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Epic High Five posted:Okay, limit 1, but who wants a very well framed picture of Catwoman from the greatest Christmas movie of all time, Batman Returns, as a 24 hour probation image? First come first serve, there will be future probation giveaways for the too slow Yes Edit: though I do post dumb stuff for no reason as well (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) World Famous W fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Jun 18, 2022 |
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If this is in response to my post you need to quote it so I don't worry that I'm punishing somebody who just posts dumb stuff for no reason
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Oxyclean posted:Going forward, I don't see why not? If you think that's the case, I got some bad news for you about the increased consumption of housing that has happened as a result. Here's a couple of links to get you started: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-17/nearly-9-miillion-bedrooms-lost-as-u-k-homes-adapted-during-pandemic* https://www.marketplace.org/2022/04/19/the-pandemic-has-been-driving-demand-for-bigger-new-homes/ Now, obviously, I'm not going to claim there's X more or less residential availability as a result of work from home when compared to vacant office space. Especially with trying to figure out the correlation between number of hours working from home and when increased consumption of housing occurs for those who split their work week between the office and home. But I would strongly state that working in the office does not equal a waste of potential residential space since at least some, if not all/more than 100% of the space, gets absorbed into these increased housing demands. *Study from the UK. I couldn't find any study in the US, but I don't see why it wouldn't follow a similar trend Kalit fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Jun 18, 2022 |
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Jarmak posted:It's basically a billionaire's pet sociology experiment. To be fair it's not about soulless efficiency, the idea is to encourage people to leave their personal areas and spend more time in common areas. This is just incredible capitalist logic. I want people to use common areas more, for reasons of my own. Should I make the common areas better? Nah, let's just make their personal spaces worse!
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Rappaport posted:Just mimick that insane dormitory designed by some crack-pot billionaire who wanted "efficiency". I'm the kid who slowly goes insane from waking up every time someone opens the fridge.
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Rappaport posted:Just mimick that insane dormitory designed by some crack-pot billionaire who wanted "efficiency". He made a prison.
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https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1537836681486905345?s=20&t=vQvmqWWDSdNmGt0rwQV5jAquote:Graham: You know what I like about Trump? Everybody was afraid of him. <cheers and applause> Including me! <laughter> quote:Graham: But here's one thing I can tell you about him: don't cross him. Don't you miss that? Don't you miss an America that people respected? And were a little bit afraid of?
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FizFashizzle posted:I'm the kid who slowly goes insane from waking up every time someone opens the fridge. You think you got it bad?! You think you know pain?! I have heard the mindless gibbering of the very essence of madness, heard its lunatic words...insanity has its own language...it is a flush! A FLUSH!! - The kid living next to the bathroom Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1537836681486905345?s=20&t=vQvmqWWDSdNmGt0rwQV5jA Respected? No. A little bit afraid? Well if you would be a little bit afraid being chained to a rabid mongoose, I guess...
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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1537836681486905345?s=20&t=vQvmqWWDSdNmGt0rwQV5jA That's not a terrible pitch going into 2024. After 4 years of the historically low energy Biden administration, a wildcard president will have appeal
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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/MorganTrau/status/1537933374978854919?s=20&t=iHgTkKLKqroi69_Dwuhx6Q One of the truly grim parts of America's school shooting problem is that a whole industry has sprung up around it on consulting schools on what to do and there are now people who arguably wouldn't want to see that go away.
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Oracle posted:This is a bit of bullshit, because EVERYONE in that drat town is brown, minus the mayor/city council. Its like 70% Latino and that includes the cops, some of whose kids and wives were in that building. The wife of one was one of the teachers shot and he got to talk to her bleeding out and dying on the phone. Even he wasn't allowed to go in. Oh hey, more evidence they knew the gunman was actively shooting and had been barricaded in with people. No idea if their callousness was directly tied to race but god drat were these police callous about other human lives.
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Gumball Gumption posted:Oh hey, more evidence they knew the gunman was actively shooting and had been barricaded in with people. No idea if their callousness was directly tied to race but god drat were these police callous about other human lives. Yeah, they are cops.
