Notices by TJ of the Side-Eye (tj@noauthority.social)

Another view of the Star Wars saga

#memes

Picture ID is required to vote in North Carolina. According to the mailer I received from the State Board of Elections, if I don't have the money or paperwork for official ID, I can pop over to their office, give them my name, and they'll give me picture ID suitable for voting. No paperwork required.

So really, the BoE is undermining the law. I could pop into several offices, give a local address and some name, and get free, local IDs that I could then take voting in multiple precincts.

@ZeroSum06

I'm wearing a shirt that says that, this very instant!

@thetruthaddict

"Brain health: Marijuana can cause permanent IQ loss of as much as 8 points when people start using it at a young age. These IQ points do not come back, even after quitting marijuana."

https://www.samhsa.gov/marijuana

(References at the bottom)

The key here is "at a young age". People who don't start pot until their late 20's have fewer mental side effects than those that start in their teens.

@thetruthaddict

Based on my housemate, they also kill brain cells.

Anyway, it will be a long time before this research leads to results:

"These studies are considered by the NCI as preclinical. They were all done using animals. According to them, no clinical trials of cannabis use for the treatment of cancer in humans have been published."

@thetruthaddict

This summary references several studies demonstrating pot use by youngsters decreases IQ and increases risk of certain mental health issues.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9255894/

There are also plenty of studies that show both those risks are significantly reduced in adults (25+).

Apparently you believe that pot is such an unmitigated good that one can't even make a joke about a truth that reflects poorly on it. I'm not interested in pursuing this further with a zealot.

@BillGnarlson

Are you flying from Australia? It's $600 from the East Coast of the US, round trip.

@mrman

@PNS

Sooooo...some women have necklaces that are similar? They are not identical in length, style or color.

I don't know who most of those women are, but I'll bet this type of necklace can be found worn by many women, from non-political to hyper-political.

@PNS

*shrug* Women's necklaces are some kind of chain. Large links, small links, fancy links, plain links, overlapping links. Sometimes they have a pendant or other decoration, sometimes they don't.

But you really are reading too much into women's jewelry.

From women's Olympic rugby. Not sure which is more impressive: the catch and release, or the strength of those shorts.

I see this often.

#memes

@Twig

If she was born in the US, she's a natural-born citizen, and thus eligible. There's no exception made for anchor babies.

@IceCubeSoup @eriner @Richard @Sum_ID

Joke's on them...

Jeremy Clarkson keepin' it real

#memes

@Alex @Twig

According to wikipedia:

"In February 1998, De Niro was held for questioning by French police in connection with an international prostitution ring. De Niro denied any involvement, and later filed a complaint against the examining magistrate for "violation of secrecy in an investigation". He stated he would not return to France, but has since traveled there several times including for the 2011 Cannes Film Festival."

Links in wikipedia article.

@Alex @Twig

You are correct. The original article is no longer online, so I can't tell what sort of questions were asked.

Maybe he was guilty of having bad taste in friends. Maybe he he has some nasty habits. At this point, I can' tell.

@Jonny @Alex @Twig

"What's that in your mouth?"

@BowsacNoodle @PNS

With his own gun.

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