I clicked the "random" button on world of Warcraft character creation screen for a while

I was there for self harm

nah. not good to store it in such a warm place

I had a razor blade hidden in my phone case. I told them about this during intake when I realized they would probably give it back to me at some point.

They thanked me for telling them, and then said something to themselves about how they should check every phone

Intake procedure at a psych ward. They look inside your phone case before giving it too you for your visiting time, or whatever

Why does a traffic stop need to be done by a man with a gun, body armor, and the authority to kill?

That costs money. I have to buy the right to hunt on public land or I go to prison for poaching

If I choose not to I die. I can buy the food from someone who already has it, I can buy the right to make my own food, or I can choose to starve to death

I can only do so on land that I purchased. Or on someone else's land I purchased the right to do so on

nb is already used to mean "non-black". The phonetic spelling "enby" is used to prevent any confusion

You can choose what, when, how much, and from whom, but you are still are still forced to do so. Choosing which person puts me at gunpoint doesn't make it voluntary

Not super long, but Consider Phlebas is pretty action packed. Two agents on opposing sides of a war trying to secure the same thing

It's not approved anymore, but we used to use arsenic in an organic pesticide

Land of the free wealthy white Christian men

It gets worse. The Montana legislature censured their only trans representative for speaking out against this law, and several others. Later barring her from the house floor entirely

He can still run. We have a long history of people running for president from prison cells

Do you think, then, that we should reverse any decisions made purely on witness testimony?

Yes. Eyewitness testimony alone shouldn't be enough to convict anyone.

Are extra dimensional aliens really the simplest explanation for "Drunk man is burned, and finds radioactive stuff in the woods"?

Would be nice if he could try doing something useful as a change.