It’s not really about ALPRs though. ALPRs have been in use in some form since the 1970s. The issue is the information they gather and where it goes.

This focused hatred of “ALPRs” is good in the short term to drive change but not in the long term for sustainable action.

For example, all consumer automobiles in the US require front-facing collision avoidance cameras by 2029 under federal automotive safety laws. Tack an ALPR system on, use the built in cellular and satellite collections and all of a sudden every vehicle becomes an ALPR camera on wheels.

People are filmed and photographed all the time these days; think things like business CCTV, home camera systems like Ring, pre-existing DOT cameras, dash cams, people filming their lives and everywhere they go etc. etc.

In the long term people need to control the collection and use of the data and establish some significant penalties for misuse. It would be nice if, in the US, we could establish that any data gathered by ALPRs is covered under the 4th amendment and require a warrant for starters.

I also think the data should be required to be stored by the government agency utilizing it, no third parties.

Pocket shot or wrist ticket with ball bearings?

Then they’d be the janitor too.

And then they’d be called a copywriter.

I don’t have a side in this but both my ‘93 Ford Escort and my ‘01 Ford Crown Victoria would turn on the A/C compressor if you hit the Defrost button for the windshield.

Edit: Just searched it and I think you two are in a semantic misunderstanding.

That’s not uniquely American. Maybe it’s in the capitalist’s character?

Yeah, my experience has been the same which is why I wanted to clarify.

Most of those electronics are new though, and we don’t have a way to compare apples to apples. It’d be nice if manufacturers still offered a truly base model like they did decades ago.

is one of the main reasons why new cars today aren’t as reliable as ones from the early 2000’s.

I’m curious about the data that supports this claim? I’ve often heard people lament how cars have “gotten worse” or aren’t “as reliable” as they used to be but I recently read an article from Worse on Purpose that highlights how cars are better manufactured than they used to be.

Or are you using reliability to refer to the accessories and features newer cars have that can fail or require more difficult repair without actually impacting a modern vehicles primary function of transport?

Why are they a rube?

Per the link in your screenshot OSM is following the standard of using the GNIS official name, while also keeping the displayed name as the common name until and if common usage on both sides of the border begins to reflect the official name in GNIS.

Precedent from the Gulf of Mexico/“Gulf of America” discussion as well as accepted OSM convention would suggest that once GNIS is updated (which it appears it is already), official_name:en-US=* should be added/changed to Lake America, but name=*left as is unless and until common usage on the ground on both sides of the border shifts to prefer the “Lake America” name (which seems very unlikely).

Note: emphasis is mine

The regular Costco members can still shop at a business center but the merchandise is not targeted towards them.

The business centers sell things like cases of cups, plates, disposable silverware, legs, shoulders and other large cuts of meat, cases of common restaurant ingredients, salt and pepper shakers in bulk for tables etc.

We go to the business center by us every so often because they carry real American cheese in bulk, not the Kraft garbage the regular Costco has.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperkalemia

Hyperkalemia is rare among those who are otherwise healthy.

Hyperkalemia

Not really, no.

Let’s say your name is John and for 200+ years everybody called you John. Then, along came a person we’ll call Captain Kiddiefucker.

Now Captain Kiddiefucker is a moron who wields significant power and directs everyone who’s too chickenshit to stand up to him that they should start calling you Guy.

Your name is still John, except now you have the advantage of easily recognizing Captain Kiddiefucker and his cult of pedophiles and idiots because they’ll all call you Guy.

That’s basically what this EO does.

Thanks for clarifying that you’re not keeping up with the conversation.

Why does this feel like Buc-ee’s decided to try and cash in on MAGA appeal. Wonder how that will work out long term.

The only time I’ve visited a 7-11 was on vacation in Virginia Beach and this was my exact experience.

No, it doesn’t, but I don’t really understand your point.

Agency generally means the capacity of a living being to act independently, make choices, and influence their environment.

A minor child has little agency to begin with in an abuse situation and indifference of the legal system strips away even that little bit.

Does it really? Sure seems like the highest court in the land disagrees.

And before you start arguing that’s only been under Trump go all the way back to Dred Scott v. Sandford, which denied citizenship to African Americans, and Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.

Both of those are great examples of SCOTUS ruling in opposition to the Constitution.

If this treatment is legal in Idaho then they do not have agency.

the child’s rights supersede a parents right to do whatever they want with to their kids.

It’s pedantic but children have no agency, what is being done in Idaho is being done to children.