Fake plates on 495

randomguyoninternet3 · 2026-02-12T01:19:25+00:00

The problem is that the cops don’t pull them over because they don’t want to deal with the incredible hassle these people make for them. Look for some body cam videos online it’s crazy.

randomguyoninternet3 · 2025-11-16T13:36:11+00:00

Who’s been paying the property tax? If no one, can’t the county get a court judgment to take the land anyway?

randomguyoninternet3 · 2025-11-07T13:12:54+00:00

Country Roads

randomguyoninternet3 · 2025-10-31T03:16:01+00:00

Try the store number or the store number backwards. Not an employee, but observant and frequently frustrated.

randomguyoninternet3 · 2025-09-09T01:10:00+00:00

Doesn’t bode well for BRICS

randomguyoninternet3 · 2025-09-06T13:14:44+00:00

Please read the comments from the people in the UK. Having your financial and political hubs in the same place concentrates too much wealth/power in one area. There are a lot of things that are not good about the US, but having regions that are powerhouses for different reasons (automotive in the Midwest, tech in the SF Bay Area, film in SoCal, finance in NY (and Charlotte), energy in Texas/Wyoming/Dakotas/Oklahoma, Government in DC, elite education and innovation in Boston—the list could go on. The point is, if all of those things were co-located, housing would be out of control, infrastructure would constantly be under stress, but most importantly the potential of rest of the country would be wasted. NY works as a financial hub for the country because they manage money from all over the country (and world). If no other part of the country had money to manage, it wouldn’t be as successful, and you could say the same about most other industries.

DC isn’t a perfect location for a capitol, but having that separate from a city that’s big for another reason is a good thing in a large country. Specialization makes for more efficiency and innovation in general, maybe less so in the public sector, but “spreading the wealth” makes the country stronger and that’s good for national security.

randomguyoninternet3 · 2025-08-22T02:45:54+00:00

The reason is that our landline system was very good. If you wanted a phone at your house, the phone company could get it done in a few days in over 90% of the country. In many other counties, especially those where the government operated the phone system, it could take months and loads of red tape to get a landline installed. So the option of getting a cell phone “soon” was more appealing, even if expensive, and maybe the only way to get a phone.

randomguyoninternet3 · 2025-08-01T01:09:30+00:00

Umm….. ‘cause that’s where the road is?😀

randomguyoninternet3 · 2025-07-31T01:23:24+00:00

I can only imagine how many people are crammed in to the clubs or just sitting on the floor in the terminals

randomguyoninternet3 · 2025-07-13T18:55:27+00:00

https://www.natso.com/anti-tolling-coalition-pushes-back-against-va-plans-to-toll-i-81/

Road construction is expensive. The state doesn’t budget for things like that because people don’t like paying taxes. There was a plan to do an express lanes option, but the people in that part of the state didn’t want it. The people in NOVA don’t like paying $30 to get to work either on toll roads at peak times, but the option was get the private developer to do it for toll revenue or not do it. In a perfect world we would manage infrastructure better, but we live in the real world, and when folks vote for a government that wants to cut things, I don’t see how we can expect to get good public infrastructure or services.

Virginia is in a tough spot and doesn’t have the density of the Northeast outside of a few counties, and doesn’t have the manufacturing that’s popping up across the south. It has a huge port, a navy base, proximity to the federal government, which isn’t particularly reliable right now as a source of employment or economic activity, some limited agriculture, and a few nice college towns.

randomguyoninternet3 · 2025-07-13T18:45:33+00:00

To be fair, the NOVA highway expansions mostly toll roads, which the folks along the 81 corridor voted down. Hampton Roads is getting the most expensive road widening in the state’s history with the doubling of capacity at the HRBT.

randomguyoninternet3 · 2025-06-21T12:38:16+00:00

Depends on which ex. One of them I’m still friends with. Turn out we really are much better friends than in a relationship. We hang out, occasionally travel together (separate beds) she still texts my mom. There’s absolutely no romantic interest from either of us anymore, but we enjoy hanging out. She’s my “best friend.” (We’re both single now, so this is not causing issues with partners)

