#walter chrome

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

So I’ll be honest... I have never read any of the “New Universe” books... technically they are not part of the main order.... but I won’t lie, this arc actually was the first time i kinda regretted it (not that I WANT to go read Kicker Inc) but this also kinda sparked a bit of my brain that pretty much confirmed that at some point I am going to pause the main order and spend like 5 months reading all the offshoot orders like New Universe, Ultraverse, and 2099.

[ajl1963]

Weekend Finds - A Close to 2022

Weekend Finds – A Close to 2022

[greaterarts]

Sketch of Walter Chrome Jr, P.D., he's the son of a famous detective of the same name. Walter was once the chief of police before becoming dillusioned and taking over his late father's business. Well known and well respected but a crass and bitter man who has a deep addiction to cigars and whiskey.

[handlersandhumans]

C-Weapon Identification: IB-04: LLD-018

"Bridge The Gap (Heavy and Medium Config)"

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“621!” Walter cried out as Sulla levelled the JVLN ALPHA, watching for the smoke to clear so it could land the shot on Bridge The Gap’s damaged body. When a glint of chrome metal peeked through the smoke and Coral radiation, Sulla released the shot.

Only to pass through the remains of Bridge The Gap, hollow and split in two like a chrysalis.

“What?” Those were all the words the old war-dog could speak before something exploded out from behind the curved walls of the Watchpoint’s docks, lighter and faster and closing the distance between with the booster-propelled piledriver.

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Build Below Cut:

Bridge The Gap Heavy Config Right Hand Weapon: VE-66LRB Left Hand Weapon: Laser Lance Right Shoulder Weapon: VE-60LCA Left Shoulder Weapon: SU-R8 Shield Head: Mind Beta Core: HAL 826 Arms: Mind Alpha Legs: Spring Chicken Booster: NGI-001 FCS: Talbot Generator: VE-20C Expansion: Assault Armor

Bridge The Gap Medium Config Right Hand Weapon: GU-A2 Pulse Gun Left Hand Weapon: Laser Lance Right Shoulder Weapon: Kranich Pulse Cannon Left Shoulder Weapon: Moonlight Redshift Head: Mind Beta Core: Ephemera Arms: VP-46D Legs: Mind Beta Booster: P06SPD FCS: Abbot Generator: VE-20C Expansion: Assault Armor

[rabbitcoolcars]

This one-off 1937 Chrysler Imperial C-15 Town Car by LeBaron hides a spring-loaded secret

The car Walter Percy Chrysler commissioned for his wife, Della, sports a unique anti-pestering device

A custom limousine — the 1937 Chrysler Imperial C-15 LeBaron Town Car, in which seven passengers could fit — was built as a gift to his wife Della. Even though 275 units of the C-15 were manufactured, this one was the first — and, possibly, only model — which was equipped with spring-loaded power assisted rear windows and door locks.

Certainly, Mrs. Chrysler drove a Chrysler automobile, but in 1937, she chose not to be carried in one of the dizzying number of production sedans and limousines in the Custom Imperial Eight or Royal Six line. Nor did Mrs. Chrysler order one of the semi-custom Derham town cars also carried in the 1937 Chrysler catalog. Instead, Mrs. Chrysler had a one-of-a-kind town car built on a Custom Imperial chassis of an art deco form that rivaled the wildest town cars built on Duesenberg and Rolls-Royce chassis.

The teardrop-shaped town car body on her 1937 Custom Imperial built by coachbuilder LeBaron dripped elegance and was perfectly mated to the new streamlined styling of the 1937 Chrysler line. The bulbous aluminum LeBaron passenger compartment was painted black and mimicked the production Chrysler pontoon front fenders. The period-perfect Chrysler streamlining began at the “ship’s prow” front-end, which was striped with horizontal grille bars and matching chrome speed lines along the hood sides. The horizontal theme was picked up by LeBaron with speed lines behind the rear door at the sail panel and with horizontally ribbed aluminum trim that circled the body from the back of one front fender to the rear of the opposite front fender. The subtle trim piece literally brought the whole car together — production chassis and front-end styling with unique town car coachwork — as it streaked from the front fender, across the running boards and unique rear fender skirts, around the back of the car and all the way to the rear of the opposite front fender.

[thoughtportal]

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Once You See the Truth About Cars, You Can’t Unsee It https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/opinion/car-ownership-inequality.html

By Andrew Ross and Julie Livingston

Mr. Ross and Ms. Livingston are professors at New York University, members of its Prison Education Program Research Lab and authors of the book “Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality.”

