I'd guess the top spots are just super wealthy people who figure that at their "hourly rate", paying for parking is basically more costly than just eating the tickets. Like if someone's time is worth $10k+/hour, the parking tickets are basically just premium parking fees that are still "cheaper" than spending even a minute dealing with payment... Let your assistant pay whatever tickets you get in the mail instead.
Good point. I wonder if it might be a bimodal distribution - peaks for the super poor and the super wealthy. Of course, there are more poor than wealthy, so maybe you'd need to look at the rate per capita for different income brackets.
Maybe but honestly your logic doesn’t really make any sense to me anyway. If my time is worth $10k/hr, why am I driving myself? That alone is a huge waste of money.
My only knowledge of significant parking ticket acquisition from upper classes comes from lawyers outside courthouses. I tried looking for reporting on this but it may have just been a hyper local thing to where I grew up.
Could be family, I knew the daughter of a wealthy man who used to park wherever she liked and would pay the tickets without a second thought. I never asked her about it, but given what I remember of her (very personable and naive) she probably didn't see it as a problem, she just paid them and that was it.
Having the ticket price linked to their income would immediately make the game fair. If you earn 10k/h and you need to pay a 100k ticket you will be more careful.
He would park directly in front of our office building that was located inside a large complex that had a movie theater, fancy restaurants, and all kinda stuffs like that.
They couldnt tow so they would just write a ticket for being in the spot after like 60 minutes. He racked up thousands in tickets and simply just didnt pay them. Never got in trouble either lol. Since it was private property, I guess the owners just didnt care that much. He was a super douche and ended up quitting thankfully.
This is the insight behind demand-driven parking fees. The super wealthy folks who can pay an infinite amount for the spot won't matter how much the spot costs, they'll just pay the fee.
I've thought about building something that uses CV to detect parking cops near me, but this is even better! Now just add a paid feature to send alerts when there is a cop within a certain radius of you ;)
I’m reading reports that the Russian military is far weaker and less resourced than many believed, due in part to corruption. It sounds like the Russians may not be able to take Ukraine without major escalation. If Putin’s assault is fended off, it demonstrates to the world that Russia is far weaker than we were led to believe. Still, they have ICBMs, and I fear that Putin would be unable to bear this hit to his ego and the image of his “empire”.
That would reduce his standing to a Kim Jong Un level. He would not be able to un-ring that bell. And the first country to launch nukes loses. They might even win that war, but in the international stage what they end up with won’t look like peace.
I recently moved to a new city and signed up with a medium-sized regional ISP. I was disappointed when I set up my router and saw I didn’t have an IPv6 address. I searched the web for “${MY_ISP} IPv6” and found their FAQ page with the following entry (paraphrased):
> Q: Does $ISP support IPv6?
> A: Yes! $ISP supports IPv6. For instructions on configuring your router….
I spent an hour trying and failing to get it working. Frustrated that I’d just invested so much time and not wanting it to be a total waste, I called customer service and, as you can imagine, I had an extremely difficult time trying to convince anyone that I didn’t need to turn my router off and on again.
Over the span of a few weeks, I tried calling twice and using their live chat once to ask about IPv6. At this point it was a matter of principle, if their website said they supported it I was going to hold them to it. Each time I communicated with them, I got a different answer as to why IPv6 wasn’t working: one person told me they do support it but not in my area, another person told me they don’t support it at all, and the third person told me that they did “offer” it but did not “support” it. Each time I read them the FAQ page entry which explicitly said they do support it with no conditions. By their responses, it was obvious that they thought I was a weirdo, but I just really wanted them to give me the IPv6 that they’d promised.
After all of this failed, I tried one last thing: I submitted a complaint with the FCC about misleading advertising. Before you call me a Karen, I wasn’t trying to get anyone in trouble or to get special treatment or whatever. I just wanted them to provide the services they promised. I specifically mentioned that I had nothing but positive experiences with the staff that I’d interacted with and that my issue was just a technical/marketing one. Well, whaddya know, I got a lovely email within 6 hours thanking me for bringing the issue to their attention, saying that they had identified a configuration issue in my local area, and that they had scheduled maintenance for the next day to fix it. And within 24 hours I (and presumably hundreds of my neighbors) had working IPv6!
Was it worth the time and effort? For IPv6, no. But for the satisfaction of getting a corporation to follow through with their word? Also, no. But for the ability to write this comment? Well, no. And I suspect this is how just about everyone who has ever spent more than an hour banging their head against a wall trying to get IPv6 working has felt in the end. Like, wow, I can now look at literally the same exact cat pictures as I did before but now I have access to 79 octillion times as many addresses, yay?
That’s my best guess as to why we’re still in the dark ages of 2^32 internet addresses.
Side note, their FAQ page has been changed to say “IPv6 is supported in most areas”. I’m at least proud to know I’m the reason for a few more weasel words on a corporate marketing website. Success.
The world owes you a debt of gratitude. I've often thought about siccing the FTC on companies, but you pulled it off. How long did it take between your report and the company responding?
It was really fast like I said, under 6 hours until I got a response. I submitted it to the fcc in the morning and had the email by the afternoon, and had IPv6 by the next day at 10am. Goes to show what you can accomplish if you go up the chain, I could have probably called their tech support every day for the next 5 years and gotten nowhere.
I think a lot of people don’t realize how much alcohol they actually consume because their bodies are accustomed to it.
As a non-drinker apart from rare occasions (1-2x per year), here’s my anecdotal experience.
Over the course of an evening:
- 5-6oz of a 7% IPA and I’m feeling good. This is around my personal cutoff if I do happen to have a drink.
- 1 16oz IPA and I’d be feeling borderline drunk.
- 2 16oz IPAs would leave me right and properly drunk with a good chance of a hangover.
- 3 or more and I am feeling way too drunk, my stomach contents are no longer guaranteed to stay in place, and I’m guaranteed to wake up with a robust hangover.
I drank quite a bit up until about 6 years ago, and back then I could consume multiple times these amounts and feel fine.
I am a healthy, fit person in my mid-late 20s, and to my knowledge don’t have any genetic predisposition to alcohol intolerance.
Would you recommend it? I'm considering giving up drinking entirely and just smoking/vaping weed. A small amount of weed gives me the same sort of social buzz that the sweet spot of alchol (3-6 drinks) gives me, with no hangover and excess calories.
I do still partake in a small amount of weed, I find it to be a much more enjoyable and seemingly healthier experience (I mostly use edibles/oils to avoid lung effects). The worst thing about weed for me is the social stigma, especially among older people.
The primary reason I stopped drinking was that my partner had a habit of drinking too much and eventually it got excessive to the point we both decided to cut it out. We stopped associating with the people who we regularly drank around. Once the social pressure was gone, it was actually very easy for me to stop because I personally never really cared for it in the first place.
I think weed, in moderation, is a great replacement for alcohol if you want to continue socializing with others in “intoxicated scenarios”, but ideally I think it’s best to try associating with people who can have fun without drugs. I think conversations and bonding are so much richer and more meaningful when sober.
