If you're the kind of person who wants a web-connected refrigerator with a TV in the door, you're gonna love this. Otherwise, it just seems to add bells and whistles no one is asking for, other than the salesman who's all over this thread advocating for it.

Second. Anyone saying Diego's doesn't know what they're talking about.

If it’s the Teamsters pushing it, their argument will no doubt be that breweries driving their own beer “steals our members’ work” or some such.

“We’re finding it’s easy for us to manage the process this way, we get more tests done, there’s less sort of down time for the examiners they know when somebody’s coming they know where to be and we know how long the tests take there are fewer surprises if you would....”

Oh, so it's easier for the bureaucrats, is it? You grind through more tests? Examiners don't have to wait around so much? Not too many surprises? JFC, what about public safety you f-ing moron?!?

While I'm not familiar with the exact situation in Chariho, my experience with public preschool was that there was very limited availability. Private ones are an absolute necessity (or they are in my area).

What's your square footage and how many tech-addicted humans are living with you, if you don't mind me asking?

Not to mention, "Of course I use wood hangars, I'm not a savage."

>Maybe this is just trolling.

More likely a bot.

When I first saw the plan a lot of alarms went off. I kept wondering how they thought this was going to make things better. Then I realized, I saw a lot of talk in those presentations about reducing accidents, but nothing about improving efficiency. When you understand the traffic engineers were probably presented with "please design something that will reduce accidents," absent another parameter to "also improve efficiency," this is what you end up with. Who cares about efficiency? And if traffic is at a standstill, bingo, fewer accidents. On paper, at least. In the real world, that probably won't be the case.

These engineers don't operate in the real world, so what do you expect? Another example is over in Jamestown, the entry onto 138 heading to the bridge is way too short. I know someone who brought it up to RIDOT, and some engineer got back to them saying they'd crunched the numbers and the entry was plenty long enough for the speed limit there. No kidding, genius, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize traffic is routinely traveling 10-20mph above the posted limit there, creating potentially unsafe conditions for vehicles trying to enter the highway. Their response when that was pointed out? That's not their problem, that's a law enforcement issue.

Some RIDOT bureaucrat has their feelings hurt and is on here downvoting everyone.

Not in SK, but I had a similar experience with my son. And then we hired an educational advocate. She came to one meeting with us, recited a number of legal requirements, and bang, the school was suddenly falling all over themselves to provide reasonable accommodations. Worth every penny.

Haven’t been there in a while. Have they gotten bigger TVs? Used to be you had to be sitting at the bar to even see what was going on in a game. That was years ago though.

Is this code language for "I'm looking for a place I can go do donuts and handbrake turns with impunity"? (Because that's what I would have asked.)

You mean actors are narcissists?

I-95 through Connecticut always throws me off. They seem to follow the mile marker paradigm, right up until they don't.

I'm shocked, SHOCKED, to find that gambling is going on in here.

I haven't been there for a game in a few years. Have they gotten any bigger screens?

My employer had a director in charge of renewable this or that, and she even told me once restrictions on China came into play, RI just started warehousing the recycling that didn't end up in the landfill. I don't know if there's been any resolution to that, but when I was involved, it had been going on for years.

Think about your curbside recycling. You do your best, rinse out everything, only put in approved recycling items. Your neighbor came from someplace where they recycle a lot more kinds of items, so they put several things not approved in RI into their recycling. The next neighbor down throws dirty food containers in there. The same truck picks it all up. The whole truckload is contaminated and goes in the landfill. No one is paying to have individuals pick through truckloads of recycling to remove the non-recycling, it's just too time-consuming and expensive.

Waste Management dumps nearly all recycling as waste. Food container in the recycling bin? Contaminated, dump as waste. Someone throw a plastic bag in the bin? Contaminated, dump as waste. Etc. In the years I worked in facilities at a large RI employer, I don’t remember seeing one monthly invoice where WM actually dumped a load of recycling as actual recycling. Not one single time.

It's not that it's a hard rule to grasp. I'm pretty sure everyone here is aware that if you leave more than two car lengths distance in front of you, before you know it you'll have just one car length in front of you because someone trying to win the race sees an opening and jumps into the space. So you drop back to open the space, and ba-bam, another clever person jumps into THAT space. And so on and so on.

The only way you're going to get anywhere near that kind of space is to just give it all up and putter along in the slow lane, and even then, you're going to get beeped at from behind and cut off in front.