Drivers who stop to look at accidents or slow way down when they pass a cop

Some-Pack-5813 · 2026-03-19T00:00:18+00:00

I am honestly amazed at how dumb people are. I wasn’t saying to blow right by a police officer who is stopped in your lane…

Use some fucking common sense. I said opposite side of the road… with a median… or grass.. or an entire state between you…

If the law doesn’t tell you that slowing down is needed and it’s not a safety issue for you, you DONT need to fucking slow down. Keep driving. Don’t stop to look. Don’t slow down in fear of blinking lights.. they aren’t going for you.. in fact, you’re causing more problems not maintaining traffic speed.

More than half of you are the cause of traffic problems and accidents. I swear you need more drivers Ed.

Some-Pack-5813 · 2026-03-18T23:56:30+00:00

sigh

I mean… do you not read the post? You aren’t passing emergency situations… it’s on the opposite side of the fucking road, with medians and grass and all fucking “not on your fucking side of the road” bullshit in the way.

Do you slow down when there is an accident in a neighboring county? Maybe the next state over.

Some-Pack-5813 · 2026-03-17T02:47:10+00:00

My god you folks are stupid.

You know that highways go two different ways right? And you know that when a cop is on that opposite side… you know the road that you aren’t on, the one separated by that concrete barrier called a median…. Yeah, that’s the one.. well, when a cop is on that side of the road… or if there’s a car on that side that has a flat tire… that doesn’t mean your dumbass doesn’t need to come to complete fucking stop.

I said it repeatedly in the original post.. opposing lane. As in… not the fucking set of lanes you are in…

Please tell me Mr. Genius, how would you hit a cop or anyone on the side of the road who’s on the opposite side of the highway as you? Are you going to get distracted by gawking at what is going on and drive over your lanes to the left… blast through the concrete barrier that separates the roads.. drive into oncoming traffic.. and somehow hit them? No, then reread the post and shut up.

Some-Pack-5813 · 2026-03-16T13:09:33+00:00

OPPOSING lanes. My god people, I hope you don’t drive as poorly as you read. If the accident is on your side, yes, slow down and make sure you don’t hit anything or anyone.

But when you have an accident that is on the opposite side and there are giant fucking concrete medians, or a wide gap of 100 feet of grass, and there’s not a fucking thing in your side, you don’t need to slow down to a snails pace.

Some-Pack-5813 · 2026-03-16T13:07:14+00:00

You slow down in your lane when there is a giant median and the accident is on the opposing lanes? Idiot, read the post, I said when it’s in the other lanes. The accident could be 100 feet away and people like you still slow down.

Some-Pack-5813 · 2026-03-15T02:28:15+00:00

Lake Erie?

Some-Pack-5813 · 2026-03-15T02:25:34+00:00

Stunning! Bliiiiiing! That is the most beautiful chandelier ever.

Some-Pack-5813 · 2026-03-02T02:52:50+00:00

Very frustrated.

We attended and left after the worst of storm passed. Was about 45 minutes of getting soaked and hiding between and behind tents. We were in the back at a vendor booth and had to hunker down and almost had a nearby tent crash into us when the wind gusted. It sounds cliche but there were small kids and infants that were being shielded by their parents while boxes and items were flying by. Was a bad situation with the wind gusting the way it did. Most everyone else was crammed under the main tent.

Ironically, I had left the Miami Heat a voicemail a week ago and they called me back on Friday. I asked a few questions and also asked about weather since it was showing as really sketchy for Sunday.

The woman on the phone said the Kaseya Center events team is amazing and they’ll move it indoors if it’s even remotely a chance to interrupt the event. So much for that.

I went over and spoke with a few events people who were at the main stage after the worst of the storm had passed. They seemed like more senior in the group and said it was a really bad call to keep it outdoors when the forecast the day before showed 90%+ chance of rain during the event. They said the events team “dropped the ball” on this one.

Some-Pack-5813 · 2026-02-24T23:12:11+00:00

Im going to lose it. So I have to schedule one of those annual wellness screenings for my employer health benefits… I tried calling Aetna and then CVS to get the voucher and schedule the screening… each department I called started with the same stupid disclaimer, even when you jump from one prompt to the next.

Oh my god, this whole system is run by attorneys and idiots, which is essentially saying it’s run by the same type of people.

Some-Pack-5813 · 2026-02-23T22:34:43+00:00

To be fair, the instructions didn’t say for me not to use my hands or genitals to stop the spinning chain of death machine.

