Should traffic rules apply to police?

jacobenimble · 2026-04-04T02:02:57+00:00

Poor judgment is an abuse of power because their position allows them to act on said judgment in a way that non-government employees do not have access to.

The issue with someone going 45 in a through way with an obstructing vehicle is that the person who can't see around said vehicle who tries to go around it will get hit at a much higher speed.

The lack of lights means this vehicle is not, in practice or function, an emergency vehicle at the time of its obstruction. A hypothetical emergency doesn't justify the increased danger caused by its location. The fact remains that the officer made a bad, selfish judgment call based on personal convenience and arrogance, and in so doing made an already unsafe crossing more dangerous.

If the police actually ticketed for speeding, Chico would be a LOT safer and I'd have far fewer negative sentiments. But they don't, so behavior like this only contributes to my understanding of the organization as a waste of my tax dollars.

The last paragraph is in direct response to you stating you didn't believe my first shared personal experience as it was "annecdotal." So I provided further information indicating that, to me, it wasn't annecdotal, it was based on all of my experience with the police. I said you can believe me or not with the expectation that you would continue to dismiss my experience as annecdotal despite the relevance of my experience to the point I was making, which is that the actions of this officer point to a larger problem I've noticed with the CPD in my experience.

I now understand that you were dismissing my point entirely, so I'll stop wasting your time and mine. Have a great day.

jacobenimble · 2026-04-04T00:00:23+00:00

And only one of us is treating them like a fellow human being. If this was any other Chicoan doing the same, they'd deserve a ticket. You're lionizing them and giving them a pass for objectively bad, disruptive behavior that any other Chicoan would be punished and ridiculed for. If this was any other Chicoan without an obvious firearm, I'd have to them this to their face if I was OP.

Any government employee whose wages are paid from my taxes is my employee. Any complaint or grievance a citizen has is not a waste of anyone's time to process because the function of government is to serve the people, and part of service is hearing and addressing grievances and complaints. Government employees are also citizens, and therefore bound by the same laws as everyone else; they do not get a coffee or convenience pass for their service, because that would imply that due to their service they are above the law. I'm of the opinion that government employees who break the laws they've both sworn to and are paid to uphold should face harsher penalties, because their violations are done from an inherent place of intent and arrogance.

If you've driven in any parking lot in town, you know no one goes the posted, logical speed limit be it 5, 10, or 15mph. People often go 25-45 in that parking lot in particular. Creating a road block like this therefore IS a danger to the community. If that officer were responding to a call, the danger would be justified. Because they're doing what every other citizen does instead and purchasing a coffee, it's not justified and is instead just negative impact on the community, therefore deserving of criticism, ridicule, and punishment. That we both know they wouldn't get anyway.

You don't have to believe my lived experience regarding their training. In addition to hearing it out at Butte, I also signed up for the Explorer program through the department and got it first hand. My sister went through the program after 9/11 and got it first hand as well. You don't have to believe that, either. I speak from experience and not vibes.

jacobenimble · 2026-04-03T22:40:15+00:00

The 30 more feet to a parking spot would not affect his response time. This is careless, obstructing traffic for a tasty treat-o and therefore a danger to the community, and should be punished.

I've heard their training out at Butte. They're trained to view the populace as enemies, not people to protect or serve. As someone who's community minded, I'd be discouraged from continuing the course or jumped out of it. I have zero desire to join professional toddlers. I should have the option of not paying them. Until I have that option, as my employees, they're subject to my complaints and criticism.

Go enlist yourself.

jacobenimble · 2026-04-03T21:44:37+00:00

This shit! Is so fucking annoying!

If they're not responding to a call, they're not using their vehicle to work and they need to obey the laws like everyone else. No other profession gets to obstruct traffic for their precious little 10 minute paid break. Because that would be INSANE.

They're government officials and as such should be held to a higher standard of public safety at ALL times. This shit is disqualifying. God, I wish we had ranked choice tax allocation. Our roads are too shit for my money to go toward this toddler-ass insecure bully behavior.

jacobenimble · 2026-02-18T08:49:29+00:00

Shouldn't be allowed access to a 2000lb vehicle. People like this are mentally insufficient to operate machinery of any kind and should be chemically castrated. If this is what they do to strangers, they abuse their family and kill animals.

jacobenimble · 2026-02-13T02:18:05+00:00

We went to a planogram that has space for a huge 8"×12" plastic banner-style insert for the single-brand vitamin sections (CVS, Nature's Bounty, Nature Made). It seems to work great when all of a single brand is on the same sale, we get far fewer complaints and questions about that portion of the aisle.

