To be fair changing the numbers is kind of dumb at this point. No one is using the exit numbers to determine distances which was the original intent before people had GPSes in their pockets and cars when they started doing this in the '90s.

Not at all, but what I would say in response is this is a bargain to keep Russia at bay because you'll cry if you ever see what it would cost us if Russia or its little toady Belarus decides to pop off at Poland, the Baltics, or one of their s*itty missiles misses Odesa and hits Romania instead. If Article 5 gets invoked in Europe it'll make whatever we spent in Afghanistan and Iraq look like the deal of the century.

They don't have a choice. CT is one of the very last states to do this conversion. They've been able to delay delay delay for nearly 3 decades after the U.S. began this transition. Highway money can be withheld if they don't conform to national standards. If you are willing to pay a little more in taxes to make up for that money being withheld, then CT can keep its existing exit numbers.

Republicans are beholden to Russia. Why else would they spend Fourth of July in Moscow kissing Putin's ass? Russia likely has some serious dirt on these guys.

The ROI on this is incredible. Putin isn't stopping with Ukraine, and if people think it's expensive now, wait until Belarus decides to pop off with Poland or Russia starts using Kaliningrad to cause trouble in the Baltics or a few Russian wayward missiles miss Odesa and land in Romania and Article 5 gets invoked.

We had inflation long before the war. Inflation began in the fall of 2020. The war began in the winter of 2022.

Why not just do one exit fully at a time? Start at the 84 end and work your way down since all of the new exits will have higher numbers so there won't be any confusion with existing old numbers. The way they've done it seems like they are just randomly replacing signs. Perhaps they replace them as they get them from the factory?

They've done a crappy job with the renumbering. If you notice there are new numbers for 72 as well, but it appears instead of duct tape they just bolted a plate with the old number over the new one temporarily. 395 was much smoother IIRC. Perhaps it was two different contractors doing the work.

Since a bear weighs as much as it does, could it in theory break into a locked door just by leaning on it or using a little bit of force? If a human can kick in a locked door, I imagine a bear weighing much more could exert a lot more force on a door than a human.

How does the bear know how to open car doors?

They also have a new hockey arena!

Damn why do I always miss these things? How did you know to look for it?

Bob is stiff and seems socially awkward. I watch his commercials and think was this the first time they let Bob out of the lab to see how well his programming holds up when interacting with humans.

Always been this way. You're lucky to see a sign before hitting the line of traffic cones and big flashing yellow arrow.

Forget secret curriculum, I'm just hoping for at least one litter box and stripper pole in every classroom!

Try the 305.

Were you allowed to pet them?

But their football stadiums are #1!!

Connecticut is gaining population, so obviously when you say "everyone is leaving the state in droves" you are lying. Don't be a liar.

Normally I'd say this is a bad thing, but no need to give Trump lunatics free air time. Let them go on Fox News and NewsMax.

You mean to tell me a life of grifting poor people with payday loans isn't as compelling as someone that served in the military and was captured as a POW?

It's about time for the new season of Illegal Caravan airing on Fox News. I wonder who will be in it this year? People from Guatemala or Nicaragua? Maybe Costa Rica?

Well half of this country wants a Christofascist state complete with dictator that controls everything. You can think what you want about Democrats, but at least they aren't advocating for the country to be Nationalist Christians a.k.a. Nat-Cs like Republicans are.