Whether it’s you breaking or the car doesn’t matter. The person behind you sees break lights and reacts.

If it’s the car reacting before you, less braking will be required and the likelihood of rapid deceleration due to hitting the car in front of you decreases.

Both of those things give the person behind you more time.

I make a little more than double the cap. I’m in favor of increasing or eliminating the cap but that would double my check in the future. (Not quite, I haven’t made double the cap my entire working life, but it would increase it a lot.) That would still help a bit because not all of our withholdings go to basic social security. Some goes to disability, spousal benefits, etc. Increasing taxes and benefits proportionally, which is the way benefits are structured now, doesn’t solve anything.

I believe social security has a lot of value so I’m in favor of not just fixing the funding, but expanding it as well. But if you want to make it healthier just with payroll taxes they would have to be progressive, like income tax, without increasing benefits.

I guy I work with owned two condos in a development. The HOA passed a rule banning short term rentals. There were a lot of units being advertised on Airbnb and similar services so he put them on the market when he heard the rule was being proposed to beat the rush.

He managed to sell one at market but the second one didn’t sell before all the other Airbnb landlords listed their places too. He had to take about 10% below market for the second one.

Now those two places are owner occupied, and one of them got a nice deal (I don’t know about the ones sold by other people). And everything that sold in that area probably went for a little less for a while due to the glut on the market.

Making renting less profitable works. People aren’t landlords because it’s fun. They do it for the money. Take away the money and you have less landlords.

I like how you included fuck with the modes of transportation. Now I’m imagining some sort of tricycle or quadcycle that harnesses thrusting motion to propel you.

The Morb Trilogy is the first three, or the OT, as it’s more commonly called.

Waiting for the hexbears to chime in with critical support for Tucker.

Absolutely. It’s far easier to steal a few small, expensive, easy to resell things then take the proceeds and buy a week’s worth of groceries than it is to steal a week’s worth of groceries. Food is bulky.

Yeah, for most of human/dog history our populations weren’t as removed from the wolf populations as they are in the modern world. I would think there was a lot of generic exchange until recently and, if this is on the rise, it’s just a return to the norm.

I’m my opinion, a lot of the best stuff in the eu has been stories that are light on the space wizardry.

I think so, but now I’m worried I might be wrong.

All true, but enforcement, and the law itself, are unnecessary. I’ve never known a sailor that would even consider ignoring a distress call.

Asshole passenger maybe, but not the crew. So on second thought, the law gives the crew something to say to an asshole passenger who wants to ignore a call.