lostapathy

NPD is largely defined by the inability to experience empathy. They don’t know they are assholes, or worse, feed of a high they get when people think they are assholes when they think they are right.

> Also, if you find yourself in the area, Highway 7 is on the Kansas side

Everybody in Kansas calls it K-7

GP you originally replied to. He’s not saying the debt doesn’t go up regardless of who is the presidency, but that republicans only make it into an exercise in brinksmanship when a democrat has the Oval Office.

Exactly this - over-regulation keeps people from using the safety mechanisms at all.

My other favorite example is gun background checks. If I want to sell a gun to a guy in my neighborhood that I don't really know, there's no practical way to do it such that he gets the background check you get when you buy from a dealer. Completely ridiculous.

I think Chicago and maybe all of Cook County Illinois are a notable exception to that, and with goofy, overbearing codes to top it off.

The trouble there is that you're probably out of your prime dating years by the time you're your own boss and really making big money in the trades. It takes time to establish and build that business, the early years can be pretty lean as people get the business going.

The hell of it is that when you DO finally find tradespeople you can trust, you hate to tell your friends about them for fear they get too busy to fit you in when you need them again!

It’s “a jury of peers” - that line says nothing about judges. And indeed, judges have very little in common with the common person they see in court.

The worst are items that are photoshopped not just into a background, but containers holding things that are the wrong scale. The other day I saw some 1.5oz shot glasses with a drink with 3 or 4 lime slices floating in them. The person editing that clearly had no idea the scale of the item they were editing in the first place.

Just because they hold the title for security doesn't mean it's not in your name.

Maybe this is a good thing. A lot of stupid patents will all expire by the time they could actually be used.

You don’t get mailed the title, but it’s your name on the title that the state holds (whether on title or electronically). So you don’t have the ability to sell it directly, you still own and are responsible for it.

> The title stays with the lender until all the payments are made per the loan agreement.

This varies a lot by state. A lot (most?) states the title absolutely goes to the purchaser but it has a lien attached that gives the lender rights of repossession.

> birds bring snakes

Where do you live that snakes hunt birds at night? Or what about birds attracts snakes???

> Or the solution could be to triple the cost of school transportation.

Yes, let's try to kill the one form of public transportation we have in the USA that works decently and is widely available.

Everywhere did!

This is how I operate with normal socks - I never buy a single pack of socks - I just do a "line change" and replace them all when the old rotation is too far gone to meet my needs.

I have a few specialty items for exercise or dirty yard work, but those are easy to separate from the daily drivers.

> While offices had fast and reliable internet connections,

most offices I’ve been around have internet that tops out no more than a little faster than a decent home connection, but have dozens of people sharing them.

Sure. But a lot of times it’s not. As a counter point, I have a relative with cerebral palsy that has a shockingly normal life for as disabled as she seems to me. In a lot of ways it’s terrifying to see her getting around but she lives a very full life. People, in spite of disabilities, need not just be warehouses until they die.

Bad weather for planes often makes road travel a lot slower than normal too.

How do those people get to the store or to the doctor?

What do you think people with seizures do with their free time - hang out in a padded room all day?

There's plenty of office jobs where the risk of having a seizure at work are no different than the risks of having a seizure surfing on your own time. Hell, you could stock retail shelves at night with no more risk than when you go shopping on your own - so long as you aren't operating a forklift.

It's not all because of fraud.

There's also a lot of crossover between the people defining the programs and the people administering the programs. So programs get rules written in a way that the software from the firm they are close to can handle it, but are hard for their competition to work with. None of it is actually defined with the taxpayer and beneficiary's interests at heart. (Source: worked for an agency in the space and saw it first hand).

Neither do a lot of states.

I'm not surrendering "part of my terrace" to wasps - I'm talking about the rest of my family being unwilling to open the back door because there are always wasps flying near it. I'm not willing to surrender my back door to wasps for a year in hopes they find new flight patterns next year.

So when they built a nest near my back door, I'm just supposed to surrender my back patio so them so I can stay out of their flight paths?

Nobody gets into woodworking to save money on furniture. They do it because it’s a hobby they enjoy.

Digital camera would be fine too. Some photo printers can print direct from an SD card without any PC or network connection.

A moral high horse is great, but if you're stuck in the cycle where you learn destructive habits from your parents that are hard to overcome in adulthood, how do you break that cycle with out a nudge from society and policy makers?

Right - I totally understand that we have a long ways to go. But at the same time, I think there's probably a lot more chargers running around already than most non-EV owners suspect.

Do we have enough EV chargers for everyone today? Of course not. But the deployment does seem to be keeping up with the amount of EVs that exist, and that's good enough for today.