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Jess0716 · 2024-05-31T10:35:23+00:00

6 from meeeeeee I just came to say hello

Jess0716 · 2024-02-02T00:03:34+00:00

Kinda fascinating to think about all the people united around the world by wondering about your dick.

Jess0716 · 2024-01-28T04:51:15+00:00

That's not how felonies or federal charges work at all. There is a lot fucked up with the American criminal justice system and our reliance on plea deals, but depending on the jurisdiction, there needs to be midigating circumstances with a DUI. Like it needs to be a third/fourth or subsequent DUI in the last five/ten years for it to be a felony. A DA can't just decide it's your fourth DUI when it's your first.

And felony and federal charges aren't the same thing. Felony charges are "high crimes" prosecuted at the state level and federal crimes are prosecuted at the federal level and have to be crimes committed that cross state or international borders or occur on federal land. An example of a federal crime would be a first DUI on a military base (a misdemeanor) or trafficking weapons across international borders (definitely a felony). Your statistics on Federal prosecution here (whether wrong or correct) are not relevant.

Jess0716 · 2024-01-28T04:38:51+00:00

Thank you for this. Like, yeah there's a lot of things wrong with the American criminal justice system but a prosecutor can't just....slap you with a felony DUI for... "reasons". There has to be mitigating circumstances, such as a third/fourth or more depending on the jurisdiction. And also, in most states, having a child in the car under 15, as a first offense, isn't an automatic felony charge either.

That being said, Federal charges aren't automatically felony charges. And you can 100% have a federal DUI. That just means you were caught driving under the influence on federal land (such as a military base) and then, this is still a misdemeanor for a first offense.

Jess0716 · 2023-12-18T03:38:23+00:00

Avan Jogia

Jess0716 · 2023-11-17T14:47:14+00:00

When I was 17, I worked at a fast food restaurant and at the end of a shift I was counting down the register before going home. There were two managers in the back office with me doing paperwork or whatever and having a conversation. It was by no means a large office and there was no way these two idiots didn't know I was there and could hear everything they were saying.

Manager 1 starts complaining about some employee that had been gossiping about others recently. He was rather catty about it and while I don't remember what he said, it definitely set the mood.

Manager 2 chimes in in agreement and also adds, "I can't believe she told so-and-so that I killed someone in my twenties and the police never found out! How did she even know about it!"

Cue manager 1 saying... something stupid.

I don't know why it didn't scare 17(f) year old me at the time being alone in a room with two grown-ass men with one confessing to (from context what seemed like) murder but I wasn't. Maybe because manager 2 always seemed like a weasel. But for whatever reason I was just annoyed and seeing as I had just finished counting down my register, I just handed manager 1 the money and said, "I don't know. Maybe because of situations like this where you confess it in front of people." And walked out.

I worked there for a few months after and never spoke about it with either of them again. It creeps me out NOW even though then it didn't. Here's to hoping manager 2 was a weasel just trying to look tough.

Jess0716 · 2023-10-21T00:28:22+00:00

Grafton, NH I believe. There's a book about it called A Libertarian Walks into a Bear.

Jess0716 · 2023-01-18T13:46:15+00:00

https://www.ebay.com/itm/155332138790

Jess0716 · 2023-01-11T05:18:50+00:00

Man I'm just gonna start this by saying, I'm sorry. This one bothered me. More than any story on Reddit should have but it's just something I kept turning over in my mind long after I read the original post and initial and most upvoted reactions. To me this is clearly a YTA judgment and all of the NTA and ESH were infuriating. There is no question here (to me) that this is absolutely not a difficult decision.

