Both as a student and as someone that works at a university, it's always felt that the university police are more understanding of students/young people than the town police. They're more likely to refer you to student services or explain why you should have reported backing into a car in the parking lot before heading off to class, instead of giving you a ticket for leaving the scene of an accident or arresting you for doing drugs in the library.
My 7th grade algebra teacher would be annoyed that you didn't show your work, step by step.
Technically, it's not been my municipality that's charged me, but those around me and where I work. I don't vote there. My town didn't exist when the people I'm researching were making records. And at the state level, it comes up every few years but dies in committee. Last time was in 2020, when it died due to the pandemic changes everyone's focus. I'll ping my local congresscritter and see if it can be revived--the person advocating for change recently retired, sadly.
I'm happy to be a bit suboptimal and get vaccinated when convenient. I got my flu shot a week before school came back in session and my COVID shot a week later, because that's when the new booster came out where I am. I'd have been happy to get them at the same time because better something suboptimal than nothing because you forgot or got busy.
Yes, and updated boosters recently came out in the United States. Got my booster 2 weeks ago and it went smoothly.
Some of us just like tentacles. They're cool and attached to cool creatures, presumedly like the wearer of these earplugs.
Accurate. I both misread your comment and I have a bee in my bonnet about a $20 fee to take pictures of something you can examine for free.
Tell that to my town clerk, charging $20 to take pictures of documents with your own phone. This is based on Sec. 1-212 part g (the bottom) of state law And, as a local history researcher, it bites ass.
I'm really glad other people get to enjoy their dad in their dad's old age. It's lovely.
He's a good senior pup.Totally agree. QLL is not a replacement for local queer spaces and resources, just a supplement.
I'm just going to drop this link off right here: https://www.queerliberationlibrary.org/ 🌈
I was just as alert after the first 3 alerts as after the 8th. The additional alerts didn't tell me anything new, they just gave me alarm fatigue.
And yes, it was bad. Roads were flooded. Buildings were flooded. People were evacuated. People died.
I finally went in and did this a couple weeks ago. We were under flash flood advisory and every time the end timestamp was updated, we got another "severe" alert. I didn't need 8 very loud alerts going off over the course of a quiet evening at home.
I've started listening to the podcast "Well, there's your problem", which covers engineering disasters. I swear, 2 out of 3 episodes devolve into talking about trains. It's great. The three hosts are all wicked into trains. Even the 9/11 podcast had a bit of a seque into talking about the WTC subway station.
TBH, I'm not convinced regular Spam is trying to act like meat. Sometimes people just want a hunk of spiced protein.
Agreed, it's pretty great. And while the computer sometimes misunderstands what you swipe, it will show you potential alternatives you can tap on. Like in this screenshot: 
They're not as good at preventing STDs, but they're decent at preventing pregnancy.
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I started it to keep my hands occupied during a class. I love the simple 2-color pattern. I picked the kit up from Stitched Modern.
I'd been using the Joey app to keep tabs on a few subreddits I'm fond of. It finally stopped working today.
So, I've never been to a pawn shop before. I'm curious what's there, but TV makes them seem shady and odd. What should I know before I visit? I'm sort of expecting a cross between an antique and a thrift store, that sort of vibe.
I'm in the USA and don't intend to pawn anything.
Woodblock print of a grumpy-faced man in a tunic shoving a lion in the face. The lion's head is turned towards the viewer and he has a goofy look on his face. His tail is held high. The man holds a club in his left hand. Surrounding the lion and man is a tree, an embankment, and foliage.
Found at: The British Museum
Image description: Japanese print with orange background. Print shows various circus performers, including people interacting with horses, an elephant on a barrel, a man standing on a tiger holding a second tiger's mouth open and a third tiger resting on his arm, clowns tumbling, acrobats, and horses on a teeter-totter.
Found at: Library of Congress
Image description: metal statue of a man wrestling with a lion.
Found at The Smithsonian.
I post a lot of pre-modern-era art from European artists. So, I thought I'd mix it up a bit with this work by Inuit artist Jessie Oonark.
Image description: Work is on paper. Forms are defined by bold swatches of color. The main figure is a side profile of the green head of a wolf, with brown eye and an open mouth filled with point black teeth. In the mouth of the wolf is a man. His purple-brown legs stick out of the wolf's mouth. His torso is visible through the wolf's mouth as a white man-shape. A smaller animal's head--maybe another wolf-- is defined by an orange outline. The orange animal has its nose touching the throat of the green wolf. Its teeth are also showing. Below the artwork is the title, caption, and signature of the artist.
