Longtime Oregon state rep Betsy Johnson did something similar in 2013. She rear-ended someone, causing serious lasting injuries to them. When she was sued, she claimed legislative immunity.

For the first time ever, the NHTSA is considering implementing even the slightest pedestrian safety standards for new cars. You can leave a comment in support of this here:

$2,900,000 for 81,000 devices sold. A fine of ~$35.80 for each device, and that’s ignoring the 8,400 aftermarket exhausts they also sold. On their website, prices for the devices range from $360 to over $3,000. Yet again, a “big” government fine is really just a minor cost of doing business.

My partner is an electrical engineer that worked on the reconstructed Oroville Dam spillway, which you may recall catastrophically failed back in 2017 due to the soil underneath the concrete having been washed out without anyone noticing.

Police unions are usually very cozy with prosecutors, and major donors to their political campaigns. No charges would ever be filed. He could have tried arresting the chief with probable cause of public intoxication (assuming the other cops don’t stop him) but there’s essentially a 0% chance a prosecutor would…

So in the time it took to find the perpetrator, arrest him, charge him, set a trial date, reach the trial date, and get a guilty plea, the cops have not come up with a single answer about why one of their own ignored the violent crime that happened right in front of their eyes. Hmmm.

If you were deliberately building a device designed to fuck up the migratory patterns of birds, I don’t know if you could do a better job than this.

Not so fun fact: Oregon has a severe shortage of public defenders, and have been unable to assign a public defender to his case. In a few weeks, if they aren’t able to get him legal representation, all his charges will automatically be dropped.

One of the emails that came out in this whole debacle was from coach Sean Payton, who infamously was suspended for a season and received a sizeable fine for giving under-the-table bonuses to players that injure their opponents (Bountygate). In the email, he joked about how he never paid the fine, and that NFL fines…

It’s common practice for the lead pic to be the shadow recommendation from whoever edited the blog.

Units sold are not indicative of fan sentiment. Resident Evil 6 is the 2nd best selling RE game despite practically everyone agreeing that it sucks mondo ass.

I like to imagine the thing automatically rolling alongside you like a Star Wars droid when it’s folded up. Maybe in 10 years.

That’s not how pedestrian collisions work. A large vehicle like a hummer will make contact in the torso, where most of your squishy and important organs are, and possibly in the head, where your squishiest and most important organ is. It will then knock you to the ground, and possibly smear you into the ground via the…

Seems like an awfully dangerous way to scam your insurance, the driver could have easily been decapitated by that guard rail.

If this is the same multiplayer mod that GrandPooBear has occasionally played on Twitch over the past few months, it actually supports paying multiplayer hide and seek. One player starts as the seeker, and as they touch hiders they die and then become seekers themselves.

Of the Portland-area nude beaches, I think Rooster Rock is much better than Collins. It’s a little bit of a hike in, but that means it’s more secluded. And the views up and down the Columbia gorge are incredible in that area.

These are the kinds of stories I come to Kotaku for. Congratulations on reaching a labor deal!

In her book, she does propose many solutions.

A NY Times monday crossword a couple weeks ago had the clue “greener energy source” and the answer was CLEAN COAL. Apparently the creator of the crossword originally wrote the clue as “dubious source of greener energy”, but it was edited down to be a bit of the neo-liberal corporate propaganda that so perfectly…