[rootusrootus]

> I just don't understand all these weird and arbitrary rules they have out there.

But you live in the nation that invented the ASBO.

> - Drinking in public (even in parks or at the beach) - Sleeping in public (apparently) - Jaywalking - Eating on public transport

These are local laws, not federal, so not universal across the US. And in all of the places around the US that I have lived, these sorts of laws are rarely enforced (at least not as a primary offense).

[hemloc_io]

Can confirm that the pandemic made laws like drinking in public functionally irrelevant where I live, and other larger cities across the country.

[lozenge]

> And in all of the places around the US that I have lived, these sorts of laws are rarely enforced [on white people]

Fixed that for you.