I read an interview, probably from NPR, but I can’t find it at the moment. The upshot was that caring for infants is insanely expensive, since they need one-on-one care pretty much continuously.

But parents can’t afford that cost, so, essentially, the price they charge for infant care is a loss-leader, and parents of older children (who need less supervision and thus more favorable staffing ratios) subsidize the cost of caring for infants. Daycare operators are barely keeping afloat.

This statement right here is Exhibit A for why we need distinct words for figuratively and literally.

One violation every three minutes? That’s insane!

It’s undercounting by at least an order of magnitude.

Our city buses do it as a routine part of many routes, as do school buses. Large trucks and construction vehicles, too. Me, when I’m towing my boat sometimes. Intersections inherently force vehicles into crossing paths. That’s what an intersection is. So, if it’s dangerous, then we shouldn’t have intersections.

Call out the real problem here: shitty, entitled drivers.

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My eyes are playing tricks on me. I swear that I selected the four greens the first time, and was shocked that they weren’t a group. But blue and yellow were as I thought, so, I dunno.

Cool. So there’s this intersection near my house where there’s a right-turn slip lane onto a 3-lane stroad. Used to be, it’d have a green arrow at the same time as the opposite direction had green and left-turn green arrow. It saved time by shortening the light cycle. Drivers are supposed to make a turn into the nearest lane of the street they’re entering, so you’d think that two cars could enter three lanes simultaneously, but nope. Too many conflicts with left-turning drivers crossing all three lanes into the far lane that the right-turning drivers were also entering.

So the city changed the light timing.

But, fuck, man, drivers think their shit don’t stink because they don’t even bother to learn all of the laws they’re violating.

(P.S. They also roll through most stop signs.)

I had heard that the second death is when everybody who knew you has died, and the third is the last time somebody speaks your name. The spam stopping would have to be the fourth death.

Yes, in general, but the mentally unstable lawbreaker (i.e. the driver who can be provoked into sociopathic behavior by a minor inconvenience) is at fault here.

Okay, so we do hold people in positions of power accountable, so Biden should have locked up the coup leaders on day one. As we have unfortunately seen, the President can act despite objections from the people.

You raise a valid point about how our legal system can be used as a tool of oppression. However, in practice, the State Patrol here are generally pretty ethical, and they pull people over for speeding and reckless driving most of the time. Never for obeying the speed limit.

That was the point, wasn’t it? That the U.S. has never held the powerful to account.

I don’t do that, though, and even said so.

But even if I did, blaming me instead of the aggressive drivers is something.

Where I live, nudity is not by itself considered indecent, so this would not be true.

So, be sure to rub one out during the crime.

I do like spicy pizza, but the idea is that celiac disease means that it’ll return fast and hot, either way.

For obeying the law, and acting courteously, I’m an entitled piece of shit. What a world we live in. What a world!

Regardless of laws? Ah, so speeding is against the law, whodathunk? Funny that it’s the lawbreaker’s self-appointed duty to enforce the passing lane, which, again, isn’t a thing where I live.

However they see fit? Like, sexual assault? Shooting wildly into a crowded area? Taking a bribe to forget the whole thing? Grabbing an innocent bystander as a hostage? Nuclear weapons? Hunting down your kin and erasing all traces of your bloodline?

Lol, no.

Not ar all. The GOP were angry, or left in stunned silence for weeks; it was fascinating at the time to watch them re-frame the narrative in public, in real time. In the first days, though, I doubt they would’ve objected. And so what if they did? Biden was the President, how would they stop him? If there had been a MAGA uprising, it could have been crushed, just like Occupy Wall Street was.

Also, plenty of people objected to the flouting of due process in 2002. The difference is not that some people objected.

I can’t find it now, but the local newspaper asked the State Patrol about it some years ago. They were clear: They cannot issue tickets for “obstructing traffic” for driving at the limit in any lane.

It appears that the conflict described by the sheriff is that he’s reluctant to call breaking the speed limit the “normal flow of traffic.”