Honestly had they excused drive-thrus, and limited it to on-site dining there might have been some potential. But nobody going through a drive-thru is going to have their own straw. It just made things annoying.

paper straws are an abomination and i would rather personally have to kill an 80 year old sea turtle with my bare hands than ever use one of them again.

Most persecuted individual

>Fuck anyone moved to RI 4 months before the pandemic with a 1997 honda civic and still had NY plates? Or anyone who left New York to go live with a relative in RI?

A) You have 30 days from moving to change your registration

B) How common do you really think that was? In a state with a million people, I doubt that even 100 people fit that criteria.

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>Nobody is saying that the discrepancy can be mainly explained by differing covid rates/severity. It was the lockdown policies.

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Except we've got a mountain of data at the time and before about racial inequities in our profit-driven healthcare industry and we knew that COVID was disproportionately hurting minority populations. This was pointed out many times in real fucking time.

Also, we didn't have a lockdown. You couldn't go to a restaurant for like 2.5 months. How can people still be such fucking babies about this shit? Like, it's bad enough that you wouldn't shut the fuck up then, but we're 2.5 years removed from any restriction whatsoever.

The lawsuit threats were over them pulling people over, which probably did violate laws since they were detaining people selectively, even if they were swore it was for the right reason and it was just to pass along info.

The door to door thing was plan B IIRC. And it was a stupid thing to get mad about.

Edit: that tweet is you linked is blatantly lying. Nobody was being forced to take a COVID test. They were told the policy and given a pamphlet.

Fuck anyone moved to RI 4 months before the pandemic with a 1997 honda civic and still had NY plates? Or anyone who left New York to go live with a relative in RI?

You seriously think this only affected people with big ass waterfront mansions?

>Between 2019 and 2021, non-Latino whites lost 2 years on average, while non-Latino Blacks lost 3.5 years and Latinos lost 3.7 years of life expectancy.

Nobody is saying that the discrepancy can be mainly explained by differing covid rates/severity. It was the lockdown policies.

But yeah fuck those rich out of staters.

I cleared all my nationalgrid and RIenergy cookies and now the login page doesn't even load, so I'm just going to assume they are having big problems. Thanks for letting me know it's not just me!

Just dont answer the door. Problem solved.

So much hubbub that Cuomo threatened to sue and the door to door campagin immediately ended, then the license plate checking expanded to all out of state license plates?

https://twitter.com/ericpupek/status/1245362558099472384

This whole account is shit stirring garbage.

I was a kid in the 50's and walked to school every day. Mom was busy taking care of younger siblings. No school busses. In grammar school it was 2 miles round trip, in HS it was 4 miles round trip.

No big deal, we just did it... we weren't barefoot, we did wear galoshes in the snow & rain.

Later had a paper route and never missed a delivery.... it was what it was.

If having an official state appetizer was a thing that states do, those would both be excellent choices for such a title as they're genuinely unique to the state/region and not something you can get an Wolfgang Puck Express in the Lincoln, Nebraska airport.

Unfortunately, it is not either of those dishes.

Feel so bad for those rich out of staters. Thoughts and prayers.

>but we have an official state appetizer on the books

Is that the Stuffy? Or clam cakes?

Shit I gotta bring my cold hardy trees in.

And Rhode Island is flat

That was a whole lot of hubbub over people getting handed a pamphlet reminding them of a rule they had to follow and may not have been aware of.

Yes. He will. We do not jinx that. Kelly Bates leaving last year was NOT COOL (glad she’s back at ABC) let’s not jinx Tony.

It was promptly forgotten, as it was possibly one of the most useless pieces of legislation ever pondered by a governing body.

I remember seeing a sign at a drive thru saying you had to ask for a straw if you wanted one and the first thing I thought of was all those poor workers who were going to be yelled at by psychopaths for “forgetting” the straw in their bag.

Some of them had a clever way around it though. They wouldn’t hand you the straw but they’d hold it and wiggle it so you’d reach for it.

Some of those paper straws are awful though, I wonder why they didn’t switch to lids you could drink from like coffee cups?

My fiancé has the bill under his name and he said the same thing! New statements are not appearing (it’s as if we don’t owe) but we’re worried we’re gonna get smacked with like a double or triple bill when they work out whatever bug is happening.

This is what Tony would like if he didn’t take the deal: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/rudolphtherednosedreindeer/images/6/69/Imagetywascsnowmiser.png/revision/latest?cb=20161025113051

The electricity/heating oil companies beg to differ..

I love this lol that makes sense!

He probably made a deal with Mother Nature that he can live forever so long as he always reports the weather.