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Takin the one hundred one south this weekend
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i do not bother remembering which highway is which. when are you all referring to them by name?
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Dec 16, 2021 20:52
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A good tweet about LAPD https://twitter.com/Loganchance/status/1471283566956847106?s=20
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Dec 16, 2021 21:07
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Centrist Committee posted:Takin the one hundred one south this weekend You can even call it "ten-one" to be really pedantic about highway numbering rules!
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Dec 16, 2021 21:10
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LionArcher posted:A good tweet about LAPD https://twitter.com/Loganchance/status/1471284591386189827?t=rEi7H_zNsF5Wd01bSOBs7g&s=19 acab
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Dec 16, 2021 21:25
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There's always more and it's always worse.
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Dec 16, 2021 21:57
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Rainbow Knight posted:https://twitter.com/Loganchance/status/1471284591386189827?t=rEi7H_zNsF5Wd01bSOBs7g&s=19 of course the police state is in the pocket of big taco bell, why wouldn't it be?
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Dec 17, 2021 03:32
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hmm, that could really give them a big edge in the franchise wars
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Dec 17, 2021 04:06
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This tweet was labeled a potential danger https://twitter.com/dril/status/1468501535076151299?s=20
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Dec 17, 2021 04:13
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Can mods change the forums quote header text to be “this post was labeled as a potential danger”.
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Dec 17, 2021 04:46
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withak posted:Can mods change the forums quote header text to be “this post was labeled as a potential danger”. More appropriate for C-SPAM, really.
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Dec 17, 2021 06:03
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Los Angeles Potential Danger
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Dec 17, 2021 06:42
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First graffiti I ever saw was on an LA overpass. "Daryl Gates is a fascist pig"
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Dec 17, 2021 07:52
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LA driving chat: I once told my husband to take the 405 north to the 101 south. His response: "madness" I love to challenge Google Maps, it often tells me to do some terrible, terrible routes and I see if my own way around beats their time. I usually save myself 5 minutes at least, especially when I see a dozen other cars ahead of me head down the tiny residential streets Google is routing us through. I wonder if there's a way to petition Google to remove their neighborhood as suggested cut-through streets.
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Dec 17, 2021 09:13
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Google is absolutely obsessed with directing you to cross nonstop divided-lane traffic from a residential street stop sign or take a left turn from such.
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Dec 17, 2021 09:22
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:of course the police state is in the pocket of big taco bell, why wouldn't it be? i hink you'll find that the algorithm determining statements purporting that taco bell is not real mexican a "potential danger" suggests quite the opposite withak posted:Can mods change the forums quote header text to be “this post was labeled as a potential danger”. MODS
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Dec 17, 2021 11:48
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I was under the impression Google’s algorithm is deliberately ‘spreading traffic out’, directing users to use different routes so that not everyone is routed to the same place at the same time.
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Dec 17, 2021 12:24
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droll posted:I was under the impression Google’s algorithm is deliberately ‘spreading traffic out’, directing users to use different routes so that not everyone is routed to the same place at the same time. The dozens of cars waiting to cross an unprotected intersection along Vermont to avoid traffic on the 101 show otherwise. Unless there are a dozen cars at every unprotected intersection in the area.
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Dec 17, 2021 18:31
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Google Maps ruined my drives from San Luis Obispo to Santa Barbara because it turned San Marcos Pass (CA-154) from a road only the locals ever used to an unending mess of drivers on long drives suddenly having to wake up and negotiate a mountain road to save (checks Google Maps) one minute. And nobody these days knows what engine-braking is 
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Dec 17, 2021 18:50
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CPColin posted:Google Maps ruined my drives from San Luis Obispo to Santa Barbara because it turned San Marcos Pass (CA-154) from a road only the locals ever used to an unending mess of drivers on long drives suddenly having to wake up and negotiate a mountain road to save (checks Google Maps) one minute. Of course not, they all have Priuses with regenerative braking.
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Dec 17, 2021 19:29
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droll posted:I was under the impression Google’s algorithm is deliberately ‘spreading traffic out’, directing users to use different routes so that not everyone is routed to the same place at the same time. There’s no algorithmic solution to the fundamental mistake that is cars
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Dec 17, 2021 19:51
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Why yes I'll turn left across like 6 lanes of traffic on Olympic at 5pm on a Friday without a stop sign or light
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Dec 17, 2021 19:57
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BRING BACK THOMAS GUIDES
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Dec 17, 2021 20:05
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Rainbow Knight posted:BRING Good news https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-12-07/thomas-guide-los-angeles-orange-county-new-2022
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Dec 17, 2021 20:19
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Rainbow Knight posted:BRING Up until a few years ago, when we finally traded in his car, my husband had Thomas Guides in his trunk "just in case". They were so old, I don't think they had the 105 freeway on them. I wish we had saved them. EDIT: Maybe it was the 15 freeway extension in SD it didn't have. Some big important freeway we drove on regularly was not in the book. VorpalBunny fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Dec 17, 2021 |
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Dec 17, 2021 21:06
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droll posted:I was under the impression Google’s algorithm is deliberately ‘spreading traffic out’, directing users to use different routes so that not everyone is routed to the same place at the same time. nah, it absolutely tries to cram 100 cars into the same 'shortcut'. I see this all the time during Apple Hill season when brain geniuses try to side-step the traffic buildup at the lights on 50 in Placerville. The city is in a narrow, steep ravine so the highway is the only road going that direction, there's nothing parallel besides Main Street which has a million stop signs and a lot of foot traffic. But you'll see a lot of people get off, try to get around, and end up cramming into main street or one of the side streets and just get stuck for even longer trying to merge back onto the freeway lol.
