Roe & Casey overturned.
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@Copper said in Roe & Casey overturned.:
I regularly used the I-66 HOV lanes, solo, to go from Tysons to Reagan National to catch the Shuttle to LaGuardia. It was early 80's, not a lot of high-tech surveillance.
I was always late and in a hurry. I never got caught.
This was a good use of simplicity and ease of enforcement.
When 66 became a Dynamic Toll Road a few years back, I became a Lyft Driver. Anytime I needed to go into DC I would turn on the directional filters and pick up a rider going into town. I got the HOV toll exemption and made gas money:..
Me/rry/Christmas
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@LuFins-Dad said in Roe & Casey overturned.:
When 66 became a Dynamic Toll Road a few years back
This is when my decision to move to another state became a little bit easier. The fact that toll roads are popping up everywhere instead of our tax money being used for the most basic of infrastructure needs... our roads. It's both incompatible with the philosophy of taxation as well as admittedly a bit of a class warfare where those without much money cannot afford to take certain roads.
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@89th said in Roe & Casey overturned.:
@LuFins-Dad said in Roe & Casey overturned.:
When 66 became a Dynamic Toll Road a few years back
This is when my decision to move to another state became a little bit easier. The fact that toll roads are popping up everywhere instead of our tax money being used for the most basic of infrastructure needs... our roads. It's both incompatible with the philosophy of taxation as well as admittedly a bit of a class warfare where those without much money cannot afford to take certain roads.
You know the worst part of that? They told us that as soon as the cost of the Dulles Toll Road was collected they would remove the toll booths.
Then they recovered the cost so fast they couldn't believe it. And they decided there was no way they would stop that huge money stream. If you don't like it, too bad, go take Route 7.
And of course most of the rest of the country gets free Interstate Highways, why should Fairfax County get nickel and dimed to death?
I really hate those toll roads.
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@Copper said in Roe & Casey overturned.:
I regularly used the I-66 HOV lanes, solo, to go from Tysons to Reagan National to catch the Shuttle to LaGuardia. It was early 80's, not a lot of high-tech surveillance.
I was always late and in a hurry. I never got caught.
This was a good use of simplicity and ease of enforcement.
I used to use it in LA when I drove a stake truck all over the LA-Orange County area delivering hospital forms. Got caught once, it was $10. Meh.
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@Copper said in Roe & Casey overturned.:
@89th said in Roe & Casey overturned.:
@LuFins-Dad said in Roe & Casey overturned.:
When 66 became a Dynamic Toll Road a few years back
This is when my decision to move to another state became a little bit easier. The fact that toll roads are popping up everywhere instead of our tax money being used for the most basic of infrastructure needs... our roads. It's both incompatible with the philosophy of taxation as well as admittedly a bit of a class warfare where those without much money cannot afford to take certain roads.
You know the worst part of that? They told us that as soon as the cost of the Dulles Toll Road was collected they would remove the toll booths.
Then they recovered the cost so fast they couldn't believe it. And they decided there was no way they would stop that huge money stream. If you don't like it, too bad, go take Route 7.
And of course most of the rest of the country gets free Interstate Highways, why should Fairfax County get nickel and dimed to death?
I really hate those toll roads.
It's to get those freeloading EV bastards.
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The. Most. Thread. Drift. Ever.
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@Jolly said in Roe & Casey overturned.:
The. Most. Thread. Drift. Ever.
Remember many years ago we would joke about how so many threads would devolve into evolution or abortion threads?
Now the abortion threads devolve into HOV gaming.
We’re getting soft.
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Or ze, bigot.
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@jon-nyc said in Roe & Casey overturned.:
@Jolly said in Roe & Casey overturned.:
The. Most. Thread. Drift. Ever.
Remember many years ago we would joke about how so many threads would devolve into evolution or abortion threads?
Now the abortion threads devolve into HOV gaming.
We’re getting soft.
If you wish to talk about your sexual problems, start a new thread.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in Roe & Casey overturned.:
What? Someone lied?
Huh, who woulda thunk it? @Axtremus ? Would you have thunk it?
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Another thing that doesn’t make sense? How are they setting the gestation at exactly 6 weeks and 3 days? With Lu and Fin we were always told “6-8 weeks”, “18-20”, etc…
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@LuFins-Dad said in Roe & Casey overturned.:
Another thing that doesn’t make sense? How are they setting the gestation at exactly 6 weeks and 3 days? With Lu and Fin we were always told “6-8 weeks”, “18-20”, etc…
You can't. Not that precise.
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@LuFins-Dad said in Roe & Casey overturned.:
Another thing that doesn’t make sense? How are they setting the gestation at exactly 6 weeks and 3 days? With Lu and Fin we were always told “6-8 weeks”, “18-20”, etc…
In my experience they can be pretty accurate. My wife is 12 weeks preggo now. When we went in for the first appointment around 6 weeks and they were able to estimate it was "6 weeks 3 days" during the ultrasound. Yes, we saw the heartbeat, too. Cool stuff. Anyway, we went back at 10 weeks to verify growth was normal and they verified the gestational age estimate was only a day off (so it was really 6 weeks 2 days at that first appointment) but they kept the same due date of Jan 22 next year.
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They approximate. Yes, the US is much better today and certain things appear at certain times. Quant HCG levels can help a bit very early on, too.
But dead letter perfect to the day? No.
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A note about due dates...Babies are born when they want to be born. And sometimes, it seems like they don't want out.
Friend's daughter was two weeks past due date, and they sectioned her this week. Baby weighed 9lbs, 11 ounces.
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I was 9lbs 13oz.
On time. Wearing a suit.
