There really should be.

Some friends came to visit a few months ago, and we went to three or four restaurants for lunch while they were here. Each one (and I don't remember all of them) seemed to have their own ranch or ranch-like-substance. Is that really a big thing around here?

I dunno. I've had the same idle thoughts as the OP when I see the lottery prizes over a billion. I figure if I was that rich, there are way worse things I can do than take the Jimmy Carter route.

I think we can let this one go. 😂

I was just wondering last night if there was some reason why the transportation infrastructure in this city is uniquely and embarrassingly terrible....

Hack the planet!

I went in really wanting to like it, but I left feeling completely nonplussed. It felt contrived and over-programmed and underwhelming. It lacks any kind of community feel that extends beyond tourist kitsch. I have a hard time seeing it as anything more than a fancy food court for nearby office workers, and a second-string tourist trap. Totally willing to have my mind changed, but not optimistic at this point.

I think an even more effective way would be to just draw one on their own forehead. That would make spotting huge dicks from a distance so much easier....

I see you getting a little bit of flak for this, and I think the charitable way of looking at the question is not as you wondering if you can ignore them, but wondering if they are actually having any impact on the atrocious driving around here. I wonder, too.... In a town where people will pass you in the bus lane to run a red light that you're stopped at, and blow down residential streets at 40-50MPH regardless of speed bumps, who knows if some camera ticketing is gonna have any impact.

*aks you a question

Eh, where I live the road actually gets worse when you cross into the county from the City.... And it ain't great on the City side.

Or don't stop at all.

Well, that's a thing... that was bound to happen sooner or later.

It's always a Kia Optima.

This is the best answer here: use this as an opportunity to refine how these alerts are issued and handled - not just because you don't wake up half a million people in the middle of the night, but because by figuring out how to target the alerts to those devices owned by people in the best position to do something about it, instead of being a nuisance, the alerts are helpful and people don't just go into their settings and turn them all off.

Hot take: Gentrification creates jobs and opportunity. In areas that are gentrifying or redeveloping there are increased opportunities for low and moderate-skill workers in the service industry and trades, and opportunities for entrepreneurship. An increased tax-base means additional municipal employment opportunities. Besides, population pressure isn't the problem in Baltimore - there's plenty of space for everyone who lives here, plus quite a few more. The problem is an opportunity and employment deficit.

There are plenty of white tail deer in the parks and on the edges of the city. They mowed down my hostas months ago.

I don't know why you're being downvoted for that kind of statement.