Three things:

But the cost of that automation will continue to drop. Reducing the minimum wage (we’ve cut it by 40% in real terms in the past 45 years) only delays that, meanwhile it slows economic growth - putting money in the hands of the poorest workers means it is high velocity.

Find which rows have an auxiliary power generator under them.
When it kicks in it will feel like someone kicked your seat (a woman sitting in front of me, at the end of a flight, accused me of kicking her seat for this very reason).

So we have a lousy system that doesn’t work, and the answer is MOAR ENFORCEMENT.

My current car gets 16 city, 22 highway, and 12 when I hit the sport button.
Fortunately I don’t use it to commute.

There may have been some brand/logo on her shirt, which is a no-no. Can’t look like you’re endorsing some company or that what you’re saying is approved by them.

It’s also possible he couldn’t write the tickets. Here in Florida, an officer is authorized to write tickets in the county he or she patrols in (or two counties if it crosses a line). The citation books are tied to the officer, and if a ticket comes in bearing a citation number from a jurisdiction that officer is not…

A buddy who is a cop told me cops love anyone in the medical field. I tried it once (speeding, expired reg, during morning rush hour) - told the cop I was on my way to a job at such and such hospital, and my boss was upset if I was even five minutes late.
Totally worked.

Here in Florida I got written up for 107 in a 65, which is a reckless driving misdemeanor.

I’m sure your parents were good people.

Memorial Day weekend, 2005. Sunday. I’m on my CBR1100xx (a Blackbird to the rest of the world), on Park Presidio Boulevard in San Francisco, northbound. The stretch before the Lincoln tunnel, no side streets enter the road, there are no other vehicles on the road, so I wick it up and I’m doing 125 in a 45. On the…

The nursing home feeds residents on less than $4 a day?
I’m doubtful on that.

Was that V70 an average car in 1999?

You make an excellent point. Thank you for the larger context, your point really does eclipse mine.

I had a first gen SLK I bought new. Lightweight, torqey thanks to the supercharger, and a manual transmission. Loved that car

Actually, new cars are a better value today than in the past. 20 years ago the average car price was $17,200. Adjusted for inflation (CPI) that’s $26,403. You would get about 80K-100K out of it before the engine was shot, with a 50/50 chance of major transmission work before that.

When I was in the fifth or sixth grade a cop came to give us the “drugs are bad m’kay” talk, and for some reason decided it was a good idea to pass around a sealed plastic bag of marijuana so we would know what it looked like.
Bag gets passed around and when the cop gets it back, there’s a hole in the bag.
They…

I want to thank the members of the academy, and of course Odin

Back of the envelope numbers:

No Betamax tapes were shorter in length, something like 80 or 100 minutes to VHS 120. Since time shifting was the major use this was a huge difference to consumers.