That bottom one looks embossed instead of printed. At the size of a USB-C cable plug, that's going to be difficult to read outside of ideal lighting conditions.
It's actually driven moreso by the point-of-sale vendors. They enable it by default, because they make a percentage of the transaction as a processing fee. The merchant has to request that it be disabled.
I pay extra for the food because they're outsourcing to Door Dash, and it takes two hours to get a pizza.
It takes 2 hours because they're sending a bid to drivers for your delivery contract, which may also include someone else's delivery on the same route, for a base pay of $2 plus your tip. After enough drivers decline that, they add 25 cents and send it around again. This process repeats until someone (hopefully) eventually accepts it. And – whoops – the merchant''s contract with DoorDash requires the driver to have a pizza bag. So the bid only even gets seen by the subset of drivers who do.
That's $2, plus your tip. And that's if the merchant was nice enough to actually pass that tip along when they outsourced the delivery. They aren't contractually required to do so, and some don't.
As an unpaid independent contractor, if I can see it's an outsourced order (placed through the merchant instead of through the delivery marketplace), I won't even accept it, because it's also going to mean losing 10-20 minutes of unpaid time standing around waiting for the merchant (who sent out the contract way too early) to actually start making your pizza, that they already lied about being ready when they sent a notification to you and to me. It's nearly always a disaster.
Edit to add: Just order from Domino's, they do everything in-house.
You're intentionally misunderstanding the situation. Heavy duty bollards are expensive.
Are we reading the same article?
The report outlined three different crash-rating standards for bollard systems. It concluded that the highest crash rating, which could withstand impacts from 15,000-pound vehicles traveling between 30 to 50 mph, was “not compatible” with the city’s needs to move the bollards every day.
“Specialized lifting equipment like a truck-mounted crane or heavy machinery would be necessary” to move such bollards daily, the report said.
They don't want to pay, because they don't give a fuck.
The funding comes from the state. The administration comes from the state. The last set the state funded in 2017 started failing within 6 months. That is why the replacement project was even happening.
It also took years for the state to fund the replacement.
There has historically been a lot of this type of tension between the state and the city. Despite the [mostly Democrat] city's tax dollars largely funding the rest of the [mostly Republican/other] state, the state loves to cause all sorts of problems for the city.
The bollards, for instance. The state administers the FQMD. The FQMD commissioned them in the first place.
“We do not employ personnel that actually do work on a functional basis. We need to partner with the city, and we need a partner with other organizations like NOPD, like the sheriff’s department, like Troop Nola, to accomplish our objectives,” she said. “And so we’ve had discussions about all of these things over the years as it relates to public safety.”
Will the FQMD ensure that happens?
According to board meeting minutes reviewed by InvestigateTV, there were concerns about the bollard system itself — but also an ongoing staffing struggle over who was locking them into place each night.
In a Jan. 2019 report from the then-chair, state police and homeland security were not positioning and locking Quarter bollards despite requests to, and the city asked if the FQMD would consider taking on that responsibility.
This was met with concerns about liability, with one commissioner saying the bollards were “not a good system.”
Copycat killers exist. It worked once, why not do it again, they will accurately think.
Again, are we reading the same article?
The city currently has no bollards at Canal and Bourbon streets, where the attacker entered, but the roadway was blocked by an SUV police cruiser parked sideways on New Year’s.
Attack suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. combat veteran from Texas, exploited another vulnerability in the city’s security planning: He squeezed his seven-foot-wide pickup onto an eight-foot-wide sidewalk between a drugstore wall and the police vehicle, stomping the accelerator and plowing through the crowd at about 3:15 a.m.
The police SUV blocking the street was more than sufficient as a replacement for the bollards. But the bollards (and the SUV) only block the street, not the sidewalk. Block the sidewalk too, and you run into ADA issues.
And that was with him chilling conspicuously out in public and making no attempts to lay low, after making no attempt to hide his face during the incident.
Nissan and Renault have 15% cross-ownership each. Both are separate entities with separate market caps. The total displayed for Renault does not reflect the total for Nissan.
They must have thrown it into "other" along with Mitsubishi which is also in merger talks with Honda.
I used to do that too. Then I started parking by backing in, frequently (a dozen or more times per day), and found that being able to see the rear corners of my vehicle in the mirrors was infinitely more useful.
You were taught not to physically lean forward? I was literally taught that in a state driver's education course. It takes your eyes off the road for less time than turning around. You can see your blind spots just fine like that.
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So as long as it "hurts the right people" you're happy?
Even though it hurts the "wrong people" too?