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guest
· 6 years ago
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It is currently punishable by jail or fine for a server to give a straw to a customer in California. In that same state it is currently not a crime to knowingly give someone AIDs. Let that sink in...
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pokethebear
· 6 years ago
Cali is fucked
granlobomalo
· 6 years ago
Willful exposure - knowingly exposing someone to HIV or AIDS and infecting them - is actually a misdemeanor in California. It used to be a felony but they changed the laws about a year ago, if I recall. Maybe that’s what you mean?
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pokethebear
· 6 years ago
Why is it not still a felony?
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granlobomalo
· 6 years ago
I think it had to do with the fact that HIV is no longer an automatic death sentence due to the medications that are out to treat as well as prevent the disease. Since HIV doesn’t really ‘kill’ people anymore, they reduced the penalty. Also, presumably to destigmatize HIV so that honest people who have it don’t live with a scarlet letter (‘I could go to jail if I have sex and a slip-up happens.’)
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guest
· 6 years ago
Yes please excuse the error. The punishment for giving someone a straw is the same as giving someone HIV.
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granlobomalo
· 6 years ago
Yes, apparently they’re now both misdemeanors. I won’t get into a lecture about the cumulative detrimental effects on the environment of many millions of one-time use straws and other plastics. Or how killing the earth slowly with pollution could be considered just as bad as killing a human slowly with a disease. But restaurants are switching to corn-based straws that are biodegradable. I’ve used one and you honestly can’t tell the difference.
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deleted
· 6 years ago
All these comments and that sink is still outside...
granlobomalo
· 6 years ago
@unklethan Well played, my friend. Well played.
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deleted
· 5 years ago
Anyone ever let the sink in?
granlobomalo
· 5 years ago
@unklethan Did you really just come back to a post three months later to close out a joke? Shouldn’t you be busy getting your ‘I told you I’ve done that before’ memes ready for 2019? (And yes, the sink is still outside. I forgot.)
deleted
· 5 years ago
Came up on random lol
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granlobomalo
· 6 years ago
I should add so people don’t think I value straws over people: If an HIV-positive person is taking their curative meds as prescribed, then they ‘should’ be undetectable, meaning the level of the virus in their blood is so low they statistically can’t transmit it. If an HIV-negative person is taking their preventive meds (Truvada) as prescribed, then their risk of contracting HIV is statistically incredibly small, to the point where there have been few to no reported cases of infection to date. While we don’t have a cure for HIV, we do have a very compelling preventive measure at our fingertips already in use - for, like, a few years now. But yeah, we just figured out the straw thing.
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guest
· 6 years ago
But I value straws over people
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granlobomalo
· 6 years ago
And I value you over straws, guest!
guest
· 6 years ago
The artist is Jota Han, there's an animation too on behance.net
