing them that you’re going to start torching their main cash crop.  

Fine the guy for contempt of court, but throw the ticket out because it is a stupid law. Courts and judges don’t exist to merely enforce laws (that’s the police’s job), they exist to make sure the laws in place are fair, as well as deciding how to punish the people who break them.

OR, you know, the judge could’ve acted like a mature, logical human being and decided the case on its own merits objectively instead of allowing petty courtroom theatrics into his ruling.

I can’t do this in my Mini. When I hear the engine buzzing away at ~3000 RPM, my foot gets heavier because I’m just starting to get into the power band. It’s an almost Pavlovian instinct for me. I do the opposite to stay out of trouble - shift up so I’m down in the low 2k range, where there’s next to no pull. Then…

It actually emits an aura that automatically reduces the MPG rating of every car within 100 yards by 15%.

I don’t think Trump or any of the blue collar people that voted for him realize that America is too technologically advanced for manufacturing jobs to be the backbone of our economy anymore. I’m from Michigan and people here are still struggling to grasp the fact that as technology progresses, working on an assembly…

I live literally thirty seconds away from a GM plant. In 2015, GM spent $877 million on a new body plant for the factory. It won’t be done until next year. Even expanding existing facilities is a costly and time consuming development, and they aren’t even adding any new vehicles to the production list.

Eh, the punch wasn’t that good. He had momentum, but he slowed himself right before and put his hand on the guy’s shoulder. Next, he didn’t get a nice extension with his arm, so his fist wasn’t moving as fast as possible. Finally, it looks like the punch landed right between his cheek and the ear. Getting hit in the…

What video games are you playing? Every time I need a health pickup it’s because I just took a ball of demonic fire to the face, some alien space monster decided to nibble on my leg, or nondescript generic terrorists lit me up with AK fire. All of those constitute emergencies in my book.

Monkeys could in no way fill in for Trump’s tweets. I’m afraid they’re much to eloquent for such a thing.

It is a little different from an ordinary “small business” though. They aren’t producing anything that needs shipping, nor are they opening up their house to customers to peruse their wares. They are making content and distributing it over the internet. The closest thing I can equate it to is fining an author for…

I don’t know, this doesn’t feel right. The Joker would never say anything that inelegant and stupid sounding.

What? Objectively analyzing white supremacy only reveals the flaws in its logic and the overall poverty of its merits. The problem isn’t knowing about or understanding toxic modes of thought, the problem is people who refuse to step back and think about things rationally, or to consider other worldviews.

As some who usually ignores or even turns off game BGM, I’ll just leave this here:

I think you meant “For every Boston, there’s a South Boston”, but sure, we get your gist.

As a fellow fledgling author, who is also male, I don’t know how much of a position of authority I have on the subject at hand, but I can tell you how I go about it. I think the way you make them authentic is the same way you make any character authentic; you make them flawed.

If it’ll make Vortex feel better, I’m American (from Michigan even) and my dream car build is to get a 1965-67 Plymouth Barracuda and swap in a AMG V12 with equal length headers, partially just to go to classic car shows in the area and piss old guys off.

Slow down there skippy.

I’ll be the first to admit Obama hasn’t been as aggressive as he should be in a number of situations, and that China is number two on the list of countries we should be watching like a hawk (Russia, and Putin, our new president’s bff, being number 1). So if I thought this was some sort of calculated move on Trump’s…

Yes, let’s piss off the Chinese, a towering economic superpower who we owe billions (if not trillions) of dollars to, with infantile gropings at international politics, all while our president elect plans on reducing our international military presence. Now China has grounds to ignore us when we tell them not to fuck…