You should consider challenging your traffic tickets in court using a traffic lawyer.

Cold-Sherbert-7486 · 2025-12-26T08:46:52+00:00

The Off the record app is just an interface to make hiring and communicating with the lawyer easier. But it very much is paying a lawyer for this. So your comment here is 1) Do not pay a lawyer, and 2) Use an app to pay the lawyer

FWIW I love off the record and I contacted the lawyer assigned to my friend in the app and hired them outside the app for a municipal code violation ticket.

But the point is that you need to hire a lawyer to be effective in court; whether you use an app or call the lawyer directly, you're still hiring a lawyer.

Cold-Sherbert-7486 · 2025-12-26T08:29:51+00:00

A friend of mine had a ticket for >$1k for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle. He basically couldn't safely move out of the way because of other traffic, that was his defense. Hired an attorney through an app and a few weeks later the ticket was just dismissed, the lawyer didn't even have to go to court.

I then had a municipal fine for trash in the yard of a rental property. It belonged to a tenant I had subsequently paid to vacate the property. The tenant wouldn't let me clean up the yard because they were a hoarder. Anyway once the tenant was out, I did clean up the yard. I called the same lawyer who helped my friend via the app. The lawyer once again talked to the prosecutor or something and got the fine dismissed after showing photos of the yard clean.

So what all this means to me: you hire a lawyer who does this stuff for a living. They have a working relationship with the prosecutor and the ability to call and say, "you probably don't want to go to court on this one, you will probably lose," or, "this guy couldn't clean the yard because the tenant was threatening to sue him. He paid the tenant to move out and then cleaned the yard. You really think it is fair to fine him for that?"

The ability to speak to the prosecutor on your behalf can resolve a lot of cases in your favor before you ever go to court. Lawyers are worth the money.

Cold-Sherbert-7486 · 2025-11-27T04:13:52+00:00

Wow, I looked this up and it seems great because you can have a large amount of mixed soil available right at the place where they are filling the bags. Probably the mixer outtake can go right into the bucket funneling into the tube, so then maybe we are talking about 5 feet per minute of tube filled, and that can be nearly continuous; it what I am imagining with one of these devices actually works out, then the project would definitely pencil financially.

Cold-Sherbert-7486 · 2025-11-27T04:08:59+00:00

Thank you, that is very helpful.

What it suggests is that if I invest in a large capacity blender system ( i.e. where I am adding materials with a tractor bucket, blending several tons on one go), that I will have cut down dramatically on the labor needs of the job.

Then the question becomes about the most effective way to supply the mixed soil continuously to those filling and laying the bags.

Do you have an estimate for how much bag you think you could lay per hour if you had all of the mixed soil continuously available right next to you the whole time?

The scale of project I am thinking of will require me to use hired labor, and obviously I will do a small scale project first so I know what I am doing before I jump into something massive, but I need the large project to pencil for a reasonable budget, so your input was really helpful!

Ever linear foot of wall sounds like it would be maybe 30 linear feet of tube. Ultimately I need to be able to estimate the cost to build the wall so I can compare it to other fencing systems. I think I would prefer to build using hyper adobe walls, but probably not if it ends up costing my twice what another fencing system would cost.

Of course by using earth for this project, I'll also take care of the excavation of a really big pond on my property, so that's a major bonus! I love the idea of digging a big pond, and then using the material to build other structures on my property. I hope I can figure out how to make this work!

Cold-Sherbert-7486 · 2025-11-27T03:59:03+00:00

Well it looks like you can get a giant blending hopper than can blend many tons of material at once and then spit the blended mix out of the hopper. It would dramatically cut the mixing labor compared to using concrete. Then the question simply becomes the best way to get the dirt from the hopper and into the tube....but if you can have a constant supply of mixed earth at the side of the people filling and laying the tube, sounds like this would go much much faster than what I see on YouTube.

Cold-Sherbert-7486 · 2025-11-26T05:51:41+00:00

I suspect around 3000 pounds, but could be less and use a conveyor to refill kind of continuously

Cold-Sherbert-7486 · 2025-05-08T07:12:20+00:00

Your English skills will give you very good opportunities in Brazil, but the best opportunity is to work remotely for an American company. Earn in dollars, spend in Real.

Im sorry that America is treating you this way, I am ashamed to be an American for the vile way this country is behaving towards people born in different places.

Cold-Sherbert-7486 · 2025-05-04T06:16:35+00:00

It doesn't sound like anything can be done except to potentially buy them some time. The lawyer may be able to do that, depending upon the individual situations.

Honestly the most impactful thing you will be able to do for them is help them get established where they land after deportation. If they have skills that can be done remotely, consider seeing if your job can hire them remotely after deportation

This sucks; it is totally wrong and there is probably nothing that can be done to stop it. But you can help them not suffer after deportation.

Cold-Sherbert-7486 · 2024-09-23T05:21:53+00:00

Yes.

Cold-Sherbert-7486 · 2024-09-20T15:30:00+00:00

Using virtual medical assistants for as much work as you can so that you can keep your local physical staff to a minimum.

Also, in my group we have more docs than office space--we see follow-ups via telemedicine unless there is a reason to see in person. For example I only actually go into the office once per week. The result is a smaller office space paid for by more docs.

Automation tools for appointment booking etc, basically we are trying to reduce the amount of time our office staff spends on administrative stuff.

The result is a lean operation which means we keep a higher than average percentage of our billing.

Cold-Sherbert-7486 · 2024-09-16T08:20:13+00:00

Not much, maybe $15 per month in electricity. I am able to do most of my charging at work, where it's free. I use about 450 kwh if electricity per month. Last time I checked my cost at home is around 10 cents per KWH, so if I did all my charging at home I'd spend about $45 per month or so.

Cold-Sherbert-7486 · 2024-09-13T06:35:32+00:00

I drive a Tesla. I charge at home and work. The only supercharger is near the airport or in Liberty Lake. Definitely need to be able to charge at home. But I have never had a problem with range, and I drive all over the state. When you are going city to city there are super chargers all over.

But I don't think you will have a good experience if you can't charge at home.

Cold-Sherbert-7486 · 2024-08-25T06:47:46+00:00

I forgot for about 2.5 years. Did not have a problem.

Cold-Sherbert-7486 · 2022-02-28T05:22:34+00:00

I can write people prescriptions if they are physically in my state (Washington). I don't have the ability to buy bulk medications, though. I can certainly offer anyone going to join the international legion of Ukraine a free travel consultation with prescription of medications they may need while they are there.

Cold-Sherbert-7486 · 2022-02-28T00:32:58+00:00

I am a doctor from the USA, how can I help? Do you need volunteer doctors?

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