In American consumer lore, the automobile has always been a “freedom machine” and liberty lies on the open road. “Americans are a race of independent people” whose “ancestors came to this country for the sake of freedom and adventure,” the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce’s soon-to-be-president, Roy Chapin, declared in 1924. “The automobile satisfies these instincts.” During the Cold War, vehicles with baroque tail fins and oodles of surplus chrome rolled off the assembly line, with Native American names like Pontiac, Apache, Dakota, Cherokee, Thunderbird and Winnebago — the ultimate expressions of capitalist triumph and Manifest Destiny.

But for many low-income and minority Americans, automobiles have been turbo-boosted engines of inequality, immobilizing their owners with debt, increasing their exposure to hostile law enforcement, and in general accelerating the forces that drive apart haves and have-nots.

Though progressive in intent, the Biden administration’s signature legislative achievements on infrastructure and climate change will further entrench the nation’s staunch commitment to car production, ownership and use. The recent Inflation Reduction Act offers subsidies for many kinds of vehicles using alternative fuel, and should result in real reductions in emissions, but it includes essentially no direct incentives for public transit — by far the most effective means of decarbonizing transport. And without comprehensive policy efforts to eliminate discriminatory policing and predatory lending, merely shifting to electric from combustion will do nothing to reduce car owners’ ever-growing risk of falling into legal and financial jeopardy, especially those who are poor or Black.

By the 1940s, African American car owners had more reason than anyone to see their vehicles as freedom machines, as a means to escape, however temporarily, redlined urban ghettos in the North or segregated towns in the South. But their progress on roads outside of the metro core was regularly obstructed by the police, threatened by vigilante assaults, and stymied by owners of whites-only restaurants, lodgings and gas stations. Courts granted the police vast discretionary authority to stop and search for any one of hundreds of code violations — powers that they did not apply evenly. Today, officers make more than 50,000 traffic stops a day. Driving while Black has become a major route to incarceration — or much worse. When Daunte Wright was killed by a police officer in April 2021, he had been pulled over for an expired registration tag on his car’s license plate. He joined the long list of Black drivers whose violent and premature deaths at the hands of police were set in motion by a minor traffic infraction — Sandra Bland (failure to use a turn signal), Maurice Gordon (alleged speeding), Samuel DuBose (missing front license plate) and Philando Castile and Walter Scott (broken taillights) among them. Despite widespread criticism of the flimsy pretexts used to justify traffic stops, and the increasing availability of cellphone or police body cam videos, the most recent data shows that the number of deaths from police-driver interactions is almost as high as it has been over the past five years.

In the consumer arena, cars have become tightly sprung debt traps. The average monthly auto loan payment crossed $700 for the first time this year, which does not include insurance or maintenance costs. Subprime lending and longer loan terms of up to 84 months have resulted in a doubling of auto loan debt over the last decade and a notable surge in the number of drivers who are “upside down”— owing more money than their cars are worth. But, again, the pain is not evenly distributed. Auto financing companies often charge nonwhite consumers higher interest rates than white consumers, as do insurers.

Formerly incarcerated buyers whose credit scores are depressed from inactivity are especially red meat to dealers and predatory lenders. In our research, we spoke to many such buyers who found it easier, upon release from prison, to acquire expensive cars than to secure an affordable apartment. Some, like LeMarcus, a Black Brooklynite (whose name has been changed to protect his privacy under ethical research guidelines), discovered that loans were readily available for a luxury vehicle but not for the more practical car he wanted. Even with friends and family willing to help him with a down payment, after he spent roughly five years in prison, his credit score made it impossible to get a Honda or “a regular car.” Instead, relying on a friend to co-sign a loan, he was offered a high-interest loan on a pre-owned Mercedes E350. LeMarcus knew it was a bad deal, but the dealer told him the bank that would have financed a Honda “wanted a more solid foundation, good credit, income was showing more,” but that to finance the Mercedes, it “was actually willing to work with the people with lower credit and lower down payments.” We interviewed many other formerly incarcerated people who followed a similar path, only to see their cars repossessed.

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LeMarcus was “car rich, cash poor,” a common and precarious condition that can have serious legal consequences for low-income drivers, as can something as simple as a speeding ticket. A $200 ticket is a meaningless deterrent to a hedge fund manager from Greenwich, Conn., who is pulled over on the way to the golf club, but it could be a devastating blow to those who mow the fairways at the same club. If they cannot pay promptly, they will face cascading penalties. If they cannot take a day off work to appear in court, they risk a bench warrant or loss of their license for debt delinquency. Judges in local courts routinely skirt the law of the land (in Supreme Court decisions like Bearden v. Georgia and Timbs v. Indiana) by disregarding the offender’s ability to pay traffic debt. At the request of collection agencies, they also issue arrest or contempt warrants for failure to appear in court on unpaid auto loan debts. With few other options to travel to work, millions of Americans make the choice to continue driving even without a license, which means their next traffic stop may land them in jail.

