Title should be Fresno swaps license plate reader vendor.

They're just changing vendors and trying to use this as good pr without resolving the invasive surveillanve state.

I can’t imagine how someone with unlimited power and no oversight could possibly abuse that power.

You're going to love the experience.

Fair warning; they can get very busy and we saw it happen.

Going to have to check this out the next time I’m in town, thanks for the review!

Indeed. It's hard to rent a wood chipper at 3am, or so I've been told.

Because:

Shortly afterwards, the 72-year-old’s daughter’s boyfriend, an off-duty police officer, arrived and handcuffed the ICE agent

Doubt the outcome would've been the same without a cop on their side.

Nah, it wasn't him, I was on that phone with him at the time

The hero we need.

The victim who shot the ICE agent is not facing criminal charges, Fresno Police say

"Cause what are you gonna do about it? Drive to the other location?"

They're using ai for dynamic pricing

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2026/09/30/mcdonalds-is-using-ai-to-price-your-big-mac/92009802007/

They never charge based on cost only. They always charge on "How much can we get away with".

Market rate.

Yeah, I’d rather they have that conversation than watch glorified book rental stores bleed money until they close down anyway.

"we couldn't find a buyer, so we're shutting them all down"

Since I'm very local, its more about banning lgbtq material than anything else.

They want to gut a public service that tangibly improves people's lives to save 8 mill?? That's straight up bullshit, they want to pocket that money and profit from exploiting this community need.

I mean they have privatized hospitals and prisons...well, can't argue with the results. Next, police and firefighters (like the good ol' days).

Remember when the super-rich used to build libraries.

Edit: I don't, but I read it in a book once.

Or they'll just become a book store.

Thinking the same thing. There's got to be more to this. Is it a play to get ownership of the library buildings and turn it into law offices after the library business "fails"?

Libraries are inherently not profitable and therefore any move toward privatization is a stupid one.

Funny how I haven't eaten at McDonald's since they started making inside customers order their food off of a fucking kiosk.