@RndmStreetMedic There's basically nowhere in NYC where these are legal to ride. Personally, I hate when jerks buy obviously non-street-legal vehicles and they ride them (loudly) on the street.
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Peter Smith (he/him)
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Peter Smith (he/him)
@peterdsmith
Now a retired Program Manager and developer at Microsoft, Peter used to be a hot-shot developer for the Teradyne, BBN, and WildTangent.
Katılım Aralık 2008
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This is just another reminder that NYPD is a state sponsored street gang. All the video does is flaunt them engaging in theft and property destruction.
"We stole your ATV and destroyed it. What are you gonna do about it? Nothing. Fuck off."
NYPD NEWS@NYPDnews
The NYPD is crushing it when it comes to taking illegal mopeds and scooters off our streets. So far this year, the NYPD has seized over 5,700 of these dangerous, illegal vehicles — and we are not letting up.
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@AlHendiify I don't want them in my town, either, that's why!
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These jackasses could have auctioned those off and used the money to fund social services or traffic safety or road improvements but no they ran them over for an audience of drones.
NYPD NEWS@NYPDnews
The NYPD is crushing it when it comes to taking illegal mopeds and scooters off our streets. So far this year, the NYPD has seized over 5,700 of these dangerous, illegal vehicles — and we are not letting up.
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@WheelerRipWA Quick web search says: nope. No such thing as a senate bill 626 in Washington. It's pointless AI spam
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Just found this official decree from the Washington Governor’s Office…
They’ve officially banned aimless driving.
No more cruising. No more joyrides. No more “I’m just clearing my head, officer.”
You must have a lawful destination at all times or face a $1,000 fine.
Welcome to the People’s Republic of Washington, where even your Sunday drive needs prior approval.
Governor Ferguson has solved traffic congestion by making driving illegal unless you’re going somewhere productive.
Next up: banning “aimless walking,” “purposeless staring out the window,” and breathing without a five-year plan.
Washingtonians, start practicing your excuse scripts now:
“Yes officer, I am driving to acquire oat milk for my emotional support latte.”
This is peak 2026 energy.
Government: “We care about your safety!”
Also government: “But first, show me your destination on this here form, citizen.”
The only thing aimless now is common sense. Hopefully you got a chuckle. Now days I wouldn’t put anything past them.
#AimlessDrivingBanned #WashingtonWay #BigGovernmentEnergy #JustLetPeopleDrive
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@CartoonsHateHer Fun stats fact! There's a sample size where you can jump from "painfully accounting for a small sample" to "use this simpler math because you have a large sample".
And it's like, 10. That's all it takes to be a "large" sample.
(PSA: the real killer is biased samples)
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Sometimes I worry my sex surveys don't have enough people because it's "only" 4,000 people who saw the link on Twitter but then I look at professional studies that are cited everywhere and the sample size is like 29 German college students in 2004.
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@davidpattersonx When you're poor, you can become a soldier.
Middle class people join as officers
The very wealthy get the president to invade a country for them.
So why wouldn't the very wealthy have to pay more? They get more!
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If taxes were fair:
You earn $100,000 per year and pay $30,000 in tax.
Your neighbor earns $1,000,000 and pays $300,000 in tax.
Your neighbor is paying 10X more than you.
If taxes were fair, you should both pay $30,000, since you both receive the same government services.
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@PatrickHeizer The factual part of the statement (that all 50 states have property tax reduction for disabled veterans) is wrong.
WA only has help for old poor spouses of dead veterans and help for people who are disabled (or old). Disabled people only get deferral.
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One thing I've yet to hear mentioned w/r/t veteran disability, is not only are these fraudsters getting monthly checks from the government, but they also get reduced property taxes.
So not only are they getting checks from the feds, but they're not contributing locally either.
Rexha 🐸@RexhaRexhaRexha
Caleb Hammer’s audit guest, who was a cook in the Army, reveals he has an 80% disability rating and receives a disability check of $2,100-$4,000 per month, despite being discharged for selling vapes. “Well, I got honorably discharged because I never got caught.”
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@unconed RE: 32-bit integers: a super smart tech person once told me: "the number of problems where 2 billion isn't enough, but 4 billion is, is pretty small"
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Signed vs unsigned for integers is a funny one in the line of "make illegal states unrepresentable".
In theory you never need to [index] negatively or allocate negative sizes.
But as soon as you have +1/-1 offsets, with or without cyclical wrapping, unsigned leads to footguns, whereas signed does not.
And with 64-bit integers, losing half the size space isn't actually an issue like it was with 32.
#some-notes-on-the-changes-in-c3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">c3-lang.org/blog/unsigned-…
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@Ravenismeee I'm in my sixties. What they see, they see.
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@amazon : aws.amazon.com/ai/our-story/
Also Amazon: we know that you've never watched sports, ever. But we insist on showing you a giant ad for sports shows before showing you anything like the content you've ever watched.
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@LorenCulp And then there's you, friends with people violently overthrowing the government, and clueless about the geography of your own state.
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There are two types of politicians that are ruining our country. The power hungry and the go along to get along. Both types have r's and d's behind their names.
What's the solution?