The pathway that leads from a simple traffic fine to financial insolvency or detention is increasingly crowded because of the spread of revenue policing intended to generate income from traffic tickets, court fees and asset forfeiture. Fiscally squeezed by austerity policies, officials extract the funds from those least able to pay. This is not only an awful way to fund governments; it is also a form of backdoor, regressive taxation that circumvents voters’ input.

Deadly traffic stops, racially biased predatory lending and revenue policing have all come under public scrutiny of late, but typically they are viewed as distinct realms of injustice, rather than as the interlocking systems that they are. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it: A traffic stop can result in fines or arrest; time behind bars can result in repossession or a low credit score; a low score results in more debt and less ability to pay fines, fees and surcharges. Championed as a kind of liberation, car ownership — all but mandatory in most parts of the country — has for many become a vehicle of capture and control.

Industry boosters promise us that technological advances like on-demand transport, self-driving electric vehicles and artificial intelligence-powered traffic cameras will smooth out the human errors that lead to discrimination, and that car-sharing will reduce the runaway costs of ownership. But no combination of apps and cloud-based solutions can ensure that the dealerships, local municipalities, courts and prison industries will be willing to give up the steady income they derive from shaking down motorists.

Aside from the profound need for accessible public transportation, what could help? Withdraw armed police officers from traffic duties, just as they have been from parking and tollbooth enforcement in many jurisdictions. Introduce income-graduated traffic fines. Regulate auto lending with strict interest caps and steep penalties for concealing fees and add-ons and for other well-known dealership scams. Crack down hard on the widespread use of revenue policing. And close the back door to debtors’ prisons by ending the use of arrest warrants in debt collection cases. Without determined public action along these lines, technological advances often end up reproducing deeply rooted prejudices. As Malcolm X wisely said, “Racism is like a Cadillac; they bring out a new model every year.”

Andrew Ross and Julie Livingston are professors at New York University, members of its Prison Education Program Research Lab and authors of the book “Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality.”

[accidentalsoravoice]

Update on my Left 4 Dead 2 Mods

This time I'll throw in a whole comprehensive list (it's under the cut so it doesn't take up your entire feed, because I installed an obscene amount of mods)

Characters

Nick - Shadow the Hedgehog

Rochelle - Makoto Nijima (Persona 5)

Ellis - Sora

Coach - Master Chief

Bill - Simon "Ghost" Riley (Call of Duty)

Francis - Walter White

Louis - a Minecraft version of Benny from The Lego Movie

Zoey - Mipha (Zelda: BotW)

Zombies

Common Infected - monkeys

Hunter - Senator Armstrong (Metal Gear Rising)

Spitter - Shrek

Boomer - Otis (Barnyard)

Smoker - Fred Jones (Scooby Doo)

Charger - Terry Crews (yes, the Old Spice guy)

Jockey - Glen Quagmire

Witch - SCP-096

Tank - Bowser

Weapons

Guns

M16 - ACR (Call of Duty)

AK - FN SCAR-17

SCAR - FAMAS

MAC10 (silenced SMG) - silenced UMP-45

Uzi - Kriss Vector

MP5 - PPSH-41

SG 552 - MG42 (Far Cry)

Pump Shotgun - Pump Shotgun (but from GTA)

Chrome Shotgun - random shotgun from Counter-Strike, but with Asiimov

Tactical Shotgun - Tactical Shotgun (Fortnite)

SPAS-12 - AA12

Military Sniper - Barrett M82

Hunting Rifle - M1 Garand

Steyr Scout - M1903 Springfield

AWP - Bow (Minecraft)

Pistol - FN Five Seven

Magnum - Smith & Wesson .500 (Resident Evil 4)

Grenade Launcher - Mentos-powered Pepsi launcher

2. Melee

Fire axe - Axe (Animal Crossing: New Horizons)

Baseball Bat - Naofumi's Shield (Rising of the Shield Hero)

Cricket Bat - Shield of Wrath (Rising of the Shield Hero)

Crowbar - Nokia hammer (I am not kidding it's literally just a Nokia on a stick)

Frying Pan - Frying pan with Kirby's face on it

Golf Club - just a sword

Guitar - none

Katana - Murasama (Metal Gear Rising)

Machete - random sword and shield from Dark Souls

Nightstick - Kylo Ren's lightsaber

Pitchfork - plastic fork

Knife - Butterfly Knife (TF2)