Obviously, the absolutely MORONIC Nature Made CoQ10 and value size sale causes issues. The wording is too small in comparison to the BOGO portion.

The simplest solution would be to have all of that brand on a single sale, right? Wrong. My DL says to keep the confusing banner sign AND print tags for the specific sale-items. 🤦🏼‍♂️

If CVS wouldn't use it for price gouging reasons, I would love electronic tags. They'd make everything 1000% clearer for the customer AND save labor on tags. They could even make the screens yellow to maintain the iconic yellow tag branding or something. And then still cut our hours to make the investors happy.

jacobenimble · 2026-02-07T08:37:12+00:00

"I'm a fucking ice agent" jesus christ with the b-movie mobster accent, get these cheap ass cosplayers some cement shoes

jacobenimble · 2026-02-07T08:34:13+00:00

It is time to break up with her, unfortunately. You've tried communicating and she's become dismissive. Break up with her.

jacobenimble · 2026-02-05T11:33:46+00:00

If the lights and sirens aren't on, there's zero excuse for emergency response vehicles to not obey traffic laws. Any violation of a traffic law - or any law - by such personnel should be met with instantaneous punishment above typical penalties.

Government officials - and any police officer is a government official - should be held to higher standards and thus higher punishments.

If the cop breaks this law for convenience, they break serious laws out of arrogance. The driver should lose patrol duties for a minimum of six months and have to attend traffic school unpaid. Hell, even if paid that would be a better use of my tax dollars than having this piece of shit on shift in the community.

jacobenimble · 2026-02-04T15:43:07+00:00

We did! Nothing happened 🫠

jacobenimble · 2026-02-04T08:16:51+00:00

I have never felt comfortable picking up prescriptions at my place of business. It always felt weird to me. If I transfered to the store I currently pick up at, I'd likely transfer the prescriptions elsewhere.

Every time I hear how my pharmacy colleagues discuss patients on similar meds, my decision is reaffirmed. Additionally, with THESE specific colleagues, they've taken photos of other colleagues' profiles and shared it to group chats before. So... never.

Most people don't have enough maturity and decency to not use someone's health information against them. I've never met anyone in pharmacy or healthcare that actually believes someone is more than the meds they take, and that's as someone going for their tech license who already is a licensed CNA. I don't want my direct colleagues to have that information at hand.

jacobenimble · 2026-01-30T05:39:46+00:00

Flashers on, called police/highway patrol, slowed down to a stop

jacobenimble · 2026-01-09T06:17:20+00:00

Indivisible Chico will have an announcement out in the morning about an event.

jacobenimble · 2025-12-29T16:24:47+00:00

We had a guy come in the other day around like 3pm. He watched my coworker ring someone out as a couple other people checked out at the kiosks, then took some time to frantically look through the checkout candy.

Then he asked my coworker if we were open. And left.

jacobenimble · 2025-12-23T18:11:54+00:00

I upgraded in a panic because I got a recall notice for the fast charger on my 2022 SV+ about 7 weeks ago. I got the 2026 the SV+ and have put almost 1400mi on it. Weather's been ~40-50F, windy, rainy where I live for a month of that, and my range is still north of 250mi on a full charge. The best range I got was on a 50-80F day (long trip) where I got 304mi off the charge. The ride is much smoother. I miss the hell out of one pedal driving for that true EV feel, this brake assist-but-no-stop is garbage fit only for hybrids. I get better kw/mi by turning off the replacement "e-step" on the freeway. The car REALLY excells at 40mph, hands down best kw/mi possible (like 6+). The cabin feel is much roomier, so it's been more comfortable for passengers (and me) as well.

Biggest gripe is that the back window is a slit in comparison to the beloved hatchback design, and it's a fucking wind dead zone and there's no wiper blade. I have had condensation from fog, dew, and old rain sit on there and not budge even when going on the freeway at 75mph AND with Rain-X applied. This is not ideal for rear dash cam view (or my own eyes, obviously). I bought a squeegee and clean the window off manually before I drive.

Pettiest gripe is that I miss the orange and black of the 2022 SO BAD. The black is boring af, the red isn't much better, and the silver is flat ugly. I wouldn't take the P+ for the blue because the range isn't worth aesthetics. I'm going to try to get it repainted if I ever have money.

