I had both my car and my wife's car towed in a single night from a private apt complex parking lot because I was too lazy to put my new registration stickers on. Both cars were up to date, just behind on the sticker application. I thankfully woke up and chased them down and was able to pay a "cheaper" unhook fee, aka a bribe for them not to drag our cars to a lot an hour away.

After that my wife's car needed some transmission lines replaced.

They only come on the last day of the month past midnight too, so they're not really doing anything for illegal parking.

I once saw a single mom with 3 kids return to the empty spot where her van was parked at like 11 in the night and had to go down and give her the tow company info. Its just a racket in most places. It makes sense in cities to clear out illegal parking that is legit dangerous, ie fire lanes, fire hydrants, limited street parking, etc. But when they're contracted with a private property, its almost always corrupt.

I read this story of a tow company near DC that is entirely in bed with the local government. They illegally tow legally parked cars all the time, fuck up cars, extort people, etc and never get more than a slap on the wrist. Just another mechanism where having money makes you exempt from laws.

i did some napkin math and found it to be ~426 billion Newtons of force hitting that bridge, the equivalent to 850,000 miatas hitting the bridge at 60mph. a 100,000 Ton ship moving roughly at 8 knots with a very sudden stop. A crazy amount of force to be applied to a structure that is primarily intended on supporting a road from totally different forces

time to go to the drive thru during peak hours, place a big order, then drive away

It's not great if security is your main goal for organizing, but it has a better user experience than most chat apps. Especially if cross platform chatting is important to you.

I've got a friend who works for a real estate thing, think like "cash for ur shitty house" type company. He told me this story about a guy who was sitting on a house worth over 1.4M, then "a business deal went bad", meaning he wasn't paid out for his part of a business that was sold off. He ended up in 400k in debt, had tax liens on his house, the whole shebang. Now my friend's company came in offering him 600k for the property to avoid foreclosure. it would have paid off the outstanding debt and tax liens but the guy wanted upwards of 800k. Now the lien has been sold at a tax auction and the dude is shit out of luck and will most likely have to declare bankruptcy. This seems to be a pattern of people who are so used to leveraging debt not being able to grasp the risk involved and think they can just wait it out and get the amount they want.

New city built all at once before the 5over1s and suburban sprawl get their hands on it. Get into the street car nerd, we're going to the missing middle.

Ah yes, the despicable crime of selling bootlegs can only be punished by permanent service to a billion dollar company. Makes sense.

I think it was having a genuine joy making things and doing engineering, then getting a degree in it and realizing it would slowly make me hate what I thought I enjoyed.

I got banned for a day from /r/politics for responding to someone who said "Russia might have been behind Oct 7th, it needs to be looked into" with essentially "that's a blue-maga conspiracy theory based on absolutely nothing" plus some change explaining myself.

The reason? Incivility.

Programming humor on reddit used to be excellent bits like this but then it devolved into new learners jumping straight to the irony they didn't understand and flooded the sub with nonsense.

I miss these bits.

btw it does get easier

import math
def is_even(num):
    if num in [i for i in range(1000) if float(i)/2.0 == math.floor(float(i)/2.0)]:
        print("true")
    else:
        print("false")

Obviously one would need to increase the range for bigger numbers but this code is optimized.

I find I can leverage this sometimes.

Years ago in college, I lamented to a classmate of mine that I feel like i was doing so much thinking all weekend but had nothing to show for it. He simply responded "That's called research, and that counts".

Now, although i'm far from efficient, I try to use that rapid thinking time to sort out all the loose strings in my mind, essentially polishing ideas over and over again until my "what-ifs" are paired down and in the last hour of work I can sometimes get myself into a hyperfocus and accomplish what I was thinking about all day.

Totally not a blanket solution but I hope it helps someone reframe their thoughts a bit, maybe help them feel less guilty about holding all this in their head.

Also TAKE NOTES. Obsidian is great, you can link your ideas together, extra pages are free, the canvas tool is great to just tie ideas together.

Instance has comparatively high and active userbase with a very high percentage of Linux users

Is this brigading?