Found at: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Image description: a white-haired man in a blue coat with stars on it and red/white striped pants (Uncle Sam) looks inside a horse's mouth while a man in a white coat looks on. The white coat man is labeled Aldritch. The horse is labeled "Central Bank". The horse's teeth are labeled "Wall Street Interests".
Found at: Library of Congress
Image Description: a man with a very large, dark moustache stands in a cage surrounded by 3 lions and 2 tigers. The man stares straight at the viewer. The man wears what looks like plate mail on his torso, with fancy gold shoulder thingies, red sleaves, a short red skirt, white tights, and fancy bejeweled boots. His hat is red with a blue feather. The big cats are all in fierce poses. A maned lion stands with his paws on the man's shoulder. The man holds open the other maned lion's mouth.
Found at: Library of Congress
Image description: etched political cartoon. A lion is on a wheeled pedestal labeled "British". A man in a suit and befeathered top hat twists the lion's tail. A bald man in a suit twists its head. The lion's mouth is open. Behind the men and lion is a storefront labeled "furs". A man watched open-mouthed through the window. Next to the cartoon is a colored registry thingy, for calibrating colors.
A detailed explanation of the cartoon is at HarpWeek (and TBH their image of the cartoon is clearer than the one I uploaded. I chose the LOC one because the permissions were clearer). In summary: In American politics, the Republican presidential nominee and the Greenback-Labor nominee were both critical of Great Britain (represented by the lion).
Found at: Library of Congress
Image description: woodblock carved into the form of the Biblical Samson holding open a lion's mouth. The carving is fine and the wood is dark with the ink used in printmaking.
This is the woodblock used to make prints similar to the one previously posted, https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/892435 .
Found at: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/336211
Image description: 2-column handwritten text. Small doodle of Samson holding open a lion's mouth, in the upper right corner.
Found at: https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/illmanus/roymanucoll/m/011roy000001b12u00080000.html
Image description: statue of Samson attempting to open the mouth of a lion whose mouth is firmly shut.
Found at: https://www.bildindex.de/document/obj20453994
Image description: black metal candlestick. Samson sits on top of a lion and holds its mouth open. A column to hold a candle comes out of his back.
Found at: Candlestick: Samson and the Lion - Rijksmuseum, Netherlands - Public Domain. https://www.europeana.eu/item/90402/BK_16915
The first of his twelve labours. On the ceiling of the King's Inner Chamber, Stirling Castle.
Image description: Image is straight up at a ceiling. There is a center circular medallion with a naked man sitting on a lion. The man is holding the lion's mouth open. There are two other lions partly in frame--one left and one right of the scene. Around the circle is gold and red braid. Outside of the circle are filigree decorations. Overall colors are red, white, blue, gold.
Found at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dun_deagh/7274023374/
Image description: Item is an unglazed terra cotta tire. It looks a bit dirty or sooty, but is clearly still yellow-tan. It depicts a 3d scene of a man with long hair, a hat with big feather, and tunic. The man is sitting on a lion and holding open a lion's mouth. Behind the man and lion is a stone (or brick) wall about waist high. Above it is an archway. Outside the archway is a floral decoration.
Found at: Met Museum___
According the the Met Museum, coconuts were exotic to Europeans and a cup made from a coconut could be used to neutralize poisons.
Image description: Tall silver and coconut goblet with lid. The bowl is made of most of a coconut, the base, stand, and lid of the goblet are made of silver. The coconut is engraved with biblical scenes, including Samson holding open a lion's mouth. Cherubs look on and there's filigree. There are also silver rams and roman? soldiers connecting the silver base and the top of the goblet.
Found at: The Met
Image description: a statue of Samson (with stylized hair in coils?) holding a lion by its lower jaw and its tail. The lion is suspended in the air. Image is black and white photograph. In the background is a flag with a spoked wheel on it.
Note: statue was in the "transportation" area of the NY World's Fair, in front of the Ford building. Other flags included air planes, propellers.
Related images: NYPL: scrapbook page of the fair (where you get a better view of the flag in the background--them emblem is a wheel, not the swastika I worried it was)
NYPL--image of lady in 1930s garb standing on the statue. The statue is huge.___
Found at: New York Public Library