In the US, a portion of that fine goes back to the police departments. Giving them a financial incentive to give tickets.

If the fines went to anything except the people giving the fines, then it could work here. But we were so stupid to couple the two in the first place.

I mean… Privateers.

But he’s too dumb to know about those.

That’s a good point.

Imagine just a script that randomly replacing various homophones like their, they’re and there.

Or has a percentage chance of swapping two letters because you types too fast.

Or just a table of common misspellings would be enough.

I’ve had my gfs accord emergency brake on me twice. One was coming to a hairpin turn on a mountain and an rv had pulled off onto a turn out for us to pass. And another was several car lengths away from a car making a turn into a drive way. Neither of which were even remotely close to an accident. It just freaked out.

And I’ve had tons of beeps for side streets with cars park along a gentle curve which the car doesn’t understand the fucking road turns. I HATE all the tech.

I know Paramore isn’t really emo, but not too far from that demo. I was referencing their song.

It was a bad joke, I know.

Sounds like those emo kids were just in the misery business.

Travel, visit theme parks, play more board and table top games, restore and work on cars, be a stay at home dad.

That’s all I want to be at this point. I just wish I had the money to do it.

Ya know. There are better materials than gold. I think he should get a uranium or plutonium medal that he can wear right over his heart.

Benefit of pots is it doesn’t go out when the Internet does (unless your provider has a VOIP backend, but usually those would be more robust than your home.)

It also is a second source of electricity coming into the house should there be a power outage.

I kind of wish I could have an old school pots line, even though I run my own VOIP system.

Ultimately, it is cheaper for EVERYONE if we all just pitch in a little. You may pay a little for schools that you don’t have kids to go to, but you pay LESS for things like roads, sewers, and trash disposal.

This isn’t a min-max system where you can adjust to only what you use and come out ahead. If you try, you end up paying more. Not just in the services themselves, but in the administration and middle management of the systems to handle calculating who used each system and how much they used it.

So as a community, we all pitch in and we all benefit.

We should all be fucking PROUD to pay taxes. We should be proud that our money goes towards educating all the people around us. We should be proud that we have parks and schools where children can play, learn, and grow up safely. We should be proud we have fire and medical teams who dedicate their life to helping others and keeping them safe on the worst day of people’s lives. We should be proud to live in places that are attractively maintained. We should be proud to spend our money on conserving the environment around us. We should be fucking proud to have libraries that lend out not just books, but tools and board games and toys. We should be proud that we pay so we don’t have to live in sewage and trash infested places.

We should be PROUD to pay taxes.

They are hard to put out, but if you want them to burn all you really need is a safe place to do it. So in a big crucible with some type of fume extraction so they aren’t crazy polluting the air. As long as the heat has somewhere safe to go and there isn’t anything else to catch on fire, burning things is easy.

Which is why I don’t look for made in USA. I look for small local companies. I also refuse to support those small local companies if they are super patriotic. I hate how they’ve co-opted nationalism for advertising. Plus, it usually means they’re maga skid stains and I don’t want to support them.

A “made in USA” sticker with a flag on it is pretty bargain basement for companies I want to buy from.

I would like things made by local craftsman.

Made in USA has a markup for the cost of labor. But that’s kind of alright by me (when I can afford it) because we should pay people living wages. However, so many companies use “made in USA” as the sole reason to add even MORE markup beyond the additional costs for manufacturing.

I like made locally also because it means let’s transport costs and hopefully lower emissions in what it takes to deliver it to market.

I have a hard time understanding why certain companies should be allowed to be multinational conglomerates. Certain markets probably should have hard caps to the size companies can reach.

Geez, that looks nice. And the green is really a pretty color.

I wish we got small cars again. I’m going to be really sad when I have to give up my MR2 spyder. Fortunately, with an average of 1 to 2 mile a day, I think it’ll hang on a while.

What TV or box? I have aerial views for my Nvidia shield which can connect to an immich album.

Fuck him. First amendment says I can be as obscene and as profane as I want. Especially since it is being used for a political protest.

We need repurcussions for lying. We need repurcussions for when people are arrested and charges are dropped.

Cops should need to think twice before arresting anyone.

Cheaper than netflix, paramount plus, hulu, sling, fubo, Disney+, etc

Maybe not when talking about the hdd cost, though. It’s over 300tb of usable space. But at least a good amount of what I use has been wasted I’ve gotten for free.

The ipmi on my supermicro says it’s running 497w.

But that’s what 38 HDDs will do to ya. I used to spin them down when not in use (it’s mostly a Plex server) but it’s in my garage and over the winter I had some issues with the older HDDs not wanting to spin up in freezing temps. I’ll probably move it back to spinning them down over the summer.

Even if they don’t comply, it will be used to muddle the veracity of the elections. Maybe he’d just ignore the results from those states. And by the time all THAT is sorted, it will be too late and we’ll be even MORE fucked than we already are.