AREA MAN ENCOUNTERS MYLAR BALLOONS LOST BY SOME KID

while flying his private four-seat aircraft 9,000 feet over Houston, Texas.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

Ooo-oooo, look at the Rockefeller over here who can afford a 27 year old pickup truck!

I was once pursued by flying balls. It was New Years Eve in the UP, the bar had just closed and... wait, come back! Don’t you want to hear how the aliens put my clothes on backwards and left me in the back of my car smelling of whiskey?

COVID has done a number on peoples’ brains.

Crazy thought... he could park one block closer to be inside the zone all the time.

Hope he has some rich friends that see this and relentlessly heckle him by giving him consoling pats on the back and saying they didn’t know how poor he is, and maybe take up a collection around the office for him, which will only amount to a few $1 bills and some pocket change to really rub it in. 

I’m surprised he’s not overjoyed about having another reason to ignore them. “Sorry *insert ex-wife name* can’t see the kids. Surge pricing”.

First world problem, or a skill issue, I used to walk from Grand Central Station to 57th and 5th every day during the brief time I commuted to a job in NYC. I’ll grant it’s a bit weird that he has to enter the zone for one block but that’s going to happen. Maybe he could buy a bicycle, I’m sure he could afford a…

My hot take: If you notice a $9 fee to visit your kids, you either don’t really love your kids very much, or you’re not really that rich.

I’ll name two: London and Stockholm. Both successfully introduced congestion pricing and both have had 20% reductions in traffic in increased investment into public transit.

I’ve encountered something (maybe a little?) similar making reservations in another city. Even when making reservations online I like to call the front desk and confirm, and more than once I’ve heard something like “Are you sure you want to stay here? We’re a mile and half from (event venue).” Maybe it’s a nice way of…

You can say it til your face turns blue, but congestion pricing is not regressive.

I can’t agree with that. Scrooge would already have been walking because he begrudged paying the gas or garage money. He’s worse than a Dickensian miser. He’s more a Regency popinjay who is upset that flaunting his wealth now costs slightly more than he can either afford or get a buzz from. He’s less Dickensian and…

Who shit in your cornflakes this morning sunshine?

“it’s stupid, it will be mismanaged and only cause inconvenience for rich, not so rich and poor people regressively.”

Instead of complaining that he, a very rich man, has to pay a whole $9 to drive to see his kids, he could instead contemplate the factors that contributed to his children living, you know, elsewhere.

Perhaps, but look how cops abuse civil forfeiture and how impossible it is to get back your money and stuff even when it is 100% clear you came by it honestly.

The problem is that I was suddenly caught up in a take over one time on the highway during the day. This law may see alot of false positives where truly innocent people were just at the wrong place, wrong time and that doesn’t sit well with me.