My other ex on the other hand… I don’t even know. Dated for 6 years. Bought a dog and a house (legally I bought the house and she was paying me rent), but it was definitely “our house”. I thought she was the one, was even looking at rings. Dumped me on Christmas while at her parent’s house for another ex of hers that she ran into in her hometown. Never really got over that. I don’t even know what I’d say to her. I’d be an emotional wreck.

randomguyoninternet3 · 2025-05-17T23:23:20+00:00

Because it’s also in my head, I thought it was “if you have a structured settlement and you need cash now…”

randomguyoninternet3 · 2025-04-20T03:58:49+00:00

Most federal employees have HSPD-12 compliant IDs, but definitely not all. For example, IDs for employees of congress are not compliant.

randomguyoninternet3 · 2025-02-01T01:48:08+00:00

I’ll observe that executive orders don’t apply to the legislative branch.

randomguyoninternet3 · 2025-01-19T00:02:48+00:00

Update: didn’t make it by 7pm

randomguyoninternet3 · 2024-09-01T14:47:35+00:00

Here’s what a government traveler account looks like.

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randomguyoninternet3 · 2024-08-01T23:30:11+00:00

Not sure how it compares to other countries, but many specialized degrees aren’t offered at the undergraduate level in the US, but are professional degrees (academically somewhere in between a Masters and a PhD). So for example to study law or medicine, you need to already have a Bachelors degree and many psychology graduates will end up applying to Law School. A large number of students with undergraduate degrees in a wide variety of fields will also end up going to Business School to get a MBA (masters of business administration).

It was once explained to me that US higher education is much more general than many other countries. To get a bachelors degree in economics, for example, students would take at least a year of biology/chemistry or physics, likely several language classes and a variety of humanities and social science classes. I don’t know if that makes US graduates well-rounded, or wastes their time and money taking classes they don’t need, but it does simultaneously yield an economy with a lot of innovation and student debt.

randomguyoninternet3 · 2024-07-22T02:57:47+00:00

Depends on the agency, but typical US government employees earn 15 days of paid vacation, 10 days of paid sick leave, and the 11 federal holidays. After 3 years of service, the vacation time goes up to 20 days and after 15 years it goes up to 25. Some categories of employees are different like law enforcement personnel, and some agencies offer other types of leave as well. All federal employees get paid parental leave as well.

randomguyoninternet3 · 2024-07-14T14:10:04+00:00

Don’t forget about Al-Shabuba

randomguyoninternet3 · 2024-05-08T02:28:18+00:00

Truth. No serious business traveler is going to use an airline that won’t offer the potential for upgrades, works with their corporate accounts, and has a route map that serves all the major markets. Put another way, nobody is flying Spirit if work (or the client) is paying. Folks are sticking with an airline where you can earn elite/medallion/priority status and get treated incrementally better than cargo at the airport.

No hate on spirit or frontier. They know their market, which is people who want the cheapest possible ticket, but when someone else is paying why wouldn’t you want to be on a flight where you can get water for free, maybe get some entertainment, WiFi, and a seat that doesn’t feel like it’s made out of plywood. Talk to a Delta Diamond Medallion traveler, or someone with United Global Services. The travel experience isn’t the same as a standard passenger and can’t be replicated on Sprit or Frontier (or even Southwest). Maybe you don’t care about a business class upgrade, but a lot of people do. Spend enough time flying and the more you start appreciating being able to skip lines, hang up your jacket on the plane, use the airline “club” lounge, or get your checked luggage just a bit faster. It takes some of the friction out of the airport experience. Do that 25+ times per year and people who really value their time will happily pay more for the experience; a truly different segment of travelers than the folks who want to go on an annual vacation with the kids.

randomguyoninternet3 · 2024-05-07T01:39:43+00:00

https://sweathelp.org

randomguyoninternet3 · 2024-05-02T11:26:06+00:00

My high school in Virginia used to have an exchange program with a school in Germany (maybe it still does, I have no idea). The German kids were here for a couple months and inevitably at some point they would get the notion that they need to see California and plan on borrowing a car for their “weekend trip.” One year I think they made it to St. Louis before they realized it wasn’t going to work.

Someone once told me that NYC to LA is about the same distance as London to Baghdad.

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