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Oct 14, 2021 19:34
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Oct 14, 2021 19:42
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heres a delightful story from where i live: https://abc13.com/6-year-old-hit-and-killed-after-getting-off-school-bus-in-nw-houston/11125591/quote:A Houston family is mourning the loss of their little girl after she was struck and killed shortly after getting off a school bus in northwest Houston. it's good that the police are thinking of the real victim here, the driver. anyway let's look on google maps and see what what the street looks like  awesome, looks super safe! another triumph for urban planning in houston.
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Oct 14, 2021 20:12
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lobster shirt posted:heres a delightful story from where i live: https://abc13.com/6-year-old-hit-and-killed-after-getting-off-school-bus-in-nw-houston/11125591/ looking at it on google street view is even worse:   where the gently caress is the crosswalk??????
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Oct 14, 2021 20:41
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My previous boss, who was a nephrologist, moved to a position within that giant Texas Medical Center complex just SW of downtown Houston, and asked if I wanted to move down there to work for him again lol right
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quote:According to police, the child was crossing the street, not in a crosswalk, when a black Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck hit her. according to pigs who were not present, the child was no angel for she was ILLEGALLY crossing the six lanes of traffic while oUTSIDE the magic painted lines, when an innocent, god-fearing Black Prism™ Chevrolet™ Silverado™ occupied the same space of her criminal body. the driver, who just murdered a child, may have also felt grief, as one does. anyway  gently caress cars
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Oct 14, 2021 21:05
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lol this thread has gone ulock bellingcat
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Oct 14, 2021 21:06
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Radirot posted:looking at it on google street view is even worse: if they put in crosswalks, then drivers would feel pressure to drive more carefully, which means slowing down, which is annoying. Better for people to die once in a while
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Oct 14, 2021 21:33
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Polo-Rican posted:watching this again, it kinda sucks because he doesn't mention cars at all. he just angrily shits on modern buildings and modern civic spaces and demands that we build better ones without once mentioning the root cause: they're bad because they prioritize convenience for drivers (lots of parking, wide roads) he goes more into cars in his book. https://docdro.id/GdrnQh5
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Oct 14, 2021 21:36
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crosswalks without stop lights/signs shouldnt exist especially on multi lane roads
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they say the hardest part about being a tesla owner is having to explain to your parents what bitcoin is
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Dolphin posted:they say the hardest part about being a tesla owner is having to explain to your parents what bitcoin is
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actionjackson posted:how do you even move there if you are in the US, do you need to have some special skill where an employer would hire you over someone German? Anywhere from very hard, to actually pretty easy, depending on your skills and education. If you have a four year degree or higher, and your field pays decently, a blue card is straightforward for Germany and some other EU countries. If you speak a bit of German it can get you to permanent residency inside of two years there. i say swears online posted:lots of modern pedestrian bridges are over engineered and like eight times the size they should be, I don't get it In Portland they've been doing this because all of the existing bridges are going to get annihilated in a big earthquake of the sort the west coast is overdue for, so any new crossings get built up to such a standard that they can be backup options for emergency vehicles when all of the older road bridges disintegrate. Anyway, I hate cars and we should at minimum ban them from every city center.
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paul_soccer12 posted:lol this thread has gone ulock bellingcat lol i can drive over there and take pictures if that would make you feel better, the block of the street and name of the apartment complex are in the article. its not like we're looking up military equipment on wikipedia. actionjackson posted:My previous boss, who was a nephrologist, moved to a position within that giant Texas Medical Center complex just SW of downtown Houston, and asked if I wanted to move down there to work for him again honestly the TMC is one of the best served places by public transport in the city (lol) and the sidewalks are very wide and nice. if you get a place to live near the light rail you definitely won't ever need to drive to work. which is good because parking in the TMC is insanely expensive and most employers don't cover it i hear.
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mastershakeman posted:crosswalks without stop lights/signs shouldnt exist especially on multi lane roads So paint can't protect people but a red lightbulb can??
