StevieC's

He lost his suit, btw.

the mask thing is infinitely less cringe tbh

Ok so what is jaywalking then

Oh I did not know that's what it was called! How fascinating!

Yeah it's technically a crime in the US but as far as I know it's basically never enforced

Nah they enforce it. I know someone who got a $30-ish fine for jaywalking.

and of course your experience of whether it is enforced or not depends on your race and class

A dad of a friend of mine visited the USA and crossed the street like a normal human and a cop told him he wasn't allowed so he did what any Australian man would do and called the cop a cunt and crossed the street again and the cop pulled a gun on him. For crossinf the street like a normal human.

Found a source: Lightning strikes behind the illuminated Washington Monument, as people gather to watch 250th anniversary fireworks. Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters https://www.reuters.com/pictures/scenes-americas-250th-birthdday-2026-07-05/SMSTJOPGVBKXNEYDK6RA57AW4I/

Vinyl records are circular because it's an efficient use of space: the grooves that encode the music are laid out in a spiral on the disc, so that the needle only has to move as far as the disc's radius to read the entire thing. Before this clever idea was thought of, the grooves were instead laid out in a straight line, and every LP was a narrow rectangle more than a thousand feet long. To flip an album to side b at least two people were needed, one at each end, coordinating via shouted instructions.

Vinyl records are circular because it's an efficient use of space: the grooves that encode the music are laid out in a spiral on the disc, so that the needle only has to move as far as the disc's radius to read the entire thing. Before this clever idea was thought of, the grooves were instead laid out in a straight line, and every LP was a narrow rectangle more than a thousand feet long. To flip an album to side b at least two people were needed, one at each end, coordinating via shouted instructions.

The world became a darker place when Bill Watterson retired. But some of us are still trying to keep that bright candle lit...

Vinyl records are circular because it's an efficient use of space: the grooves that encode the music are laid out in a spiral on the disc, so that the needle only has to move as far as the disc's radius to read the entire thing. Before this clever idea was thought of, the grooves were instead laid out in a straight line, and every LP was a narrow rectangle more than a thousand feet long. To flip an album to side b at least two people were needed, one at each end, coordinating via shouted instructions.