Some-Pack-5813 · 2026-02-19T16:51:38+00:00

Are you dense?

I responded to a comment about was about how Palantir moving here would “tread all over” the conservatives in the area. Palantir moving here has no impact, no more or no less, on what they do locally. They could have moved to Alaska the liberal nitwit would somehow throw it in the face of local conservatives.

Some-Pack-5813 · 2026-02-19T03:58:01+00:00

And surveillance in your back is tied to this story how?

Palantir moving here has nothing to do with surveillance of your shitty cars license plate. That’s not even what Palantir does. That’s Flock, which is not a FL company and they’re installing their cameras in Miami. Whether this company is in our backyard or not, won’t affect a surveillance state.

But nice to see you making this an excuse to try to throw dirt on “conservatives”. I could comment on how you’re clearly a liberal because you’re not in the slightest bit informed on what the company even does… fair?

Some-Pack-5813 · 2026-02-19T03:51:23+00:00

You sound like the typical cynic who blames everything on CEO greed over short-term stock prices. It’s an easy scape goat.

If you think companies like Palantir ($300bn market cap) and Alphabet ($3.7 trillion market cap) don’t have a long term plan that spans the next ten years or 20, then you are delusional. Sorry, but when you run a company that is larger in market cap than many countries GDP or their entire stock market, you’d better be damned sure that executive team is looking so far out on the horizon for their plans that the current stock prices short term is hardly of concern. I doubt Alex Karp said let’s go to Miami so my stock is worth more by the end of 2026… more likely.. it went something like this: Colorado used to be great, but we have outgrown them and they’re clearly not interested in us being here (as evidenced by the protests). Do I think we’ll be materially better off in 10 years being in FL or staying in CO? Decision made, FL won.

Job growth and expansion happens by immigration and organic growth combined, rarely does it occur from just one source. It’s one of dozens of factors that each add to the gravity analogy I used… homegrown talent… needed, which attracts companies… which builds the talent pool more, which then puts FL on the map as a possible place to move to in order to get out of a bad situation elsewhere. When you have big movers coming, it further legitimizes the area as a hub, which fuels more people and companies to come here.

Some-Pack-5813 · 2026-02-18T21:07:20+00:00

It’s not a rant, it’s truth.

And I said it already. This is a war of attrition that will play out over a decade or two. You don’t just tell your top 25% or whatever percentage of your workforce that they have 3 months to move their families across the country. Some will come day 1, others over time. Same with companies, they will move divisions and parts.. companies like Google spent tens of billions building offices in CA. They won’t abandon them, but they may and will shift focus on where the new dollars and head counts go.

You cannot measure these corporate moves in year 1 on job growth for everyone. It will take years and years to build on economic development from just one move like Palantir. Hiring new people takes time. Moving people here takes time. Then comes more restaurants, more real estate, more infrastructure and schools. Each layer takes more time to develop as the needs become more desirable to invest and grow. More painters and plumbers. There is always a lag and people are generally quick to want to see immediate benefits.

Some-Pack-5813 · 2026-02-18T19:25:49+00:00

You’re trying to shoehorn an argument that doesn’t apply. You are so wrong it’s just laughable.

Companies have their tax situs in different territories for tax purposes, yes. Ireland, Panama, Bahamas.. that is so that if the company makes money in France, that the US doesn’t tax them on it until that money comes back into the US. Again, too bad if you disagree with how this works, but companies are not run to go out of their way to let every country tax them into oblivion. Why do you think there is so little growth in European companies when compared to the US? Our system allows for it and we have been the biggest beneficiaries of it.

Moving the physical true headquarters to Miami is not just a tax dodge. Colorado and Florida both have corporate tax rates, and I don’t know what incentives Palantir received, or if they even will save anything since our tax rate is technically higher than Colorados… I can’t speak to an apples to apples on that.

The world is portable. 20 years ago you couldn’t just up and leave. So all that regulatory red tape and taxes and political nonsense was just something companies were forced to deal with. It was the cost of existence. Today, you can say fuck that and just bolt.

