The oil industry, which spent $20 million collecting signatures to put the measure on the November ballot, withdrew its initiative just before the deadline today. Instead the companies say they will challenge the law in court.

Read: it is now cheaper to kick it up to SCOTUS than dump money into a propaganda campaign for an initiative that will likely fail.

After seeing my husband play for hours, I didn’t even know it was possible to play without belts!

AFAIK they don’t use those in airports, at least not in the domestic flight area. I could see it being used at customs or something, although I think even in customs they usually have dogs sniffing for agricultural concerns like plants and seeds rather than drugs. The dogs you see near security theater checkpoints screening areas are all bomb sniffing dogs AFAIK.

It’s probably for bomb sniffing dogs, I’ve seen those at JFK and LAX along with those signs in the past. Like right near the cordoned off walkway they have set up for them to walk near everyone in line.

Thomcord grapes (Thompson x Concord hybrid) are amazing. They taste like grape jelly if grape jelly wasn’t sickly sweet. They’ve also got a mild tart bite to them that I love. I can never find them anywhere most of the time but I always snatch one up when I see it.

I have asthma (is that technically immunocompromised?) and before COVID I used to just get bronchitis every year or two. I haven’t had bronchitis since 2020, except when I caught COVID by taking off my mask. If wearing a mask means I don’t deal with that shit again you better believe I’m not raw dogging public air anymore. Feeling unable to get a full breath is the worst feeling in the world.

What if I said the show was racist because it showed white, country people as wide-eyed, stupid hicks? How ridiculous does that sound?

Pretty ridiculous, considering you’d be comparing making classist jokes with the glorification of a nation founded to maintain the enslavement of black people.

In the 70s in the south people knew what that flag meant, just like they know what it means now.

Dukes of Hazzard.

AFAIK .ml doesn’t automatically block comments from other instances containing slurs, they only automatically block slurs from being posted by their own users.

The two headed guy with a… dunce cap? on is a special touch.

Who could have foreseen that laying off a shit ton of people and working the remaining people into the ground (often under threat of deportation due to visas) would result in costly errors??

-business genius Elon Musk, apparently

So he’s ineligible to run for president as he’s not a natural born citizen, but this made me wonder, are there any laws on who can be VP? What if they’re further down the line of succession, like Speaker of the House or president pro tem. of the Senate? What happens if, through the line of succession, someone who is ineligible to run still becomes president?

The most surprising thing here to me is that someone was buying a 737 Max 3 months ago.

Seems like it would be a great quip when someone’s being an ass. “Go rake a forest.”

Sticker Mule’s CEO is a Trump donor and generally known for deceptive marketing tactics, doesn’t shock me that the company is trying to drive traffic to Twitter.

Setting $18/person on fire would have been more beneficial to the community.

Sad fistbump, my immune system also hates all the plants. A HEPA air purifier in the bedroom and living room have made a huge difference for me, to the point I’m considering coming off one of my allergy meds. The allergist’s office probably already mentioned air purifiers as an option, but if you were wondering if it’s worth dropping the money on it, I’ve definitely found it to be.

Not particularly original, but I’m a sucker for William Blake. I love a neurodivergent radical. And I’m also am not particularly well read in poetry, so if there are any other poets that fit that description I always love to hear about more!

The Tyger is probably my favorite of his. I can feel the rhythm of it in my heart, and it’s made so much more tangible in its fear and awe when you know that he wrote it after seeing a young man killed by a tiger.

If you haven’t seen the Catherine Tate Show that’s worth checking out as well.

I don’t buy coffee much, but I also have a pretty sensitive sense of smell so I know what you mean when you say it ruins the coffee. Can you bring your own travel mug and pour the coffee into it? Since the barista isn’t touching the coffee itself the smell should go away entirely if you get rid of the cup.