“And as I was walking out, I heard a single clap. Followed by another. And another. Faster, now. I turned to see Josh, slowly rising to his feet, a proud, silent respect in his eye. As I continued for the door, slowly but surely, a chorus of hands crescendoed into whoops and hollers. The entire dealership, the mechanics, the salesMEN, the wives, all stood staring in reverence, the wives in lust, as I pushed through the double glass doors in slow motion and out into my carrier. The credits rolled. True story.”
Why would a random dealership call the secretary of state, and even if they did why would they not have called the department of transport before that?
That's like calling the CEO before calling the customer hotline
That's like calling the CEO before calling the customer hotline
You might be sadly surprised how often that or something similar happens. There are a lot of business customers out there who somehow believe that their business is always the most important business and they shouldn't have to follow standard procedure to get support.
Sovereign citizen. People who think the law is magic, and also not at all what it is as printed. They think if they string enough legal references together, they don’t have to pay taxes, have a magic clone of themselves that accrues debt for them and other equally insane bullshit.
The “sovereign citizen” in Russia seem to believe that they are citizens of the Soviet Union, funnily enough:
A Russian movement of conspiracy theorists, known among other names as the Union of Slavic Forces of Russia (Soyuz slavyanskikh sil Rusi), or more informally as “Soviet Citizens”, holds that the Soviet Union still exists de jure and that the current Russian government and legislation are thus illegitimate. One of its beliefs is that the government of the Russian Federation is an offshore company through which the United States illegally controls the country.
Every country seems to have their share of those crackpots. In Germany they think pretty much the same, except it’s the Reich (the WW1 one) that’s still totally real.
It’s like some hilarious half-baked plan at my DnD table.
Mage: I know, I’ll use the magic item I found to attack the Lich! DM: The one that you found in the Lich’s crypt? Mage: Yes. DM: The one with the backstory about how the Lich made it himself? Mage: Uh-huh. DM: The one where he spent three centuries researching and crafting it to dominate the world of the living? The one that has the inscription: “For the master’s tool will never dismantle the master’s house.” Mage: … oh. DM: Yeah… Mage: I’m in danger.
Its really shitty indeed, It’s so shitty I don’t think it can even run 720p videos locally without stuttering, let alone YouTube/Netflix,etc., but it’s only 50 bucks. (125H of work with the inmate wage of 0.40$/H 🤯 )
I thought that since it’s for inmates, they gonna try to rake up the price and sell it for like 300$ or more. Of course, they still can make big money on their back by making anything and everything a subscription. Want to watch a movie or play a game? It’s 20$ an hour.
Both JPay and GTL charge prisoners at every step of the communication process: In New York, each email sent or received requires a “stamp,” which costs $0.25—twice that if the message exceeds 6,000 characters, or if it includes a picture or card. For four stamps, friends and family can also send 30-second “video-grams” to loved ones inside.
Music, movies, e-books, and games can also be downloaded on JPay tablets for exorbitant fees. Songs are listed for as much as $2.50 each, and a single album can cost up to $46, according to state records. Renting a movie costs between $2 and $25. Until November 2019, when the company backed down in the face of public pressure, JPay was selling incarcerated individuals in a handful of states e-books sourced from Project Gutenberg, a database of free books
Those costs may seem ridiculous and petty, but also remember that prisoners do not have to be paid minimum wage. They often make only a few dollars an hour.
So that 20 dollar rental for the tablet may be an entire days work. Every email exchange a half hours work.
Wow, and this was from a verified account, so it’s definitely real. Shit…
Oh well. Rest in piss and blood emeralds, you bloated fuck. Your kids hated you and nobody loved you (especially your dad that has sex and children with your sister).
I went to a panel presentation on the early colonies around the Revolution once. When they took questions, I asked if there was any special logistical problems Virginia ran into after due to how large the territory was and man, they treated me like a fuckin idiot. I still think about that. It’s not, like, important or anything I just don’t have a therapist for this sort of shit
should have asked them why, if they were so set on being independent, they didn’t change the name of the state to something OTHER than the queen of england
At the time I was 22 and didn’t have a firm grasp on the idea I could tell someone being rude to go fuck themselves. It was just a bunch of old folks pining for the glory days of national pride and dysentery, but like, fuck. Snuff out a curious light like that.
I’m older but in the same boat. Unless those younger people are part of proud technological illiterati, which really pisses me off for some reason. Probably those 30 years of being an IT drone…
No idea. I still wonder sometimes where the disconnect was, but I also just try to not let things like that get to me anymore. I’m having mixed success
It’s got a few answers. For the first one, the logistics were handled by not administering the territory, those were only claims. For the next one, logistics were handled by breaking them up into other territories that would become states since administering it wasn’t feasible. In the third, it was possible, but it caused problems. The civil war was not the only grievance west virginia had. They had been neglected for the better part of a century. Richmond usually didn’t care much about those on the other side of the mountains. In some ways the civil war was just a good time to do what they’d probably wanted to for awhile. Really the logistics are the reason virginia is the size and shape it is today. Now they have a capitol where they can be not cared for by locals.
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