Oh no! Anyway…

Thanks for the insight.

I have no experience with larger companies, but a neighbor growing up and a friend’s dad (separate people) both had 1-2 vehicle trucking companies. They were the “drive them till they fall apart” style like you mentioned.

I’ve just started blocking. This community is about as dry as a bone right now, but the regular memes really stand out when they do come through.

My bad, I phrased that poorly. I meant it like when new battery technology is announced, it seems like nothing ever comes of it.

I don’t know how I missed the mention of 10 years, but thanks. At least they have some kind of ballpark estimate. As with most new battery tech announcements, I’m not going to hold my breath, lol.

Yeah, it seems like it’s got quite a bit of potential (even though I only understand the broadest strokes of it). Unfortunately, it’ll probably be a while before we see actual/practical applications since we’re only at the “proving it exists” phase.

Tailgating, weaving through lanes to pass other cars and get to our destination zero seconds faster, fucking around with their phone. General “bad driver” stuff.

I look forward to those legal fees showing up in the higher prices at my local Kroger /s 😠

If it’s just one guy with a truck, I would imagine 10-20 years is enough time to save up for a trade-in, right?

Yeah, I get that. That’s kind of what I was referring to with “10-20 years” and “not happening in a vacuum”. The infrastructure is being deployed, and at this point, really, all they need to be doing is making plans for 5-10 years down the line (giving them 5-10 years after that, respectively, to implement those).

This is assuming, of course, that 5-10 years is enough time for most trucking companies to deal with each phase. I’m assuming it is, but I could be a bit uninformed / naive with that assumption.

I wouldn’t sink to the level of vandalizing it, but I will throw out a joke that the people who want it there have really fragile egos.

It’ll give you 1 ~= true or 0 ~= undefined, but I typically use Typescript which prefers actual booleans to boolean-ish

Yeah, I made another reply where I said I know it’s not 1:1 but it’s a nearby road that leads to pretty much the same destination.

The city plans to review policies on public displays to prevent similar conflicts in the future.

I mean, there’s literally only two options allowed by the Constitution: either all religions are welcome to have public displays or none are. I’d prefer none, but if that’s off the table, then they all should have a place.

Yeah, I get it’s not a 1:1 (I’ve been following this, though not super closely), but vigilante justice still leads to the same destination albeit a different road.

Self-defense only when in imminent, life-threatening danger.

Thank. God.

So does that mean it’s permanently blocked, or just paused? Which injunction takes precedent?

This is one of the few journalism-related questions I can’t recall the answer to from college (we didn’t cover tabloid practices much in the journalism electives I took other than some high-level concepts), but I’ll take a stab with an educated guess:

Tabloids typically sell from their headlines, especially ones that make the cover (i.e. the ones you see when you’re standing in line to check out at the grocery store). The more shocking/crazy details they can cram in, the more likely someone will be to buy it. The articles themselves are something of a formality, really. Since the content is often poorly sourced, highly biased, of little substance, or otherwise suspect, and libel laws still apply, there’s generally not a lot of content to fill out 3,000 - 4,000 words that’s safe for them to print.

Edit: Yeah, like another commenter said: It’s the original “click bait”

True enough.

So I guess we’re just all going to be paying that then? Even if he does pay up, it’s going to be via our tax money he siphons/pilfers.