Shovel - squeaky hammer

Chainsaw - Pochita

3. Throwables

Pipe bomb - Electrode (Pokemon)

Boomer bile - Jarate (TF2)

Molotov - literally just the Autism creature

Music/Sounds

Horde alert sound - Prowler meme sound (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)

Healing sound - "Holding Out for a Hero" by Bonnie Tyler

Getting hit by a Tank sound - metalpipe.mp3

Shoving zombies sound - various Super Mario World sound effects

Saferoom fanfare - Final Fantasy VIII victory fanfare

Saferoom music - File Select (Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga

Ridden by a Jockey music - Gas Gas Gas (Initial D)

Pummeled by a Hunter music - It Has to be This Way (Metal Gear Rising)

Horde battle theme - Bowser battle theme (Super Mario World)

Tank battle theme - Bellumbeck battle (Zelda: Phantom Hourglass)

Escape music - Finn McMissile's theme (Cars 2)

Credits music - Jump Up, Super Star (Super Mario Odyssey)

Dark Carnival concert music

Live & Learn - Sonic Adventure 2

Won't Stop, Just Go! (Green Forest theme) - Sonic Adventure 2

Live & Learn (30th Anniversary symphony ver.) - Sonic Adventure 2

That's the Way I Like It (Metal Harbor theme) - Sonic Adventure 2

Animations

Healing animation - breakdancing (doesn't work with Shadow/Nick for some reason)

Hunter pummel animation - rapid punching (now you see why that song from MGR plays and why it's Senator Armstrong)

Items

Medkit - Drip Goku body pillow

Pain Pills - crystal meth (I'm not joking, it's just Heisenburg blue crystal meth)

Adrenaline - coffee

Propane tank - Bowser Bomb (Mario Party 2)

Miscellaneous

The Ferris Wheel in Dark Carnival is now a giant statue of Garfield t-posing

Jimmy Gibbs Jr.'s car from Dead Center is now the magic carpet from Aladdin

Explosions have the "MY LEG" soundbite from Spongebob in them

[missallanea]

I got thinking about it and SINCE I'VE BEEN ON TUMBLR A FUCKING LONG TIME and have recently met not one but two people I wrote with on previous blogs, here's a list of every character that had a standalone blog at one point or another that I can remember :

Anastasia Tremaine / The Red Queen ( Once Upon a Time in Wonderland )

Apple White ( Ever After High )

Ava ( Roswell )

Babydoll ( Sucker Punch )

Belle French ( Once Upon a Time )

Blondie Locks ( Ever After High )

Brigid Tenenbaum ( BioShock )

Carrie White ( Carrie )

Chrome Dokuro ( Katekyo HItman Reborn! )

Drusilla ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer )

Duchess Swan ( Ever After High )

Fisheye ( Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon )

The Jabberwock ( Once Upon a Time in Wonderland )

Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk ( Marvel Comics )

Jinn ( RWBY )

Kali Belladonna ( RWBY )

La Muerte ( The Book of Life ) 

Lian Nichang ( Baifa Monü Zhuan )

Lucy Harris ( Jekyll & Hyde )

Luna ( Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon )

Luna ( Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon )

The Mad Hatter ( Wonderland: A New Alice ) 

Maria Merryweather ( The Secret of Moonacre )

Mary Margaret Blanchard / Snow White ( Once Upon a Time )

Narcissa Malfoy ( Harry Potter )

Neopolitan ( RWBY )

Persephone ( Hadestown )

Queen Beryl ( Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon )

Queen Clarion ( Disney Fairies ) 

Raven Branwen ( RWBY )

Rin ( Inuyasha )

Rogue ( Marvel Comics )

Rose Quartz ( Steven Universe ) 

Ryoko Hakubi ( Tenchi Muyo )

Ryuko Matoi ( Kill La Kill )

Scary Godmother ( Scary Godmother )

Sif ( God of War )

Sif ( Marvel Comics )

Tiffany Valentine ( Child's Play )

Vera Gorski ( Sucker Punch )

Winter Schnee ( RWBY )

Zuse / Castor ( Tron: Legacy )

[youareinbarbados]

"What taking action actually means": Reloaded

So in his lecture "Answered Prayer", Neville goes over the story about Jesus healing the ten lepers. He talks about how they were told to go get a certificate of healing from their priests, after he declared them healed. this very eloquently illustrates "Taking action".