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super nailgun posted:Anywhere from very hard, to actually pretty easy, depending on your skills and education. If you have a four year degree or higher, and your field pays decently, a blue card is straightforward for Germany and some other EU countries. If you speak a bit of German it can get you to permanent residency inside of two years there thanks, that's good to know - my field is actually on the job list (statistician), and I have a masters degree, and the other requirements would be no problem, except I don't know any German. Where would I even look for jobs in this field, specifically in Germany? I use indeed here in the US. I would also think that employers would figure I can just do the job remotely (which I can) lobster shirt posted:
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Oct 14, 2021 22:11
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well you'd need a car to get anywhere else but if you're close to the light rail and working in the TMC you won't need to drive to work. houston sucks though i wish to leave lol
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Oct 14, 2021 22:38
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actionjackson posted:I posted this earlier in the thread originally and people said this idea was insane lol i do think that if reducing car dependence is important to you then moving to houston is probably a bad idea
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yeah there are reasons not to move to Houston which aren’t just lack of access to a walkable life not going to judge anyone who decides to (or has to), regardless of whether they can do this TMC life thing or not, but when I was a kid the most notable indicator that we were approaching Houston on the highway (we drove through to visit family in Galveston) was the taste of the refineries on the air e: also would have been p. nice to do those 10hr car trips in 5-6 on a train
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Phoenix is basically a giant suburb that stretches for miles and miles. Population of Philadelphia in a city the size of loving Los Angeles lmfao
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Dolphin posted:Phoenix is basically a giant suburb that stretches for miles and miles. Population of Philadelphia in a city the size of loving Los Angeles lmfao my mom lives on the periphery, i feel so bad for her having to drive literally everywhere. easy access to tucson i guess
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actionjackson posted:thanks, that's good to know - my field is actually on the job list (statistician), and I have a masters degree, and the other requirements would be no problem, except I don't know any German. Where would I even look for jobs in this field, specifically in Germany? I use indeed here in the US. I would also think that employers would figure I can just do the job remotely (which I can) If you're serious, it's not going to be easy. I managed to get absurdly lucky and get a job in the EU. I worked as a consultant and met maybe about 2000 other engineers in my industry across Europe and not a single one was American. The non-Europeans I did meet had usually obtained graduate degrees in the EU. This is hugely helpful because you can make connections while studying, and getting a job is so much easier if you know the right people, plus a lot of countries make it very easy to get a work permit if you graduate from one of their universities. Maybe you should consider getting a second masters or a PhD in the country you want to live in, that's what I was going to do before I got lucky. Double down and convince a local to marry you while you're studying and you'll be set. I don't know how in demand your skill set is so maybe it will be easier for you but I honestly doubt it. Its worth it though and not impossible. But have you actually been to Germany? Why are you fixed on Germany specifically? PS: I've hired someone on the Blue Card program before and I had to prove to the local authorities that i couldn't find a local candidate with the same skillset, which required running a job advert for the position for 30 days and proving none of the applicants were qualified. It was easy for me because I really wanted the guy i was hiring and wrote the job description tailored to his resume but again, that's not an everyday hiring.
