How so?

It would be finding out how much does perceived fertility impacts what is considered attractive (already a subjective measure that changes based on culture and history). They whole point would to be if there is, and how much, a subconscious weighting based on that.

Similar studies have been done on equally frivolous (in the context that someone being fertile or not does not change they worth or value as a person) variables and generally they have interesting results.

Not really related to the subject of the thread, hence the prefix of "tangent", except the whole thing is around a beauty pageant where we already reduce women to the role of object and score them on it.

Pretty much. Going to be a shit show.

Would be more interesting if the judges didn't know she was trans. Seeing it is a beauty contest I imagine part of the subjective scoring will be based on an unconscious "can I breed with her" factor (actually make babies, not just practice) and could unintentionally bias males judges regardless of their conscious openness to the concept.

Tangent, but that would be a fun research project. Does telling a male a woman is sterilized impact their perceived attractiveness? How about trans instead? How do the impacts compare?

Thanks Jenny McCarthy

Used to be the Secret Service. Think the FBI does it all now, but could be wrong there.

Nope. You are out the money.

And until last year your options to sue were limited (SCOTUS fixed that a bit).

More likely everyone was doing the same thing and backlogged the system.

However, you can vote with an expired license as long is it is less than 4 years. And if it is there are other options like a utility bill.

https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/id/poster-11x17-aw-voter.pdf

If it starts getting warmer than when new during charging or usage replace it. Or if it ever, even brand new, gets to "that's pretty warm (before hot)".

I'm lazy though so I just replace things like that yearly. They aren't expensive. In theory you should get a few thousand charge cycles so that is overkill, but I like the piece of mind.

>Bodies at the bottom of a river may float up

Poke holes.

Is it a translation/culture thing? Like makes sense in Swedish but not so much in American English?

Yeah, that is just a safety thing. Don't want the system going out and leaving everyone in the dark. Esp. if it went out because of an emergency.

Probably wasn't a bluff. Not like it would last long and probably wouldn't lose much if anything. It would doom anyone's reelection who was a party to it though and I don't know of a single congress critter that doesn't have "get reelected" as their first priority.

Keep in mind, looking at a report for FY2021, Exxon's earnings (not revenue) were only 8% from downstream (gas, lubes, that type of stuff). Chemicals and upstream is where all the profit is at.

This was also just one of those useless congressional committee hearings they do now and then that doesn't do anything regardless and has no real authority. So they didn't tell all of congress to piss up a rope.

Exxon threatened the US congress during some hearings a bit ago (was during Rex's tenure) to just quit selling gas. Congress backed down. Even the people that scream about how powerful the oil companies are I think are underestimating them.

It's a bit terrifying if you ask me.

Yeah, that didn't work out too well after WW1 with Germany. And we tried bankrupting Russia before (as the USSR). The fall of the soviet union was nice and all, but looks like the solution might not have stuck.

>conviction of a felony or a year or more in jail.

Minor pedantic moment, but people seem to miss this: That should read "punishable by a year or more in jail". Even if the defendant just gets a fine, if the crime allows for a year+ it counts as a federal disability (basically it is a felony even if not called one).

Crashes like this that are not intentional could be mostly involving older people. That would cause your brain to latch on to the pattern. And this type of thing, although usually much less severe, tends to be the trigger for "time to take the keys away" conversations that should have happened long before.

>brought in the potato pancakes and applesauce

Latkes if you didn't know the name if you ever wanted to look up recipes. Really easy to make. Shredded potato, egg, onion (powder works fine, but fresh is better IMO) and fry 'em up in a pan.

Also good with sour cream.

P.S. If you liked latkes, try kugel. It's a noodle dish.

Well bless their heart.

AL's seems obscene in length, but I think most state constitutions are a bit on the long side.

https://www.ncsl.org/blog/2017/11/17/your-states-constitution-the-peoples-document.aspx

Yeah, Alabama is an outlier. TX at #2 is 88k lines. Article is a bit old, but doubt the ratio has changed much.

I guess it does make sense. The federal one is pretty light because they left most of the power to the states. The states would need to get more into the weeds in theory and they are easier to amend. Odd thinking about it though since when we talk about the constitution it is usually in reference to the nice tiny federal one.

Have to confess, I have not read my current state's one. US Constitution plenty of times, have a copy on my desk in fact (no particular reason, just haven't put it back), but the founding documents of our states are just as important.