May Current Events: Launch my corpse into space with a skateboard or something

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AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

Cugel the Clever posted:

That's certainly fair: a metro area unfortunately can't overhaul its infrastructure overnight, but even the latest construction too often seems to minimally accommodate non-car traffic rather than treat it as an equal.

New York has the right idea. Just start closing off some roads to cars - allow only pedestrians, bikes, public transportation, and emergency vehicles. Ideally this causes more traffic on other roads, which will in turn make more people more likely to choose non-car forms of transportation. Most downtown areas would be way more vibrant if they just banned cars from at least every other street.

# ¿ May 1, 2021 23:14

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 15:27

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

CainFortea posted:

The idea of annoying drivers enough to not drive, is "The free market will regulate itself" but wearing a "i like trains" t-shirt.

If something changed and a car commute that took 20 minutes now took 40, but the bus or a bike still took 30 minutes, you wouldn't reconsider your options?

# ¿ May 2, 2021 00:24

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

CainFortea posted:

Your question is taking quite a lot of liberties with what I actually said.

You're assuming alternatives exist. You're also assuming that if alternatives exist, they are reliable.

I mean, personally in my case it would take 1.5 hours to use any non-car option. And even if you did make my car commute take 2 hours instead of 25 minutes, no I still wouldn't because I actually have to show up on time. And the last time I had to rely on public transport to get to work, I got written up for being late so frequently due to busses leaving early, or the train not going.

But you've entirely missed the point. The point is that going "Hey, lets just make cars take a lot longer, i'm totally sure a reliable and effective public transit system will just magically appear!" is the same thing as people talking about how the free market will fix all the problems.

I don't see what any of this has to do with restricting car traffic in urban cores. These are places with existing reliable public transport options and where distances are small enough to accomodate bicycle commutes. The suggestion (which is being tested by cities with reasonably good results, by the way) wasn't to shut down freeways, but allowing cars on 3rd and 5th streets but keeping them off 4th.

# ¿ May 2, 2021 01:02

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

Meshka posted:

To add to this, most Americans will not give up driving nor should they. I think that the government should provide a financial incentive to produce and help buy electric vehicles and at the same time enact regulations to penalize gas powered vehicle production.

This is exactly the attitude that prevents anything good from getting done. Mass transit and bike/pedestrian traffic are way, way more efficient than any sort of passenger car, including electric cars.

# ¿ May 2, 2021 01:19

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

Godholio posted:

I feel like there's some context that not everyone has seen...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_Ballou#Letter_to_Sarah_Ballou

Yeah, not to backseat moderate but that was a well thought out joke based on current events. Definitely was a shitpost though.

# ¿ May 2, 2021 01:40

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

Acebuckeye13 posted:

The majority of Texans did not vote for the government that's trying to kill them. Of the 29 million people who live in Texas, only 4,656,196 voted for Abbot.

Greg Abbott will easily win re-election in 2022.

# ¿ May 2, 2021 22:50

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

BIG HEADLINE posted:

No one ever went broke being the guy telling Texans they can do anything they drat well want.

That's why Cruz wins - they hate him, but he doesn't do anything to ~restrict their freedumz~ (that they care about), so he's their guy.

Unless you're in Austin, then the state government will go out of their way to overturn local measures.

# ¿ May 2, 2021 23:34

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

None of the helicopter pilots messing with protestors in DC at low altitude seemed to have a problem with ignoring regulations.

# ¿ May 2, 2021 23:55

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

Seems like a different set of regulations.

quote:

The low maneuvers shocked former pilots, human rights groups and military law experts, some of whom also were disturbed that some of the helicopters bore red crosses indicating their primary role as medical transports. Witnesses described the helicopters as making a deafening noise and filling the air with a violent swirl of debris. One Post reporter who observed the maneuvers later recounted pulling shards of glass from her hair.

Four of the five helicopters that flew that night were medical aircraft. It was a violation of Army regulations to use them on nonmedical missions without specific approval, the report found. Brig. Gen. Robert K. Ryan, who oversaw the mission, did not seek approval and did not know of the requirement, the report said.

AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 00:03 on May 3, 2021

# ¿ May 3, 2021 00:01

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

This seemed on topic:
https://twitter.com/MsAudioJB/status/1389234608517046283

# ¿ May 3, 2021 17:27

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

boop the snoot posted:

Remember when we couldn�t have multi page derails about stupid poo poo without the president tweeting the dumbest poo poo you�ve ever heard?

