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Caganer: Feb 15, 2018

Endless Mike posted:

https://twitter.com/eron_gj/status/967672260147470336

photoshop in a roller backpack and it could be a video of any high school anime fan darting to their next class

# ? Feb 26, 2018 19:49

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# ? May 25, 2024 06:12

Poniard: Apr 3, 2011

Endless Mike posted:

https://twitter.com/eron_gj/status/967672260147470336

this rules

# ? Feb 26, 2018 19:50

Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

Not a Children posted:

You're supposed to do a walkabout of your car every time you get in

Think about how many people you know who do that

Now think about how many people you know who would scoff in your face if you tried to tell them they should do that

i do it cuz im a dork

i don't do the full "make sure your turn signals work" thing though :ohdear:

# ? Feb 26, 2018 19:51

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

Not a Children posted:

Now think about how many people you know who would scoff in your face if you tried to tell them they should do that

in the police quest games if you didn't do this before getting into your patrolcar one of your wheels would come off and you crashed and died

# ? Feb 26, 2018 19:56

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

flakeloaf posted:

Thank you for playing Police Quest! Don't make this mistake again!

efb

# ? Feb 26, 2018 19:57

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

ate all the Oreos posted:

i do it cuz im a dork

i don't do the full "make sure your turn signals work" thing though

nah that's for when you're stopped behind/in front of a big reflective truck

# ? Feb 26, 2018 19:57

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

in the police quest games if you didn't do this before getting into your patrolcar one of your wheels would come off and you crashed and died

very sierra

# ? Feb 26, 2018 19:57

crabrock: Aug 2, 2002; I

AM

MAGNIFICENT

gonna be embarrassing when the robots kill us and then they run away looking like they're cheering but really it's just how they have to run so they don't fall over

plz somebody photoshop the terminator chasing john conner like the funny runny robot

# ? Feb 26, 2018 20:01

Not a Children: Oct 9, 2012; Don't need a holster if you never stop shooting.

flakeloaf posted:

Thank you for playing Police Quest! Don't make this mistake again!

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

in the police quest games if you didn't do this before getting into your patrolcar one of your wheels would come off and you crashed and died

This owns so hard

# ? Feb 26, 2018 20:03

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

Not a Children posted:

This owns so hard

http://www.linehollis.com/2014/02/08/line-on-sierra-police-quest-i/

wherein an angry man who did not read the manual has difficulty playing a game about a job that is mostly waiting, because he alternates between waiting and not knowing what to do because he did not read the manual

if he tried kings quest (cga) i think his brain would probably explode

hey wait is the reason today's nerds are painfully obtuse because we grew up with the idea that painfully obtuse games (like seriously, why do i still know how to spell "Ifnkovhgroghprm"?) were fun

# ? Feb 26, 2018 20:09

qirex: Feb 15, 2001

flakeloaf posted:

Thank you for playing Police Quest! Don't make this mistake again!

super beaten

# ? Feb 26, 2018 20:24

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

https://twitter.com/ByRosenberg/status/968198217945956352

The report also found many riders aren't using hailed rides to connect to a subway or bus line, but instead as a separate mode of transit, said Alison Felix, one of the report's authors.

"Ride sharing is pulling from and not complementing public transportation," she said.

That's not quite what Uber founder Travis Kalanick suggested in 2015 when he said, "We envision a world where there's no more traffic in Boston in five years."

A study released in December found that large increases in the number of taxis and ride-sharing vehicles are contributing to slow traffic in Manhattan's central business district. It recommended policies to prevent further increases in "the number of vacant vehicles occupied only by drivers waiting for their next trip request."

In San Francisco, a study released in June found that on a typical weekday, ride-hailing drivers make more than 170,000 vehicle trips, about 12 times the number of taxi trips, and that the trips are concentrated in the densest and most congested parts of the city.

And a survey released in October of more than 4,000 adults in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle and Washington, D.C., also concluded that 49 to 61 percent of ride-hailing trips would have not been made at all � or instead by walking, biking or public transit � if the option didn't exist.

hahahaha of course

# ? Feb 26, 2018 20:25

qirex: Feb 15, 2001

bbut self driving cars will solve this problem
*conveniently ignores how people actually travel and pretends that unoccupied robot cars will magically vanish or stack themselves into giant piles between trips*

# ? Feb 26, 2018 20:32

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

instead of during them

# ? Feb 26, 2018 20:33

Arcteryx Anarchist: Sep 15, 2007; Fun Shoe

what do you mean "ride sharing" services are just on-demand mommy chauffeur services for affluent white suburbanites?

