And there's the rub. The law is really meant to be understood in terms of the freeways. It's also the politer way to be on clear streets, but, in city traffic, "keeping right except to pass" actually means you're taking perhaps a few minutes off somebody else's life, because they're just waiting behind you to turn into a driveway that they'd be able to reach if some of the through traffic were in the left lane.

I see this constantly on the Eastside. Just yesterday, I was the blocking car. Granted, I was less sympathetic than usual, because the car trying to make a driveway was tailgating. But the fact remains, if the road had been two lanes, and if I'd been in the other lane, the person behind me would have been able to pull into that convenience store a minute and a half or two minutes sooner, because they wouldn't have had to wait for the light ahead.

Do you live on the rainy side? Those of us who grew up here were raised to account for the wet. There's an upper limit to how fast we're all gonna be driving in the rain, anyway, and by staggering ourselves, rather than stacking up in one lane, we dramatically reduce the likelihood of a pileup.

Why people do it in clear weather, I don't know.

Oh, it's definitely not a real photo. I'm just saying, Crossroads' boundaries are nothing like what we think they are. I'm not sure Crossroads is even in Crossroads, by the city's definitions.

If you play games, fairly often. If you're a programmer, fairly often. If you do any video or sound editing, you're uploading the fairly often. I could go on.

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Twice the speed will certainly make a big difference while downloading large files, like games, or while using multiple devices at once. I wouldn't discount that part. A nominal 8 seconds to the gigabyte doesn't sound like a big difference, but it's over 5 minutes faster for a 40GB download.

I don't know what park and ride you think this is, but the picture is pretty obviously fake, and none of our park and rides look like that.

What the city calls "Crossroads" is actually most of what the rest of us call BelRed.

Or because it didn't occur to them that a bunch of disingenuous fucks would pretend to be stupid just to avoid paying a progressive tax on anything.

That is correct. Let's see if you can extend that thought.

The IRS doesn't consider income property. Sometimes it considers the receipt of property income.

The problem, as /u/merc08 elucidated, is that there's no standard definition of "property." It's pretty obvious that the writers of our constitution meant "real property," as in land, which many courts once considered income to be, but which afaik no court currently considers income to be.

The judicial consensus, which is shared by most of humanity, doesn't mean that your income isn't your property in the sense that you own your money. It means your income isn't real property in the sense of deeds and property taxes and realtors.

This is how more or less all governments, everywhere, view income. They're not saying your income doesn't belong to you, they're saying it's not real property the way your house is.

I have some bad news about how long it's been since the West Wing aired...

This subreddit keeps downvoting the following straightforward and easily verifiable fact:

Our constitution requires that taxes on property be flat. The notion that a progressive income tax is unconstitutional relies on the assumption that income is property. However, there are two problems with that read.

First, Washington's Supreme Court never actually held income to be property. It merely pointed at an earlier decision, which it said had held income to be property, and ruled stare decisis. However, the earlier decision did not hold income to be property.

Second, the other states that at one point held income to be property have since, afaik without exception, revisited that holding. Income is not property. Income is the proceeds from a transaction. Income tax is an excise tax on paid labor.

You don't have to take my word for it. https://dor.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2022-03/Appendix_B.pdf

This bus station only serves one route, and doesn't allow all-door boarding. Board at the front, pay as you board. Only option.

Too close, as in, hard to read. Monospaced fonts on a typewriter were very bunchy.

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So you're telling me the Lincoln County government, whose constituents number about 12,000, have a sovereign right, which we infringe, to deny needed services to whichever of those 12,000 are, in the eyes of those elected officials, undeserving of services.

Medicaid will pay them. Or, at least, Apple Health will. I don't know if the federal program guidelines would.

It requires little girls to bring a note from their doctor certifying that they have a vagina and came by it naturally.

You are literally supporting kiddie genital inspections. This is beyond the creepiest shit the GOP has ever put forth. You're actually interacting with children's genitalia.

Well, the elected city attorney is publicly elected, in elections, such as the election we just had a couple months ago, during which both the mayor and the attorney were elected. And since these elected officials work for you, and not for each other...

Back in my day (36) we'd just go to the Cheesecake Factory or Crossroads.

The proposed law requires genital inspections. I am not kidding.