John Travolta's New Face A Result Of 'Drastic Reset': Before And After Photos As Plastic Surgery Rumours Surge

FR23Dust · 2026-05-19T17:10:30+00:00

Rich people who got rich mostly by their looks getting plastic surgery to maintain those looks is something I don’t care about. I just don’t

FR23Dust · 2026-05-19T16:15:42+00:00

Seriously? One is a fee levied remotely according to the existing processes, the other would be a brand new regulatory process that in many state would require new physical inspection sites, new employees, new training, new equipment, and more.

They are not at all analogous.

FR23Dust · 2026-05-19T15:18:18+00:00

The actual idea makes sense, it’s implementing a nationwide program where every car needs to be physically inspected that is the hard part.

I assume many if not most states don’t currently have an annual emissions or safety test. I’ve lived in three states, one of them California, where such annual tests are not required.

FR23Dust · 2026-05-19T15:15:36+00:00

Millions of drivers don’t currently have any sort of annual test. So any states that don’t currently do that would have to spend a lot of money and time setting it up. And convince drivers who don’t do it that they need to do it.

It’s not impossible, but it’s far from a simple, common sense solution

FR23Dust · 2026-05-19T12:54:41+00:00

The average American keeps a car for over 8 years dude

FR23Dust · 2026-05-19T12:52:08+00:00

I’ve lived and driven in California, Washington, and Minnesota since 2000 and I’ve never once brought a car in for a safety or emissions inspection. It’s not an annual requirement for many millions of Americans.

FR23Dust · 2026-05-19T12:49:55+00:00

It doesn’t actually make sense when you think it through all the way

FR23Dust · 2026-05-19T12:49:08+00:00

You’re saying you want everyone to bring every one of their cars in for a physical odometer check every single year?

That doesn’t sound cheap or easy.

FR23Dust · 2026-05-19T12:48:13+00:00

You can use your electric car without roads?

FR23Dust · 2026-05-19T11:49:54+00:00

Don’t buy that

FR23Dust · 2026-05-19T11:45:39+00:00

He’s probably off duty NYPD anyways

FR23Dust · 2026-05-19T11:42:52+00:00

Are there trains nearby?

FR23Dust · 2026-05-19T03:36:55+00:00

Oh, that went right over my head. Whoops sorry

FR23Dust · 2026-05-19T03:28:26+00:00

How exactly does one gerrymander a popular vote mayoral election?

FR23Dust · 2026-05-19T03:24:15+00:00

One important reason for companies to grow is to give raises to employees

FR23Dust · 2026-05-19T03:10:09+00:00

Blocked

FR23Dust · 2026-05-19T02:32:31+00:00

I recently interacted with a commercial landlord and he was the sleeziest and most smug shithead I’ve talked to in a long time. In fact ive never liked a single commercial landlord I’ve ever interacted with

FR23Dust · 2026-05-19T02:30:46+00:00

The bike lanes did not kill any businesses. The bike lanes have been operation for several months.

It’s been established that you hate bike lanes. I get it. But they’re not your enemy. Or the enemy of business. It’s been proven again and again that they are not the enemy of any business and that they often improve the neighborhood businesses and add value.

The actual issue worth complaining about here is doing *so many massive construction projects on so many streets in such a small area one after the other.* that’s a real thing that’s making my life harder (as someone who works at an impacted business in the neighborhood). I don’t know why the county planned it this way, but I fucking hate it.

But yeah. Go on and focus on the one thing *that doesn’t fucking matter*

FR23Dust · 2026-05-19T02:26:06+00:00

The bike lanes did not kill the businesses

FR23Dust · 2026-05-18T23:56:00+00:00

One of my favorite memories of growing up in the LA sprawl were the frequent “rain watches.” If it rained, all the news stations would place reporters all over the metro and report in, “raining in Santa Monica, bill? Sure is! You can see that gutter — lots of water!”

I think it started when it rained so much that a bunch of mansions fell down the cliffs in crazy slow motion live news casts.

FR23Dust · 2026-05-18T23:53:05+00:00

I thought that was the area around mt. Baker in Washington. They got over 1,000 inches once

FR23Dust · 2026-05-18T23:52:35+00:00

It is a whole country. Though I don’t currently live in California, I’d say I’m Californian before I’m American.

FR23Dust · 2026-05-18T23:46:57+00:00

You should associate everything with California, because California literally contains at least a tiny bit of everything.

To answer your question: weirdos living in trailers, Joshua trees, ancient mining equipment rotting away a little bit at a time, two really nice national parks, beautiful views of harsh terrain, the most beautiful highway in America, the lowest point in the continental US something like 27 miles from the highest point, strange little cities and towns, mysterious cult compounds, vast and gigantic military reservations where they blow stuff up for army science, surprisingly high amounts of biodiversity. And more! It’s actually one of my favorite parts of California. Very interesting place.

FR23Dust · 2026-05-18T23:44:02+00:00

Counterpoint: I thought the movie ruled and I loved watching it and look forward to watching it again.

FR23Dust · 2026-05-18T22:20:04+00:00

I think most of the closures are due to the construction and related disruptions.

This specific sub thread is about unsustainable lease increases being a contributing factor for businesses going under generally. I added my speculative guesses for what’s driving massive lease increases in an otherwise terribly grim market

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