Throw people in jail for driving too fast? That seems pretty extreme.

It’s hard to police speeding on a highway. Typically if you do get pulled over for speeding, it’s because you’re going way faster than those around you. So even in a 55, if everyone’s doing 80, you’ve gotta be doing 95 or more for a cop to single you out and arrest you. (Or maybe the cop has a quota to meet.) And where I live, local cops can’t use radar, so it’s hard to prove how fast you were going.

And then if you do get arrested, you’re most likely to get a ticket and points on your license. Get enough points and they’ll take away your license, but that means you’ve been caught repeatedly. And points expire eventually, plus if you go to your court date and plead not guilty, a lot of the time the judge will just remove the points. So a speeding ticket from years ago generally won’t have any bearing on your life except for the cost of the ticket.

So within reason, you can pretty much speed all the time consequence-free ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yep! That was the first qntm book I read.

I disagree. There are two roads near me with a limit of 55 mph, and traffic on those roads regularly moves at 75-80. Driving 55 becomes dangerous when all of the other traffic is going so much faster, because nobody expects you to be that slow. You risk getting rear-ended, and if traffic is heavy, people who end up behind you now have to merge into a much faster lane of traffic to get around you.

I only know 3 of these shows and they’re all awesome

Oh shit latkes are like bringing a gun to a knife fight. None of the other options even come close.

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Ah it’s jeans season again

Yikes

Not enough cats in this pic

Maybe she’s wearing them because she likes them, and couldn’t give a single shit what you think of them.

Looks like Alvin’s into it

Th…thanks…

I was hoping for fat baby jd vance

My brain thought it was a light bulb wrapped in masking tape

A lot of them are plastic now which means they’re pretty much room temp

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

I had my phone in greyscale mode (and admittedly I’m a little high) and I thought “oh I bet that bathroom’s gorgeous in color” because I took your comment for serious and didn’t see the thumbnail very clearly ANYWAY lemme tell ya the disappointment when I took my phone off greyscale mode…

you got me good

Or took AZO.

Oh my god I forgot all about Mallory Ortberg’s interpretations of monk paintings! I used to love these.

Unrelated but she once wrote something like “everyone knows that to properly make a bed, you need to circle it like a shark” and the truth of that has stuck with me ever since. Why is my brain like this haha