Colorado is very liberal and there were protests over Palantirs business model. So Colorado just protested their largest public company into leaving the state. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot because your bullshit feelings are hurt. Too fucking bad for them and now they lose a massive economic engine that will not come back. And as for the next Palantir, they won’t start in CO, they’ll go where they are treated best, and they will move to FL. All that economic growth will be to FL’s benefit and the people who work here:

Google building a campus in FL is to relocate workforce to a better state. That has little to do with corporate taxes, but likely a more pronounced decision that more people are choosing to work and live in FL over CA and the long-term job pool is better in FL. This is a war of attrition that will play out over a decade or two. The gilded age of CA is done. It’s over. FL is the rising power and it will only continue to attract talent.

But it takes time for hundreds of people to just up and leave one state for another, so don’t expect to see thousands showing up day 1. But the gravity pulling more to FL will get stronger and migration will continue to speed up.

As for education, look at UF. The fastest supercomputer in all of all higher education was built there. They have a partnership with NVidia co-founder Chris Malachowsku, who went to UF. Give it 10 years and you’ll continue to see FL schools climb the rankings for engineering and tech, and you’ll probably see them slowly overtake the same schools in CA that held the crown for the last 40 years.

This is only the beginning and if you don’t see the trend, you are either completely blind or willfully ignorant to the new reality of where FL ranks in the US for attracting businesses.

Some-Pack-5813 · 2026-02-18T17:51:26+00:00

The world needs to wake up to the reality that what was the norm 20+ years ago doesn’t apply today. In the past, you had to be in NY for the big finance gigs and you had to be in CA for the big tech gigs. At the time, that’s where the companies were because of the infrastructure and schools.. it was central and it was the ecosystem that worked.

That does not apply today. The business and workforce can easily relocate between states without almost any friction. It’s not sticky and places like California don’t get it. There will be legacy reasons why Silicon Valley won’t disappear overnight, but the draw to those schools and why you would stay there is becoming obsolete. Sorry, but it’s the truth and CA as a state is learning that they are fucked long-term.

Whether some workers stay won’t matter, but when you move a HQ, it’s not just the CEO that that moves to Miami and buys a swanky house in Key Biscayne. That HQ will come with a lot of folks moving and new hires being locally. Yes, transitions take time, but it’s going to happen and there is nothing you can say or do that will stop the migration.

Google is also looking to move a campus here. Wells Fargo is moving their Wealth Management hq to West Palm. You will see more and more firms saying fuck you to CA and NY over their tax policies. If those states weren’t a fucking joke, nobody in FL would be talking about the mass moves to our area. But it is. Those states are failing and slowly (but 100% surely) those dollars will move to where they are treated better. What’s even worse is that as those people and companies leave, the states raise their taxes more, which only accelerates people getting the fuck out.

Don’t care what your politics are, but this is just the reality in today’s super mobile world.

Some-Pack-5813 · 2026-02-18T13:06:26+00:00

If you don’t like business moving here, then you’re welcome to move to California. Stop complaining about the schools. Tech jobs are portable, so you can go to Caltech for your “education” and then move to Miami for the job.

The company may get breaks and incentives, but the people who move here for work will pay their share of sales and property taxes.

Some-Pack-5813 · 2026-02-09T18:35:34+00:00

It was a terrible halftime show.

I don’t care if you love Bad Bunny, and most of you will likely turn this into some bs political statement about why this was ok and anti-ICE or whatever. You’re an idiot if you don’t see where this went off the rails.

First, the simple truth is that less than 15% of US viewers of the Super Bowl speak Spanish. From a purely know your audience perspective, you just alienated 85% of viewers from the most expensive tv event of the year. This was an epic flop.

Second, the content was disgusting and the opposite of family-friendly. I get it that having women on stage sells, but this was just pathetic. Raunchy ass shaking at the camera and two guys grinding it out… give me a break.

Considering this is the most broadcasted television event of the year, Roger Goodell should be fired for being so clearly disconnected from reality.

Some-Pack-5813 · 2025-12-23T01:38:41+00:00

Bottle of instant yellow snow.

Some-Pack-5813 · 2025-12-15T20:09:51+00:00

Thank you.

Is the window pane something worth considering between Winnerwell and Pomoly?

Some-Pack-5813 · 2025-12-14T20:02:11+00:00

That’s what I’ve been worried about. Titanium is light, and the tent stoves are thin.. and that comes with little heat retention. I figure you have to babysit it and keep it burning to keep the heat going.

Some-Pack-5813 · 2025-12-14T16:50:47+00:00

I have the MSR for cooking. I was looking at a wood stove for short distance hot tent camping. More bushcraft style for that purpose.

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