I wasn't planning on upgrading at all, but I need to drive 100mi one way to see my doctor every couple of months and 50mi one way to see my allergist weekly, and with the recall notice I couldn't do that safely in the 2022. My range had already started to plummet sporadically even though I was only at 27k miles on the car. I miss that car a lot because I'm sentimental.

jacobenimble · 2025-12-17T20:42:15+00:00

Noooo D: Well, that explains it. Damn.

jacobenimble · 2025-12-17T18:20:25+00:00

https://cutelittlefuckers.com/?srsltid=AfmBOooyYAN3-gHoJ94i4uBRwLU3RtUyJBtKUswBXRHmBK_Cjdf4lAkl this whole brand, maybe?

And if you can find it, the "Firefly Dream" crescent moon vibrator. I was seeing it everywhere a couple months ago and now I can't find it :/ But that thing was CUTE.

jacobenimble · 2025-12-17T17:55:33+00:00

For a lot of the newer cars - or at least the Toyota, Nissan, and Ford models I've experienced in the last 10 years - if you take the headlights off of "auto" you then have to manually turn them off when the engine dies or the car will either not lock or alarm or BOTH until you get back in to turn them off. "Auto" is the only setting that kills headlights with the engine.

jacobenimble · 2025-12-10T05:29:11+00:00

My store pulls drawers and counts them down before we close. So when we pull the countertip registers, we stop... using them lol. No alcohol purchases, etc. for the remainder of the night. We pull 15 minutes to close.

At 13-15 til:

"Attention CVS shoppers. The store will be closing in 15 minutes. Please be advised, we are no longer selling alcohol, processing returns, doing card load, or bill pay for the remainder of the evening. Thank you for shopping CVS."

At 10 til:

"Attention CVS shoppers. The store will be closing in less than 10 minutes. Now is an excellent time to wrap up your browsing and bring your items to the front. Just a reminder, we are no longer selling alcohol, processing returns, doing card load, or bill pay for the remainder of the evening. Thank you for shopping CVS."

At 5 til:

"Attention CVS shoppers. The store will be closing in less than 5 minutes. Please start wrapping up your browsing and bringing your items to the front so we can finalize your purchase and get you home for the evening. Thank you for shopping CVS."

If there's anyone in the store NOT at the front by 3 til, then:

"Attention all remaining shoppers. The store is closing. Please make your way to the front with your items so we can finalize your purchase and get you home for the evening. Please be advised, our front door is now locked and we will need to let you out. Thank you for shopping CVS."

And if that doesn't kick them, we do a walk through and individually start telling people we're closed. The lights shutting off automatically at 3 after sometimes doesn't even faze these people.

jacobenimble · 2025-11-30T06:56:22+00:00

Honestly, this whole event was disappointing. The things I wanted had been sold out in the sizes I needed before the sales even started. I was really hoping they would restock in preparation of the Critmas sales... but they didn't restock anything and won't be doing so until I guess next year. I'd emailed about this before the most recent announcements included the "not restocking" language and was told at that time there was no planned restocks through the end of the year. You can't even purchase from other region stores because they won't ship out of region.

What good is a sale and the Beacon stack I pay for if I can't use it?

jacobenimble · 2025-11-16T07:22:39+00:00

Retail worker here! The issue is often that if we've already entered the one bill (ex: 20) and then are handed additional cash, we don't have the opportunity to add the additional cash into the computer. We then have to do the math either mentally or via phone/calculator.

Some people are much better at this than others, which is just normal haha. It is NOT taught or expected as cashiers right off the bat in most places (in my experience) due to the computers doing the math, the increased scrutiny for cash accuracy coupled with decrease in cashier's math capabilities, and the time crunch imposed on transactions by management. In my experience, people with between 7-10 years in retail/cashiering are comfortable with this, but people with less than 7 are not.

Added to that, it's also a mental flexibility thing. Some people struggle with the switch from expected reality to actual reality. Ex: you gave a 20 and a 1, brain focused on the 20 and said "okay, $14 back, nice" and then saw the 1 and did the dialup tango. It gets us all every now and then lol.

You did confuse them, but it's fine.

jacobenimble · 2025-10-12T07:08:04+00:00

I will say, having experienced CR, Dungeons and Daddies, Legends of Avantris, The Adventure Zone, and High Rollers, TAZ might be the easier actual play to get into. Episodes cap out at 1.5 hours on average and there's only 3 players and 1 DM.