We hear quite often that we need to live in the end and live from the wish-fulfilled, and this is precisely what Jesus understood. In MIND/GOD, things are and have always been. Jesus understood that once something is in mind, it is done. However, in my last few posts, I went over just how materially inclined a lot of people are. They are more impressed by the happenings of the 3D rather than the 4D . Jesus also understood this. he understood that there are people who need to take outward action to fully synchronize their 4D self with their 3D self. the whole basis of the mechanism is to change consciousness. we are told to do things from the consciousness of the wish fulfilled.

In the case of this story, you don't walk to get a certificate of perfect health if you are not in perfect health. The act of walking was done from the consciousness of health. The very ACTION of walking to get a bill of perfect health would send feedback to the consciousness of the person themselves, thus reinforcing their new state of being. This is not easy for everyone, but can be achieved if taken one step at a time. Spend time thinking about all the things you would do. Thinking about the wish fulfilled itself isn't going to work, as Neville often stated. Believe it or not, thinking about your emotional state of having the wish fulfilled, or how you are moved to tears, and even feeling the happiness of the wishful filled is still thinking OF rather than thinking FROM.

Walter C Lanyon states that to think about something, is to cause it to decay and eventually vanish. He states that "Health is a state of unconsciousness, as far as the body is concerned." Meaning when you have something that is working in an orderly fashion, you don't tend to think about it much. It becomes part of your natural mechanism. What you tend to think about are the SITUATIONS INVOLVING the things you want rather than the concept of having them DIRECTLY.

This is why Neville stressed playing a scene IMPLYING the wish fulfilled, rather than the wish BEING fulfilled. This is why he stressed thinking about life events AFTER fulfillment. When you're thinking about running to your SP and hugging them, are you thinking about your legs ? Are you thinking about your ability to run ? NO. Know why ? Because you have these things ALREADY. Think about the kind of school you want your children in. Think about the charities or investments you want to put your large amount of money in. Pull up Safari or Chrome and LOOK THESE THINGS UP. Take an INTEREST in these things, because you're not interested in investments if you have no money to invest. You're not interested in couples activities if you're single. These are states. INTEREST implies STATES.

"The END is where we begin." -Neville

It really is as simple as that. Your wish fulfilled is the end of your current consciousness and the beginning of your new on, so think about your life five years after the new beginning. There are some of us who are more inclined to see problems. some of us are predisposed to seeing solutions. Even so, what problems and solutions are you dealing with five years after your wish is fulfilled? Spend time thinking about your life in terms of years After your wishes fulfilled. Your mind understands exactly where your thoughts are coming from. You never receive things. You will only receive what is most like your consciousness.

Feeling the emotional thrill of having 150,000 dollars in the bank and seeing your bank balance have six figures in it, is still thinking OF.

Spending hours researching which bank has better interest rates, and and choosing the best way to spread that money over however many number of accounts you have, is thinking FROM. Taking no thought about your money, and thinking about the fact that you're not going to stress your family member out about paying you the money that you loaned them, is thinking FROM.

Spend time looking up banks. spend time looking up the best place for a couple vacations. Do all these things now in spite of not having any 3D evidence. Think about what you would do if it were here now, and do it. Living is action period and you need to live from the wish fulfilled. Think about one year, three years, five years down the line, and do those things. Those of us who are more greatly impressed by outward action need to do these things in order to solidify our 4D state of being.

The "action" doesn't manifest anything. It is done when you decide that it is. Action merely reinforces the state. That is all.

[female-malice]

Once You See the Truth About Cars, You Can’t Unsee It

By Andrew Ross and Julie Livingston

In American consumer lore, the automobile has always been a “freedom machine” and liberty lies on the open road. “Americans are a race of independent people” whose “ancestors came to this country for the sake of freedom and adventure,” the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce’s soon-to-be-president, Roy Chapin, declared in 1924. “The automobile satisfies these instincts.” During the Cold War, vehicles with baroque tail fins and oodles of surplus chrome rolled off the assembly line, with Native American names like Pontiac, Apache, Dakota, Cherokee, Thunderbird and Winnebago — the ultimate expressions of capitalist triumph and Manifest Destiny.

But for many low-income and minority Americans, automobiles have been turbo-boosted engines of inequality, immobilizing their owners with debt, increasing their exposure to hostile law enforcement, and in general accelerating the forces that drive apart haves and have-nots.

Though progressive in intent, the Biden administration’s signature legislative achievements on infrastructure and climate change will further entrench the nation’s staunch commitment to car production, ownership and use. The recent Inflation Reduction Act offers subsidies for many kinds of vehicles using alternative fuel, and should result in real reductions in emissions, but it includes essentially no direct incentives for public transit — by far the most effective means of decarbonizing transport. And without comprehensive policy efforts to eliminate discriminatory policing and predatory lending, merely shifting to electric from combustion will do nothing to reduce car owners’ ever-growing risk of falling into legal and financial jeopardy, especially those who are poor or Black.

