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If anyone is interested in reading up on cities that are actively adding streetcar, Kansas City’s new line is being used a lot as a case study. Oklahoma City is about to implement a new version through the latest iteration of their Metropolitan Area Projects (MAPS) and Omaha is in the planning stages of a new line from downtown to midtown that seems likely to move forward. San Diego also San Diego’s new Blue Line light rail to UCSD has been extremely popular and LA is working on some new projects ahead of the Olympics returning in a few years. E: fresh from my news feed, some details about Omaha https://omaha.com/news/local/omaha-...9f3d375d53.html Anza Borrego fucked around with this message at 03:32 on Nov 16, 2022 |
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:the average cost per mile of transportation infrastructure, rail or major roads, has been rising in the US for decades in correlation with the shift to community input planning and providing more natural points where interest groups of citizens can check and halt new infrastructure development. this is a response to the urban renewal years of "slum clearance" where planners would just drive highways through african american neighborhoods with little regard for displacement of the evicted residents. now there's a backlash and using these levers of power often gets people accused of NIMBYism This is my very basic understanding of the core of the problem for cost in the US. Time = money, and various interests groups for both selfish and well intentioned reasons have been using various tools introduced over the years to slow down almost all construction. BART in the bay area is in CONSTANT lawsuit/review hell and still haven't built a complete circuit after decades of existence. There are a lot of factors involved in the BART example, but at a fundamental level, there are a ton of ways for shitheads and speculators to gum up the process and make it take longer and be more expensive.
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Mister Facetious posted:While there's no real fix to backed up traffic, bus apps can now track location in real time and give updated arrival times, so the unpredictability issue is basically gone outside of the bus itself suffering a mechanical issue. Using the transit app here in Phoenix, I've seen: A bus that breaks down will be shown as "Scheduled" until the minute after it is due, then it vanishes from the schedule. A bus driving by the stop 10 minutes ahead of the app's real-time schedule, and remaining "scheduled" for that stop until the time passes. That a bus has gone by the stop already when I can see it stopped further up the street, not yet arrived. It also can't indicate emergency conditions, such as a section of light rail track being closed due to a collision or a bus route ending due to a police standoff. It is helpful in spotting delays and is a vast improvement over "Wait and hope" but it's not 100% there in removing unpredictability. It also seems that the GPS is something the drivers can turn on and off. I've been waiting for the bus at the start of a route where the driver got lost en route and had not done so, according to the bus company when I called to ask for an update.
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Twitter and crypto are both collapsing and we've got fucken transportation chat for how many goddamn pages?
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Public transit is way cooler than crypto or twitter
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Wheeljack posted:Using the transit app here in Phoenix, I've seen: Sorry you live in a Hell world with bad transit IT? 
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Clarste posted:Goons care about as all good socialist nerds do....
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Vegetable posted:Public transit is way cooler than crypto or twitter Exactly, this isn't the Cool Tech Dreams thread. Here's something about the FTX collapse: apparently SBF wasn't just doing massive amounts of speed, he was abusing a Parkinsons medication that fucks with dopamine and has gambling addiction as a loving side effect. Source is https://milkyeggs.com/?p=175. I don't know how reliable this blog is, but they do have visual proof of that drugs packaging on SBFs desk. Edit: original source: https://twitter.com/AutismCapital/status/1592237980458323969?s=20&t=6ktWMDRHNwd2uE1DTLPdPQ https://twitter.com/AutismCapital/status/1592256921813520385?s=20&t=6ktWMDRHNwd2uE1DTLPdPQ Agents are GO! fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Nov 16, 2022 |
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Vegetable posted:Public transit is way cooler than crypto or twitter
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Yeah, I like reading Mr. Fall Down Terror refute left-wing political opinions on urban development. 'It's a corporate conspiracy!' isn't really a great universal theory for explaining how everything in politics and society works. It's similar to the Republican Theory on the Ills of Society, where the government is always to blame. Both theories are lazy. Attributing things to corporate conspiracy in cases where the decision was made due to popular demand does allow you to continue to avoid confronting the unpopularity of a lot of left-wing ideas though. silence_kit fucked around with this message at 09:37 on Nov 16, 2022 |
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:Hey I wanted to PM you about that mirror but couldn't. How well do they work at night? I wanted something like that for my older car and felt it was overkill to install a rear camera and head unit that would work with one. It does a pretty decent job. I have the mirror angled to see about a metre from my rear bumper and my reversing lights do enough of a job lighting things up that you can easily see if you're about to back into another car in a parking lot or something.
