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iWannaCupOfJoe t1_je6j598 wrote

Overhead walkways are a dumb and expensive idea that would never realistically work. They are too big for most parts of town, and would inhibit people who can't take steps. If you build a ramp they wouldn't fit anywhere.

Drivers need to be impeded by infrastructure to feel unsafe and uncomfortable. That feeling will cause them to slow down and be more careful 9 out of 10 times. For the 1 out of 10 hopefully they wreck their vehicle prior to killing a vulnerable road user.

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freetimerva OP t1_je6guxm wrote

Person asking for service would imply consent to come on the property. But I'd be pissed if they abandoned their vehicle for 3 days after a service call and I get in trouble for towing it.

If I was dominion I'd just start selling off my fleet parking lots and telling employees to just leave the vehicle at last service call.. and you could do it Friday to Monday with that law.

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freetimerva OP t1_je6glok wrote

>I'd be pretty livid if I came home to a utility truck in my driveway or yard with no explanation or anyone around clearly working on something, doubly so if it were left there for days at a time.

I was actually surprised by this veto. Considering how dominion owns most of our politicians, I expected youngkin to give the Dominion Empire whatever they desire.

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FalloutRip t1_je6dyql wrote

Veto 1 makes sense to me. I'd be pretty livid if I came home to a utility truck in my driveway or yard with no explanation or anyone around clearly working on something, doubly so if it were left there for days at a time.

Veto 2, no comment because it seems like a lot of procedural HR stuff that makes my brain want to turn off.

Veto 3 I'm not entirely sure about. I agree that lots of vehicles have exhausts and sound systems that are WAY too loud. It sounds like the veto was because the House Bill was specifically about defective exhausts, where as the Senate Bill was more broad about noise? I'd have to read into this one more, but anything that helps curtail unnecessary noise is generally a good thing in my book.

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bodydamage t1_je6c5na wrote

Brambly seems to have several stupid rules. We went on a double date a couple weeks ago and wanted to grab some drinks from the bar and go sit outside since the weather was nice.

I asked for an Old Fashioned, “oh we don’t serve specialty cocktails for outside seating” and made a whole big fuckin to-do about it even though the bar was mostly empty and had maybe 8 people sitting at it.

Then after all that she made it anyways, and proceeded to do basically the same thing about making a chocolate Martini off their menu because she didn’t know how to make it.

She wasted more time and energy arguing about the drinks than it took to make them.

Food and drinks are meh for what they charge. This is the second time we’ve been and found the way they do things to be awfully….pedantic

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