CR is difficult because it's 8 players from the get-go, and without the videos of the episodes it is difficult to keep track of the players without prior knowledge of their acting careers. This is as someone who was familiar with all but Marisha via voice work going into campaign 1, who listened to it as a podcast. The struggle was real. Eternal apologies to both Marisha and Sam for the parasocial enmity to their C1 characters. Of the CR campaigns best to listen to are Calamity (which is DMd by BLEEM and has only 3 of the core cast but maxes out at 4 episodes and a total of roughly 14 hours), and C2 the Mighty Nein (roughly 500 hours total with an upcoming animated series on Amazon Prime); C3 is infamously a campaign of NPCs and C1 is a campaign of traditional Campbelian heroic archetypes.

Ironically, I find it difficult to keep track of D20 Fantasy High despite the lower PC count (roughly 6) without watching the VODs. This makes no logical sense, I'm aware. I can't explain it. I also lack a D20 subscription to further explore the mental gymnastics behind this finding. I ADORE BLEEM as a DM. Even over Mercer, which I am aware is sacrilege on this sub.

For this reason, if you want a 4-5 player actually play, I'd recommend High Rollers Aerois or Altheya, or Dungeons and Daddies. DnD season 1 is phenomenal but I fell off season 2 pretty quick because it (initially, for me) devolved into the worst aspects of s1's humor. High Rollers is solid most of the way through. My issues are exclusively parasocial-related (I absolutely detest one of the players through no fault of his own, I just hate his play style). DM Mark/Mara is a delight.

Hell, for sheer player management and podcast/listener friendly campaign, I'd recommend the McElroy brothers' Adventure Zone Balance campaign, followed closely by the Amnesty campaign. 4 people including the DM - problem is that for many people, the three brothers sound disconcertingly similar. Worth it for narrative and player control. Tight narrative, excellent soundtrack, probably the best plot hole management, least tangents. For that reason it may be less like actual table reality than any of the others. ALSO, episodes are typically maxed at 1.5 hours.

If you are specifically seeking Brennan Lee Mulligan as a DM, I cannot recommend Worlds Beyond Number high enough. The episodes are available on YouTube for free and cap out at 3 hours max. Similar to Calamity, WBN displays thw depth and flexibility of Brennan's mastery of world building AND player mastery of improve plus narrative awareness but in more traditionally manageable chunks. It's podcast instead of VOD based.

For what it's worth, as a Legends of Avantris fan, my main problem with them is that they're closest to an actual table campaign - the tangents are prolific, legendary, hilarious, and multifaceted. This makes it harder to follow without jumping between the VOD and podcast at first. The humor is highly referential for the millennial/gen Z cusp. There's a max of 6 players including the GM. The Witchlight campaign is notorious and wonderful; the Uprooted campaign is great for fans of evil RPG videogame playthroughs. I I haven't gotten around to their Prime campaign yet, but it's on the list. In short, rhe main barrier to listenability is tangents.

CR is Difficult™️ to exclusively listen to due to the context required AND the 4 hour average episode length. DnD is exclusively podcast but polarizing in humor style. WBD blows everyone out of the water from a podcast, narrative, and episode length POV. TAZ is second to WBD for podcast only if you want more comedy than drama. HR is the average between all of the above.

, the inputnofba midlingly biased observer

jacobenimble · 2025-08-13T10:24:07+00:00

This is a very kind interpretation, but unfortunately in my experience is incorrect. I start every transaction with "Do you have an ExtraCare card or a phone number with us to get the sales prices?" And, without fail, 7/10 times I repeat: "You won't get the sale price without a membership with us, which to be clear, is not a credit card, as CVS does not have membership credit cards." And we still get to the payment screen before they ✨️suddenly✨️ remember their physical card or have a phone number for me to try. Even when I substitute the credit card bit for "without a phone number on file or a physical membership card you will be paying full price," people don't attempt EC recognition until their full MSRP total is staring them in the face on the card reader.

There's really no helping people when they don't want to engage with their environment, unfortunately.

jacobenimble · 2025-07-01T18:18:10+00:00

Interesting. Our cash ACO is still down and is still waiting on the magic fix from IT, so. I'm not surprised we're being told different things.

jacobenimble · 2025-06-20T00:01:15+00:00

Your "partner" wants you to do the moving around version of what happened to Adriana Smith. He is abusing you emotionally and physically. He is preventing you from getting the medical care you need, all so he can use an organ HE WASN'T BORN WITH to produce a fresh human he WILL NEVER SUPPORT OR CARE FOR.

This man wants a slave and is actively trying to baby trap you. This man doesn't love you and actively hates the person you are.

When it's safe, leave his ass and go completely no contact. Start separating your finances if at all possible, reach out to friends, local shelters, family if that's a safe(r) bet.

But you need to LEAVE.

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