In the US, a portion of that fine goes back to the police departments. Giving them a financial incentive to give tickets.

If the fines went to anything except the people giving the fines, then it could work here. But we were so stupid to couple the two in the first place.

I mean… Privateers.

But he’s too dumb to know about those.

I’ve had my gfs accord emergency brake on me twice. One was coming to a hairpin turn on a mountain and an rv had pulled off onto a turn out for us to pass. And another was several car lengths away from a car making a turn into a drive way. Neither of which were even remotely close to an accident. It just freaked out.

And I’ve had tons of beeps for side streets with cars park along a gentle curve which the car doesn’t understand the fucking road turns. I HATE all the tech.

I know Paramore isn’t really emo, but not too far from that demo. I was referencing their song.

It was a bad joke, I know.

Sounds like those emo kids were just in the misery business.

Travel, visit theme parks, play more board and table top games, restore and work on cars, be a stay at home dad.

That’s all I want to be at this point. I just wish I had the money to do it.

Ya know. There are better materials than gold. I think he should get a uranium or plutonium medal that he can wear right over his heart.

Benefit of pots is it doesn’t go out when the Internet does (unless your provider has a VOIP backend, but usually those would be more robust than your home.)

It also is a second source of electricity coming into the house should there be a power outage.

I kind of wish I could have an old school pots line, even though I run my own VOIP system.

I hate keeping sets together.

All my sets get built, enjoyed, then completely disassembled and mixed into a big bin for all the fun of making our own creations.

I keep the build manuals. So I can rebuild them again if I ever wanted to. But the fun is in the building, not the having of completed sets.