Impossible. He’s my personal shoe shiner. Always ready to go with the polish at a moments notice.

Surely you lie

Men get more cancers then women despite age being one of the biggest risks, and women living quite a bit longer than men.

If you took Drivers Ed in NJ this is an actual topic.

Assuming you’re a licensed driver.

That doesn’t mean she can hit someone. That’s still an offense. She had an obligation to stop in time. She willfully operated a vehicle in a way she couldn’t.

Driver has a legal obligation to not impact other persons or property. Or operate a vehicle in a way that can result in such a collision.

Same reason you’re responsible for an accident if you slid on ice or snow. You’re responsible for safe operation of the vehicle regardless of external elements. You have to slow to a speed in which you can safely operate, or if that’s not possible, get off the road until it is.

One persons negligence doesn’t absolve the driver of this responsibility.

She’s responsible by law for hitting him regardless of the light.

He could get a ticket, but that’s really it.

She’s absolutely responsible for the accident thanks to unsafe operation of the vehicle and being unable to stop and/or not looking before crossing the intersection. At a bare minimum it’s reckless driving. This is textbook stuff.

Or just let anyplace with a liquor license have the option of expanding to weed.

Problems solved.

Separate licensing and taxes for weed is stupid. Hopefully the Supreme Court will eventually get the case and strike it down. It’s just exploitative.

Omnivore male who’s been compared to a garbage disposal before…

$100 a week is the average. Tend to do bigger and smaller trips so one week 70 another week 120. But $400 a month is pretty spot on.

Nothing terribly fancy for the most part. Try to limit the processed crap too. But it adds up quickly.

Doctors report all flu cases they encounter. It’s standard operating procedure for decades.

Same for STD’s.

Even in places they do wastewater surveillance they delay results by weeks for “privacy” even keeping it from health experts.

It’s good for research by epidemiologists but 2-3 weeks after is not really useful for being proactive, which is the real reason they don’t release it quickly.

You’d have that anyway. It’s either going to be a long tunnel or an escalator. The amount of underground land off limits there do to various train lines and platforms is insane.

It would be like the passageway between 42nd street. A long crowded walk.

You’d also have to deal with modern safety standards. There’s not nearly enough exists on that thing by today’s standards. So you’d need to find ways for at least some emergency exists, build and buy some land for all that.

Still complicated, still expensive, not making things faster.

That’s basically how Atlantic City came into existence.

All of this is dumb. They went deep to not disturb existing infrastructure since that would add to cost. It’s not like it’s simple to tunnel 6 feet under existing track. It’s not like this was planned for. It’s literally under train platforms supporting fucking trains. Which is under a building/street. They needed to support everything on top. Going deep into bedrock naturally solves these problems.

Not to mention stations need to be level and strait, something that’s not easy with existing infrastructure and NYC’s sometimes slightly unstable sandy ground. This isn’t that far from the east river where they already had to be deep. Coming up doesn’t reduce complexity. It just adds new complexities.

If there had been a failure they’d just write the article “they could have simply gone deeper to avoid this tragedy”. That’s how lazy journalism has become.

Restaurant Week(s) (there’s a bunch of them now) has been a joke for years. Used to be some special deals to bring in new customers. Now it’s just what these places offer with their limited holiday menu’s, but on a Tuesday.

It seems pretty clear the primary goal is to slow/calm through traffic not to deter it.

Presumably because nobody wants to harm their reputation outside of JC.

No. The law is pretty clear. Someone else’s moving violation doesn’t indemnify you.

She still had an obligation to not impact the bike by operating the vehicle in a way she could stop in time. Which by the way is a question on the written exam or used to be 15 or so years ago.

So she’s in the wrong for hitting him. She’s also wrong for leaving the scene.

I sometimes feel this way about Taqueria Downtown. Really depends on the day in terms of how things are seasoned. Sometimes it's spot on, and really great. Other days it seems like they missed the mark. Wish I knew who was in the kitchen what days so I could decide when to order and when to avoid. Totally inconsistent.

That’s still putting your phone in “plain sight”. They can say they saw an alert or anything they want to legally obtain that phone.

And remember it’s pretty grey if you can refuse your face to unlock a phone. Courts seem to think it’s ok for the most part to be required to.

You need to be really trusting of that officer.

There’s a reason so many security conscious people lock down their phones at TSA checkpoints disabling Face ID etc.

Until they prohibit physical cards, that’s all I’d give them.

Not a structural engineer.

Looks intentional to my eye.

They're aligning the downward forces directly to the below support column. Rather than built structure to transfer the load to something else (think the header of a door or window transfer weight above to the jack stud).

I believe inspections are done per floor during construction in JC, something that irks developers as it really slow the process. So an inspectors been on site each time.

Nobody’s being held hostage. Everyone who lives here is what made it expensive to live here. Your not a hostage when you’re holding the gun.

Your just a racist asshole looking for any reason to exploit immigrants to reduce your taxes. Which I’ll point out are low for relative to distance of a large metro area on this planet. Virtually every major city has a higher total tax burden.

So you’re being out loud with the “if they’re not white paying them less is ok”.

At least Republicans try and keep that racist crap on the DL sometimes.

It's a nationwide shortage, but there's definitely hotspots. If you're entering teaching you've got your pick of districts. You can pick the nicer towns, better cost of living, better equipped schools.

This is going to be a big cost for JC in the near-ish future as current teachers age out and replacements get harder to find. You're going to have a hard time getting teachers to stay here when everyone else is offering more money to work in newer buildings with better supplies and lower cost of living. Teach in other parts of the state and you'll have a much better classroom, go home to a better place, and at the end of the month have more in your bank account.

That's just cost cutting. Ideally the unit is positively pressured so in the event of a fire smoke isn't being pushed into units. Especially at night when people are sleeping that steals evacuation time before smoke can overwhelm occupants.

Positive pressure in hallways was a way to ventilate with less investment in mechanical systems. Simple as that. Which in the covid era has proven especially harmful since it's not as simple as a filter/airblower upgrade to beef up air filtration like we've seen in Asia. In the event of a fire alarm being triggered they go into overdrive exhausting to keep air quality in the hallways clear for people to evacuate. In the US we just do that in stairwells if the building is big enough. Again: cost cutting.

But virtually all buildings prohibit anything that changes how ventilation works beyond opening a window. Window fans, even those plastic thermal barriers people do in the winter to stop drafts are generally not allowed if you look at leases or HOA rules. People think it's aesthetics, but it's because it would cause more air to stagnate in adjacent units.

This might generate complaints from neighbors. Positive pressure in your unit would help your air quality but impair your neighbors. People have literally gone to court over a neighbor running a window fan (hence why most larger buildings have specific rules against this, you can run an AC but it can't be pulling air in, only cooling air).

It can also be a hazard in a fire for other residents.

It won't help with smells period.

Air purifiers remove particulate, smells are primarily gases, specifically VOC's. Carbon for example will remove it, but the volume you need dwarfs even what commercial air purification systems use. It's more economical to just bring in fresh air. The carbon filters in air purifiers are mainly just a marketing gimmick so they can say "2 in 1".

You can definitely hear roosters from various parts of JC in the morning. So someone's got birds in their backyard. Likely more than one.

I don't think there's any enforcement. There's meetups of urban dwellers who do it in Brooklyn (not sure the legality there). It's been a hipster thing for years.