Probably entirely to do with insurance. They can't dictate to you what level of insurance to purchase for your private vehicle, but they can for a rental.
Why it matters for the party vs a routine work trip...
If they are providing alcohol, they automatically are assuming some degree of liability for your actions when you leave the party.
What if you have an accident and total your personal vehicle? You could ostensibly sue them.
What if you have an accident and god forbid kill or injure another? They or their family could sue your employer (as well as you ofc).
A rental and associated insurance coverage will provide them with a knowable degree of financial buffer before they would have to pay damages out of pocket. If you drove your personal vehicle, they have an unknown and maybe nonexistent amount of insurance coverage to help with legal fees and damages in the event of something terrible happening. All because they provided you alcohol.
This is probably about risk tolerance and not about pinching pennies.
liberals will never view cops as human enough to have mental health issues
Where is this coming from? Do you make that assumption about liberals and military? Because (while not perfect, and continually improving) mental health care for military has made huge advances in understanding and public acceptance in the last 2 decades.
I would like to see the same shift happen for police.
I would like for police leadership to truly normalize mental healthcare, and not just give it lip service.
I would also like for police as a whole to maybe adopt similar rigorous criteria for new career candidates, much like lawyers, CPAs, and other professional licenses. I'm held to a high standard of conduct and criminal liability because I have the technical knowledge to really destructively ruin peoples' lives. And the most dangerous tool of my trade is merely a calculator.
I saw this way back when it was first released, and boy has it stuck with me. That said, my memories of it might have gotten fuzzy in the last, what, 42 years (😳)
A biologist goes to the tundra to investigate why caribou are dying. Wolves have been floated as the culprits. He is very isolated. Life happens. I don't remember it as a generally upbeat movie, but it was a good, well-made movie that made me think quite a lot.
a dark sci-fi adventure show about the crew of a cargo ship that crash land on an alien planet with no hope of being rescued
The crew are scattered across a hostile planet, so it does deal with isolation. And I think "melancholy" is a pretty good description for how it made me feel. Plus, it's visually gorgeous and bizarre.
I'm a basic diet cokehead. But I tried a Stoney Tangawizi on holiday once and was instantly in love. I find it very frustrating that with the sheer variety of ethnic shops around the DC region*, I couldn't find it locally!
Oh I'm expecting coffee will be offered inside. However, coffee and me don't get along. Even I would think no coffee is cruel to a bunch of people corralled in a room together. I do love tea, but the caffeine content will not resolve a headache if it starts.
So for example, if I wanted to minimize stopping, I would pack a wrap type sandwich for easy hand holding. I use a tall coffee travel mug in a cupholder to hold trail mix for extra snacking. And I might pre "crack" some lids on some bottles then tighten them back down, so they're easier to open one handed. If you like cans, then you have a leg up already.
My most frequent solo trip is 500 miles to my old hometown. I usually make 1 stop midway to fill up the tank (even though I can get 400+ miles out of 1 tank), hit the restroom, stretch, maybe walk around a retail store just for fun, then back at it until home. But without a way to keep cold drinks, I would be stopping probably every 100 miles, lol.
It could fit in the passenger side footwell of my SUV, but I kept it in the way back because I'd rather have my sweetie riding up front, and I also have an extra 12V outlet back there.
They do come in different sizes. Some have wheels. Mine is 18L and about 15 pounds, so wheels not necessary. Its about a mid to large size cooler shape. Not one of the ones you'd take deep sea fishing, but maybe a small tailgate. Think side handles cooler, not one where the single bar handle locks the lid in place.
I do not recommend rooting around in it while driving, though if I put it in my pickup on a solo road trip, I probably would put it on the front passenger seat, where if I were stopped at a red light, I could quickly grab another drink.
If you want me to PM you the link to mine, I'm happy to do so.
It's a random pasta shape & a powdered sauce (usually containing former cheese) in a box so it's shelf stable. You brown and crumble minced beef that you buy separately, then add water, milk, and Hambuger Helper box contents to make a one-skillet easy meal.
I wasn't allowed this stuff at home as a kid (but Kraft mac&cheese/ Kraft dinner was ok, go figure). So naturally I lived on this stuff in college. Many years later, I got nostalgic and made a box. Yeah, my palate has moved on thankfully.
Agreed! Sous vide has turned me into a steak snob! I'm looking at $50-$60 steakhouse steaks to get close to how mine come out. And my circulator is just a cheapo $25 Aldi model. Still going strong even after 12 years.
I finally let myself buy a 12v fridge thing for the car, and it has pretty much paid for itself on the first road trip. I wish I had done this sooner. We packed lunches vs drive thru. And it kept my road sodas sooo perfectly cold, I had no temptation to stop and get icy fountain drinks. I went for a model that I can set the temp even down to negative digits Fahrenheit, hoping that it will perform better in the summer compared to earlier units that are basically electric coolers (no temp control, basically they can only cool things 20° from ambient temp). And it's inaugural road test was daytime temps in 70s and 80s with no issues getting to 35° in the fridge.
You need a red bulb for your photography darkroom. And black & white developing is (a little) more forgiving of (a little) outside light leaking in than color developing.
Why kitty, they bring more boxes for thine amusement.