His “tough guy” face is truly hilarious. He did it in his mug shot, too. He’s trying sooo fucking hard.

Uh, of course it’s not that great–but that doesn’t mean it isn’t better or we want to go backwards to when it was worse.

While I generally agree with you, this case is literally an example of how the public’s outrage DOES matter and potentially changed the course of this case, regardless of the legality.

Most of the time it’s not as egregious as trying to use a free trial for streaming to force arbitration for wrongful death at an amusement park. I truly can’t imagine any world where this doesn’t blow up because it’s so outrageous.

But Mike Lindell is doing great!!

I’m just confused how anyone thought this was a good idea to begin with. Surely the strong public backlash could have been easily anticipated.

It isn’t about having a bad taste from the past. Policy like this would further disenfranchise vulnerable populations present day. A barrier for entry like this is going to disproportionately impact lower income folks. Hard to study for a test like this when you’re busting your ass at 3 part time jobs trying to make ends meet. That’s not even to mention the inequality that exists within the education system between higher and lower income areas to begin with. “Our system failed you, so now you’re not qualified to vote. Cheers!”

Three guesses as to who this policy would affect more: white people or people of color?

They had him do that thing where you kneel on top of your shoes.

According to https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college-by-year the average tuition for a public 4 year school in 1963-1964 was $243 or just under $2500 today.

God, if only we actually had our own country…

• Tap dancing
• Ballet
• Running
• Cooking
• Baking
• Cake & cookie decorating
• Drawing
• Painting (physically? and digitally)
• Knitting
• Crocheting
• Sewing
• Origami
• Woodworking
• Makeup
• Nail art
• Guitar

Not exactly hobbies, but niche topics I got randomly intrigued by and have watched dozens and in some cases hundreds of hours on:

• Deaf culture (but not attempting to learn ASL)
• Ex-mormons (Not religious and no relation to mormonism lol)
• Religious fundamentalism & cults
• Therapists breaking down reality television
• Legal analyses & breakdowns of high profile and/or pop culture lawsuits and trials

Man, where does everyone in the comments live that it still works like this? Where I’m at, they basically have attempted to replace like 90% of cashier jobs with these machines. There is often either no cashier at all, or one single cashier with like 5 people in their line, each with shopping carts filled to the brim.

The self checkout lines routinely reach lines of 10+ people with many old people who struggle using the machines forced to use them and gumming up the operations more. I avoid going to the grocery store like the plague during any kind of higher traffic time because I don’t want to wait in line for 15 mins.

Other issue with self checkout machines is that some places (Kroger, looking at you) weigh the bag every time you scan an item before you can scan the next, which makes things go soooooo slow.

?? Plenty of people eat both sugar and vegetables lol.

Was there no hardship exception where you were? That’s unreal. I’m pretty sure they asked at the beginning of the selection process when I served if anyone needed to be dismissed for financial hardship. I think they even used not being able to pay for food as an example of what meets the threshold for an actual hardship.

My trial ended up lasting about 3 weeks and I want to say my check was around $115 and included “mileage”… Lol. I was unemployed at the time, otherwise I would have been pissed. Definitely not doable for a lot of people.