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It's a transportation hub because of I-70, I-35, and the rail line that follows the highway of the americas. Historically, the Sante Fe, California, and Oregon trails begin in Independence MO. It is a major reason it is so cheap to live here. A ton of poo poo is passing through here anyway so transportation costs are almost nil.
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Logistics is starting to boom hard in the kc area. The bnsf property near Gardner is adding like +500K sqft of warehouse & logistics space a year. To a lessor extent, the hub south of Grandview is adding yearly too. Airport area is also seeing new buildings.
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 03:06 |
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fishmech posted:Which one are you talking about? I've heard that name used for Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix.
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 03:08 |
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The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe rail lines used to be a really big deal. Fun fact, 805 north 5th Street in Atchison KS has swastika's in the tile of the entryway and hidden in the moulding throughout the house. My mom restored it from its stint as a bordello and when we pulled up the red shag carpeting (on everything, including the walls) it was swastika's everywhere. Apparently the property was owned by a Nazi sympathizer at one point. Teenage me got in a lot of trouble for asking why we didn't just destroy them like we were destroying the remnants of the bordello. She did not like that they were there - but they qualified as "history" in a way the mirrored ceiling in one of the bedrooms apparently didn't and thus it was against her moral code to remove them. I can only presume they are still there.
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 04:00 |
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McAlister posted:The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe rail lines used to be a really big deal. I think your mom was actually a Nazi, sorry.
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 15:59 |
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That's a glorious post/username combo.
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 19:14 |
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Gail Wynand posted:Kansas City is a startup hub, says Kansas City booster. There's one of these articles for every random city out there, I saw one about Des Moines recently. Des Moines is legitimately the greatest city in the US.
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pathetic little tramp posted:Des Moines is legitimately the greatest city in the US. Jastiger alt spotted!
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McAlister posted:The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe rail lines used to be a really big deal. Is that supposed to act like some kind of Talisman?
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Yawgmoft posted:Is that supposed to act like some kind of Talisman? Stay safe Nazi Ghost
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 19:38 |
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Welp, missed June's estimates by $34m. Guess we'll just take that all out of KDoT, then?
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 01:52 |
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I was passing through Nebraska and stopped at a folk-art museum, and there were tons of old patchwork quilts from the 1910s-1930s with the swastika or backwards swastika on them; I don't think it was meant to be Nazi sympathy despite the large German population, but it used to be a popular good luck symbol. I once bought a 1920s wooden recurve bow at auction that had a backwards swastika, I believe as an American Indian reference. EDIT: apropos cartoon from when Marine Scout Snipers got called out for appropriating the SS runes for their flag, which had been a thing for at least a decade since I recall Marine wannabe snipers having the ring with that design in 2000: TapTheForwardAssist fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Jul 6, 2016 |
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With quilts, it is pretty much going to come up whenever you are making a bunch of repeating patterns with rectangles. Everyone figures out how to draw Xs on things really cool somehow. The cross and the swastika are fairly universal.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 04:41 |
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In the Corn Palace up in Mitchell, South Dakota, they have a hallway with pictures of all the Corn Palace's designs throughout history (they make a new exterior design for the building each year, I guess, always out of corn and other grain products). One of the ones from the 1910s or 20s or thereabouts had a prominently featured swastika, and that picture had a little plaque explaining that it was before the Nazis and the swastika was some sort of native symbol.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 05:10 |
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They were somewhat popular in the 1920s http://www.yourememberthat.com/media/16915/Clara_Bow_Swastika_Outfit/
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 05:37 |
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Babylon Astronaut posted:With quilts, it is pretty much going to come up whenever you are making a bunch of repeating patterns with rectangles. Everyone figures out how to draw Xs on things really cool somehow. The cross and the swastika are fairly universal. The swastika and the toothbrush mustache are probably lost to us for the rest of time.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 07:15 |
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One of the most cognitively bizarre moments of my life was seeing an actual Nazi Naval flag in person. One of my coworkers circa 2011, was going through his grandfathers old things and came across his war trophies, which contained said flag, and two armbands (one was pristine, the other was stained with something, possibly blood). Just seeing a full-sized Nazi flag in person was extremely fascinating, yet extremely repulsive at the same time.
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Full Battle Rattle posted:The swastika and the toothbrush mustache are probably lost to us for the rest of time. Didn't Michael Jordan have one for a time? I think Robert Mugabe might have as well, although that's hardly someone to emulate. Basically, it might be okay, but only if you're not white.
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Iron Crowned posted:One of the most cognitively bizarre moments of my life was seeing an actual Nazi Naval flag in person. I worked over in the Yale rare book library before moving to Kansas and I once spent 4 months of my life cataloging and archiving books from the Nazi Germany Department of Agriculture. I probably handled over a thousand of those books but looking at non ironic swastikas and other things never stopped feeling fascinating/repulsive to me either. To sound like a new age burnout: they had a strange energy about them.
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PT6A posted:Didn't Michael Jordan have one for a time? So they're like fedoras then
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Babylon Astronaut posted:With quilts, it is pretty much going to come up whenever you are making a bunch of repeating patterns with rectangles. Everyone figures out how to draw Xs on things really cool somehow. The cross and the swastika are fairly universal. I was making square tile mosaics in a video game recently (Stonehearth -- I wanted my castle floor designs to look neat) and after a certain level of complexity is reached it is very difficult to make repeating patterns that don't contain swastikas. They pop out in all sorts of ways and I had to ditch a lot of different designs as a result.
