It will though.

Inputs raise outputs.

Landlords and businesses take notice when the wages are on the upswing. Shit I'm making 80k now and I'm taking home roughly the same amount of groceries for the same proportion of pay when I was making 50k. Well that's partially due to supply chain issues we can't just sit there and say over and over and over again that we're experiencing a crazy supply chain issue because of COVID - we've been knee deep in this shit for nearly 3 years now. Businesses and supply chains should have figured their shit out by now. COVID ain't going away, and now that we're all making more money people are capitalizing on it.

Still do:) I use bedliner though the rough stuff covers the tape lines.

My recollection of past inspection rules was that tint on the front driver/passenger windows had to be very minimal in order to pass inspection. For example, I had dark limo tint applied to the back 7 windows of my van back in 2012, but my front driver and passenger windows could not be tinted. If I wanted any tint at all on the front windows, it was essentially nothing, and all my other windows had to be tinted to the same minimal level.

Another change with vehicle inspections has to do with dummy lights on the dashboard. For example, if your vehicle came with TPMS tire sensors, and you were running aftermarket wheels that didn't have TPMS sensors, the dummy light on the dash would be illuminated. This was grounds for failing inspection, because it was essentially a factory safety feature that had been disabled. Now though, the TPMS dummy light can be on and your car won't automatically fail inspection. This is helpful because, when I run snow tires on separate rims, I don't have TPMS sensors installed. I used to have to get my vehicles inspected every year before I swapped out my summer rims/tires for winter rims/tires. But in January 2021, I bought a car, which had just been inspected prior to sale, so inspection wasn't due until February 2022. Of course I put new steel rims with snow tires on the car, and the TPMS light is on during winter. My mechanic said this was no longer a problem.

Lol He's obviously the cops union rep or close buddy. Who the fuck defends a thieving cop without some personal connection.

Yeah no shit, that's why saying raising wages will make other costs rise is kind of bullshit!

Minnesota is flat by comparison. Literally that's enough to make it matter.

The poors have spoken!

Where did I say fire? I said paid leave.

No shit

It boggles my mind they throw it away for something dumb like that. A NY trooper recently got fired for scamming Walmart for $200 in merchandise.

I've had Burlington cops take my $250 from an $8/hr job, back in the day, because I had weed, and bitch about how little they make. Like c'mon, I'm sure starting pay isn't great, but it's still not terrible. They always thought they had some huge drug bust with hard shit and got pissed it was just weed. I got pardoned by Shumlin tho.

I was saying maybe we should focus our energy on getting more places to unionize, so the protections that come along with unionization aren't exclusive to a few select labor markets.

Believe it or not they have actually relaxed a lot of the rules. For example, no front plate in 2016, fail. Tinted windows, fail. No registration sticker, fail. They have gotten rid of all those useless rules, even relaxed some of the brake requirements. Don’t get me wrong, some more work needs to be done. But public outcry has helped.

That’s not brand new

Newsflash, costs have risen regardless of wage stagnation

I'm pretty happy with the results. I'm a software engineer by trade and just like playing with things and learning how they work.

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The battery will be replaced with something less fragile. I built the pack and encased it with wood and some plexiglass

This was a 1971 DKW Enduro 125.

Put the temporary plate inside the rear window. Don’t ever scrape the dust or frost off the rear window.

No inspection tech will pass that in fear of being sued. If the state didn’t crack down so hard on us we’d certainly pass a lot more. But losing my inspection license or risk a manslaughter charge is not worth it.

Assigned Cop At Birth.

Metal tape may be used to repair torn metal or perforation smaller than two inches in diameter located on any nonstructural area of the vehicle.

This is a recent update but it is verbatim from the inspection manual given to technicians.

Probably not much to "investigate" either. This wouldn't become public unless the evidence was overwhelming and even then it's hard to get past the thin blue line as they call it.

Hilarious. Cops don't go after their own unless they got him with hard evidence. Try that at just about any other workplace and your out on your ass. Fair labor my ass. Now what was it you were saying officer? Or could it be union rep.?

Good God I hate this state, sorry bud.

So you don't need new fenders, but you required them to be welded up. They are not upselling you on the exhaust. You need a new gasket and will need any holes repaired or the pipe replaced. 800 is a bit high, but if you do the fenders yourself with a welder or bondo and good paint it will get you two years, just let them do what they need with the exhaust.

And yes, this is very normal.

What does a seemingly unrelated story from 8 years ago have to do with this ongoing investigation? What does anyone's salary have anything to do with this?

We need low income apartments complexes for people that don’t have homes. It’s that simple. Everything here that’s a new build are lux and built for well established individuals.