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Your city has decided to build a brand new rapid transit system. it will be fast, efficient, and get you to almost any destination. however, instead of taxes, it is paid in human sacrifice. you have a 1% chance that every time you board one of the trolleys, it will be the Incin-o-Trrolley, which immediately incinerates all occupants once the doors close there is no way to determine which trolley is the Incin-O-Trolley when a trolley arrives at a station as a bonus, each trolley randomly spews white hot flames out the sides, occasionally incinerating people who are walking close to it you cannot access food, housing or employment without taking or going near this system do you ride the trolleys incidentally the system was made by Tesla
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IAMKOREA posted:If you're serious, it's not going to be easy. I managed to get absurdly lucky and get a job in the EU. I worked as a consultant and met maybe about 2000 other engineers in my industry across Europe and not a single one was American. The non-Europeans I did meet had usually obtained graduate degrees in the EU. This is hugely helpful because you can make connections while studying, and getting a job is so much easier if you know the right people, plus a lot of countries make it very easy to get a work permit if you graduate from one of their universities. Maybe you should consider getting a second masters or a PhD in the country you want to live in, that's what I was going to do before I got lucky. Double down and convince a local to marry you while you're studying and you'll be set. I'm not that serious right now, just curious
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actionjackson posted:thanks, that's good to know - my field is actually on the job list (statistician), and I have a masters degree, and the other requirements would be no problem, except I don't know any German. Where would I even look for jobs in this field, specifically in Germany? I use indeed here in the US. I would also think that employers would figure I can just do the job remotely (which I can) I've just been looking on LinkedIn and there's plenty of worthwhile listings but I'm sure there are better places. I know it's different in other industries but at least for computer touching jobs there are a decent number of places whose working language is English too. Not hunting super hard yet though since we need to see where my partner's shop comes in on timing of their transfer. IAMKOREA posted:If you're serious, it's not going to be easy. I managed to get absurdly lucky and get a job in the EU. I worked as a consultant and met maybe about 2000 other engineers in my industry across Europe and not a single one was American. The non-Europeans I did meet had usually obtained graduate degrees in the EU. This is hugely helpful because you can make connections while studying, and getting a job is so much easier if you know the right people, plus a lot of countries make it very easy to get a work permit if you graduate from one of their universities. Maybe you should consider getting a second masters or a PhD in the country you want to live in, that's what I was going to do before I got lucky. Double down and convince a local to marry you while you're studying and you'll be set. When was that/what did the process look like out of curiosity? I know it was historically required to do the local market test but the impression I got from reading about this was that currently if the job met the salary threshold there wasn't a need to do that.
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lobster shirt posted:well you'd need a car to get anywhere else but if you're close to the light rail and working in the TMC you won't need to drive to work. every city in America is some degree of terrible, mostly because of cars, but not completely
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kronix posted:Uh my parents live 400km away, taking the train requires 2 transfers and like 10 hours if you don’t time it right. I can drive it in 3 hours. im sorry you and your parents need to be separated, just as i am sorry those large dogs need to be put down, once we ban cars. some sacrifices do need to be made.
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I mean if you want the pie in the sky take, the US could: 1. Treat public transportation as a public service and forget about farebox returns. From an economic perspective, efficiency of moving workers is far more important that having to chip in a subsidy. 2. Rebuild its existing legacy systems in the West and the East coast and this time actually investment in them 3. Stop building only light rail, especially at grade or awkward locations, and devote the building to building core heavy rail lines with light rail/BRT acting as feeder lines 4. Nationalize and electrify any freight lines near urban centers, turn them into rapid S-bahns (a lot of agencies actually own their own lines but don't have the funding to do much with them, run the freight at night). 5. Eventually ban cars in CBDs and gradually expand outwards 6. Get rid of "beg boxes" and build non-gutter bike lanes etc It is never ever going to happen though. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 15:36 on Oct 15, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/ftgreenecyclist/status/1449001641290645510?s=21 Incredible transportation mode, we absolutely must continue to subsidize this.
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sat on my keys! posted:https://twitter.com/ftgreenecyclist/status/1449001641290645510?s=21 gently caress that person who parked in the bike lane
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ArmZ posted:gently caress that person who parked in the bike lane I’d be more concerned about the bus driving in the bike lane but the bicyclist’s brain is confounding
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Look at how flat and level that street is though. There is nowhere like that on my commute. It's beautiful.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Look at how flat and level that street is though. There is nowhere like that on my commute. It's beautiful. nyc is simultaneously the best place to bike (lots of bike lanes, mostly flat, bike lanes on most major bridges, enormously useful for reaching places that would be hard to get to otherwise, etc) and the worst (too many car)
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Look at how flat and level that street is though. There is nowhere like that on my commute. It's beautiful. hills, much like trains, are good
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Riding on flat ground is pleasant and relaxing. Riding on constant hills is like screaming and fighting the entire way.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Riding on flat ground is pleasant and relaxing. Riding on constant hills is like screaming and fighting the entire way. one must imagine the cyclist happy
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sat on my keys! posted:https://twitter.com/ftgreenecyclist/status/1449001641290645510?s=21 Lol that's my old neighborhood Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. For some reason that street, Smith St, became the major artery to get to the BQE. There is 2 subway lines literally 20 feet below street level (the F and G) but I guess driving is a good option too? idk. I never did it in the 10years I lived there.
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