Ian @TerminalBRD

Drunk in Public/Intoxicated in Public is only a Class 4 misdemeanor, which means it carries a maximum penalty of a $250 fine. The only incarceration available is picking them up at the time of offense and taking them in to dry out. Trespass and A&B are the only offenses that offer any chance of incarceration or imposition of conditions.

Always lost in all of this whining about "militarized police" is the recognition that the old "traditional" uniforms were based on older military combat uniforms of the early 20th Century. Combat uniforms changed because materials improved, equipment improved, and clothing modernized. Police uniforms finally started to catch up to the improvements made over these same years.

@HLC_actual @GHOSTANGEL84 @yourboyphen *Brasileira

@HLC_actual @GHOSTANGEL84 @yourboyphen Ribeye is very good, but my new favorite after marrying a Brasiliera is picanha.

@TrapperJohnn @_TheWhirlwind_ @Osint613 B61-11s would be the more probable nuclear weapons system used for such a mission because they’re designed for “bunker busting.” Also, an SLBM launch would likely have significantly more peril internationally vs a B-2 sortie employing B61-11s.

@Goodwood520 @infantrydort @TheIntelFrog Master Combat Infantryman Badge

@FenixAmmunition For him to lose it, he would first have had to "have it."

@shipwreckedcrew Some areas of the US definitely have a pretty vibrant indoor soccer community, but the problem seems to be that it is mostly rec league, largely by players who aren't in club play and never will be. I played indoor for several years as a kid/young adult.

@lolajl @shipwreckedcrew MSL is a typo. MLS is "Major League Soccer."

That may well be true, but the existence of the costs is also a barrier to entry. I know for a fact that even if I was that good at that age, my parents would never even allow me to tryout for such a club because the knew they couldn't pay for it. That means a lot of talented middle class or below players aren't even given an opportunity to be seen because parents aren't going to take their kids to tryout for a club they know those kids won't be playing for (unless they're educated in the intricacies of club sports enough to know/believe their kid is going to have fees waived... and not many parents know).

Part of the reason that there's such a lack of desire to play soccer is due to the lack of available development and future career opportunities. There's virtually nothing available beyond rec league/indoor soccer after high school for most players unless they get picked up early by a club (and their parents had the money to get them into club soccer). So top talent specializes in the sports with futures which drives a lack of public interest in soccer. It's a cycle. Growing up, the top athletes in my peer group played soccer, but by the time they got to high school, they were more focused on baseball or football because they could at least dream of scholarships from those sports.

@HobbitGr @BeastModeSoccer @DJC3000 I don't know where you are, but when I was a kid growing up in SW MI, we had daily pickup soccer games at recess. More kids were playing pickup soccer than pickup football or baseball. Basketball was the only other sport with similar pickup numbers.

I'm a 40 year old American, and I can tell you that when I was growing up, we were playing pick-up soccer at recess all the way through middle school. Kids love to play soccer, but the opportunities to advance in the sport are significantly more limited than sports like baseball, football, and basketball. There are far fewer collegiate and semi-pro programs and scholarships available, and most soccer players are also playing other sports. When it comes time to specialize, they're picking the sports with the most runway ahead of them. Soccer continues to be popular with (younger) adults, there are indoor soccer leagues all over the place. I'd still be playing if my work had a dependable enough schedule to allow me to commit to playing. But these indoor leagues aren't going to be funneling talent to the USMNT. Soccer is hamstrung in the United States due to our crappy talent development systems.

@GordonNewell6 @Guns_Gadgets Clearly, reading comprehension eludes you... he said oldest commissioned warship "afloat." HMS Victory isn't afloat.

@greg16676935420 FN Herstal (guns), lace, fries, chocolate, beer… (American of Belgian descent).

@pr_tanner @agueybana47 @chi_urbanist Should give Arlington County and Alexandria back to DC, those areas shouldn’t have been ceded back to Virginia in the first place.

@Firstname12224 @JustinMoretti2 @SecondAmendment Anyone selling you a bazooka at a gun show without extensive paperwork is a fed.

@JustinMoretti2 @SecondAmendment It's not a simple thing. If, for example, you enter on a non-immigrant visa it is illegal for you to even possess a firearm when visiting the United States absent an exemption. That's federal law, I can't speak to whatever additional obstacles Texas law may or may not have.

@priceline, just wanted to publicly let you know how disappointed I was with my car rental experience in STX. Several weeks prior to leaving on my honeymoon, I reserved a Jeep Wrangler Unlimited (or similar) with Budget through you. Understandably, when I picked up my rental, I was perturbed to find I was allocated a Ford Escape, not the Jeep or equivalent I expected to receive. After going round and round with both Budget and Priceline, I was able to determine that the Jeep is a premium offering through Budget, but Priceline advertised it as a “Standard SUV,” which meant I received what Budget considers a “Standard SUV,” an Escape. Ironically, I am certain that Priceline gave me the option to select a cheaper vehicle such as an Escape, but I opted for the premium Jeep. Nobody with Budget could help me because they were sold out, and Priceline could do nothing beyond cancel my reservation (which seemed unwise because I needed a car and rolling the dice on getting what I wanted from someone else was suboptimal). Nobody can convince me that Priceline, a major travel company who has worked with rental agencies such as Budget for decades, was unaware that they were misrepresenting the product that they offered. I will never use Priceline again and will advise all of my friends against using their services. Absolutely unacceptable. You advertised what you knew to be a premium offering, I reserved what you knew to be a premium offering, and you provided a substandard product and claimed it to be “equivalent,” knowing that what you offered was not considered “equivalent” to the Jeep by the agency you used. Liars.