FuglyDuck

First, if the road floods, that would push drain clogging debris into the road, not away from it, and while many roads can operate a slight clog at the side, it becomes more problematic at the center.

Secondly, if it does clog, regardless if it was from a flood or just litter flowing into it with normal rain, some one has to go unclog it.

That someone would then either have to shut down both directions or be at risk of being hit from both directions.

Third, with the way roads are constructed, it would be a lot more expensive to design the sewers to either tolerate the loads (imagine a big heavy truck,) or burry it deep enough that the load is distributed around it anyways.

Fourth, maintenance. If something happens where you need to dig up your sewer, putting it to the side means you’re not also digging up the road. The reverse is also true.

Fifth, in freezing conditions, you don’t really want the water pooling in the center… you want it to the side, at least before it freeze back into ice.

the human brain has roughly 100 billion neurons.

These neurons have roughly 10-1000 trillion synaptic connections between them. Connections that are always shifting and changing.

the human brain isn’t a computer; you can’t just read them like you can a hard drive or memory stick… what we can do is read changes that represent certain kinds of thoughts like moving certain muscle groups or learning to move a mouse pointer; and that’s pretty much it. we have no way of ‘reading’ memories stored in those connections, not even on an individual basis; never mind at the scale and fault-tolerance that would be necessary to ensure that it was roughly the same person coming out the other end.

And then there’s the ethical implications.

I hope you oblidged!

Okay. Lots of reasons.

Another is it’s funny and fun and memorable.

It helps in this situation, where the instructions are unclear and thinking through the process in a logical manner.

Fortunately, kids aren’t quite clever in that way.

Sorry. But this comment made me think of this:

Anyway? We’re fucked and the game now is to mitigate and adapt.

There’s a reason school teachers are now doing that exercise where they have kids list instructions on how to make a pb&j, and then following them exactly.

Yup. The only reason places still use them is to give yet another pretext for stopping people.

Same, for example, the little dinky plate lamp being out, or failing to signal for the proper distance (a few hundred feet, usually.)

Cops don’t care if your car’s registration is up to date. They use it as an excuse to get to more juicy charges.

You were almost certainly getting towed regardless of your registration status. It takes maybe five minutes to slap a parking ticket on a car. Typical response time for towing is typically north of 30 minutes unless there’s some type of “it’s dangerous” involved.

That truck was there when they started their round. Probably because they were having problems with people overstaying. (Or they’re dicks.)

Real talk: the cops only look at the stickers if they want an excuse to pull you over.

For every thing else they run your plates- and usually before they even do that much. If your registration is current, then, they may just be letting you know they got ripped off, or checking if your drunk or just incredibly bored.

That said… if someone goes to the trouble of peeling off a sticker, it’s not going to do all that much good, and probably catch them more charges than just being unregistered.

(More likely they’d steal the entire plates. Particularly one from a similar car to yours- color, make, model, year, etc.)

I’m getting some adorable napoleonic vibes. 1 part big attitude, 1 part short cat. 5 parts adorable.

Probably thinking of the red fox, which looks. Well. Red. Like this:

However gray foxes are , well. Gray.

It’s a gray fox. Some other examples: .

For comparison, this is a coyote:

The coyotes are also larger, and their coloration is more uniform, with big ears on a tall/lanky body where the foxes are generally shorter and smaller, with the gray fox having a white belly/face (with the buff color on the head and shoulders,) but a gray back.

Here is a size comparison chart:

Yeah, I can see why that would be. Nebula looks like a riot.

all I know is… Orion can get away with murder. Is Nebula the tan kitty in the back?

Indictment is not a conviction, or trial.

it’s the process of formally charging someone with a crime- for example, a grand jury trial is not a “trial” in the sense that guilt is determined- evidence is provided by a prosecutor to a jury panel and they determine if there’s probable cause to go forward with the criminal trial. And your lawyer or representation isn’t even present for that.

once you’re indicted, warrants will be sent out for your arrest so you can be formally arraigned and the process continues. but if you’re out of the country, that’ll wait until you come into the country.

most reasonable jurisdictions mandate that you’re able to face and challenge your accusers, which kinda requires your presence at trial. but it’s still physically possible for trials in absentia to happen. It’s just usually only done by assholes.

that said, warrants for arrest can be posted with people anywhere. Summons and subpenas can also be issued, but wouldn’t be enforceable if you’re outside the jurisdiction. that would depend on the treaties between the two jurisdictions in question.

At least, they wouldn’t be enforceable until you arrived for whatever reason in the issuing country.

Use : pacman -Q —info to see what was recently updated.

Then roll back the updated packages using -U. You should still have the old version downloaded- usually in /var/cache/pacman and you can point to the version you want. But you’ll have to figure out which package did it or roll them all back.

“It’s gnome” expresses this just fine.

Everyone hates it. The people that use it just hate themselves more.

(Excuse me while I hide from the angry people with pitchforks. lol.)