The government should have a say in how you cum. Get off the wrong way with the wrong people ; thats a paddling
My city has an ordinance where you can’t park within 20 feet of a crosswalk. It’s an absurd amount of space considering that the average car length is 15 feet. They do ticket for that even if the car is completely clear of the sidewalk by several feet, which is what the spirit of the law is about. The weird thing is that there’s an ordinance where you can’t park within 15 feet of a fire hydrant, which seems more important to have more space cleared than a crosswalk, but what do I know.
the average car length is 15 feet.
I know what you said is wrong, but what did you mean to say…?
Can’t see the silliness in that at all. Over here (Sweden) the required clearance is 10 m (~30 feet) (before the crosswalk, none after). The intent of the law is to allow full visibility of pedestrians about to cross the street.
Here it’s before and after the crosswalk. Before I get, that’s designed to make sure the driver can see the pedestrians crossing the street. The city sets up no parking signs in that situation for that reason. The silliness comes in when you park on a one way street beyond the crosswalk, which does not block the view of the driver and does not block the crosswalk of the pedestrian, yet it’s still a ticket for reasons despite no signs or painted curb or anything that would indicate that you can’t park there.
Mine is J-walking even though police officers J-walk
I appreciate the law in Massachusetts, USA where jaywalking is so common that the fine was reduced to $1 for the first three times in a year and a whopping $2 for each time after that.
You can’t remove the law, but you can make it silly enough that it’s never enforced.
It seems like traffic lights now go red in all directions, with all walk lights on at the same time, so it’s becoming more common to walk diagonally across intersections as the fastest way.
Yup, there are a few towns and cities in MA that do this. Walking diagonally across and all-walk intersection isn’t quite the same as jaywalking, since in those cases you’re allowed to cross (as long as the walk sign is on).
It’s also way safer to have an all-walk intersection so cars stop hitting people on right turns.
It’s illegal to have your remains decomposed naturally (or one of those cool new methods like composting or alkaline hydrolysis). You’re legally required to be stuffed full of embalming chemicals and buried in a box, or cremated, polluting the air and wasting bioavailable nutrients, to be turned into high pH, high sodium ashes.
I think this is because the laws were mainly created by Catholics (this is Louisiana, where we have parishes instead of counties), and people are still too superstitious to make sense.
Catholics weren’t really allowed to be cremated until Vatican 2, in the 60s.
We have a lot of weird hangups on dead bodies and disposal. I wish I could just be buried under a tree when I die.
This is what I want. It’s a chance to continue living, even after my consciousness has passed. My death will feed new life, and I find that beautiful.
A friend of mine has his will or whatever say in regards to his body “gut me like a fish”. And I’m with him on this. Harveat whatever organs are still usefull then just use the rest of me as fetilizer. No need for my body to stop being useful to someone somewhere or hell even being useful to the rest of nature.
I just want to be tossed in the woods and let nature do its course. No embalming, no wasting my ATP with cremation…
What better legacy than to let your body feed into a food web, and have your energy continually transfered between organisms?
Naturally recycling our bodies is kind of a beautiful process of energy exchange, and I think it should be celebrated instead of being so uncomfortable with death as a society that we want to spend all this unnecessary time and money trying to preserve a dead body and sealing it in concrete tomb. It’s just dumb…
I just want to be scavenged and fertilize the damn soil. Just toss my limp ass in the woods when I’m dead.
They still don’t like smoking weed here in Atlanta, GA…Or the rest of the state.
It’s legal here in Oregon. Only, most places will tell you that you can’t smoke on the property. And you’re not supposed to smoke it outside in public either.
So it’s legal to smoke in private outside only. And everyone just smokes inside anyways cause it’s fucking dumb how specific that is.
Tbf I like all those restrictions for cigs. It shouldn’t be different for weed. At the end of the day, people shouldn’t have to breathe in someone else’s polluted air if they don’t want to.
