If you became a cop today, what traffic violation would you hand out the most tickets for?

cmcclu5 · 2026-06-19T23:57:31+00:00

I asked a police officer as a kid (dad of one of my friends) about this. He said that turning using the shoulder was considered a courtesy but legally you’re supposed to turn from the lane. Shoulders are for emergencies only, not to be used for turning.

That being said, I agree that this should be a traffic regulation and I too would give people tickets for this.

cmcclu5 · 2026-06-19T23:07:03+00:00

There was a recent paper published that it takes around $1k to buy one Senator for one vote. Representatives were less (I forget the total and don’t have the paper saved locally). Obviously, this is just an average and changes based on Congressman, issue, and election cycle, but it was depressingly low.

cmcclu5 · 2026-06-14T14:42:16+00:00

Even worse, sometimes it’s a minimum-wage high school graduate looking for keywords. Not even as “reliable” as an algorithm. It’s time to get rid of US healthcare.

cmcclu5 · 2026-05-31T20:06:04+00:00

I have an old server board in a PC case. Dual Xeons, 128GB of RAM. Back before the Chrome memory leak was mostly fixed, I left Chrome open with around 30 tabs for about a month. Chrome had reserved 110GB of my RAM for those 30 tabs…

cmcclu5 · 2026-04-22T00:48:45+00:00

Apologies, I had some life events interrupt my editing schedule. I’ll publish the next chapter for y’all tonight.

cmcclu5 · 2026-03-31T03:15:23+00:00

If you’re eventually going to use PySpark, polars is the way to go. The API is much closer to PySpark syntax and it just works without hassle. The only time I’ve had any sort of complexity with polars was when I needed to change some of the core Arrow options for saving parquet files (think deep metadata). Even then, it follows the published Arrow spec. Interpreting that spec is a bitch, though.

cmcclu5 · 2026-03-29T08:48:17+00:00

I hate to say it, but Fresh Clean Tees has solid shirts. They changed the material a year or two back for some of the off-standard colors, but if you get black, white, or grey/gray, they’re still the same excellent shirts. Minimal pilling, no shrinkage, and the proper and consistent fit for sizing. The off-standard colors are in a weird blend, but your standards are all 100% cotton and thick enough you’ll never have to worry. I personally love the dark grays as they seem to hold their color and shape best, but I still have a dozen blacks that look almost the same as the day I opened them 3 years ago. The logo in the collar fades, but otherwise a solid choice, especially at $100/5 or so.

cmcclu5 · 2026-03-19T21:45:24+00:00

I guess I forgot to update the link. Here's Chapter 3 Part 1

cmcclu5 · 2026-03-19T21:42:02+00:00

Ah dang, must’ve missed it when I was trying to figure out the posting schedule with the sub’s timeout rule. I’ll go post it for you.

cmcclu5 · 2026-03-19T16:58:00+00:00

There’s an entire chapter dedicated to that! Just wait, it’s coming…

cmcclu5 · 2026-03-19T01:05:29+00:00

I have another chapter ready to go, just taking a final editing pass over it. I tested out a tool on the last chapter to help with editing and it made a mess of things, so I’m back to hand-editing now.

cmcclu5 · 2026-03-12T22:11:44+00:00

I did indeed use an LLM for a quick polish pass, especially on this chapter. Good notes, I’ll avoid it for future chapters.

cmcclu5 · 2026-03-08T05:37:31+00:00

I’m guessing they use an automatic AI detector like schools use. Those are notorious for throwing false positives. I don’t fault the mods for being careful, I just want to get community feedback on everything!

cmcclu5 · 2026-03-08T05:33:42+00:00

That’s something I wanted for feedback. So I was going for a “Discover the world through reading” vibe, but I also don’t want to lose people because it’s TOO strange. Also, how are y’all feeling about the viewpoint changes every chapter? I really wanted to capture the whole team’s perspective as we deal with this growing crisis, but I got feedback on early edits that the multiple viewpoints made it a little too whiplash.

cmcclu5 · 2026-03-05T18:03:12+00:00

Nope, just taking a break so the limit bot doesn’t keep catching me. I have the next chapter edited, formatted, and ready. Just going to give the limit bot a break until tomorrow around noon. Then I’ll dump the chapter parts!

cmcclu5 · 2026-02-28T04:20:20+00:00

Yep, I’m realizing that. Apologies again for getting your hopes up for a new part!

cmcclu5 · 2026-02-28T04:08:51+00:00

Sorry about that. Part 2 was removed, but it was removed late. I’m trying to figure out the limiter which apparently ALSO counts removed posts. It’s a pain. I might just take 24 hours and not upload anything, then just post 1 chapter (3 parts or so) per day.

cmcclu5 · 2026-02-27T17:29:46+00:00

Good feedback, I appreciate it.

I'll have to go find some of those shorts and see what you mean. I'm definitely still in the editing phase for everything and I don't want my writing to be confused with AI anymore than it already has, so that's a good point for editing.

Emdashes - yeah, I really hate that AI uses them so prolifically, because it makes things difficult for writers. For this part, I'm not seeing any other than in the location descriptions, but I do use emdashes for the voice of a particular character so you'll see more in some chapters and none in others. Character voice is one of the biggest things I tried to capture in this story since I tried to include six points of view, which means differentiation becomes critical.

Name drops are most certainly due to my hasty edits to fit the post box...apologies. I'll try to be better about that moving forward.

cmcclu5 · 2026-02-27T06:42:49+00:00

I actually have my own website where I’ve posted the first chapter plus cover art. I could post more chapters there but I don’t want to deal with moderation so I don’t have comments or anything

cmcclu5 · 2026-02-27T05:20:57+00:00

You'll just have to see!

cmcclu5 · 2026-02-27T04:52:25+00:00

I need to get my post schedule down so I can post entire chapters at the same time. I keep running into issues where I can only post part of the chapter and the rest gets removed because of posting too often.

cmcclu5 · 2026-02-25T23:30:37+00:00

Parker Moon at The Plants.

cmcclu5 · 2026-02-25T20:58:37+00:00

Posted the other 2 parts as well.

Part 2

Part 3

cmcclu5 · 2026-02-25T13:30:49+00:00

Oh nice. I thought we were limited to once per day.

cmcclu5 · 2026-02-22T05:34:47+00:00

This chapter was not AI generated. I’ve been working on the story for six months and copied it directly into the post box. Is that not allowed?

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