For sure, but I live in Jersey, and the cost of getting back to Queens to fight it would have far exceeded the cost of just paying it. It's a game and they know it. My days of wasting nights in court out of principle are in my past. Maybe they'll come back again though.

Sacrifices must be made for progress.

We don't have any in my town, and I don't spend a ton of time in queens and Brooklyn, so I dunno. My town is just 25 everywhere all the time.

I was driving from Queens back to Jersey at like 130am and got dinged for 38 in a 25 because it was a school zone. Two-lane road with a wide grass center median, was a 35 on both sides of the 25 school zone.

That being said, is what it is. I almost wish we had them in my town. Every road in my town is 25, but people treat them like they're 35, 45. People walk in my town, I walk my kids to school, I walk and run all the time, and people fly around. I wouldn't mind some kind of enforcement, because the cops just can't keep up with it. That and the red light runners. I am just getting back from a run now where a guy ran a red light through the crosswalk I was using. I should at least be allowed to throw shit at their cars. Maybe I ought to try it out.

And a woman was killed in a crosswalk five days ago. I need some accountability.

Gently sloping roads are the biggest issue. I have a 2024 WRX. My headlights are absurdly bright. They generally point at the grille and below of cars, but if I'm going slightly downhill and a car is coming slightly uphill, it's going to be in their windshield. I get flashed, I turn off my headlights entirely, we collide. There's no winning.

I accept. I grew up on headlights that were definitely dim by comparison, and so modern headlights for sure are bright. I think angle is the important thing. In 85% of situations it's perfect, but sometimes the road pulls them up into other vehicles' windshields.

I know Mercedes had some technology to basically shut off that part of the light, so as to never blind other drivers. IIRC it was made illegal in the US.

I feel like it's just harder to observe the cats generally, at least mine. He's asleep somewhere from like 8am to 4pm. He'll change positions throughout the day and then nap somewhere else. Then he relaxss from 4-9pm, with a break for dinner, of course. Around 1-5am is when he thrives.

Yeah, I've had this idea of designing a system that my local PD can monitor and enforce traffic violations via camera. I want the local government to have authority over it. I, unfortunately, am unable to do that because I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm definitely on board with it not being in the hands of anyone private. Either that, or a private company that builds the system for a municipality and then cedes control of the devices to the municipality, but hats obviously got some potential issues associated with it.

And I'm not some angel on the road, but in residential areas I go below the limit. Maybe having kids did it to me, but the thought of running over someone, especially a child, is enough of a reason for me to drive slowly and carefully.

Now, on the highway, I admittedly go above the limit. But that's a different story, IMO.

Except they're not, they're fine. Except in specific situations where the lights are naturally pointed into someone else's windshield and they think I've got the high beams on. I thought I wrote that but it may not have been clear.

I gave Claude a document to proofread today. It came back with an error. Clause said I used "told" instead of "tell." The error ended up being Claude's error, as I used "tell," and it was just confused.

This was the first time I ever used Claude. Just wanted to see what it was like. It did apologize, in fairness. But yeah, it's clearly fallible. I guess I don't understand it well enough to get how it read the document incorrectly. I'm baffled.

And then I'll be like "Damn, too many tabs open," and feel some sense of relief when I close them.

I officially can't tell when people are being serious or sarcastic!

Neat site, I need to remember this, but I won't take any steps to help myself remember it.

I'm reading Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie. Each time I move to a new section in the book, I feel like I missed reading something else, and need to remind myself that's how this book is. I'm enjoying it filling in some gaps in knowledge and basically reliving scenes from completely different perspectives. First Law is a great world that he's built.

And listening to This Inevitable Ruin, book 7 in DCC. Feels like chaos at times, as the books tend towards more and more. I sometimes feel like it's too big. Still very much enjoy it, although it feels like information overload.

I like to imagine Trump's behavior has opened the door to sweeping changes across the board. I feel like administrations opted for smaller, less impactful in the near term changes, and Trump, to his very limited credit, made sweeping changes rapidly. So let's see that in the other direction. He's had SCOTUS support some of his orders, so let's use them as examples for changes in the opposite direction.

Then let's close all the loopholes.

I once read (so this is secondhand for sure) that Hobb spoke about having main characters have bad things happen to them so that folks who've endured such atrocities in real life can have a hero that reminds them of themselves. And I'm paraphrasing the paraphrasing, and this is going back in my memory as it's been a while since I read it.

The series definitely isn't one where books end and you feel cherry, generally. Half the series focuses on Fitz, and you basically watch his entire life, and he's far from perfect.

There's sixteen books, and Hobb squeezes the story out of all of them.

Hey, the US has been doing that for years too! Love seeing the same playbook in different accents.

I think Playstation has always attracted the most basic of gamers, and that, of that 76%, about 76% are completely unaware of Sony's position on physical gaming. And that's probably a conservative estimate.

Conveniently forgetting the royal family.

And with all due respect to France, I love their tenacity, I watched a video of cops fleeing. American police look for the opportunity to go on the offensive. Even when fleeing, they're absolutely tagging people on the way out.