A “highway” is anything that isn’t a local street. Every state or federally maintained road* is a “highway,” whether it’s a controlled-access freeway or just a two-lane road.

(* except Forest Service roads, obviously)

Mile-based exit numbers are better because numbering sequentially causes problems whenever they wanted to build a new exit between existing ones 'cause you can’t just go around renumbering them all the time. Even resorting to adding letters (e.g. having exit 42A, 42B, etc.) only gets you so far (although they still do that with mile-based numbering, for multiple exits within the same mile).

The Interstates in my state used mile-based exit numbers but state routes do not, and I remember when GA 400 got renumbered because they added an extension with four extra exits on to the beginning of it.

Basically, routes meant to serve a metro area/region instead of being actually cross-country – “Interstates” that don’t actually go inter-state. Think ring roads around cities and whatnot.

Institutional investors vote with the board as a matter of policy.

What that 65% actually is, is money from average Americans’ retirement accounts that has been aggregated into index funds instead of individual stocks. That means those individual investors are disenfranchised from voting their shares.

That 65% doesn’t dilute Bezos’ power; it inflates it at the expense of the “little people.” You’re making the opposite of the point you think you’re making.

“Pass through” voting for stocks held through mutual funds is yet another reform that we need but aren’t getting because of oligarchy.

It just seemed on-brand for a Republican rep, so I assumed…

Isn’t Centralia literally abandoned due to a coal seam fire?

No, it does. The notion that urbanists want to get rid of delivery vehicles is a strawman argument used to attack us.

Can confirm. I’m sitting on an Aeron chair I bought used (probably dot-com era surplus) a decade and a half ago, and although I’ve replaced a torn armrest, the mesh on the seat and back is still in perfect shape. If I’d spent the same amount of money buying something new, it probably would’ve worn out two or three times over by now.

No! If you think you need hazard lights to be seen while driving, the weather is so bad you just need to pull the fuck over and wait it out.

Hazard lights are for when your car is disabled on the side of the road, not for when you’re driving.

Around here (the US), that’s the kind of thing cops do when they’re actually racially profiling you and looking for a pretext.

My (ambiguously brown) wife once got pulled over late at night in rural South Carolina for “one tail light not lighting up as brightly as the other.”

At this point I consume most media literally on my computer or my phone, but I still want there to be a good solution for a big living room TV (50"+ range). I have yet to see any reasonable ‘computer monitor’ option for that.

The other problem with using a monitor as a TV, BTW, is that they often don’t have built-in speakers.

It’s mostly newer cars that I see going around without their tail lights on. I only drive older cars so I don’t know from personal experience, but I think ‘automatic headights’ might more likely be part of the problem.

Civil lawsuits aren’t pardonable anyway because pardons are for criminal offenses. You can’t force him to be charged with a state level criminal offense.

Buying the TV and then not connecting it still rewards the bad behavior.

We have to boycott these fucks and lobby to get the behavior outlawed.

This is why, for years, I’ve been trying to point out that “if you don’t like it, just don’t buy it” isn’t good enough. Boycotts aren’t enough; we have to force the law to change to prohibit the abusive corporate behavior.

I used to recommend Sceptre, but even they appear to have stopped making dumb TVs now too.

That’s a good point: it’s not just that LLMs fail to give you an optimal password, it’s that they’re inherently designed to give you a pessimal one.

People can’t seem to manage that these days even for darkness, and you expect them to do it for fog?!

(I blame DRLs. SO MANY people driving around with what appear to be headlights on, but no tail lights because they didn’t actually turn the switch or something. SMH.)

Not entirely: you could revert it all the way back to before AI commits were possible, if you really wanted.

I learned that from Honest Trailers, LOL:

https://youtu.be/21488auCBqw?t=168

https://youtu.be/21488auCBqw?t=264