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Cake day: July 17th, 2023

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  • It seems to be mostly a euro thing. BMW stopped using oil dipsticks nearly 2 decades ago.

    I was about to make this joke: “That’s just not true. My 2008 BMW had a… holy shit, that car is nearly 2 decades old now.” Then I went to confirm, and that car did NOT have a dipstick. The car came with 5 years of “free” service and never gave me a day of trouble, so I never realized it didn’t have a dipstick. That’s probably a major reason it was removed, since even a DIYer like me who likes to work on things myself never even tried to use the dipstick in 4 years.











  • Only in very specific cases:

    For parents of a child, it is only a crime for these cases:

    Noncustodial parents; 
    Fathers whose paternity the government hasn't recognized; 
    Parents in active custody cases; 
    Parents with a court order requiring them to do so; 
    

    In general, though, you don’t need explicit permission to take your child out of state.

    For non-parents, it is only illegal if done for the following purposes:

    Transportation With Intent To Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity;
    Travel With Intent To Engage in Illicit Sexual Conduct; 
    Engaging in Illicit Sexual Conduct in Foreign Places; 
    Illicit Sexual Conduct in Connection With Certain Organizations; 
    Ancillary Offenses (to sexual misconduct);
    

    Attempt and Conspiracy (to those acts above);

    It’s weird that noncustodial parents are more restricted on taking kids out of state than random non-parental people.








  • You know what, you’re right. We should definitely not protect children from a lifetime of trauma because of tradition. What was I thinking?

    And this is clearly not something the first amendment is intended to protect. The first amendment is about government punishment for private speech and allowing religion to be practiced. This doesn’t stop the religion from being practiced, it just says priests have a choice between a temporary time out from the church and a temporary time out from society if they choose to protect child abusers. And even if it were about this, we ALREADY have laws compelling people to report crimes. You think because it is a priest they get a special pass that lawyers, therapists, and doctors don’t get?