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Public transit chat: Jacksonville, FL put up a monorail about 25 years ago, which is a good idea, but the loving thing doesn't GO anywhere. None of the residential neighborhoods close to downtown have access to it and, worse, the god damned train doesn't go the Jaguars stadium, the minor league baseball park nor the colosseum where large concerts and poo poo are held. It doesn't go to the beach either. The only real gathering area it reaches is the convention center but that only has poo poo going on like once or twice a month tops. It's straight out of the Simpsons I swear to god.
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The worst thing about transit in Boston is that none of the terminus points connect. All trains go to or away from boston but don't connect anywhere else. Madness.
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Musk issues ultimatum to staff: Commit to ‘hardcore’ Twitter or take severancequote:Elon Musk issued an ultimatum to Twitter employees Wednesday morning: commit to a new “hardcore” Twitter or leave the company with severance pay. Hm, yes, loyalty oaths are definitely a good sign.
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Enough public transit chat. If you disagree, then I invite you to start a super cool new popular thread and invite all your cool train friends to join you over there.Agents are GO! posted:Exactly, this isn't the Cool Tech Dreams thread. Regardless of the likelihood of symptoms, they're always added to the long list of prescribing information for medications. Any medication that fucks with dopamine, like ADHD medication, puts you are similar risk for addictive behavior symptoms. So this information is not interesting or relevant. Family Values posted:Musk issues ultimatum to staff: Commit to ‘hardcore’ Twitter or take severance Jesus Christ, I hope they're also forced to sing the Twitter version of the IBM chants from the 1940s.
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silence_kit posted:Yeah, I like reading Mr. Fall Down Terror refute left-wing political opinions on urban development. i dont think the streetcar conspiracy is particularly left wing, or if it is its inherited from conspiracy theories of the 1970s. i mean, it is a key plot point in roger rabbit its more that if most of what people know on a subject comes from reading internet comments and watching videos on youtube, weird ideas can creep in. there's a whole ecosystem of microbloggers and vloggers like not just bikes and strong towns who are big advocates for walkable, sustainable urbanism (which is very good!) but they tend to make unsupported, polemic arguments without much grounding (which is not good...) and that ties back to tech nightmares i guess, the higher volume of content online doesn't always make it high quality Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Nov 16, 2022 |
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I was surprised by that side-effect for a Parkinson's drug. My father and my father-in-law both had it and died from complications involved with it. The typical problem with all their drugs was it made them kind of schizophrenic. My father-in-law would sometimes ask his wife if there was somebody standing out in the yard and that would be that. My father had it worse with the "top hat man" that would come up and grab him. loving terrifying.
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Family Values posted:Musk issues ultimatum to staff: Commit to ‘hardcore’ Twitter or take severance I can't imagine a lot of people are going to stick around given the last few weeks.
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Cabbit posted:I can't imagine a lot of people are going to stick around given the last few weeks. especially since superstar performers will be compensated in twitter stock, which is worthless
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Family Values posted:Musk issues ultimatum to staff: Commit to ‘hardcore’ Twitter or take severance Congrats to everyone who wasn't fired and wished they had been on the 3 months severance they're about to receive when they ignore this insane pledge.
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I know this is impractical because this is people's livelihoods and also they probably care at least a little about their work, but I kind of wish everyone would just quit, like 100% of them, and leave Elon holding the bag with no one who knows how to implement his wishes.
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I also love the idea that "hey guys, you should only work here if you love the idea of working extra hard under awful conditions, for a stupid, capricious boss, for the love of the project!" If that were Sophie's Choice, it would've been a much shorter movie.
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The only people left there in a month are going to be employees on work visas who are too terrified of being deported to quit.
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Unfortunately there probably are Twitter employees who care about the future of Twitter and would not want it to die immediately.
