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Hydrargyrum
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All my news feeds have decayed, so here we are.
But standing firm on the relative clarity of tighter test and teeter test
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Forced to acknowledge the alignment issues with titration et al
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"But etymology! Le titre! Titrer!"
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"Collins says it's an accepted variant in both American and UK English!"
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Well I think I was possibly the youngest person there and there was some concerning hesitation on the discussion questions about assimilation
But fun overall
Probably talked too much
November 26, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Worse, what if the people who like hops in their cider read the book wrong
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Or road safety, honestly. Because these are all actual issued licenses, which means someone passed some bare minimum amount of training.
Do we really think everyone who currently has one of these licenses (or would have gotten one) is going to stop driving now?
That's not how any of this works.
November 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
As an aside on the bad reporting:
So we're going to lose 190k commercial drivers??
Unclear how soon we'll feel that pain, given current licenses aren't (yet) being revoked. But I can't imagine this will be a good thing for business at any scale.
November 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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But then I'm seeing local Fox affiliates with headlines like "Nearly 20,000 California Truck Drivers Lose Licenses..."
Painfully stupid stuff.
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
So from 29/145 they get 26% of CDLs being invalid, or somewhere between 16k and 17k total.
So of course Duffy rounds up in the press release.
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Note that all of these drivers passed the CA CDL training requirements, which are more stringent than the national requirements.
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The last 4 are mexican citizens without DACA, which is apparently a special category which can not be issued CDLs because the equivalent mexican license is considered the same thing.
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The letter says that they did sample based audits of 145 of CA's "more than 62,000" non-domicile CDLs.
Of those 145, 29 are improper.
25 of those are CDLs with expirations that do not match the expirations of the driver's work permits.
20 of those have active work permits anyway.
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
So has anybody from CA actually given a number for how lany of these licenses will be cancelled, or???
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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if this is what finally works play it to the fucking hilt
July 15, 2025 at 4:40 AM