On the other hand, fast food and goons. I regret posting that White Castle story, sorry.

# ¿ May 3, 2021 21:37

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

maffew buildings posted:

Say, what happened to Andrew Cuomo and his litany of sexual harassment/misconduct accusers? Did we have to ignore that because ~~he's a brave DNC hero~~ he's a man in a position of power and we can't lose more of them?

No consequences came of it, which is the more common outcome than the alternative.

# ¿ May 4, 2021 03:18

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

facialimpediment posted:

Donnie Jay promised a brand-new social network to fight the Fake News.

https://twitter.com/cwarzel/status/1389677896206221312

It's a blog with tweety formatting. Geocities-grade.

And it looks like there are buttons to tweet his garbage. Still trying to evade that ban, the loving pettiest president.

# ¿ May 4, 2021 22:35

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

mlmp08 posted:

I don�t disagree. It is a factor. I just don�t think it is the primary reason why median house prices nationwide are jumping so much.

Probably a bigger factor: it�s not just demand for what we typically call a single family home. There were simply less single family homes for sale over the past year. So supply has been low, as opposed to the 2007-8 run-up where prices were rising, and also there was an abundance of supply. So less supply compounded with these millenials being of home buying age and means and becoming the dominant number of home purchasers.

Millenials: finally not killing the housing market! I�m sure we�re still to blame for the rest of the ills.

It also depends on location. Some tourist towns really are getting overrun by people shifting to permanent remote work that no longer need to live in high cost of living cities.

https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2021-04-30/covid-wfh-boosts-palm-springs-lake-tahoe-housing-markets

quote:

The Lake Tahoe property boom is a vivid example of a trend that emerged last spring when white-collar workers got the mandate to start working remotely. Those with the money and newfound freedom to work from anywhere have headed to the mountain, beach and desert wonderlands where they used to only be able to spend their weekends.

Housing markets are hot nationwide, but few areas have seen the surge in home prices and residents as outdoor vacation destinations.
...
It�s not just California. Areas with easy access to the outdoors have seen overwhelming demand � and rising housing costs � over the last year. Median rents in Boise, Idaho, are up 23%, the nation�s highest jump. In Bend, Ore., where locals boast that you can see no fewer than three mountain peaks from town, the average home now lasts on the market for only three days. East Coast destinations such as Cape Cod, Mass. and Palm Beach, Fla., have seen a surge in buyers from Boston and New York City.
...
Truckee�s home-buying spree also has been fueled by historically low mortgage interest rates during the pandemic, which has allowed people to add another home without needing to sell their first. The ability to work from anywhere has blurred the traditional line between main and vacation houses, Simonsen said, with analysts dubbing the trend, �co-primary homes.�
...
Data bear that out. Truckee saw the largest percentage increase in families relocating from San Francisco during the height of the pandemic of anywhere in the country, according to a San Francisco Chronicle analysis of U.S. Postal Service change-of-address data.

And for a laugh:

quote:

Hostility to the influx in residents over the last year has sometimes boiled over. Klovstad said she received multiple emails from constituents demanding the city close the exits to Truckee on I-80 to keep people from being able to access the community.

AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 13:59 on May 5, 2021

# ¿ May 5, 2021 13:56

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

The Navy must have hundreds, if not thousands, of trained nuclear technicians. That would be a great training pipeline for civilian nuclear plants, that's one major hurdle that shouldn't be a big deal for building nuclear plants in the US.

# ¿ May 5, 2021 19:00

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

facialimpediment posted:

Nah, Pharma's pissed.

https://twitter.com/levfacher/status/1390048101084418051?s=19

My personal standpoint is that I don't give a flying gently caress what the pharma companies make... right now. Every dollar and bit of materials shoved to Big Pharma for this initial rampup returns like 10x the money to the economy and saves the gently caress out of lives. But Big Pharma is looking long term, in which they should go gently caress themselves, while hopefully in said long term the generics makers have enough expertise and ingredients to make the mRNA vaccines by then. There are a few vaccines already being made generically, just not the adenovirus/mRNA types.

It's absolutely an empty policy win on the government side though. It's the solution to a problem we'll have in 12 months when it doesn't do much about the material shortages.