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Doesn't seem to be going well for ol' musky! https://twitter.com/themaxburns/status/1592907968131239941?s=20&t=FnD7Dx2dLiP7pIbFwUth2A
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Musk going with the bold legal strategy of "laws that make people do things they don't want to do aren't legal." https://twitter.com/themaxburns/status/1592907779316252672
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What is more relevant to a tech thread than transit? It's been a sector the whole of tech utopia has been obsessed with for years now and logistics such as this are a foundation of modern civilization only on tier above dependence on cheap oilBiggerBoat posted:Public transit chat: Jacksonville, FL put up a monorail about 25 years ago, which is a good idea, but the loving thing doesn't GO anywhere. None of the residential neighborhoods close to downtown have access to it and, worse, the god damned train doesn't go the Jaguars stadium, the minor league baseball park nor the colosseum where large concerts and poo poo are held. It doesn't go to the beach either. Does it connect the places rich people live to the places rich people shop? I find that usually explains baffling routes if simple graft along the lines of "I definitely want Local Politician's Building Co. to get this lucrative contract but also I don't want it to be useful because I hate it" doesn't fit the bill. Clarste posted:Unfortunately there probably are Twitter employees who care about the future of Twitter and would not want it to die immediately. Yeah, and for the crime of giving Musk the time of day they're gonna get hosed over hardest of all. Well aside from the ones who take this at face value and say "I would like to quit then Mr Musk" and don't get a severance because that counts as quitting not being fired, because Musk appears to be unable to do anything that wouldn't bring lawsuits against him.
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This would be a great time for the remaining twitter employees to try to unionize. The right to unionize is protected under law, and you know Musk would flip his goddamn poo poo and do something illegal, getting him into more trouble.
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Saint Celestine posted:This would be a great time for the remaining twitter employees to try to unionize. The right to unionize is protected under law, and you know Musk would flip his goddamn poo poo and do something illegal, getting him into more trouble. Also a lot of Twitter addicted conservatives or otherwise anti-union people would grind their teeth into dust supporting the effort because they'd view it as the last chance to keep Musk from destroying the platform entirely lol In either case I'm sure saying the consent decree had golf fringe and Twitter is a sovereign citizen of these lands is definitely going to be well-received by the FTC
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Family Values posted:Musk issues ultimatum to staff: Commit to ‘hardcore’ Twitter or take severance Perfection. 
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Clarste posted:Unfortunately there probably are Twitter employees who care about the future of Twitter and would not want it to die immediately.
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BiggerBoat posted:Public transit chat: Jacksonville, FL put up a monorail about 25 years ago, which is a good idea, Counterpoint: Monorails are very seldom a good idea. The number of successful monorail projects is in the single digits and you're just about always better off doing actual rail. But in general, the type of transit planning that comes up with "Monorail!" also generally builds the route to be awful and useless.
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Jaxyon posted:as all good socialist nerds do.... Trains have cars in them Agents are GO! posted:https://twitter.com/AutismCapital/status/1592256921813520385?s=20&t=6ktWMDRHNwd2uE1DTLPdPQ Fascinating. Selegiline is also approved for treatment of Canine Cognitive Dysfunction and there has been 0 concern about any sort of meat consumption in dogs taking the drug. A whole host of MAOI and SSRI drugs as potential drug reaction areas, but not meat consumption. Also nothing on if the dogs gamble more often. HelloSailorSign fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Nov 16, 2022 |
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HelloSailorSign posted:Trains have cars in them
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Fully autonomous cars that understand their destinations and can link up convoy style automatically.
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HelloSailorSign posted:Trains have cars in them If you enlarge the tiny print, you'll see that it isn't all meat, just meat products (and other foods) high in tyramine. For many people, tyramine is also a migraine trigger, and let me tell you cutting Parmesan out of your diet is a bummeroo. Fortunately for me, it turned out not to be one of my triggers. Anyway, a dog is a lot less likely to be consuming the processed foods, like jerky, Parmesan, and beer, that are high in tyramine, so that's probably why no warning.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Anyway, a dog is a lot less likely to be consuming the processed foods, like jerky, Parmesan, and beer, that are high in tyramine, so that's probably why no warning. Ha ha ha ha ha ha  Joking aside, people feed freaking pounds of jerky to their dogs. However, the overlap of jerky feeding to old dogs with CCD is possibly low? Of course, I'm generally more worried about the jerky things causing atypical kidney disease than interfering with their selegiline.
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