Speaking as a member of the private sector who is involved in road safety and is extremely interested in reducing auto fatalities, let me say that "the US" is not in total agreement on whether we should try to improve traffic safety.

Things have backslid really badly since I started my career, it's heartbreaking. Fatalities were increasing even before the pandemic, up about 15% from 2013 to 2019. Now they're up about 30%. (They were level in 21-22, so maybe we've arrested the upward trend, but it's time to bring it back down.)

It's gotta be distracted driving. The sad part is, even knowing that, I still can't say fully truthfully that I never look at my phone for a second when I'm driving.

Well of course they did. If there are camera there, they don't need to sit there and get paid double or triple time for doing nothing.

We call it an emissions inspection here. The East Coast is in denial that smog is a thing.

There is a way to do it by Mail. Form B-341 allows for a different mailing address and a $20 fee.

Wallingford same way. Hopefully it gets better now with spring.

100%

We’re down here to be closer to family.

Long term I’m trying to get a job in the UK or Ireland. Get out of this shit hole.

Spoken like an old fart.

As a fellow old fart who waited on lines there when it was called something else, I agree.

Also want some Sgt Pepps now.

We toss out that rhetoric because we’re taught to. I have a therapist. But in the last month I have watched runaway capitalism and corporate greed all but kill my little sister and ruin my family forever. So yea, maybe actually life as we exist in this godawful oligarch run country isnt worth living.

Now that's what I call upward mobility

(Sarcastic reference to your manager's career path, not a comment on the mechanics of the conception)

Don't forget Ames! It was also a CT-based company, like Caldor. (Bradlees was based in Braintree, MA.)

The quality of most minimum wage fast food chains have dropped dramatically in the last few years, atleast in my eyes. I think they’re too much of a revolving door nowadays for anyone to care about the job. I used to see the same faces at Dunkin Donuts or wherever, now it’s different each time

What’s that place do?

Yeah I posted the ‘47 link to OP’s hat in another comment.

They denied me once a long time ago

I’m in central ct I guess I would call it, I have been in labor type jobs my whole life, warehouse, forklifts, done some construction kind of

Charged no conviction yet

At Yankee Stadium they have a few of the gates set up just for users of some stupid line-cutting service. The result is that there aren't enough gates for everybody else, and you just have to plan around the fact that when you get to Yankee Stadium, it's going to take you a half hour to actually get inside.

There is definitely room to change more stuff that is currently entirely queue-based to appointment-based, given our current technology. But boy, this ain't it.

Damn that’s my town I’m gonna do that for sure

Kohls contain the ghost of Caldors in their buildings

This game is going to be on in any food establishment that has a TV

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Either of them hiring?

Sonic service is Meh and the food is super Meh.

Thanks!

I know what you mean about not being close to anything. In Denver it was like… ok, other than the mountains (2 hour drive one way on weekends), where can you go? 2.5 hours to Cheyenne WY? 5 hours to Sante Fe NM? No thanks.