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Gumball Gumption posted:One of the truly grim parts of America's school shooting problem is that a whole industry has sprung up around it on consulting schools on what to do and there are now people who arguably wouldn't want to see that go away. This is reminding me of Rick Scott who implemented mandatory drug testing for (I think it was) welfare recipients and his wife just happened to own a bunch of Labcorp or Quest drug screening companies.
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American West's worst drought in 1,200 years https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/18/us/flaming-gorge-green-river-fly-fishing-climate/index.html quote:bring up the American West’s worst drought in 1,200 years and their reverie turns to head-shaking anxiety and disgust. They may have more water than most – hundreds of miles from fallowing farms in Arizona or browning lawns in Los Angeles – but they know that on the Colorado River system, the massive, unchecked demand for water downstream is threat to everything upstream. ... Seems bad
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Forgive me if this had already been posted, but I didn't notice it yet: https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1537933153880317952 quote:Chief Deputy Rios, recounting his conversation with one of the officers, said that he was surprised and replied with a blunt question. Assuming this is accurate and they aren't lying about the 911 call corroborating the point about kids being outside too, that explains that part of the response. Still no idea about the long delay after the gunman entered the building though.... Kalit fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Jun 18, 2022 |
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Kalit posted:If you think that's the case, I got some bad news for you about the increased consumption of housing that has happened as a result. Here's a couple of links to get you started: But I still struggle to imagine it still shouldn't be a gain on average to have more people working from home - dedicated offices basically go to waste 10-16 hours a day. Not every WFH worker will need a dedicated room for a home office, and it still seems like that space would be more effectively used. I suppose for the same square footage you can have more workers in an office with something like cubes or open workstations, but then you also lose square footage to various support facilities within the office. (Washrooms, break rooms, etc.) Like, given an open plot of land within a city (or a redevelopment or w/e) building an apartment building over an office, assuming both would see reasonable capacity, would provide a net residential benefit, despite the increased demand for residential sq. footage for home offices.
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Oxyclean posted:The takeaway seems to be that people working from home need to give up space in their current homes for a suitable home office. And this is in turn creating more demand for bigger homes, or you are basically trading office space for office space at home. I would agree with this most of the time from a broad perspective, but that's because a lot of the time it's moving office space from one place to another, which would leave those prior building(s) vacant for X amount of time. And as a side note, it's a lot harder to gauge "reasonable capacity" in an apartment/condo building than an office, especially if it's being built in an area that's not already a well established/desired residential neighborhood. But, as supported by the links I provided, that question isn't as straight forward when it's "instead of building an office, all workers are moving to 100% WFH" and it's implemented long term. So when current workers start to move to a new apartment/house, X will decide if they want an extra bedroom/square footage. Or for when new employees onboard knowing they'll want an extra bedroom/square footage. Unfortunately, we don't have the answer for what's better from an urban planning perspective. That will be figured out in years after we have enough time to study it. But I want to push back on the assumption that "of course WFH is a better use of urban space!" without looking critically at it. Kalit fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Jun 18, 2022 |
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I think we still don't know the long-term consequences of WFH in terms of demand for larger dwellings, because, speaking as someone who worked from home long before COVID started, basing our assumptions on what happened during COVID is silly. When WFH is combined with a significant factor that deters people from going out and using shared community spaces, such as a pandemic with multiple public health restrictions, yes, there's going to be a demand for dwellings with additional indoor and outdoor space. I don't think it's clear that will continue to be the case, at least to the same degree, when people are working from home, without feeling essentially trapped in their homes.
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BiggerBoat posted:American West's worst drought in 1,200 years I wonder how much ecological and resource damage the desire for green lawns, golf courses, and Vegas fountains has caused.
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If reducing the amount of commuting people have to do is the goal, another possible solution is reducing the work week to 4 days. Obviously not a perfect solution, because people would still be driving for errands and recreation, but weekend travel is generally lower than weekday travel. Guaranteed sick leave and vacations would also help. Not to mention all the positive side effects of people having to work less.
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BiggerBoat posted:American West's worst drought in 1,200 years Unfortunately the rich are the ones who actually get to decide, and they seem more fond of golf than commoners surviving.
