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I’ve seen a local dealer offer several around 13k miles for $27k.

That’s a screaming deal to me.

I’ve been following the 4xe debacle the past few years, but I’m just not too concerned about the battery fire issues.

I’m more concerned about sudden loss of power and being stranded since I plan on actually using it in deep wilderness.

I am aware there is a recall for sand in engine, but considering a 2025 will have 4 more years of powertrain warranty, I don’t feel too worried.
What do you think?

EDIT: I actually don’t care at all about the PHEV part. I don’t even have a place to charge it. But I’ve been looking at a Wrangler to upgrade from my current 4x4 and the 4xe prices are just way better than anything else.

EDIT 2: I can get a 4xe Rubicon from 2021 for about the same price. I would avoid the engine recall but also lose the factory warranty, so it doesn’t seem like a win.

Hi there, I'm in the application process for my Sheriff's Department. They don't have separate tracks for custody and patrol divisions, but the VAST majority of deputies work in custody.

Just curious, if I end up doing custody operations (in a jail or court) for a couple of years and can't switch to patrol within the Sheriff's, will any other department hire me for a patrol officer position?

I recently interviewed for a department and got asked these questions. I didn’t get selected for the next step, so I guess I didn’t answer them very well.

1. You see someone who is incoherent and having a mental episode in the middle of the road. What would you do?

2. You pull over a driver and they refuse to give you their driver's license and they refuse to come out of the vehicle. How do you handle it?

3. You get two calls at the same time and you're the closest officer for both. One is a theft in progress at a store, and the other one is a minor traffic accident with no injuries. Which one do you prioritize and why?

My dad always drank Budweisers. When I moved to the west coast everybody was always drinking IPAs. But I just can’t acquire the taste.

Edit: my neighbor gave me beer and one of them was a Lagunitas. Beer is beer, gotta drink it. It’s the 100th time I’ve had an IPA and it tasted no better than the first time I had an IPA. No hate toward those who like IPAs, I’m just genuinely confused how they’re so popular.

Like basketball, soccer etc.

I’m in rank 3 and got a T-score of 68

Just wondering who are the ones getting rank 1 and 2? How high are their t-scores?

Passed the tests and moving into backgrounds. In the email, there's this part about transcripts.

https://preview.redd.it/hyrcvxwx5c5h1.png?width=1886&format=png&auto=webp&s=a971dd69963b6d77bef3ef732e4bd13894353bee

They haven't given any instruction beyond this.

I was trying to get a head start by ordering them, but I have no idea if they just want us to order transcripts sent to ourselves, or if we're supposed to order the transcripts sent directly to them.

I found two cool BPD-related resources I thought I'd share

1. If you go on vacation, you can fill out a Vacation Watch Form and have BPD patrol pay extra attention to your home
2. If you find an intersection of the city that raises traffic safety concerns, you can report it on the Community Traffic Concern Survey

Found both of these on the BPD website.

I’m curious if I’m the one thinking about this wrong or if others in Product are running into similar pressure right now around “AI monetization.”

My manager recently told my designer and me that we should avoid making certain workflows “too easy” or “too intuitive” because we want to drive more AI/token usage.
And honestly… it feels fundamentally wrong to me.

On one hand, I understand the business pressure. Every company right now is trying to figure out AI monetization, token economics, usage metrics, etc. But on the other hand, intentionally fragmenting or degrading the UX to push users toward AI interactions feels backwards philosophically and strategically.

What makes it even harder is that we don’t even have a clear company-level definition yet of:
- what “AI token usage” actually means for the business,
- what the monetization strategy is,
- whether usage itself is the goal vs retention/outcomes,
- or even what the short-term AI roadmap looks like. It’s very, very hand-wavy today.
So it feels like we’re prematurely optimizing around a metric that isn’t fully understood, while potentially making the product experience worse in the process without a clear path forward.

To me, the better challenge should be:
“How do we create AI experiences so genuinely useful that users naturally choose them?”
not
“How do we force interaction with AI to increase token counts?”

Am I being naive/old-school here? Is this just where product is heading now? Or are others pushing back on this kind of thinking internally too?

I tested with CHP this month and have WSTB tests for local police departments in the next few weeks.

I asked my CHP APP officers, and it sounds like it would take a year or longer before I know I have an offer.

I asked the local departments I applied to and they said it's 4-6 months for them.

Is it a bad idea to accept an offer from a local police department and go through academy and maybe even start my career at a local PD, meanwhile waiting on CHP?

I don't want to waste my local police department's resources, obviously, but I also don't know if waiting for CHP to get back to me is smart if it means I'm closing some doors with local departments I already applied to.

I can’t imagine it’s fun to walk up to a car and the driver keeps their window up and it’s so dark that you can’t see if they’re reaching and pointing a gun at you.

So why is tinted front windows so common now. Where I live probably 1 in 5 cars have illegal front tinted windows, and police never pull them over.

I see all kinds of ads for tinting all your windows for like $99, which I’m sure contributes to the problem.

In smash-and-grab videos, we all see the bippers instantly break the car windows usually using a center punch tool. It takes no effort.

But in police body cams, I always see cops use a baton to try to break a car windows, which takes forever if it works at all.

Is it against policy for police to carry a device to break car windows easily? I imagine it’s helpful both when the driver is uncooperative and when someone is trapped inside a crashed car.

I was just reading this press release from CHP’s website (https://www.chp.ca.gov/news-alerts/news-list/chp-graduation-caps-year-of-record-hiring-and-rising-interest-in-law-enforcement-careers/)

In 2025, CHP received 33,000 applications and graduated 780 cadets

That amounts to a 2.36% acceptance rate

Stanford’s acceptance rate was 3.95% in 2025

Congrats to the new academy grads and officers