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Dec 17, 2021 23:43
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yeah it's literally just minute to minute what route is 1 minute faster but doesn't matter becauseCentrist Committee posted:There’s no algorithmic solution to the fundamental mistake that is cars
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Dec 18, 2021 01:38
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droll posted:I was under the impression Google’s algorithm is deliberately ‘spreading traffic out’, directing users to use different routes so that not everyone is routed to the same place at the same time. Nah, the algorithm first tries to prioritize main arterial freeways and roads unless the user actively tells the Waze/Google Maps/etc to avoid freeways. Once traffic backs up to a certain point on the freeway, it tries to "route around" by directing people to take smaller side streets instead, however the issue is that a) those side streets are not set up to handle the sudden influx of traffic and b) almost always the "route around" isn't very long because side streets cannot get a person to their ultimate destination, so they just get back on the freeway a bit further ahead and cause even more congestion via weaving due to the high number of mergers. So traffic actually ends up compounded by the algorithm trying to be clever and in the process tears up a ton of side roads. This is also why there's no solution for traffic that just involves adding more lanes even if you made like a 30 lane highway that induced demand could never fill up on it's own. Eventually the vehicles on the high capacity freeway system have to exit onto low capacity surface streets, and backup at offramps from a reduction in possible throughput causes backups on the freeway. Or to put it more simply: Centrist Committee posted:There’s no algorithmic solution to the fundamental mistake that is cars
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Dec 18, 2021 01:45
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I thought I’d read an article recently about it being a new thing but I must have been mistaken and imagined it.
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Dec 18, 2021 04:48
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another fun thing is when a side street is backed up from traffic like that and you just need to turn across it and it takes 30 minutes because absolutely nobody will let you go or leave the intersection unblocked
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Dec 18, 2021 06:01
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Well, saying the 880 is grammatically correct, so of course the Bay area gets it right.
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Dec 18, 2021 06:15
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"you take the 69 freeway" gets shortened to "you take the 69" "you take freeway 69" gets shortened to "you take 69" it all makes sense, unlike the enemies of big taco bell
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Dec 18, 2021 07:33
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Rah! posted:"you take the 69 freeway" gets shortened to "you take the 69" del taco 4 lyfe
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Dec 20, 2021 05:04
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FCKGW posted:del taco 4 lyfe jack in the box bought out del taco
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Dec 20, 2021 07:32
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Speaking of Waze, Baxter Street in Los Angeles is notoriously steep and especially dangerous in rain. But there was no way to get Waze to stop recommending it, so the city changed the dangerous part to be only one-way. It's really fixed things. https://www.theeastsiderla.com/arch...e31efaef89.html Basically the solution is to destroy waze, then ban personal transportation, in that order.
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Dec 20, 2021 07:44
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no. I want waze to tell me to get on a bus before it dies of shame
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Dec 20, 2021 17:30
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sb hermit posted:Speaking of Waze, Baxter Street in Los Angeles is notoriously steep and especially dangerous in rain. But there was no way to get Waze to stop recommending it, so the city changed the dangerous part to be only one-way. It's really fixed things. the only solution is to destroy cars. as a transitionary period, everyone can drive vespas and motorcycles until the california department of transportation train pulls up
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Dec 20, 2021 19:29
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lets just torch all of the offices. we don't produce anything in this state besides financial products and disguised financial products anyway. they can do their spreadsheet bullshit and make work to pretend there's a company worth investing in over zoom. that would solve a lot of it right there.
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Dec 20, 2021 19:34
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Larry Parrish posted:lets just torch all of the offices. we don't produce anything in this state besides financial products and disguised financial products anyway. they can do their spreadsheet bullshit and make work to pretend there's a company worth investing in over zoom. that would solve a lot of it right there. Half of Milpitas is just empty office blocks that will never be filled barring the property bubble bursting because the rents are ridiculous, lol. Hell Apple took it one step further by demanding the city sweep the massive homeless encampment off the empty field they own on Component because while they don't have an office there yet, they will someday so gotta clear the way!!! That sweep was months ago btw, with Apple justifying it because construction on their mega campus was "imminent." Drive past there every day and there's not a hint of construction: still the same old empty field except now it's got a huge fence around it and a bunch of private security guys chilling in cars around the area to I guess make sure none of those dastardly homeless get any clever ideas about coming back.
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Larry Parrish posted:lets just torch all of the offices. we don't produce anything in this state besides financial products and disguised financial products anyway. they can do their spreadsheet bullshit and make work to pretend there's a company worth investing in over zoom. that would solve a lot of it right there. also i've been working on a construction adjacent to caltrain tracks and it's just empty trains rolling in every 30 minutes without a single head in sight. so it does not seem like it'll actually do all that much based on current state of things. but certainly torch all the cubicles and open office desks inside and put in beds for people. at least there's working plumbing in them
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