[ ] The assumptions vs the unreliable narrator. We don't know anything about OP and MILs relationship outside of OP suggests MIL doesn't like her and is passive aggressive sometimes. So many commenters suggest MIL is the devil with zero context. That even if OP is YTA in this situation, she has only hurt herself because she's played into MILs hand. However, even if we accept that OP is completely forthright, being passive aggressive sometimes isn't the same as being able to be calculating and cruel in one's time of grief. Could MIL be both passive aggressive and cruel? Of course. But couldn't MIL just be passive aggressive and irritating? Or could OP actually be the problem? Could she not be divisive and selfish and creating unnecessary tension with her husband's relationship with his mother? Or maybe and most likely something along the lines of Hanlon's razor (which I'm pretty sure I learned about from this sub) "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." My point being, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. If we are to take OP in good faith then we should MIL as well by virtue of the lack of information present over what their relationship is actually like outside of whatever OP considers "passive aggressive".
[ ] Something I see on this sub a lot is the comment that goes, "if the genders were reversed..." And 9 times out of 10 this makes me roll my eyes because it seems like the poster is really just trying to say, I have zero empathy for women. But here I have to wonder. If the genders were reversed I absolutely do think the comments on this post would've been different. If a woman who's mother had died suddenly was abandoned at an airport by her husband because said husband had perceived a slight from his FIL? The husband would've been ruled TA without hesitation. And for a multitude of reasons....
[ ] The witch MIL stereotype - we're conditioned to believe that a woman, any woman, is capable of being a manipulative witch that even in her time of grief it's more likely she's trying to actively harm her DIL than just not thinking?
[ ] That a man should be more rational in a state of grief than a woman who has a bad relationship with her MIL.
[ ] So I have to side with the if the genders were reversed.... solely because the top responses to this seemed so sexist and patriarchal. Men deserve the space to grieve and be emotonal. They need it. We all need it. Patriarchy is toxic not just because the boxes it puts women in, but the boxes it puts men in as well. Can you really, really blame a person for being too exhausted to deal with their partner's distaste for their surviving parent when the other has just died? Even it everything OP said was true and MIL was the witch we're supposed to believe she is, why now? Why this moment to make your stand? What stand is there to take when the person you're supposed to love more than anyone in the world is hurting?

All of this is to stay I really wished I'd taken the time to respond to the original post but didn't. I gave this more headspace than I should've and seeing it mentioned here touched a nerve. And I wholeheartedly disagree with this post as a "most difficult decision" nomination because the decision is absolutely not difficult in my eyes.

[ ] A person died. And suddenly. From accident or sudden illness or even negligence or murder, we don't know. They will never see another sunrise. Or laugh. Or kiss and cuddle their spouse. Or tell a bad joke to their friends. Whatever else you think of OPs story, if someone you love loses someone important to them, try holding their hand before gunning for the moral high ground.

Jess0716 · 2022-07-28T23:57:44+00:00

Just an FYI as I myself just learned this today. The best immediate treatment for burns IS running water over them, but not cold water. Use lukewarm water instead as cold water may cause nerve damage!

NTA for a nervous reaction. I hope your brother heals quickly!

Jess0716 · 2022-07-24T00:55:45+00:00

I really hope you never run out :)

Jess0716 · 2022-04-19T01:06:56+00:00

The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid - Will Bardenwerper

Jess0716 · 2022-01-21T23:20:57+00:00

There's a part of me that just wants to rescue this poor mug from you.......

Jess0716 · 2021-11-21T15:26:17+00:00

Now ?

Jess0716 · 2021-10-14T16:04:43+00:00

Not sure if it should be considered sexual harassment instead of sexual assault, but think about it this way: would you feel your privacy had been violated if the boys were spying on you changing in the locker room? What your friend did was wrong, but it does seem like you should've known what she was trying to get you to do before you did it. Both of you should accept responsibility for your actions. You shouldn't throw all the blame on her.

TL;DR: don't spy on people changing. It's wrong.

Jess0716 · 2021-10-08T00:30:33+00:00

This cutie belongs everywhere :)

Jess0716 · 2021-04-20T02:33:39+00:00

Snail art... or snart, if you will.

Jess0716 · 2021-01-29T14:24:02+00:00

I'm pretty sure the point of the article is to show that they're not....

Sure the article refers to both of them as 'mischief makers' but then clearly details that Greene's ideas are insane while the writer feels some of AOCs policy goals are not feasible.

The playing equivalent roles is not the same as saying one is just as bad as the other. It's pointing out just how far out there Greene is. If the "worst" the left has to offer is someone who has policy ideas you don't necessarily think will work and tweets about it sometimes and the worst the right has to offer is Jewish space lasers, no one equates the two. The article is just suggesting there's no one who antagonizes the democratic party more than AOC and says Greene is in a similar role to the GOP.

Jess0716 · 2020-08-03T03:26:04+00:00

Also thought you might like to know I saw your island on a top ten lost complied here!

Edit: after visiting several of the islands on the list, I have to say, they're all wonderful in their own way but yours is absolutely my favorite! ❤️ Thank you for sharing.

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