In my 2023 Bolt I drive in one-pedal mode and the brake light comes on if deceleration is more than 0.1g regardless of the reason – hydraulic or dynamic braking – and comes (or stays) on when it is at a dead stop.
Looks like KING 5 is leaning on ChatGPT to write article titles.
Well, there are all the administrative laws about regulating the insurance industry, or allowable percetnages of VOCs in paint, or the number of parking spaces required per square foot of retail space or …
The total body of state law on everything else far exceeds the amount directed at what a layperson would describe as “crime”. Or even “CRIME”. 
I get your point about the f-ed up message it sends. But the reality is that for most of us, a change in e.g. car insurance regulation is going to matter far more than e.g. a change in the definitions or penalties of e.g. robbery or an addition to the list of crimes defined as hate crimes.
It’s more of a quibble about bad writing. “These New Laws Take Effect January 1” conveys the information more elegantly and without adding superfluous words.
Congressional Democrats had a choice today for who to elect as ranking member on the Oversight Committee, one of the most powerful and influential committees in the House, and one which its current chairman, Jim Jordan, has used to great effect to go after Trump’s enemies.
They could have chosen an energetic young firebrand who’s extremely popular with young voters nationwide and is likely to be a presidential candidate someday.
Or they could have chosen a septuagenarian who was just diagnosed with an extremely painful form of cancer that has an 80% chance of killing him within the next five years.
They chose the cancer patient and then took to the media to talk about how young he is.
The baby boomers are going to drag this country into the grave with them.
OTOH …
If the job is essentially un-doable and utterly unproductive in the face of massive R obstruction, better to sacrifice one of the doomed by giving it to him rather than have an up-and-comer be forever tarred as a failure in the same no-hope role.
From what I’m reading, what happened is that Pelosi endorsed the sick old dying man because AOC wants to ban congresspeople from insider trading, I.e. the reason Pelosi has a net worth of $300 million.
Her and her cohort of self-serving gerontocrats will be clinging to power even once they’re on life support.
So blame them for corruption, not for being old. Or are you under the impression that young people aren’t as corrupt as old people?
Can’t I blame them for both?
The last two progressives we sent to the Senate immediately turned into Diet Republicans the second they got a taste of that sweet sweet lobbyist payola, so clearly not.
Sure, if you hate old people on principle, I can’t stop you. It’s a free country.
Who told you that?
It was. Things change.
For now.
If it’s free then why have I been paying rent for so long?
(They call it “taxes”.)
If it’s free, why can’t I take a vacation in Cuba? If it’s free, why can’t women have authority over their own bodies?
Maybe it’s “free” like “caffeine free”; not defined by what it has, but what it doesn’t.
The capacity for embarassment?
I would have no problem with an “Establishment” senior citizen who is a Wily Old Fox who has forgotten more things than the whole Republican bench ever learned and will gum up the works for the GOP majority and make Jordan & Co. sweat it and be miserable at every step of their “owning the libs” effort. However I don’t know Connolly well enough to know if he is one or not. I lean to “not” and wish to be proved wrong.
At the same time, considering what’s at stake, maybe it’s not the time to bring up hitting the Old Establishment in their pocketbooks. Needs doing, but right now there are other things that need stopping such as the very weaponizing of the oversight process. Still it IS dirty pool if Pelosi indeed pulled the levers to protect the cash flow. “Normal” dirty pool, sure, but still, come on, let go, Nancy…
Sorry, too subtle and sideways I guess. I was riffing off a thread in IMHO. “It’s a free country”. Just forget I said it.
Although I don’t believe anyone has come up with a reliable way to make someone stop hating a group of people on principle, which is what that was about.
Thanks for the explanation; I’d never seen that thread.
I don’t think it is about “hating” old people. I think it is about Dems realizing that they need to change. Clinton lost to Trump. Harris lost to Trump. Biden beat Trump but, at the same time, Trump got the second most votes in history (second only to Biden).
What have Dems done to change? Nothing really and here we are with more of the same. Keep young people out (this really looks like Pelosi has a thing against AOC) and put the old people in, as always. It is not about hating old people. It is about changing the party and getting young people more engaged. Young people who, while still liberal, moved in greater numbers to Trump this time around. Not a winning trend. Dems need all of them and more.
“Business as usual” is not a winning strategy. The last three elections have shown that.