Nationalize pharmaceutical companies, problem solved.

# ¿ May 5, 2021 22:24

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

CommieGIR posted:

They are, right now, trying to prove that the ballots were printed in Asia to discredit them. Its laughably bad.

By looking for bamboo fibers in the paper. Really, really laughably bad.

# ¿ May 6, 2021 03:09

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

facialimpediment posted:

Much like the people prominently featured on the site, Liveleak is dead.

https://techstartups.com/2021/05/05/liveleak-shuts-15-years-online/

drat. Does anyone else miss the unfiltered internet of yore?

# ¿ May 6, 2021 04:51

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

Proud Christian Mom posted:

Edit: don't get me wrong, the state absolutely fucks with large cities because they're the Texas GOP Boogeyman but much like other Democrat paradises such as San Fran, this problem was entirely self-inflicted by the city and it's supposedly liberal voters

Don't need a supposedly on there, liberals are always happy to push homeless people under the rug. Ignoring poor people is a core competency of liberals.

# ¿ May 6, 2021 21:25

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

FrozenVent posted:

My favorite is people messaging �Hi.�

Then a minute later �how are you?�

...dude just ask your loving question

This one is easy to deal with, just ignore them until they ask an actual question or lay out what they want.

# ¿ May 8, 2021 00:20

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

Mr. Nice! posted:

In florida, for example, before you can even file a suit because of medical malpractice, you have to retain an expert who is willing to submit a report to the court with the initial complaint that there was medmal.

This means a putative plaintiff (or their lawyer in a contingency situation) must spend $3-5k before they can even start a suit. This has had such a chilling effect that medmal claims are virtually impossible in Florida for anything other than extreme malpractice. This has not at all reduced healthcare costs in Florida.

One of Florida's senators and its ex-governor stole billions from Medicare, and the voters there keep putting him in office. The people in that state just don't care about medical fraud or malpractice.

It sucks, sure, but that's democracy. If the electorate wants to gently caress itself, how do you stop that?

# ¿ May 9, 2021 15:57

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

Stultus Maximus posted:

Which, I assumed so especially given the "we just can't find people with skills/no we aren't investing in training" we got during the Great Recession.

But what is the endgame? Why is this fake "labor shortage" being pushed? Is it just about trying to cut unemployment benefits or is there more?

It's really that simple. They are terrified of raising wages even a little.

https://twitter.com/schwartzbCNBC/status/1390675553552904195

# ¿ May 9, 2021 16:12

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

McNally posted:

https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-news/georgia-courts-its-lawful-to-use-force-to-resist-an-unlawful-arrest/6PH7RJZYIFBUXFCSB255REDRLQ/

The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that it's permissible to use a proportionate amount of force and/or property damage when resisting an unlawful arrest.

Don't worry, Georgia is also working on laws to make protesting illegal whenever the police say it is.

# ¿ May 14, 2021 19:49

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

bulletsponge13 posted:

I'm not surprised. You spend 20 years telling dudes they are above the law, they start to act like they are.
Special Forces had similar problems during Vietnam/Post-VN. They expanded drastically, and unfortunately, that means cultural changes, if not change in quality. The mission set by necessity requires more than a fair measure of clan/tribalism, which creates a circular cycle.
Add to that, the OPTEMPO and Operational History of SMU/SOF forces, the military made the mold for the issue.

Yikes, it's not just telling dudes they are above the law. They are actually keeping them above the law.

quote:

The justification was unconvincing on its face. No screwdriver was found anywhere near Leshikar�s body. The autopsy showed that he had been shot from multiple angles, including from behind. Even if Leshikar had come at him with a screwdriver, �Billy wouldn�t just forget how to disarm somebody,� Nicole says. �He was trained for that.�

The Army officer who did the line-of-duty investigation, a copy of which was first obtained by Jack Murphy of Connecting Vets, noted several discrepancies between the statements Lavigne gave and the evidence collected, including the absence of a screwdriver. �Ultimately,� he concluded in his March 11th, 2019, report, �I determined that [Lavigne] was NOT credible.�

