Got bored. So I made myself a maze in Minecraft, put Iron Golems at the start, punched them and proceeded to run for my life. So far I have been killed 6 times
When you get past the fear stage its actually really fun
I just realized I never put an exit on the maze and that’s probably why I keep being cornered and dying
There’s another post on here where this woman talks about dating a rich guy and she was like “oh you can’t drink alcohol on a public sidewalk here” and he was like “Sure you can – it’s $500.” Like he’d done it often enough that he had the “price” memorized.
the word “privilege” comes from the Latin privilegium, meaning “private law,” or law granting one person or group benefits others don’t enjoy
I remember reading an article about Koch Industries that said they just budget in fines for violating environmental regulations and lawsuit settlements for damage and accidents caused by broken pipelines – it’s cheaper than installing cleaner, safer equipment.
Fines that aren’t adjusted to the means of the violator are worse than useless.
Punishable by fine = legal for the rich
“In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.” –Anatole France
This is true most places, but not everywhere. I have long been a fan of the Day Fine system, used in most Nordic countries. In this system, the fines are not set amounts of currency, they are set proportions of how much you make in a day or a week or a year. (And that includes investment income.) Small fine? Half a day’s wages. Big fine? Couple days’ wages.
So if you’re poor, the fine is small. Which, especially when combined with a minimum wage that actually reflects the cost of living and is automatically adjusted for inflation annually, means that fines are rarely devastating.
If you’re rich, the fine can be … quite substantial. In Finland, for example, a really rich person once got a $100k speeding ticket. Ordinary rich people can pay in the $30k-$50k range. Which means that the fine is large enough that rich people actually … care about it.
I read an article about a year ago, which I now cannot find, about a guy in Sweden who got a $50k parking ticket. He was furious, outraged, all over social media. Most Swedes were not sympathetic. But the article pointed out that the guy had spent the previous six months in an American city (DC, I think?) where he had racked up around $50k in total parking and driving tickets over the course of that six months (which breaks down to approximately $2,000 in tickets every week). Because each individual violation was small enough that he didn’t care, and even accumulating up to $50k, it still wasn’t enough to be actually painful in any way to him. So in both places, the US and Sweden, the guy spent the same amount of money on tickets. The difference is, in the US none of that money made any difference to his behavior. He continued to break traffic and parking laws. In Sweden, he double-parked once, and thereafter followed the law. Because while he could easily afford to spend $2,000/week in tickets, he couldn’t afford to spend $50k/week in parking tickets.
The first sentence says 32 and 13 implying that the speaker is 32 years old and their girlfriend is 13 years old, which is both highly inappropriate and illegal. The next sentence reveals the speaker was talking about their game levels, not their ages, which is perfectly okay.
In their reply to the audience they then say they are picking her up from middle school, again implying that their girlfriend is underage, but quickly state she’s grading papers letting us know she’s a teacher, definitely an adult, and there no reason to be upset.
The rollercoaster gif portrays how switching from upset and worried to relieved in such a short period of time feels emotionally.
The next meme shows the guy panicking from misunderstanding, then feeling relieved and calm realizing the truth, only to panic over the next misunderstanding and then calm again when hearing the end.
In the movie venom during the first human trials of the symbiote, the research team is happy that the patients “vitals are holding steady”. This is a reference to the production team not consulting a single medical professional to find out what good vital signs look like.
Ah yes, a pulse of 136 And an oxygen saturation of 81%
The ideal levels
Yes nothing to be concerned about there
Perfectly normal
They said they were holding steady, not that they were holding healthy.
“Patient’s vitals are steady.” “Doctor… They’re dead.” “And maintaining that state quite well.”
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
