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It's also part of an area of law where we under-punish relative to the harms caused, although maybe less so than for other cases where people harm others through their driving.
(I don't immediately recall what nitter.vloup.ch/greg_shill/statu… had to say about drunk driving.)
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Drunk driving, as @SonjaTrauss pointed out in nitter.vloup.ch/SonjaTrauss/stat… is a crime where many of the offenders are middle or upper class, privileged people. It's one of the largest areas where the legal system, which largely targets the underprivileged, targets these folks.
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The biggest category of people not taking the plea deal offered by the DAs office is people fighting DUI convictions. OBVIOUSLY.
Of all the crimes that the DAs office sees, DUI is the one that is most likely to catch middle class people.
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It's interesting to see the NY Times do a major investigation like this on the deficiencies of a part of the criminal justice system.
However, I think it's also interesting to think about this in the light of @greg_shill's writing on how the legal system subsidizes driving.
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Excited to finally publish on Sunday a project @jbsgreenberg & I have been working on for many many many months ...
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In parts of the US and Canada south of about 46°N that observe daylight saving time, the latest sunrise of 2019 was yesterday (Nov 2). North of that line, it's around the winter solstice.
I'd prefer having spring and fall DST transitions about 2 weeks earlier (more symmetric).
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I think some of them were also saying "the web has too much tracking and ads. As a user, I'd rather use a browser that tries to stop those things, and that's more important to me than a bunch of features that try to achieve native-app parity for the web platform."
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... Official Report for the Confidential Use of the Special Committee on Un-American Activities.
This makes me wonder how they made a list of the people who voted for the Communist ticket. Did they have the voting machines send a special signal? (Not a secret ballot!)
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A strange finding when researching family history: finding a relative listed in:
books.google.com/books?id=A1…
The Names and Addresses of the Voters for the Communist Party Ticket in the 1936 General Election of the Boroughs of New York City: ...
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I don't know if it actually is more intense these days. California has had fires for a long time. Maybe it's poor power-line maintenance, maybe it's more people living in wildland areas, maybe a bit of the effects of global warming. Or maybe it's been like this for a while?
Twitter has UI for writing multiple tweets at once now (see the (+) symbol).
(Not for replies, though.)
I tried to use it for people who I have in my contacts with their Chinese names... but I think it didn't work for that use case and I gave up on it.
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The real reason for us not renting a car was not having to deal with the traffic rules (though I've paid attention there and probably understand them well enough).
But it's good that the transit agency considers how their price compares to people's alternatives.
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Our pass paid for itself on the first of our three days as tourists, when our train fares without it would have been Blois-Tours (12€ ×2), Tours-Chenonceaux (9€ ×2) and Chenonceaux-Blois (15€ ×2) or 72€ total, never mind the 12€ day 2, or 18€ day 3.
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So they made a train pass that's good for unlimited trips within a 2 day (for 45€) or 3 day (for 60€) window, for any group of 1-5 people traveling together.
(There's also a pricier variant that includes the region's trains that go to Paris-Austerlitz.)
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It didn't occur to me until a week later that it was a "rental car equivalent" train pass, but once I realized it, it became clear that they decided to make sure that people wouldn't choose a rental car over the train based on price.
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I saw an interesting public transit pricing structure while on vacation in the Loire Valley.
It's described (in French) in remi-centrevaldeloire.fr/tar…
Basically, the train/bus system for the region of Centre-Val de Loire offers a pass priced to compete with rental cars.
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Maybe a chance during the week of November 11th, but that forecast is pretty far out, and it doesn't look too substantial either...
Current GEFS model run (18:00 UTC run on October 31) has winds over the Bay Area returning to a more normal onshore wind pattern on Thursday the 7th.
That would be an end to the pattern that both brings dry winds that help cause fires and spreads the smoke into the Bay Area.
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I think many Californians (& others) don't understand how much Prop 13 makes property taxes vary between adjacent houses, based on when house was last sold. The red property tax numbers in this image are normal in California. (Smaller white-on-black is house price estimates.)
A local resident is OUTRAGED that sales taxes might go up to fund transportation!
NICKEL AND DIMING! TAXES ARE TOO HIGH! THE BAY AREA IS TOO EXPENSIVE!
Sounds like this resident is in dire straights! I'm sure their property taxes must be very high, very fair, and ohmygod .06%?!
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I suppose there isn't evidence known now (although it seems plausible there could be) that would lead to Penal Code section 520 applying?