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@bkheywood And when you say "exhorbitant" what you mean is "voter approved three times"
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This ad by sound transit, paid for using the exorbitant car tab fees taken every car owner, every year , mocking those same car owners for stupidly wanting to drive their car seems like the most perfect metaphor for the mindset of WA state government.
Clueless
Condescending
Careless with our money
Incompetent
Over-budget
Behind schedule
But somehow we are the problem
Ari Hoffman@thehoffather
🧵EXCLUSIVE: Sound Transit, which is massively over budget & perpetually behind schedule, is rolling out a series of ads on May 7 calling Washingtonians "Mindless" zombies for driving The agency is so badly run that it is $20-30 billion over budget despite gouging taxpayers
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@heresyfinancial What you say: "pay ... of ALL the taxes"
Your chart shows data one of the three main tax systems in America and ignores the other two.
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When will the poor start paying their fair share?
The top 1% pay 38% of all the taxes
The bottom 50% pay only 3%
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@Notwokenow Does that include "political activism" like, "our politics run more smoothly when we have free schools open to all children"? In the past, that was an explicitly political question.
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Maybe these teachers unions and teachers should start focusing on TEACHING instead of political activism and gender ideology.
Just a thought.
Frank Luntz@FrankLuntz
54% of Americans read below a 6th grade level. nu.edu/blog/49-adult-…
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@letsgowa "Not only have voters rejected it every time it’s been on the ballot ..." is untrue. The initiative in 1932 passed, 70% to 30%.
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The State Supreme Court rejected our petition for a referendum on the income tax based on previous precedent.
Precedent should be the very reason they rule Ferguson's income tax unconstitutional in their hearing at the end of the year.
letsgowashington.com/lgw-statement-…
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@KYRRadio I don't see how that's not just wrong. Our B&O tax, for example, has a bottom limit: if you company has less than a certain amount of revenue, we just don't tax it.
The income tax does something similar.
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It's against the law, Robert. We, as a state, have voted on this issue 11 times. We've overwhelmingly shot it down each time. Our constitution prohibits an income tax that is selectively applied. Whether you like the tax or not is immaterial. It's illegal
Robert Cruickshank@cruickshank
This crashout over WA adopting an income tax, which nearly every other state in the union has, is comical to watch. I get the arguments against CA’s “billionaire” wealth tax, that’s a fundamentally different policy approach than a simple income tax targeting the rich.
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@kirbywinfield Or, in the alternative: this decision is strictly about whether this bill is subject to a referendum. The constitutionality of the law is reserved for a very different trial.
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not sure folks really understand what this means.
it means the door is now open to wealth and property seizure via any unconstitutional tax scheme the washington legislature chooses to enact.
there is zero recourse, because as the court has shown here, it will rubber stamp each new tax, reject all arguments and lawsuits against it, and prevent the people from exercising their right to vote it down.
game over.
Viet Q Nguyen@VietQNguyen
Unbelievable. Washington State Supreme Court has stripped the people of Washington State their people's veto by referendum. We now understand this a kangaroo court. The argument that the state income tax was an emergency doesn't hold any water. @AGOWA argued this was required because it was a revenue bill. But for 20 years, Washington lawmakers almost never used the referendum-blocking clause on tax bills. Then, in 2025, every single emergency-clause tax bill used it — and the practice carried into 2026. This is a sham. thereflector.com/stories/washin…
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@stevemgordon67 Damn good question. We can all agree that it's weird that any court would call an income tax a property tax. And our state constitution says nothing about income taxes.
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Important to note this particular line from the decision:
Stephens notes the order is “consistent with the words of the constitution and our unbroken line of precedent.”
Will that logic be applied to an income tax that has been rule unconstitutional as well?
Viet Q Nguyen@VietQNguyen
Unbelievable. Washington State Supreme Court has stripped the people of Washington State their people's veto by referendum. We now understand this a kangaroo court. The argument that the state income tax was an emergency doesn't hold any water. @AGOWA argued this was required because it was a revenue bill. But for 20 years, Washington lawmakers almost never used the referendum-blocking clause on tax bills. Then, in 2025, every single emergency-clause tax bill used it — and the practice carried into 2026. This is a sham. thereflector.com/stories/washin…
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@VietQNguyen @AGOWA I'm reading the referenced case now. At first glance, no, you can't slap it on any law. For example (and AFAICT), a law to change the length of prison sentences would be subject to referendum.
State ex rel. Blakeslee v. Clausen – CourtListener.com
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@peterdsmith @AGOWA So broadly written, you could slap that label on any law. Renders emergencies meaningless.
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Unbelievable. Washington State Supreme Court has stripped the people of Washington State their people's veto by referendum. We now understand this a kangaroo court.
The argument that the state income tax was an emergency doesn't hold any water. @AGOWA argued this was required because it was a revenue bill.
But for 20 years, Washington lawmakers almost never used the referendum-blocking clause on tax bills. Then, in 2025, every single emergency-clause tax bill used it — and the practice carried into 2026.
This is a sham.
thereflector.com/stories/washin…
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@GrayElm2 @VietQNguyen @AGOWA It's not a question of magic words. The bar they had to meet is "on its face, [it] is obviously false and a palpable attempt at dissimulation". Which this isn't; it's a bill in support of government functions
courts.wa.gov/content/public…
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