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# ? Jul 7, 2016 18:09 |
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http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article88780642.html There's this trend of state governments passing laws to prevent local governments from being reasonable and actually trying to counteract the dumb poo poo they pass. This isn't even about raising taxes, poo poo like this is specifically designed to force governments to slowly cannibalize themselves and reduce the effectiveness of services, which is then used as justification for further cuts. Laws like this fly under the radar compared to the crazy poo poo but they're far more insidious and have long reaching consequences beyond blatantly unconstitutional stunts.
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 05:24 |
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rscott posted:http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article88780642.html Seeing the Kansas Policy Institute openly lie in that article gets my blood boiling. Seriously there are times when I really wouldn't mind if the communists they claim are really at the end of day taking over did, just so they would be put into a camp and be able to pay for being such worthless creatures.
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 05:38 |
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Crowsbeak posted:Seeing the Kansas Policy Institute openly lie in that article gets my blood boiling. Seriously there are times when I really wouldn't mind if the communists they claim are really at the end of day taking over did, just so they would be put into a camp and be able to pay for being such worthless creatures. You mean in the comments? I don't see any mention of KPI in the article. What is the KPI? Just another "think tank?" Fake edit: yes, that law is pretty shity.
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 15:50 |
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Funny how all these home rule types think it should only apply at state level.
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# ? Jul 12, 2016 17:01 |
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rscott posted:http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article88780642.html For an average rate of inflation of 2%, if the state keeps its inflation calculation artificially low, by 2035 they'll be looking at a $70 million shortfall every year. So much for distributed decision-making! Republicans sure are fans of central planning when it benefits the capital class. The scary thing is that most people who voted on this law probably think it is about fiscal prudence and not destroying government.
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Doctor Butts posted:Funny how all these home rule types think it should only apply at state level. Would you prefer the sov cits , then? I mean you seem to be trying to point out hypocrisy or something I guess but federalism is a pretty basic concept even if you disagree with it.
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rscott posted:http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article88780642.html So there's absolutely no consideration for population growth in that formula? Is it taken as a given that people will start fleeing the state because of it's retrograde policies? Maybe I'm missing something but, if property values start to backslide, is the city going to actually have to cut it's budget?
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radical meme posted:So there's absolutely no consideration for population growth in that formula? Is it taken as a given that people will start fleeing the state because of it's retrograde policies? Maybe I'm missing something but, if property values start to backslide, is the city going to actually have to cut it's budget? Yeah pretty much. The meme is that the government is inherently wasteful and inefficient and any (completely valid) complaints about funding freezes for public schools and reduced budgets for anything that helps a poor person are just greedy government employees trying to waste your tax dollars.
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# ? Jul 13, 2016 01:56 |
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radical meme posted:So there's absolutely no consideration for population growth in that formula? Is it taken as a given that people will start fleeing the state because of it's retrograde policies? Maybe I'm missing something but, if property values start to backslide, is the city going to actually have to cut it's budget? It's pretty much just "starve the beast" bullshit. A cornerstone of Republican philosophy is that bureaucrats will just gobble up every last dime you let them have and waste most of it. They'll spend their entire budgets every year, delving into really stupid, useless crap if they need to, just so they can ask for more next year. While that definitely does happen that isn't the entirety of what the government does and, let's face it, some government services are kind of handy but perpetually under funded. The nastier side of it is that if you cap government spending at a local level then local governments end up having limits to what services they can provide, which can lead to things like private emergency services or for profit schools. As we all know that's a positively wonderful idea.
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rscott posted:http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article88780642.html Jesus Christ I did not know that was a thing that was happening here. Thats insane.
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rscott posted:http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article88780642.html Once again, horseshoe theory.
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# ? Jul 22, 2016 09:24 |
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Primary day in KS today. Hope y'all voted https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/760647577599520768 https://twitter.com/alexis_levinson/status/760624938768224258 There's a decent recap if you click that. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/tim-huelskamp-kansas-primary-226486 More on my soon-to-be former rep's lack of political ability. quote:Huelskamp and the House Freedom Caucus leaned on Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) in early July to publicize a promise they said he made last fall: That he would back reinstalling Huelskamp on the Agriculture Committee next year. Ryan’s office declined to do so.
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 02:34 |
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Kundus posted:Primary day in KS today. Hope y'all voted I did vote, I hope we'll see some positive changes come this November. If not, I'm really scared for the future of Kansas
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 02:52 |
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I voted in Douglas County, pretty straightforward vote for the dem primary Went in unaffiliated, probably should have strategically went Republican to keep the Brownbackers out- when the asked me what party I made the joke, "whichever one's more of a rager" to three unamused septuagenarians before just mumbling "uh, democrat"
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Christmas Present posted:I voted in Douglas County, pretty straightforward vote for the dem primary In JoCo there were literally offices that Dems are running for. I wasn't able to vote on half the ballot.
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 03:03 |
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Seeing the freedom caucus eat each other has been a treat.
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 03:07 |
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SalTheBard posted:In JoCo there were literally offices that Dems are running for. I wasn't able to vote on half the ballot. My first election I wrote-in like half my teachers because the dems weren't running anyone. When I was a little little kid Dennis Moore came to my house. My dad talked for a sec and Moore left. I remember my father saying something like "What shame, wonder how they tricked him into running."
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Huelskamp lost!!!!!!
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