But a subpoena is a not a thing cops do. They do not issue or execute subpoenas.

Eh, sort of. In an investigation, the cops (usually a detective/investigator since this doesn’t involve street-level stuff) are using something called a grand jury subpoena. It’s not the same thing as a subpoena issued by a court (which, by the way, are often executed by cops… usually something like a constable or marshal’s office that works directly with the court). The cop types up the subpoena, which is usually incredibly basic and just says who the subpoena is for, what they want, and what the charge is or may be, and then brings it to the district attorney. The district attorney signs off on it, and afterwards the cop sends it off to the company (and it’s 99.999% of the time a company, because the legalities about your dealings with a business make it much easier to obtain the information than other things in your life, meaning it ‘bypasses’ the legal rulings about searches). No judge involvement is necessary for these types of subpoenas.

Working from my memory, I can also sort of recall that the ‘date’ listed on those subpoenas isn’t really tied to a specific court date either. The stock forms I remember the cops using just said that they gave the company a time limit of ‘X.’ I’d have to see the specific paperwork that was filed in order to say whether the prosecution truly overstepped themselves into illegal/unethical behavior.

Sort of like the natchez-trace highway in the south. It’s got a speed limit of something like 50mph, and the cops loooove to sit on it. I want to do an ironbutt on it with my scooter, but that requires a 46.something average speed. There’s a challenge there that I just love.

I’m jealous that you can put your hair up like that. Mine would tie itself in about 20 interesting knots and stay that way :D

I think 3 of the dozen or so public schools around where I grew up had uniforms (lucky me, I went to one of them, ugh), while every private school (90% of which were some flavor of christian) had them. Most were more along the lines of ‘dress code’ than uniform though. I’m remembering khaki pants and bland colored polos more so than the blazer/tie/coat thing. It’s probably because it’s hot as balls on leather in the sun around here, so anything more than that would be killing kids or the AC budget.

DAmnit! I thought my wildly eclectic bright red underwear with zippered pockets let me be queer enough in my sea of solid colored maroon/black/blue/and-the-one-odd-blue/green/brown/maroon-camo underoos. Now you’re telling me I have to get a partner with drawings/designs?

The 2000s were the height? You’re at least a decade off: https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/mcmartin-preschool and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-care_sex-abuse_hysteria and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic

I personally remember my brother being forced to destroy his gold cartridge Ocarina of Time when my mother heard/thought it was pagan witchcraft. She watched him do it and claimed she saw green fire/smoke blaze up from it and claimed that it was the devil that had been inside. So that was the later 90s, I guess.

I seem to recall the .xxx going live/large-time in the late 00s era. There was an article series in the newspaper about my area’s colleges all suing to gain control of the (college name).xxx sites.

The acreage per cow is very dependent on where you are. I have a friend with a mother who just wanted to raise cows in her retirement (and reap the sweet tax breaks of having a ‘ranch’), and they support roughly 1 cow per acre with slight supplementation of food cubes during the winter. Go out to someplace that’s famous for cattle like west texas, and suddenly it’s a lot less,but they have so much range out there that they can let the cows go nuts.

Careful with the mesophile label, some microbiologists may start watching you with interest.

It’s a distinction some make, where pedophiles go for the kid kids, like prepubescent, where ephebophiles want the ones who have at least started puberty but are still kids.

save a buck and then spend far more than they saved fighting legal battles

I wish that were true, but man, it sure seems like the assholes doing this never seem to come away with less profits.

It still staggers me how quickly some people’s opinions on landlords changes when they see the money. A bunch of otherwise stand up fellas are now dreaming of using their retirement investments to ‘buy some houses, rent them out for the passive income,’ and another of the group who says his dream is to buy/own an apartment complex, all the while salivating at the money.

Most of us are trying to play in a game we hate… where not playing means suffering. I don’t really see just owning rental properties to be worthy of the billionaire boil. Hold them accountable for every scummy practice and ounce of harm caused by greed seeking, but not merely for renting housing out.

Methodists are also okay with women being pastors/priests/preachers. They’re also pretty good at begging everyone for money.

I’m imagining an italian fusion of country, where his pasta broke his heart, so his girlfriend broke it to make him feel better heart, which broke his heart again.

Thado-mathocist. The real chad all along.

It makes me wonder if somewhere out there in a multiverse, a community of lisping incels all collectively draw the chad wojak as as an aramaic looking dude.

I think texas has a death penalty for capital murder, which begins at two or more murders done at the same time. That means the el paso shooter could have gotten it. Xorollo pointed out the florida possibility.

Heh. I actually was using SPSS in 2010 for statistics. Weird memory resurfacing there.

You don’t have to be curious anymore. You can summarize the entire argument rhetoric into, "Supported america in any way/shape/form, therefore bad. Must immediately dismantle imperial hegemony of terrible capitalistic empire.

people liking one game in the genre is a very poor predictor of whether they’ll like another one

I love survival/building games, and so do most of my friends. Even the terrible ones are usually fun. So I’d posit that it’s the opposite with a caveat: liking one for more than its story means you’ll enjoy the others.

I think it’s more indicative of games/hobbies as a whole than the survival genre specifically. People who love the adrenaline of a motorcycle may not enjoy the thrill of going down a mile high mountain on two thin sticks, IF it was the rumble of the engine beneath them that they actually enjoyed. If it was the rush of the speed though (or in the case of survival/building games, the exploration and struggle to stay alive and not lose your stuff), then they’ll likely enjoy the other adrenaline sports.

It’s horror in the sense that Bioshock was horror, but much less so. There are some areas with ‘tension’ that you pretty quickly become accustomed to, just as you would in a game where there is a ‘progression’ of areas where each area you move into is quite difficult at first until you get the resources and build the new items from that area.