# ? Feb 26, 2018 20:39

Arcteryx Anarchist: Sep 15, 2007; Fun Shoe

tbh i have a friend that basically uses them whenever he has a trip that might take him outside of his immediate area because his car is a huge piece of poo poo he's afraid to take on the highway at this point

# ? Feb 26, 2018 20:40

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

uber will completely eliminate traffic in 5 years! *pays sub-minimum wage to generate city-wide gridlock, returns to meditation sesh in lactation room*

# ? Feb 26, 2018 20:41

Arcteryx Anarchist: Sep 15, 2007; Fun Shoe

like the only way that vision could come true is with some type of load-prediction and planning approach that, afaik, has never been attempted by any of these companies

and the trivial solution to which is buses and trains with regular routes

# ? Feb 26, 2018 20:43

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

lancemantis posted:

like the only way that vision could come true is with some type of load-prediction and planning approach that, afaik, has never been attempted by any of these companies

and the trivial solution to which is buses and trains with regular routes

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# ? Feb 26, 2018 20:44

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

no i'm p sure the solution to traffic is "more cars"

# ? Feb 26, 2018 20:44

qirex: Feb 15, 2001

I have no sympathy for young, able-bodied people sitting in traffic because they're too lazy to walk like a mile but some people need to use private vehicle transport and their lives are getting worse

# ? Feb 26, 2018 20:47

Arcteryx Anarchist: Sep 15, 2007; Fun Shoe

the bay area is like a testament to the stupidity of private vehicle transport

the bridges and I580/other grades and passes are the worlds shittiest, most inefficient, slow daily crowd-trains

# ? Feb 26, 2018 20:49

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

i dream for the day we go back to calling them taxis instead of ride sharing

# ? Feb 26, 2018 20:49

qirex: Feb 15, 2001

the base problem is that people travel in waves creating huge peaks in usage compared to "average" and more vehicles will never, ever solve this, right now thanks to tncs a huge flood of cars come into the city for commute times and weekend nights, meaning there's not only more traffic in the city but more traffic going into and out of it around those times

I'd guess the average uber/lyft driver lives at least 25 miles outside of sf

# ? Feb 26, 2018 20:51

Arcteryx Anarchist: Sep 15, 2007; Fun Shoe

I used to ride my bike to work, and its incredibly sustainable to do in a region with basically perfect weather on 90+% of days

but I moved a bit closer to work and anticlimactically can no longer do that because of intersecting commuter infrastructure

# ? Feb 26, 2018 20:51

Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

qirex posted:

I have no sympathy for young, able-bodied people sitting in traffic because they're too lazy to walk like a mile but some people need to use private vehicle transport and their lives are getting worse

"need" because of some medical reason or "need" because infrastructure sucks

# ? Feb 26, 2018 20:58

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

no i'm p sure the solution to traffic is "more cars"

we made a rapid transit line through the downtown core of toronto for about$1.5 mil, cars are forced to turn off every block through the length of the pilot project, street cars have priority. it moves 84k people per day now, up from about 60k ppd.

you should see how goddamned loving salty some of the local business owners are, because the street is no longer choked with cars 18 hours a day. one protest?
https://twitter.com/Misener680NEWS/status/966014168213131264

# ? Feb 26, 2018 20:58

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

lancemantis posted:

I used to ride my bike to work, and its incredibly sustainable to do in a region with basically perfect weather on 90+% of days

but I moved a bit closer to work and anticlimactically can no longer do that because of intersecting commuter infrastructure

people here in toronto do this, in some cases year round, despite it being, well, toronto

# ? Feb 26, 2018 20:59

Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

qirex posted:

the base problem is that people travel in waves creating huge peaks in usage compared to "average" and more vehicles will never, ever solve this, right now thanks to tncs a huge flood of cars come into the city for commute times and weekend nights, meaning there's not only more traffic in the city but more traffic going into and out of it around those times

