Wow, yeah. What is parking in a city lot if not “keeping privately owned items on public land”?

Do these fools even listen to themselves?

Yeah, but read it again. This isn’t Singapore. It’s Singpore. They so broke they can’t afford the A, LOL.

I lived through the 70s. There’s a lot of wiggle room left. People muddle through. The complaining will continue but that’s about it.

I’ve known it since the 7th grade and I ain’t particularly bright.

You get my Cheez Whiz, boy?

There should be a word for things like this where my first reaction is, “Well, duh! What are you, some kind of idjit to need a study to tell you that?” But then I think about it for a second and I’m glad they studied it because we should be making policy decisions based on data.

Now if we could just start actually doing that…

I only got a summons once. I got picked for the jury and the trial was the next day. The trial was all wrapped up in one day. There were about 200 people in the initial room, and periodically they would read a list of numbers that should go to a courtroom for jury selection, or they would read a long list of numbers and those people could go home.

Like 25 of us got called into the courtroom for jury selection. Only one person tried the acting crazy gambit, and she did end up getting excused, but the judge just sent her back to the main room and told her to wait until the end of the day in case any other cases needed her. I interpreted this as punishing her for wasting his time rather than her actually being needed. A couple others had legit excuses for not being able to serve and did get to go home.

I don’t remember getting paid. I do remember them talking about there being a per diem, but I think that was only if it went past like 5 days. I don’t think there was any compensation for the people who waited all day without getting picked. My employer allowed me a certain number of days of jury duty that they still paid me before that kicked in, but I don’t know if that was mandatory or just a nice benefit. I was on my own for parking and lunch. But I did get a fancy certificate.

There’s a very strict admonishment to not discus the case while it is ongoing. I don’t know if it’s technically called an NDA, but I did sign something that says I got the message and there could be penalties for violating it. After the case is over you can say whatever you want about it.
Most people I know who get the summonses call a number listed on the card the night before and get told don’t come in after all.

Edit: dang, paragraphs.

I’m not OP so I can’t be sure, but I think the point is not that gas tax should be increased to the point where it pays 100% of the cost of supporting automobile traffic infrastructure. I think the point is that when carbrains say we shouldn’t spend tax money on active transportation infrastructure and we say, “Whaddya mean, we spend tax money on car infrastructure,” and they say, “nuh-uh, that’s paid for out of the gas tax and we already paid that,” they are full of shit.

The Fed is in a tight spot. The job market is shaky, which a rate hike can make worse. But at the same time, inflation is heating up, which a rate cut would make worse. That’s what happens when you start a trade war and a regular war that both restrict aggregate supply.

It’s a theater. Nothing irreplaceable about it. If they want to go down this road there are plenty of other places for performers to perform. Mothball it until we have a normal government again.

In many parts of the US, it means neckbeards even angrier at Obama as they fill up their dodge rams and drive every bit as much as ever, unfortunately.

What they’re missing is the simple fact that the more people who ride bikes, the fewer parking spots you need!

I still say we should re-brand bike lanes as “Get bikes out of the way of our wonderful precious cars lanes” and then maybe they will realize that bike lanes make driving better too.

Just gonna leave this here.

Yeah but you have to pay for the sunshine every year that you use to power the panels. And you have to build pipelines to transport that sunshine from the faraway places where it’s developed, and sometimes you have to liquefy it a load it onto gigantic tanker ships and carry it overseas, and there’s always a risk of it exploding and…oh, wait. I’m thinking of the gas. Never mind.

I heard about a company that sold laptops with Linux installed instead of Windows and I checked it out, expecting it to be a couple hundred dollars cheaper for a comparable machine, on account of not having to pay Microsoft a license fee. But actually if anything they were more expensive, so I was disappointed.