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Cygni posted:fuckin lol this is the future its here we made it
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can't beleive the idiot bus got made
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Aug 3, 2016 08:58
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my stepdads beer posted:can't beleive the idiot bus got made I doubt the engineers working on it can either
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Lutha Mahtin posted:i heard u like ground clearance dawg
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its probably super fun to be a well connected engineer or architect in china right now. you can make all kinds of crazy poo poo and it doesn't need to be very safe, just play the game right and you can stack mad yuans too
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pointsofdata posted:I doubt the engineers working on it can either
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Lutha Mahtin posted:its probably super fun to be a well connected engineer or architect in china right now. you can make all kinds of crazy poo poo and it doesn't need to be very safe, just play the game right and you can stack mad yuans too lol if you think there are an abundance of chinese architects practicing their art maybe a few in taiwan or hk
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you don't have to be inside the country or an actual ethnic han to be "a <profession> in china". if you're just  about the semantics of my last post, what i meant was someone doing work there or designing stuff for there. and really, even my bit about lower design standards isn't a necessary component of the equation (though it often is  )
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yea my joke was that nothing is planned out beyond the basic barebones of structures in mainland china
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Cygni posted:fuckin lol get in
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so this thing is a moving 11foot8 I guess?
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Cygni posted:fuckin lol oh my god they did it
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All aboard the dock crane
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 the scale makes it so much worse
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lol
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gonna take the tippytoe bus to the hyperloop that shoots me right into the s un
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i'm the pedestrian-level boxfan
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i'm the pedestrian-level boxfan it gets warm in china
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ps: the "bus" visibly runs on rails
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Aug 5, 2016 05:39
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im the 8 foot clearance
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infernal machines posted:ps: the "bus" visibly runs on rails the rails are only to keep it from sideswiping traffic. drive and the weight of the thing is supported with those big tires
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Aug 5, 2016 15:44
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is it even 8' clearance? it looks like that guy would be almost brushing his head against the underside if he walked under it
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also they are chinese height
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Aug 5, 2016 15:48
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I was being generous
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Bloody posted:im the 8 foot clearance  6.88976 ft of sweet sweet clearance
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1488 posted:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op8XU7hRqnQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j66HgmZYHTs 1488 fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Aug 5, 2016 |
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Aug 5, 2016 22:50
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should be interesting the first time it meets one of these
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I was wondering that but they can simply put in a bridge before each entrance that will ensure a crash occurs before meeting the frog bus.
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toronto_transit.txt first term fuckwad somehow lands on the TTC board, in the face of further budget cuts from the city suggests that maybe the problem with the transit agency with the highest farebox recovery ratio in north america is that the monthly passes are losing money http://torontoist.com/2016/08/councillor-john-campbell-thinks-the-city-should-get-rid-of-metropass-discounts/ hilarity ensues https://twitter.com/GraphicMatt/status/761645299467100162 https://twitter.com/GraphicMatt/status/761646493354778624
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how do loving morons lacking even basic familiarity with the operations of the TTC end up on the board? as a sop to the suburban shitlords that basically run the city, because they're a slightly larger voting block than the councillors in the city core
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im glad that i only have to deal with the oblivious nimbyism* of the bay area, rather than the apparent active hostility you have there * disregarding marin county's obvious problems w/ race
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fun urban infrastructure fact, the former boroughs of etobicoke, north york, and scarborough consistently suffer the highest rates of underground infrastructure failure (e.g. water mains). why? could it be something to do with the fact that they deferred necessary maintenance constantly in order to keep costs, and property taxes low for the decades they were their own municipalities? no, of course not, it's the fault of tax and spend downtown elitists, retroactively hogging all the infrastructure development for themselves.
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Aug 6, 2016 01:11
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maybe your property taxes should be at the province level and then the province distributes the money (to its favorites)
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the whole reason we were forced to amalgamate into the "mega city" in the first place was because the province wanted to download funding for a large number of services to the municipalities. guess who couldn't afford to pay their own way with the tax base they had.
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Aug 6, 2016 01:27
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recently the province has given the city of toronto the ability to levy their own fees and certain types of taxes, but guess what block of councillors keeps voting them down
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Progressive JPEG posted:maybe your property taxes should be at the province level and then the province distributes the money (to its favorites) this is actually how it was done in minnesota for 30 years and it worked pretty well. from like 1971 to 2002, local government revenue came mostly from the state, instead of like, a town having to jack property taxes way up because of a sudden shortfall. it was the biggest help to rural areas and urban core areas (white flight era), and was prob the reason my high school in a town of 1000 people had a full complement of enrichment courses (art, home ec, agriculture, it/programming, building/machine trades, foreign languages, AP psych and biology, college English classes). then we elected a wannabe-reagan to governor for 8 years and he said  . so now we're back to local governments shuttering basic services and property tax rates that yo-yo up and down just to keep the lights on at the elementary schoole: also we have a faction of state republicans who just HATE the idea of building passenger trains of any sort, and my guess to why is that they know white people will ride a train, and they can't stand the idea of losing a key dog-whistle talking point
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the latest in a long tradition of pocketbook populists with a history of running their ridings into the ground have formed a voltron of idiocy to do the same to the city at large
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infernal machines posted:voltron of idiocy mods
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turdbus no  http://www.citylab.com/tech/2016/08/chinas-straddling-bus-derails-into-controversy/495188/
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