I'd guess the average uber/lyft driver lives at least 25 miles outside of sf

my solution to solving traffic is to assign every business in the city a pre-defined start and stop shift time so that people get on and off work at random times around the clock instead of all at once. large businesses would get multiple ones so they don't have a disproportional impact

also all stores would be assigned random operating hour blocks so, on average, the store you want to go to is open

there are no problems with my idea please vote me for mayor 2018

# ? Feb 26, 2018 21:00

Arcteryx Anarchist: Sep 15, 2007; Fun Shoe

that dril tweet but for private transport

# ? Feb 26, 2018 21:03

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

no i'm p sure the solution to traffic is "more cars"

raise the speed limits by 30 mph, boom youve just doubled the throughput of your transportation system plus everybody gets to their destination quicker

problem solved

# ? Feb 26, 2018 21:09

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Sagebrush posted:

i don't think i ever suggested that it's bad that spacex is making these rockets

it's just dumb that all these I loving Love Science nerds fall over themselves to fellate Ol' Musky, whose in toto contribution was to spot the company a bunch of money and tell them to build rockets, and don't even know who Tom Mueller (or any other member of the engineering crew) is

Elon �Elon Musk� Musk makes much bigger contributions than that at his companies

sometimes he swoops in and completely changes up the design and makes the engineers implement his insane ideas instead of what they�ve carefully worked out

and then blames the engineers for every failure along the way, while also demanding total dedication to the firm at great personal sacrifice

# ? Feb 26, 2018 21:09

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

https://twitter.com/ByRosenberg/status/968198217945956352

The report also found many riders aren't using hailed rides to connect to a subway or bus line, but instead as a separate mode of transit, said Alison Felix, one of the report's authors.

"Ride sharing is pulling from and not complementing public transportation," she said.

That's not quite what Uber founder Travis Kalanick suggested in 2015 when he said, "We envision a world where there's no more traffic in Boston in five years."

A study released in December found that large increases in the number of taxis and ride-sharing vehicles are contributing to slow traffic in Manhattan's central business district. It recommended policies to prevent further increases in "the number of vacant vehicles occupied only by drivers waiting for their next trip request."

In San Francisco, a study released in June found that on a typical weekday, ride-hailing drivers make more than 170,000 vehicle trips, about 12 times the number of taxi trips, and that the trips are concentrated in the densest and most congested parts of the city.

And a survey released in October of more than 4,000 adults in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle and Washington, D.C., also concluded that 49 to 61 percent of ride-hailing trips would have not been made at all � or instead by walking, biking or public transit � if the option didn't exist.

hahahaha of course

yep. uber et so have noticeably contributed to even worse traffic around and in sf, especially on commute, night, and weekend hours with declining bart ridership for everything but peak commute (which of course is up an insanely

I can look out my window and see at least a third of cars have uber/Lyft stickers

# ? Feb 26, 2018 21:10

fishmech: Jul 16, 2006; by VideoGames; Salad Prong

infernal machines posted:

we made a rapid transit line through the downtown core of toronto for about$1.5 mil, cars are forced to turn off every block through the length of the pilot project, street cars have priority. it moves 84k people per day now, up from about 60k ppd.

that's not a rapid transit line lmao. you know the difference, you have real rapid transit services there.

# ? Feb 26, 2018 21:12

Arcteryx Anarchist: Sep 15, 2007; Fun Shoe

i see a number of uber/lyft stickers on cars parked in my neighborhood at night, and I know these are the "lucky" ones that are probably living with their parents and driving to SF/wherever each day

# ? Feb 26, 2018 21:12

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

fishmech posted:

that's not a rapid transit line lmao. you know the difference, you have real rapid transit services there.

eh, it's more than one of our subway lines carries, dedicated row or no

infernal machines fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Feb 26, 2018

# ? Feb 26, 2018 21:18

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

the point is, we took cars off the road, provably improved transit and increased the carrying capacity of the line, and goddamn, some folks are just mad as hell about it

# ? Feb 26, 2018 21:23

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

Endless Mike posted:

https://twitter.com/eron_gj/status/967672260147470336

lol isn't this the founder of g*mergate

# ? Feb 26, 2018 21:26

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

ah yep there it is
https://twitter.com/eron_gj/status/953907838522482688

# ? Feb 26, 2018 21:29

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# ? May 25, 2024 06:12

fishmech: Jul 16, 2006; by VideoGames; Salad Prong

infernal machines posted:

eh, it's more than one of our subway lines carries

do you mean the one that's just a like 4 station stub off a main one, or the one that is just a few stations connected by a weird airport people mover type vehicles.

infernal machines posted:

the point is, we took cars off the road, provably improved transit and increased the carrying capacity of the line, and goddamn, some folks are just mad as hell about it

put the tracks in the air or under the ground and turn the ground level into a pedestrian mall with the turn lanes on the side, imo.

# ? Feb 26, 2018 21:30

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