Phone: rings
Me: “better pause Youtube so that I can answer without noise in the background”
Youtube: plays ad with even louder audio
Me:

Which one of those do I pick if I actually want to be logged in and have Youtube keep track of my watch history, automatically synchronized between devices?

No. If Trump were capable of conceptualizing losing and suffering consequences he wouldn’t do half the shit he does.

The Adventures of Captain Proton from Star Trek: Voyager!

IIRC the movie from Home Alone 2 was the sequel: Angels with Even Filthier Souls.

It’s kind of like the piccolo thing in Star Trek the next generation with picard.

I highly doubt the resemblance was coincidental.

Last I checked, Sceptre TVs are price-competitive with other brands, if not even cheaper.

LOL, imagine thinking that TVs are actually subsidized and that the spyware isn’t just extra pure profit.

Your local county extension office and nearby universities with agricultural programs.

Example: https://extension.uga.edu/publications/series/detail.html/71/home-garden.html

Alternatively, Hawking proved that he was unpopular and nobody wanted to go to his party.

But the Roman Republic (509 BC–27 BC) happened after the Roman Kingdom (753 BC–509 BC).

Even if you can pedal just fine, there are always those situations that are sort of marginal: when you’re feeling kinda lazy so you’re thinking of just driving instead of biking, or it’s a little further than you want to go, or you’re running a little bit late or don’t want to exert yourself and end up getting sweaty, etc. Those are the times when having an e-bike can really make the difference.

Look, here’s how it actually works in practice:

• The politicians approve a budget for a project.
• The project is managed by the state/county/city DOT, with the project manager being a licensed Professional Engineer (PE).
• The design of the project is contracted out to a private engineering firm, where the engineer in charge of the design is a PE (and the people working under him who actually do most of the work are either also PEs, or are at least licensed Engineers In Training (EITs)).
• At least at the firm I worked at, the CEO of the company was also a PE.
• The construction is contracted out to a private construction firm, where the engineer in charge of construction is a PE.

Except for the 10,000-foot level budgeting, everyone with a position of authority over the project is a licensed PE. It’s PEs all the way up. The buck stops at the PEs.

The problem here is not that PEs are being bullied by someone else into not doing their jobs properly. PEs are not victims in this scenario, not even a little bit.

The problem here is that PEs don’t think they have an obligation to make streets that are safe for anyone but drivers, because the entire industry standards of practice are wrong.

Yet again: the way it’s supposed to work is that retaliating against the engineer would be pointless because every possible replacement would stand on principle just the same.

Again, that’s what licensing is supposed to solve. The politicians should not have the ability to say “okay if you won’t do [this unsafe thing] then I’ll just replace you with someone who will” because literally every licensed engineer should also refuse to do it.

Either the project gets built properly or it should not be built. It is every licensed engineer’s professional responsibility and legal obligation to ensure that is the case, regardless of political pressure.

Capitulating to pressure to build an unsafe design is literally criminal negligence and should be adjudicated as such.

The engineer is the “daddy boss!” Every. Single. Fucking. Time. It is literally the law!

Do engineers make these decisions though?

Yes.

The way that it works is that the plans for every construction project like this must be stamped by a licensed engineer, or else they cannot legally be built. Then, the construction itself must be supervised by another licensed engineer, to ensure that the as-built condition conforms to the plans or that changes are properly vetted for safety.

Under this fact pattern while engineers are responsible to protest, I would posit the ultimate discioson maker should be held criminally liable first then we can talk about engineers proffesional responsibilities.

That “fact pattern” is false. The ultimate decision maker, the person who should be held criminally liable, is the principal engineer who stamped the plans.

This is what licensing engineers is for!

Yes, it is exactly the traffic engineers at fault! They’re the ones who sign off on and take legal responsibility for the design! That’s the entire point of engineering being a licensed profession in the first place.

Let me make this very clear: every licensed engineer has an absolute moral and legal obligation to refuse to sign off on any unsafe design, no matter what some fucking politician wants. Period, end of. And designs that are not Complete Streets, with sidewalks and crosswalks, are inherently unsafe. Also period, end of.

Every pedestrian killed by the lack of a crosswalk should result in a traffic engineer permanently losing their license and being forced to change careers. It is only through that threat that they will begin to take pedestrian lives seriously!

The estate should sue the engineers for negligence in failing to install a proper crosswalk. Car-supremacist thinking is pervasive within the industry (I say as a former traffic engineer, BTW) and the only way to get some of them to change is to hit them in the P.E. license.

Political capital is a limited resource.