By the 1940s, African American car owners had more reason than anyone to see their vehicles as freedom machines, as a means to escape, however temporarily, redlined urban ghettos in the North or segregated towns in the South. But their progress on roads outside of the metro core was regularly obstructed by the police, threatened by vigilante assaults, and stymied by owners of whites-only restaurants, lodgings and gas stations. Courts granted the police vast discretionary authority to stop and search for any one of hundreds of code violations — powers that they did not apply evenly. Today, officers make more than 50,000 traffic stops a day. “Driving while Black” has become a major route to incarceration — or much worse. When Daunte Wright was killed by a police officer in April 2021, he had been pulled over for an expired registration tag on his car’s license plate. He joined the long list of Black drivers whose violent and premature deaths at the hands of police were set in motion by a minor traffic infraction — Sandra Bland (failure to use a turn signal), Maurice Gordon (alleged speeding), Samuel DuBose (missing front license plate), and Philando Castile and Walter Scott (broken taillights) among them. Despite widespread criticism of the flimsy pretexts used to justify traffic stops, and the increasing availability of cellphone or police body cam videos, the most recent data shows that the number of deaths from police-driver interactions is almost as high as it has been over the past five years.

In the consumer arena, cars have become tightly sprung debt traps. The average monthly auto loan payment crossed $700 for the first time this year, which does not include insurance or maintenance costs. Subprime lending and longer loan terms of up to 84 months have resulted in a doubling of auto loan debt over the last decade and a notable surge in the number of drivers who are “upside down”— owing more money than their cars are worth. But, again, the pain is not evenly distributed. Auto financing companies often charge nonwhite consumers higher interest rates than white consumers, as do insurers.

Formerly incarcerated buyers whose credit scores are depressed from inactivity are especially red meat to dealers and predatory lenders. In our research, we spoke to many such buyers who found it easier, upon release from prison, to acquire expensive cars than to secure an affordable apartment. Some, like LeMarcus, a Black Brooklynite (whose name has been changed to protect his privacy under ethical research guidelines), discovered that loans were readily available for a luxury vehicle but not for the more practical car he wanted. Even with friends and family willing to help him with a down payment, after he spent roughly five years in prison, his credit score made it impossible to get a Honda or “a regular car.” Instead, relying on a friend to co-sign a loan, he was offered a high-interest loan on a pre-owned Mercedes E350. LeMarcus knew it was a bad deal, but the dealer told him the bank that would have financed a Honda “wanted a more solid foundation, good credit, income was showing more,” but that to finance the Mercedes, it “was actually willing to work with the people with lower credit and lower down payments.” We interviewed many other formerly incarcerated people who followed a similar path, only to see their cars repossessed.

LeMarcus was “car rich, cash poor,” a common and precarious condition that can have serious legal consequences for low-income drivers, as can something as simple as a speeding ticket. A $200 ticket is a meaningless deterrent to a hedge fund manager from Greenwich, Conn., who is pulled over on the way to the golf club, but it could be a devastating blow to those who mow the fairways at the same club. If they cannot pay promptly, they will face cascading penalties. If they cannot take a day off work to appear in court, they risk a bench warrant or loss of their license for debt delinquency. Judges in local courts routinely skirt the law of the land (in Supreme Court decisions like Bearden v. Georgia and Timbs v. Indiana) by disregarding the offender’s ability to pay traffic debt. At the request of collection agencies, they also issue arrest or contempt warrants for failure to appear in court on unpaid auto loan debts. With few other options to travel to work, millions of Americans make the choice to continue driving even without a license, which means their next traffic stop may land them in jail.

The pathway that leads from a simple traffic fine to financial insolvency or detention is increasingly crowded because of the spread of revenue policing intended to generate income from traffic tickets, court fees and asset forfeiture. Fiscally squeezed by austerity policies, officials extract the funds from those least able to pay. This is not only an awful way to fund governments; it is also a form of backdoor, regressive taxation that circumvents voters’ input.

Deadly traffic stops, racially biased predatory lending, revenue policing have all come under public scrutiny of late, but typically they are viewed as distinct realms of injustice, rather than as the interlocking systems that they are. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it: A traffic stop can result in fines or arrest; time behind bars can result in repossession or a low credit score; a low score results in more debt and less ability to pay fines, fees and surcharges. Championed as a kind of liberation, car ownership — all but mandatory in most parts of the country — has for many become a vehicle of capture and control.

