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Fools are going to part with their money somehow.

This guy is going to a lot of trouble he doesn't need to. I mean, the "non commercial" limitation is due to a law of the land. But all he has to do is convey that vehicle to a boat ramp and let it touch water from time to time. Now it is no longer a land vehicle; it is a maritime vessel, portaging overland between ports. It is now immune to the laws of the land, and the laws of the sea don't have a "non-commercial" limitation.

You do need to remove the "private" placard from your conveyance, and affix a "maritime" placard instead. And I'd be happy to ~~grift you~~ sell you such a placard.

All I'm getting is "grift me, daddy, I'm dying to be grifted. Grift me grift me grift me grift me!"

I want to take over the "Private Conveyance, Not For Commerce" license plate market. Mine, you'll drive the car to a boat ramp, and attach the plate while the wheels are in the water. It's no longer a land vehicle, and land-based laws do not apply. It's now a marine vehicle, and only maritime laws apply. You're not "driving" or "traveling" in a "car". You're "portaging" your "vessel" overland between sea ports.

You'll need to log periodic visits to various "ports" (boat ramps) to maintain your maritime status. But since you aren't bound to the laws of the land, you are free to conduct commercial activities from your vessel.

The net benefit is I get to separate fools from their money.

Seems like the gun ranges are coming to him. Everywhere he goes seems to become one.

Game has been over for about that long. https://xkcd.com/391/

His address is public record. You can look it up on the county auditor's web site.

Voter registration records, including party affiliation, are also public records in Ohio.

It doesn't even apply to all felonies. It only applies to certain particularly violent felonies.

the thing that's different is that social media has demonstrative harm.

Is that actually a difference?

Rock and roll causes harm: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8580930/

TV causes harm: https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/too-much-tv-might-be-bad-for-your-brain

Video games cause harm: https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2000/04/video-games

Pretty much everything kids do that their parents didn't has been "proven" to cause harm. Radio, cinema, comic books, even newspapers were "proven" to harm young people.

Authoritarianism is a far bigger threat than any of these.

Bet.

"Its" has been deprecated.

"It's" follows the rule for contractions with words ending in "s" (is, has) as well as the apostrophe-s rule for possessive forms. As you have demonstrated, the distinction is obvious in context; there is no significant opportunity for confusion.

Keeping the old form does nothing for society other than to inflate the egos of authoritarian English teachers, provide an opportunity for pedantry, confuse spell checkers, and introduce an unneeded exception to the possessive form. Nothing of value is lost by eliminating the old word.

So, "It's" is a homonym: two words spelled and pronounced the same, but carrying different meanings.

A BMX bike without a rider will roll along happily. We called it "ghost riding" when I was a kid.

The pathetically ginormous “trucks”

Are due to absurd incentives in NHTSA standards, which tighten economy and emission standards more on smaller cars than larger ones. Rather than try to reach the implausible requirements set on small cars, they just lengthen and widen them until the are large enough to qualify for a looser standard.

Correct the perverse incentives, and cars will get smaller again.