They’re referring to beer that is limited to 3.2% alcohol by volume. Historically (and even still in many parts of the U.S.), you had to go to a dedicated liquor store to buy beer or spirits that is stronger. Beer that is limited to 3.2% can be sold at convenience stores and often at normal food shops. Due to its low alcohol content, it’s often considered garbage beer, “yard beer,” or American beer.

It’s often easier for underaged folks to buy this kind of beer, since these shops do not always card their clientele, whereas a liquor store will usually have a better culture around checking ID’s.

Also, just because it’s on rotation in my playlists, Adam Carroll’s Oklahoma Gypsy Shuffler makes reference to 3.2 beer.

Edit: Skimming. Posted entirely wrong takeaway.

New takeaway? Just being bullies.

I knew a guy who - about 20 years ago, slept with both women in a lesbian relationship. As in - they cheated on each other with him. And somehow they formed a workable triad out of that that was pretty darn stable for like 10 years. Until he got caught cheating on them (after months, apparently) with someone in their social group - a younger, monogamous, ‘party girl’-type woman.
He didn’t want to break up with anyone, and all of them refused to ‘give up’ so now (10 years after cheating) he has two relationships - the triad, the “new” one, two houses, and now a kid with each woman.

He looks and acts sort of like a grown up version of Max from A Goofy Movie (Goofy’s son), is still ‘fixing’ the muscle car he bought in his college years, and has a 99% complete collection of every edition of Playboy magazine.

But to answer your question of what a guy with 3 (or more) wives should look like? Bill Paxton, circa 2011.

Pretend to be conservative, I think.

Edit: I replied from my inbox. As it turns out, I’m not as original as I thought.

Yup. Circa 2017, one of my sisters would gather up a bunch of food every week and have a ‘cook out’ at a park near her that was known to have a large homeless population. Basically, they fed anyone who asked for a plate. She did this with a group of friends who I guess were just bored and successful enough to want to feel good about feeding the homeless.

After a few months, their activities drew the ire of… someone, and they got raided by the cops and local health inspectors. Despite acknowledging the food they were serving was at the proper temp and all food handling protocol was being followed, they took an ‘every possible justification’ approach to the situation that they could and insinuated everything from unknown, dirty kitchens to lack of a catering license, with severe future legal threats if they were to continue feeding the homeless. The officials then poured bleach into the food and dumped it into the trash.

Adding my voice to the chorus of thanks.

It takes a lot of courage to do the work. And effort. It’s not easy. Sharing resources helps to light a path for others who might be struggling in the dark.

Source here says back of the thigh. Was wearing his press pass around his neck and his camera.

I haven’t seen the video, but you’re saying he’d just turned.

Reading between the lines here - if he’d been slower turning, or not turned at all, that bullet would have been much closer to his testicles.

Before someone says I’m reaching:

• City of LA Pays $200k to protestor whose testicle was destroyed by rubber bullet
• Different protestor calls for changes at LAPD after testicle is ruptured by rubber bullet
• Police bias trainer shot while holding hands up in San Jose, suffers ruptured testicle
• LAPD shoots man with hands up at point blank range in testicles with rubber bullet

I don’t know. I don’t see any shades of gray here, just black and more black.

Also for some reason, line dancing.

Boredom, I imagine.

It’s not a bad strategy for the protest organizers, though. If you see someone sullenly staring down the cops (who tend to be itching for reasons to pick fights), grabbing ‘em up for a nerves break is a good way to defray the situation — and demoralize the cops who are stuck at work while others have fun around them.

Yeah, but like, are we sure it wasn’t just a Tesla?

Well, like, are they supposed to bike or drive?

Who is coming back?! Where are they coming back to?

It’s not Leatherface, is it? Watch out Big Mike!

I don’t think we’re talking about the same kind of crime here.

I’m talking about theft, you’re talking about financial terrorism.

There’s no grift to be had in destroying the value of the currency you are attempting to steal unless you transform it into something else that has or retains value after your crime has been committed, such as gold, other currency, or stable crypto (the latter two of which are easily exchangeable for crypto before the dump happens).

I think even Trump might understand that if he steals all the dollars but that means all the dollars will no longer have value, that he will no longer have valuable dollars.

We’re not dealing with the Joker here. We’re dealing with a 80’s businessman who fried his brain with coke and laundered Russian money and is stuck in those glory days as he descends into dementia. Now he’s a puppet with his hand in too many cookie jars, and an hand or two in his own ‘cookie jar’ and all he wants is MORE.

I’m talking an actual transfer of federal funds and pretending it’s legit, like the proposed strategic crypto reserve/sovereign wealth fund.
The previous ones were personal grift, paid for by willing idiots.

They could still actually rob Fort Knox and directly invest the U.S. treasury into a crypto pump and dump scheme.

I feel that in my area the driving culture has become so toxic that there’s a better than average chance that indicating a lane change (which I always do) will lead to the vehicle in the lane you’re attempting to change into accelerating to prevent you from ‘getting in front of them.’
It’s so frustrating (and dangerous!). It seems that a lot of folks feel entitled to the road, or the patch of road in front of their car fro as long as the eye can see, and are willing to behave irrationally regarding it.

I feel that telegraphing that your vehicle is slowing down (for any purpose) will lead to overconfidence or even willful misunderstanding by other drivers. A careful slow-down will turn to panic as they try to take advantage of the situation. I also think that drivers will focus on the vehicles too much, and will not focus on things like pedestrians or perhaps why your car is slowing down, and wind up contributing to the problem.

So they cut the staffing of the agency - which deals with countering domestic terrorism - by 75% (down to just 20 people), and appointed a know-nothing to run it.

Either they’re just going to use him as a useful idiot so he can target political enemies and let him be a fall guy later on, or this is an example of letting the agency falter until it fails, so there isn’t a handle on domestic terrorists.
Probably both.

You are a light in the darkness.

Right! I can’t wait to hear about all the new historical events!

I wonder if anyone witnessed the burning of the Library of Alexandria and felt a similar sense of despair for the future of knowledge.

While filling late night silence with noise, I recently saw a YouTube video of the format where a voice (possibly AI?) stretched a Reddit comment from a D&D (variant of some kind) DM into a 20 minute long narrative.
The story was that the DM gave a “that guy” murderhobo an outlet for their shoot ‘em up artificer murderhobo ways by bringing an NPC ghost into the party for dinner, whereupon the ghost could not ‘eat’ with them until the murderhobo, at the ghost’s prompting, shot the ghost’s plate of food, causing it to splatter and shatter, spraying the party-mates with food, revealing the ghost plate in its stead, which the ghost happily chowed down on - joining the party for dinner, and giving the player some way to feel like a very special boy.

Anyway. Wonder if the artist saw that comment or perhaps the video.

He might already be there