Industry boosters promise us that technological advances like on-demand transport, self-driving electric vehicles and artificial intelligence-powered traffic cameras will smooth out the human errors that lead to discrimination, and that car-sharing will reduce the runaway costs of ownership. But no combination of apps and cloud-based solutions can ensure that the dealerships, local municipalities, courts and prison industries will be willing to give up the steady income they derive from shaking down motorists.

Aside from the profound need for accessible public transportation, what could help? Withdraw armed police officers from traffic duties, just as they have been from parking and tollbooth enforcement in many jurisdictions. Introduce income-graduated traffic fines. Regulate auto lending with strict interest caps and steep penalties for concealing fees and add-ons and for other well-known dealership scams. Crack down hard on the widespread use of revenue policing. And close the back door to debtors’ prisons by ending the use of arrest warrants in debt collection cases. Without determined public action along these lines, technological advances often end up reproducing deeply rooted prejudices. As Malcolm X wisely said, “Racism is like a Cadillac; they bring out a new model every year.”

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

a who's who for D.P.7 which I guess was kinda like the New Universe’s Avengers? if that is an apt comparison I guess...

[jinglebellrockstars]

how come walter white never copped some rick owens or chrome hearts? is he stupid?

[aprayerforclarity]

4/12

Card: Ten of Wands - Reversed Holy shit. I just did a 30 minutes meditation and it was pretty intense. I actually felt some feelings of sadness about life. A lot of what was going through my head was song melodies and lyrics, in particular Wednesday and Virulent Life synth song. Other things that passed through my head were going to my cousin's bachelor party in Charleston, questioning my ability to do computer programming as a career, needing to mail my suit back to my aunt Barbara, needing to go to the tailor today in order to get my suit fitting in time for Will and Madeline's wedding April 22, my upcoming trip to California with my family, Sir Walter Ralegh and London during the Elizabethan era, my experience of taking 10 mg of Adderall yesterday and how helpful it was for my focus. I looked at all the opened tabs in my Chrome browser, and thought "how the hell was I able to balance all this information yesterday? Oh yeah, it was probably the Adderall."

I began to question my ability to focus without substances to help me. I'm feeling pretty unfocused today, but is that because of my lack of sleep last night? I remember waking up to the sound of loud jackhammering outside my apartment. In my mind I pictured the construction workers that occupied the middle lane of the downtown street, jackhammering through the concrete to gain access to God-knows-what. I remember thinking, "god damn, why do they have to do that in the middle of the night to wake up the people who live downtown"

I guess it does make sense. They want to work in a heavy trafficked area when it's least busy, but still. Anyways, I woke up and told myself it is bad to look at my phone, but I did it anyways. I started trying to find any books on John White in order to really get a sense of his character. I'm starting to realize that I'm really inspired to write when I'm totally primed about everyone in a scene. I want to know the setting and all of the details, as well as the character's past in order to really get a feel for how they will act. Stephen King's book on writing is really inspiring to me, as he really does attest to just letting the writing flow with minimal planning or outlining. While I do believe that is, like, 75% of writing, to me I like to have a sense of the time of the setting, the physical location of the setting, the characters past and where they might be headed. I haven't really written much, but like I said, yesterday I felt so inspired and had a fantastic day researching all about Sir Walter Ralegh and his Durham House. I'm now questioning whether my pure enjoy or digging through academic papers and internet resources was due to being inspired or just from the Adderall. In the past I've been able to access flow states, but am I doomed to rely on a pill to access it on demand? I'm not ashamed of taking medications(unlike my father) but is that really a sustainable path to life? My gut tells me no, I'd like focus and inspiration to come from within. I guess I'll just have to continue harnessing my willpower and focus... In the meantime, coffee and nicotine gum will be my minor aids.

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Google lanza una solución de emergencia de Chrome para el noveno día cero de este año

Google lanza una solución de emergencia de Chrome para el noveno día cero de este año

Los desarrolladores de Google lanzaron una solución urgente para Chrome 108.0.5359.94 el viernes. La actualización soluciona una nueva vulnerabilidad de día cero (seguimiento CVE-2022-4262). Según los informes, la falla afecta a todas las versiones del navegador y, según Mike Walters, vicepresidente de investigación de vulnerabilidades y amenazas de Acción1la solución era urgente, ya que ya…

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1937 Chrysler Imperial C-15 Town Car by LeBaron, commissioned by Walter Percy Chrysler for his wife, Della.

The custom limousine — a 1937 Chrysler Imperial C-15 LeBaron Town Car, in which seven passengers could fit — was built as a gift to his wife Della. Even though 275 units of the C-15 were manufactured, this one was equipped with spring-loaded power assisted rear windows and door locks.

