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atheist bad driver: I will rely on my own skill to see myself safely home after a mere 8 drinks

I commute most days via train. The main suffering point of the train is the lack of local connectors, so I also use my bike and rental scooters (company provided) for legs of my journey. I commute sometimes via car if I need more flexibility due to a partial day or after work obligations.

I have a fairly long commute, ~35 miles via car each way. Yes, it's a long commute, yes I'm working on changing my housing situation at some point, that's not the point here.

I'm going to be as unfair as possible to the train here.

In total, my train commute usually takes ~an hour: 40 minutes plus 10 at each end form biking and scooting. The 40 minutes on the train can be used for starting my day, looking at emails, previewing my lab protocols, etc etc.

My car commute usually takes 40 minutes to an hour, inconsistently due to traffic. I can't do anything else with this time.

A monthly unlimited transit pass for that train is $150/month. Divided by 28 days (which is even an underestimate, bc I also get value out of the pass beyond my commute and a month is slightly longer than that) gives an approximate cost of $5.30. I sometimes use a rental bike locker, so let's bump that up to $6 for the commute per day to be as uncharitable as possible.

My Subaru outback gets ALMOST 30mpg in perfect highway conditions. Let's be as charitable as possible and call that 30mpg guaranteed, even though it's usually closer to 25mpg with traffic and city streets.

70 miles round trip per day at 30mpg is 2.33 gallons of gas.

Gas is anywhere from 5 to 7 dollars per gallon where I am, generally holding in the 6.00-6.50 range. But there's one gas station I know of that keeps their gas around 5.50. I'm going to be EXTREMELY generous and call this $5 gas.

So that works out to a daily car cost of $11 in gas alone per day.

I could start talking up maintenance vs the cost of my bike, but that gets very intangible.

The only unfortunate part is the local connectors. This is a main artery train line, but there's basically 0 options to get to and from the actual stations except driving, biking, or company shuttles. This is why, unfortunately, if I need any flexibility in stopping places for appointments or errands during that same day, I do usually take my car.

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

None of us are very into astronomy so at first everyone was like oh we’re gonna lose but there were three of us at the table that night who were either former classics majors or otherwise super well read on Roman mythology and the three of us were like give us that paper right now and we just took turns writing down all of the lovers of Jupiter from mythology that we could.

Tiger found caged in abandoned home gets second chance at wildlife sanctuary: ‘He seems to be so happy’

The estimated 350-pound tiger was transported to the facility, an affiliate of the Humane Society of the United States, on Wednesday afternoon, and is settling in well, Almrud said. There, he will have the chance to roam in enclosures of up to three acres.

Almrud, who estimates him to be about 2 years old, described the moment he first walked onto the grass at the sanctuary as remarkable.

“It was just amazing to see him walk out on grass and to see him explore and have that freedom of movement,” she said. “It was just such a reward and fulfilling to us.”

Now, he spends his days rolling around the grass in glee, Almrud said.

“He comes right up to the fence every time a staff member is present,” she said. “He seems very amenable to our presence.”

The tiger is eating well – a combination of chicken, humanely raised non-processed beef and whole prey complete with organs and bones. It appears that he was being fed chicken, which is what owners of exotic cats often feed them, but chicken alone does not provide the complete nutrition they need to thrive, Almrud said.

In addition, caregivers are tasked with keeping the tiger mentally stimulated by creating “pretend hunting” games and rotating him through different areas so he has access to new smells and environments to explore.

“He seems to happy and content,” Almrud said. “Our staff is just falling in love with him.”

His name is Loki now! In June he celebrated his 7th birthday at the sanctuary where he lives and thrives. Here’s a few pics of the boy:

He escaped his cage

Yes

YES

The tiger is out

The card deck company has been taken to court by a local self-appointed guardian of public morality, who insists that despite of no laws being broken in the creation of the deck, such lewdness should nonetheless be deemed illegal. He does not care that the models were paid well for their portraits and gave their full consent to their use, nor that they are in fact satisfied with getting free advertisement from them. He does not care about the rights nor consent of sex workers, he simply wants the cards gone.

The judge eventually deems that the cards are indeed too indecent for public sale and distribution, and the artist who designed the cards agrees to re-draw them according to the limitations dictated by the court (which sadly include prohibiting the aforementioned impressively flexible pose), on the grounds that no additional limitations are given retroactively.

It takes a year for a new card deck to be drawn and go into print, and it doesn't take long before the same people are in the courthouse again. This time the Defender Of Public Modesty is suing the card print company for personal slander, as every single drawing in the new art of the corrected deck features a man who looks unmistakably like himself, harrying and bothering the ladies of the previous deck portraits, whether by judging skirt lengths with a measuring tape, covering an exposed bosom with a folding fan, or placing a tablecloth over the infamously impressive no-knickers-hand-stand.

The Morality Warrior is enraged by this distribution of slanderous images of himself interacting with any women of questionable repute. The judge agrees that drawing an entire series of portraits of this guy harrassing these women does count as spreading false accusations of him, and agrees that the second deck should also be taken out of rotation. The artist who drew both decks consents to making a third version with the same conditions as before: no additional retroactive rules. No depictions of women in lewd poses, and no depictions of the man who sued them posing with sex workers.

The third deck is once again taken to court, as it depicts the exact same uncensored themes, outfits and poses as the first deck, except this time instead of the local Ladies Of Occupation, every card instead depicts the Public Morale Defender. The print company had to hire a trapeze artist from a passing circus to pose as reference for the most famous subject, as no other man could be found who could do a hand stand like that.

Surf? A giant wave of water that your pokemon can ride. A thunderous tide. Invokes the ocean.

Thunderbolt? Arcing flashes of electricity zap you.

Flamethrower? Fire breath, fire throwing, an arc of propelled flame is classic.