Nevertheless, local officials were satisfied by Lavigne�s claim of self-defense. He was never booked, photographed, or taken before a magistrate for a bond hearing. He didn�t spend a single night in jail.
...
Two months later, someone nearly died of a heroin overdose at Lavigne�s house. The police came and he was arrested in possession of cocaine, a digital scale, a crack pipe, a revolver, a hunting rifle, a snub-nosed pistol, and a pump-action shotgun. The next day, he was indicted on two felony charges: harboring an escapee and maintaining a vehicle or dwelling place to manufacture a controlled substance. No one could tell me who the escapee was, or what they had escaped from, but Cumberland County dropped all charges against Lavigne.
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UPDATE: After this story went to press, a U.S. Army Special Operations Command spokesperson gave this statement to Rolling Stone regarding how the command handled Billy Lavigne�s legal trouble: �Due to his length of service, Master Sgt. Lavigne was entitled to a variety of due process protections. Appropriate adverse action, which was previously initiated in response to substantiated misconduct, was being finalized at the time of Master Sgt. Lavigne�s death.�

# ¿ May 14, 2021 20:27

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

Bored As gently caress posted:

The ways I posted in my post above would do more to reduce violence, including mass shootings, than any gun control law would ever hope to do.

How can you be so sure about this? Has it ever been seriously tried in the US so that you can make this definitive statement? Australia did nothing all that different before and after 1996 other than comprehensive gun control, and saw an immediately significant and sustained decrease in gun deaths as a result. "Gun control doesn't work" is just an American truism that ignores actual comparative data.

AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 22:15 on May 14, 2021

# ¿ May 14, 2021 22:13

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

subterfudge posted:

Spec ops selection is mainly about psychological resilience so I could see childhood trauma helping to prepare for it.

There was an interesting semi related note from the article that kicked off this discussion.

quote:

The colonel used to be involved in selection, he said, and in addition to superlative marksmanship, he would look for introversion and artistic ability in potential recruits. He made it a point to choose guys who played musical instruments or painted. �People not inclined to be team players,� he explained

# ¿ May 15, 2021 15:08

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

Milo and POTUS posted:

What article was that? I thought it'd be the one about ACE scores but that post doesn't have it

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/fort-bragg-murders-1153405/

This doesn't have the thing about ACE scores though, I think that was a poster relating from professional experience.

# ¿ May 15, 2021 19:43

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

facialimpediment posted:

https://twitter.com/JaxAlemany/status/1394238721319477248?s=19

Is it really "selling" weapons when you're giving someone the money to buy the weapons in the first place?

# ¿ May 17, 2021 16:44

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

pantslesswithwolves posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/BrentScher/status/1395119265095852035

Naturally Chud Twitter is aflame with this because being a socialist means no nice things ever and you can only wear dresses made of cast off burlap and the one pair of wooden clogs you�re allowed to own.

If this is true I�d rather make fun of her for giving money to Elon Musk. That�s the only counterrevolutionary crime that�s been committed here.

https://twitter.com/BrentScher/status/1395135212166713347

# ¿ May 19, 2021 23:31

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

In good news, you can now possess up to 2 ounces of recreational weed in Colorado.

https://www.kktv.com/2021/05/20/governor-polis-signs-bill-to-increase-marijuana-possession-limit-for-adults-in-colorado/

I mean, not that it really matters, and anyone growing their recreational plant limit is clearing a lot more than an ounce every harvest anyhow, which makes it a big gray area. But hey, looser weed laws are a nice thing and I appreciate the progress of turning electric lettuce into a commodity.

Why would there be any possession limits around a legal substance in the first place? Colorado has full commercial legalization I thought.

# ¿ May 22, 2021 04:07

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

Duzzy Funlop posted:

Can you give those of us that know neither of these people or the incident in question some context on this?

The guy trying to primary Liz Cheney raped a 14 year old who killed herself a few years later, he's trying to spin it as a "Romeo and Juliet story".

# ¿ May 22, 2021 15:19

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

The East Potomac Golf Course is probably the least offensive of golf courses (public, on land that couldn't really be residential for a number of reasons, public transport accessible), but it would still be way better off as just woods or something.

# ¿ May 24, 2021 17:09

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 15:27

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

Best Friends posted:

https://twitter.com/jstein_wapo/status/1397256316574445574?s=21

This may be shocking to some here, but it's looking like Biden won't actually be FDR 2.0

Republicans do the stuff they believe in, they overreach, dems undo maybe 10% of that when they get power, repeat repeat

Always good to have a reminder of who their constituents really are.

# ¿ May 26, 2021 18:23

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