Della Chrysler chose not to be carried in a production sedan or limousine from the Custom Imperial Eight or Royal Six line. Nor did Mrs. Chrysler order one of the semi-custom Derham town cars also carried in the 1937 Chrysler catalog. Instead, Mrs. Chrysler had a one-of-a-kind town car built on a Custom Imperial chassis of an art deco form that rivaled the wildest town cars built on Duesenberg and Rolls-Royce chassis.

The teardrop-shaped town car body on her 1937 Custom Imperial built by coachbuilder LeBaron dripped elegance and was perfectly mated to the new streamlined styling of the 1937 Chrysler line. The bulbous aluminum LeBaron passenger compartment was painted black and mimicked the production Chrysler pontoon front fenders. The period-perfect Chrysler streamlining began at the “ship’s prow” front-end, which was striped with horizontal grille bars and matching chrome speed lines along the hood sides. The horizontal theme was picked up by LeBaron with speed lines behind the rear door at the sail panel and with horizontally ribbed aluminum trim that circled the body from the back of one front fender to the rear of the opposite front fender. The subtle trim piece literally brought the whole car together — production chassis and front-end styling with unique town car coachwork — as it streaked from the front fender, across the running boards and unique rear fender skirts, around the back of the car and all the way to the rear of the opposite front fender.

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Jewellery can symbolise group membership (as in the case, from the Christian crucifix or maybe the Jewish Star of David) or position (as in the situation of chains of Business, or the Western practice of married people today sporting wedding day rings).

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Rising political tensions, the immediately after-outcomes on the war, as well as a reaction in opposition to the perceived decadence in the transform on the twentieth century brought about simpler varieties, combined with simpler producing for mass manufacture of superior-excellent jewellery. Masking the duration of the twenties and 1930s, the type is now commonly often known as Artwork Deco. Walter Gropius along with the German Bauhaus motion, with their philosophy of "no obstacles amongst artists and craftsmen" brought about some fascinating and stylistically simplified sorts.

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The soil across the two fragments in the jewelry piece was dated with oxygen isotopic Investigation to forty,000 years ago. "In the identical layer, the place we uncovered a Denisovan bone, were being located appealing items; right up until then it had been believed these ended up the hallmark with the emergence of Homo sapiens. First of all, there have been symbolic things, like jewelry, including the stone bracelet in addition to a ring, carved out of marble," Derevyanko explained to The Siberian Periods ^

In the late twentieth century, the impact of modern primitivism resulted in many of such techniques currently being included into western subcultures.

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A few of the necklets have been manufactured from many pieces joined Using the gold chains were being in and bracelets were also made occasionally to match the necklet as well as the brooch. At the conclusion of the Century the jewellery with Minimize steel intermixed with massive crystals was introduced by an Englishman, Matthew Boulton of Birmingham.[forty five] Art Nouveau[edit]

In Asia, the Indian subcontinent has the longest constant legacy of jewellery making any where, Asia was the initial position exactly where these jewellery had been manufactured in big numbers for your royals[citation necessary] with a record of around 5,000 several years.[forty seven] Among the initially to start jewellery creating were the peoples from the Indus Valley civilization, in precisely what is now predominately present day-working day Pakistan and Component of northern and western India. From the inland locations the 1st elements utilised for personal adornment came from mammoths’ tusks, the horns of reindeer as well as other animals, and, down the road, amber and lignite.

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Items of jewelry have always been A serious attraction amongst each unique no matter gender considering that jewelry tends to elevate one glimpse, and it’s the uniqueness of every bit of jewelry that never ever goes from need. It is vital considering the fact that parts of jewelry also have a tendency to precise emotions and therefore are gifted throughout unique events to our close to and dearest kinds.

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Jewellery may be a great way to show off your model. Jewellery is A necessary part of the fashion market, and it's something which we all wear. What you select to have on can say lots about your style. An excellent jewellery piece can be the best finishing touch to an outfit, but it is important to do not forget that a chunk is just pretty much as good as what it seems like on you. It is important to settle on jewellery items that accommodate your style.

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Cotton or nylon wire and leather-based may also be popular supplies used in common mens jewelry. Picket beads, cow bones, coconut shells, bamboo, and gemstones all adorn mens necklaces from across the globe.

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What exactly are conventional techniques for coming up with Males’s rings? The normal tactics used to generate artisan jewelry are as diverse since the cultures from which they occur. In Peru, The traditional system of handmade goldsmithing continues while in the work of filigree, the art of weaving silver threads jointly. Originally brought to your Andes during the colonial interval, filigree acquired area nuances and included patterns encouraged by character and way of life.