Look up vehicular "sunscreening" -- that's the term NJ uses for legal front tints for medical purposes. I don't know if these cops actually do it legally, but they could. Especially if they have a doctor who's willing to play ball and fill out the paperwork regardless of actual medical necessity (which would itself be illegal if untrue).

The short answer is that it's inconsequential either way. The long answer is that the traffic code actually does carve out a decent number of exemptions, and parking anywhere is probably one of them although it's been a while since I skimmed through -- but they're always with a caveat that it's for reasons related to actual work, so personal errands don't count. Food would be a gray area because it's a necessity more than a luxury in some sense, and theoretically time spent on legal parking would be time that could be spent on actual duties.

Any idea how much of the cut-through traffic is people following Waze (and similar) versus how much is people trying their own tricks?

If it's largely the former, those companies offer to solve exactly these problems by working with city planners, and taking them up on that offer is the move here. If it's largely the latter, well then all the other things being discussed here should continue to be discussed.

Since you said "house" and OP said "Newport" I'm going to assume this advice is much more likely to work for you than for OP, although in reality it's more to do with ownership than building type, so if you rent the house then it's not likely to work well for you:

Switch from regular electric heat (the technical term is "resistive" and it converts electricity into heat) to a heat pump (uses refrigeration technology to move existing heat from outside to inside). The electricity required to move existing heat is roughly 1/3 the amount required to create heat.

If you're unfamiliar with the concept, you might be wondering "how can I move heat from a colder place to a warmer place" to which the answer is simply "refrigerators do it, and nobody bats an eye."

I think the parent comment is using "compressed" to mean "being forced elsewhere" as opposed to the more typical "being forced into having less volume" which would be exactly what you're also saying. I don't condone imprecise language but I'll give the benefit of the doubt because it's pretty intuitive that water is hardly compressible.

Think about using a compression bandage or compression socks. You're not literally compressing, you're just squeezing the flesh and it goes elsewhere.

Seems equivalent to the mindset that when people are made upset by someone with malicious intent, it's on the recipient, who should just not feel upset. In situations that warrant it, we call this victim blaming. Obviously in this analogous situation "victim" is not an appropriate word for the customer whatsoever, but the overall blame follows the same directionality.

The problem here is the damn pronouns. Let me clarify by removing the pronouns:

The person who configured the system/register is guilting the customer into thinking that the customer owes the barista for grabbing a muffin.

I believe that the pronoun "their" in the sentence you just quoted refers to the person who configured the system, not the barista. The barista isn't asking for a tip. Whoever configured the system is asking the customer to tip the barista.

The comment you replied to is complaining about whoever implemented the system configuration, not the barista. It literally says "systems are notorious" which probably means a combination of the owner and the system designer pushing bad defaults.

I just tried GrubHub and the "Driver Tip" defaults to 20% which gets calculated as 3.27 for my order having a subtotal of 13.95, waived delivery fee due to Amazon prime integration, 1.40 service fee, and 1.01 tax.

When adding up 13.95+1.40+1.01, and then taking 20%, it comes to 3.27

Totally bogus. Well, reasonable at this subtotal, but not at higher subtotals... Because using a percentage is nonsensical in the first place.

It's pretty crazy that with all the upgrades in card terminals and POS systems that guests interact with when ordering at a counter nowadays, we still have this situation where guests receiving full table service need to write with a pen and then data entry happens behind the scenes. Like, what the hell.

Outside the US, even in Canada where most things are just like the US, the bill arrives along with a wireless terminal where you enter the tip directly. No writing with an ink pen. Granted, it does feel a bit weird to enter a tip while the server is right there watching, but oftentimes they look away (pretend to get distracted?) or might even leave the terminal at the table for a minute while doing something else. Plus it's usually just hitting a preset anyway (like what we're now familiar with when ordering at a counter) so it's pretty painless. This has been the norm for at least a decade, maybe two!

The thing is, what we think of as "standard" service is actually super amazing service, compared to some places that don't have much of a tipping culture. For example in some areas you're not going to get any automatic check-ins, all you ever get is a response to flagging someone down.

So even when you think "standard" in the sense that nothing went wrong, it's actually wonderful that you didn't have to flag someone down, and therefore at least 18%. More like 20% if something made you think "that was nice." And this is coming from someone who has no problem dipping to 16% when mistakes are made (where primary responsibility is with the server) that aren't neutralized somehow.

Exactly. The implied circumstance that we are discussing in this post (including OP's story as well as this Apple Card comment thread) is where an employee walks away with the payment. I'm saying that using a phone instead of card doesn't really apply to this circumstance, because it would be even more of a risk than using a card.

Sort the Google reviews low to high. You'll find much more than the typical cranky customers.

If you're able to tap the terminal, you're pretty safe either way because nobody is walking away with your payment.

If someone will be walking away with your payment, are you suggesting they walk away with an unlocked phone instead of a card?

Doesn't add up.

Can merchants use insurance to guard against this, or would that just increase the expected value of their losses even more (in exchange for turning a variable cost into a fixed cost)?

Those aren't the only two possibilities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

But do they have bisn?

The contradictory part is that whenever a "no parking" sign has a whiteout sticker over one of the arrows, the city placed that sticker there because there is, in fact, parking of some sort. This particular space would be the only exception I know of. The problem would be solved in this case by removing the whiteout sticker from the sign closer to the corner (or just moving all that signage to the earlier signpost).

I know paint doesn't really matter for anything (because it can't be seen when snow-covered, for example) but in many cases the paint job does corroborate what the signs are saying. And here we have 2 such things:

1. Red curb
2. Yellow diagonal fill