garrettgrimsley

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by garrettgrimsley 5y ago
You’d be dragging that wire over your rows of crops, potentially damaging them.
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
>however those Low/Minimum security zones account for more than half of the entire federal population OK, but your claim that the "vast majority" of people locked up are there "because some plant is illegal" is s
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
>They are there because some plant is illegal. That's a common belief, but it isn't true. More than half of people in state prisons are serving sentences for violent crimes. I see you were in the Feds, so it's almost half
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
They can also go on the side of the road, with the added hassle of disposing of paper. Where do you think they use the bathroom when hiking or camping? And this is why I included cups in my original comment. They can't use bottles as
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
After dark, yes, go anywhere. During the day when people can potentially see you that would be a bad idea. If you can use the vehicle to block line of sight then that could also work.
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
It isn't limited to Amazon, and it isn't a side-effect of the pandemic. I work for UPS and even before the pandemic most drivers used a bottle or cup on a regular basis, especially if you're in a rural area. In denser areas y
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
“commonly known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
“In 2015, just 8% of the nearly 1.53 million state and federal prisoners in the U.S. were in private facilities” [0]. Prison slavery is not concentrated in and won’t disappear by closing private prisons. [1] [0] https://www.pewres
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
From the Zoom system requirements: 1:1 call * 600kbps (up/down) for high-quality video * 1.2Mbps (up/down) for 720p HD video * Receiving 1080p HD video requires 1.8Mbps (up/down) * Sending 1080p HD video requires 1.8Mbps (up&
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
>The highways are policed. Parler was not. “And contrary to what many have been led to believe, Parler’s Terms of Service includes a ban on explicit advocacy of violence, and they employ a team of paid, trained moderators who delete such
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
>you should get the loading equipment from UPs I work at UPS. We hand-load and unload everything. The loading equipment is a guy. If there is palletized volume then once it gets to the hub the pallet is broken down. When a trailer is bei
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
Speaking with the FedEx folks in my area, they’ve been working 7 on, 1 off. At UPS we’ve been doing 6 on, 1 off as we don’t work Sundays per the union contract.
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
Simply put, there's no way this is the case. There's a route that I and everyone else I've spoken to all run a certain way and improvements have not been incorporated into the route planning. On this particular route if you r
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
>software before the driver took the truck The UPS route-planning system is called ORION. >they just follow the GPS I'd reckon that anyone on a bid route or other route that they are familiar with can do better than what ORION gi
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
I see plenty of people wearing masks while hiking in Umstead State Park in Raleigh NC.
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
No, we're not talking about long haul trucking, which is done with tractors. To use an American example, the two-axle truck could be used for intra-city moving, like U-Haul. Speaking with my commercial customers, they also do their own
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
You two appear to be talking past each other. When Volvo says deliveries they likely don't mean residential deliveries in the typical P700/P800/P1000/P1200 package cars that people associate with UPS, and the analogous m
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
They were likely taking issue with the statement “de facto against the law.” De jure is by law and de facto is in fact , and using them how that poster did does not make sense.
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
It would include that so that the BigCo couldn’t create a shell company or subsidiary to own the product and skirt the $100MM language
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
It's actually more complicated than that. In many states if you are convicted of a non-violent felony then at the end of your sentence your firearm rights are automatically restored. There are also the cases of pardons, expungements, a
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
Plenty, and I see where you’re coming from, but in the end the amount of work would increase to fill any saved labor.
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
This was my truck on Monday. Where should we put these dozens(?) of drones? https://imgur.com/a/wBn2Pfh That amount of packages is not extraordinary, and in my car was more full today. I’m on lunch now, 166 stops d
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
No, ma’am is the female equivalent of sir. They’re formal terms, not familiar like “buddy”
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
At the time that the videos were posted there was nothing secret about the coup. See this bit from the Bellingcat [0] investigation: >By the time the video was first shared on Twitter, eight of Goudreau’s men were dead and two others cap
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
I am also not an expert on it, but I think you ought to read up on it some. Even after the US withdrew from the JCPOA, Iran continued to comply with the terms of the agreement until at least Feb-May 2019 [0, 1, 2]. Keep in mind that this is
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
> a high-ranking gang leader directed accomplices in Georgia Small world! I knew a couple of the people that carried out this kidnapping, as well as the FBI agents on the other side of it. Jakym Tibbs, aka Jak, got 52 years, and Jevante
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
Not OP, but I spent 11 months technically in US Federal custody, but in practice I was incarcerated in various county jails [0] that they contract with. I have experience with PayTel and Securus. At the facilities I housed in the digital &g
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22947341
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by garrettgrimsley 6y ago
To add yet another data point as the many other commenters have already done: I work at UPS in a distribution hub. Today, Friday April 17th, we're doing parcel volume of around 215,000. On a typical Friday this time of year we do aroun
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by garrettgrimsley 7y ago
>because they can read it back to me when I call them, but the drivers don't seem to use it on the ground. I guess the notes they can keep and the notes they put in the scanner are separate. Is the door a really really far walk or s

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