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Most of those either are felonies in MN, or are federal crimes (like the mail related ones), so you can't get off too lightly ...

He did say ALL of the dancing himself, after all...

Revenue Knows All! (I guess)

If it's Revenue, maybe the MNIT Origin Story is responsible for that, as some kind of holdover? I know it caused a (hilarious) set of issues related to user accounts when I had to switch from an encrypted router to a VPN. There might be enough of a link somewhere in there.

And on an hourly count, probably.

We should have more traps like that. People might start to notice the things if there was a non-zero chance of a heavy bollard right behind it.

I like that they put flex posts right up against them. Just guaranteeing that once it gets dark someone is going to try to pull through that space and end up wrecked.

And putting flex posts right next to them!

I'm always a little torn, because come on those are clearly just motorcycles and we don't need to pretend there's some other legal classification needed here. But on the other hand when I was that age having one would have been SO RAD.

And to be fair that line would have come off well at an academic conference, too.

The only thing Trump hears when you grant a concession is that there's something there to get, and that there might be more there. It couldn't be more obvious, and yet...

"I would never have voted for the 'throw all immigrants in detention camps' bill," insists Craig, "had I known it would result in all the immigrants being thrown in detention camps."

Sure, you aren't exempt from the law the way a millionaire is, but you're exempt from that one. So you get to enjoy some sense of impunity, as a little bonus from owning that thing, as a boost to your ego.

Totally possible that the lack of any feedback when driving these things was the cause of the initial parking, but failing to go back and fix it has to have some motivation. My suspicion is that knowing there will not be consequences makes it feel like a safe way to express your self-importance.

It's so obvious, including to Iran, that he's just going to flail back and forth between the only two options he can emotionally handle right up until things get bad enough that other people will intervene to force a different option. I am convinced that this is Iran's strategy.

Also, which authoritarian sorts never manage to comprehend, "No. Absolutely not. This is important." carries a lot more weight when the answer for normal, not life-threatening things is a discussion.

Setting up speed cameras that send someone a letter saying "Hey we saw that, not cool man." also seems to have had a positive effect. It's like when places had 'mask mandates' that were reliably followed even after police made it very explicit that there would not be any enforcement.

The city where I live has had a surprising amount of success making public transit nicer having people go around checking fares and not-being-awful rules. They aren't police, and their enforcement power is saying "C'mon man, that's not cool." People respond to expectations, not just punishments!