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curatedaccount t1_jbfvx5g wrote

Reply to comment by MomsSpecialFriend in Pennsylvania Bill Would Give Doctors More Flexibility To Prescribe Cannabis by Important_Bad_9697

> He refused and has to get a fucking interlock in his car and spent multiple years suspended over the whole thing.

This is probably a dumb question, I expect everyone knows the answer, but here it is:

In retrospect, do you think it was a good idea to refuse the blood test and take the license suspension rather than getting the blood test and certainly failing?

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curatedaccount t1_iuwt7v4 wrote

Reply to Some Shadyside residents having tires deflated, messages left behind by CompletePen8

>“This is a great neighborhood, and we always walk around at night. It’s always been very safe. We walk around at night, so it’s disturbing. To find out there have been carjackings and tires that have been pieced… it’s incongruous,” said one resident.

Resident says "pierced" all reports indicate they were instead deflated by putting lentil beans in the valve stem.

Not that I endorse either act, but this is how misinformation starts. The resident clearly just HEARD the story and assumed the tires were deflated by piercing them.
Then the article reprints their words without pointing out that they fundamentally don't know what's happened and the words contain an assumption.

Now people are gonna quote this article and say "reports say the tires were pierced"...

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curatedaccount t1_iut0y8k wrote

Reply to For those worried about the PA Supreme Court’s ruling on undated ballots, it may be of some relief to you that this year’s ballot envelope is VERY unambiguous. While I personally find the ruling utterly preposterous I’d also say that the ballot itself is competently designed to compensate for it. by Trapezoidoid

Instructions unclear. When I write in 'Mickey Mouse' does the name go BELOW the words 'Write-in'? Or contained within the box?

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curatedaccount t1_iuszdm8 wrote

Reply to comment by almost40fuckit in $10 a day for jury pay is absurd if Pennsylvania says they are holding fair trials. by Jazzlike_Breadfruit9

> “civic duty”

Nothing makes me want to ditch Jury Duty more than the fact it's called a 'duty'.

If I didn't agree to do it, it ain't my fucking duty.

You actually want me to do you a favor, for free, while acting like I'm your servant in the process.
Pound sand indeed.

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curatedaccount t1_iurehzq wrote

Reply to $10 a day for jury pay is absurd if Pennsylvania says they are holding fair trials. by Jazzlike_Breadfruit9

I should tell you that a functionling legal system is so fundamentally important to the survival of our country that you should be willing to make the sacrifice to do your part.

I should tell you that if everyone with something better to do got themselves out of Jury Duty that it would make the entire system untenable and fill juries with the least capable people.

But we both know there are so many asterisks and caveats next to those statements that they're meaningless.

The legal system is clearly broken and the jury system is a failure, don't waste your time and effort trying to help it limp along.
There are a hundred surefire ways to get out of jury duty with no negative consequences, you should take advantage of them.

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curatedaccount t1_iumkteu wrote

Reply to Hi! I'm Bruce Siwy, an investigative journalist for the USA TODAY Network's Pennsylvania state capital bureau. AMA! by usatoday

With these two main candidates being generally disliked by their voters, and many admitting they're only voting for their guy as a lesser of two evils to keep the other guy out of office; Why do you suppose independent and alternative party candidates aren't seeing more attention this year?

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