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Well yeah you can't golf on commoners, they're way too lumpy
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Fister Roboto posted:If reducing the amount of commuting people have to do is the goal, another possible solution is reducing the work week to 4 days. Obviously not a perfect solution, because people would still be driving for errands and recreation, but weekend travel is generally lower than weekday travel. Guaranteed sick leave and vacations would also help. Not to mention all the positive side effects of people having to work less. arent some major UK companies trying this?
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FlamingLiberal posted:Interesting that it actually went up during the Reagan years.
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Hey, everyone should watch the investigative video the NYT did on the proud boys efforts on 1/6. Clearly an incredible amount of work went into it and it's unquestionably the best thing I've seen on the subject. https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000008392796/rile-up-the-normies-how-proud-boys-breached-the-capitol.html
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I'm kind of tired of clicking on links, watching videos, reading op-eds, etc. about January 6th. There's this whole industry that has sprouted up around the incident and I just want to see some people go to prison for the obvious crimes they committed. I want to read about guilty verdicts and sentences for the organizers, not the dipshits who stole staplers and podiums. Everything else just seems like total bullshit. (This Post is not directed at herstory begins now, it's just a general response I'm starting to have every time it's mentioned)
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:I'm kind of tired of clicking on links, watching videos, reading op-eds, etc. about January 6th. There's this whole industry that has sprouted up around the incident and I just want to see some people go to prison for the obvious crimes they committed. I want to read about guilty verdicts and sentences for the organizers, not the dipshits who stole staplers and podiums.
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If you're curious why a bunch of proudboys just got arrested for sedicious conspiracy, that video will make it abundantly clear.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:If you're curious why a bunch of proudboys just got arrested for sedicious conspiracy, that video will make it abundantly clear. Speaking of Fascists... And then they came for guy-who-lost-an-eye-fighting-for-his-country to remind him that Nazis eventually come for everyone. https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1538240381933977603 -Blackadder- fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Jun 18, 2022 |
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Kalit posted:Forgive me if this had already been posted, but I didn't notice it yet: So I guess we now know the one situation in which a cop won't immediately start hosing bullets everywhere without regard for bystanders, hostages, people asleep in their homes,
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Biden fell off his bike today. Hopefully it knocked him back into 1944 and he will send out 15,000 executive orders and restore the republic
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The GOP in Texas is dialing up the insanity. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/18/republican-party-texas-convention-cornyn/ quote:Meeting at their first in-person convention since 2018, Texas Republicans on Saturday acted on a raft of resolutions and proposed platform changes to move their party even further to the right. They approved measures declaring that President Joe Biden “was not legitimately elected” and rebuking Sen. John Cornyn for taking part in bipartisan gun talks. They also voted on a platform that declares homosexuality “an abnormal lifestyle choice” and calls for Texas schoolchildren “to learn about the humanity of the preborn child.” quote:The denunciation of Cornyn represented a remarkable rebuke to a Republican who has served in the Senate since 2002. The hall at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston filled with boos on Friday as he tried to explain the legislation, which would allow juvenile records to be incorporated into background checks for gun buyers younger than 21 and encourage “red flag” laws that would make it easier to remove guns from potentially dangerous people, along with more funding for school safety and mental health. quote:The new platform would call for:
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Kalit posted:Forgive me if this had already been posted, but I didn't notice it yet: The police really did not acquit themselves well in this case. https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Uvalde-classroom-doors-17251116.php San Antonio Express News posted:
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-Blackadder- posted:Speaking of Fascists... Tucker Carlson's the one that gave him that nickname in case anyone was wondering where they got that from. Lot of leopards eating faces today.
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Rappaport posted:Just mimick that insane dormitory designed by some crack-pot billionaire who wanted "efficiency". These are a thing already all over the country. Check out common.com
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Jealous Cow posted:These are a thing already all over the country. Check out common.com those all have windows though?
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Herstory Begins Now posted:those all have windows though? I would imagine, yes.
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Is there a thread about the crypto bubble? Haven't seen much about it here.
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Blind Pineapple posted:Is there a thread about the crypto bubble? Haven't seen much about it here. Most people follow the financial apocalypse thread in cspam.
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There are also threads in GBS and YOSPOS if you don’t want to enter the doom zone
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