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BonHair posted:How does getting home after a night on the town even work in America? Normally, you get the bus/train after buying some lovely fast food, but America only has cars and apparently you can't even buy a burger without a car? I was at a concert just out of LA last weekend and it took me around 6.5 hours to get back by bus. Thought for a sec if it would be better if I had one of those rideshare things but on the bus stop I met a lady who ordered two taxis and an Uber and nobody came lol
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Ruffian Price posted:I was at a concert just out of LA last weekend and it took me around 6.5 hours to get back by bus. Thought for a sec if it would be better if I had one of those rideshare things but on the bus stop I met a lady who ordered two taxis and an Uber and nobody came lol On the topic of LA the subway system shuts down from anywhere between midnight and 1 until 5 or 6 am depending on the line and station. It's so ridiculous. I lived and worked within 1-2 miles of big hub endpoints about a decade ago. It would have been perfect in a competently planned and managed city, but there were huge stretches of busy city street with literally 0 sidewalk between the station and where I worked.
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Coolness Averted posted:It would have been perfect in a competently planned and managed city, Do we have those in this country
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Just get rid of single use plastics outside of very occasional and specific circumstances and stop making people feel guilty about their individual behaviors, goddamn The guilt is load bearing.
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BonHair posted:How does getting home after a night on the town even work in America? Normally, you get the bus/train after buying some lovely fast food, but America only has cars and apparently you can't even buy a burger without a car? Visit family in the States often, and I've been driven home drunk by an NYPD cop ( didn't know how much he'd been drinking til afterwards cause it didn't cross my Euro mind that someone would take that kind of risk). It was wild, but he gave me his spare cop hat which was something
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Failed Imagineer posted:Visit family in the States often, and I've been driven home drunk by an NYPD cop ( didn't know how much he'd been drinking til afterwards cause it didn't cross my Euro mind that someone would take that kind of risk). It was wild, but he gave me his spare cop hat which was something The NYPD (at least pre-9/11) seems to have had a lot of Fun Party Cops. I had a retired one share his real good weed with me at a rocket launch once and tell me the hot tips the cops would use to be able to do cocaine all the time but still pass the random drug checks. Nice dude, shame about the cop thing but at least he'd been retired since 9/11 hosed up his health a bunch (and gave him some horrifying PTSD stories he shared once we were sufficiently high).
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But yeah drunk driving is so... under-appreciated as a risk that a hell of a lot of people will drink all they want, then "sober up" for an hour or two and drive home, except you're definitely not getting that much booze out of your system that fast and your ability to evaluate whether or not you're actually sober has been compromised so hey. Oh also a hell of a lot of people drive high as balls on weed because obviously weed doesn't impair your driving ability and actually makes you better at driving in fact.
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Shame Boy posted:hot tips the cops would use to be able to do cocaine all the time but still pass the random drug checks. So, is the answer "only do coke when you know you won't be piss-tested for 2+ days", or "always have a number for a bag of clean piss", because I don't think NY's Finest are in the lab cooking up some catalytic antibodies or anything. And idk, maybe tolerable NY cops exist, but the ones I've met have been obnoxious racist loudmouths.
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Every single facet of every single life.
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BonHair posted:How does getting home after a night on the town even work in America? Normally, you get the bus/train after buying some lovely fast food, but America only has cars and apparently you can't even buy a burger without a car? Just move to New York or one of the like 4 places in America with a functioning mass transit system that doesn’t shut down at 11:00, and enjoy paying $3,000 a month rent for a studio apartment.
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Failed Imagineer posted:So, is the answer "only do coke when you know you won't be piss-tested for 2+ days", or "always have a number for a bag of clean piss", because I don't think NY's Finest are in the lab cooking up some catalytic antibodies or anything. Apparently the piss test they used at the time wasn't very sensitive so the secret was do a specific amount of coke right as you went on shift and drink tons of coffee and it wouldn't be detectable by the end of your shift when they did the random tests
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I love how obvious it is this person's never been unemployed cuz they think unemployment is just magic money you automatically get for not having a job
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Also funny how you never see the opposite "if their primary motivation is extracting the value from my labor, why would I work for them in the first place??", weird!
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The Nastier Nate posted:Just move to New York or one of the like 4 places in America with a functioning mass transit system that doesn’t shut down at 11:00, and enjoy paying $3,000 a month rent for a studio apartment. What are the other four
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Milo and POTUS posted:What are the other four not san francisco, where you get massively reduced route running every half hour maybe if the stars align
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Oneiros posted:not san francisco, where you get massively reduced route running every half hour maybe if the stars align Cuz they built a lot of sections out as single-track so they have to do literally all the maintenance jobs between the hours of like 1 AM and 6 AM since the line needs to be totally shut down and can't be routed around it. There's a neat video of them working incredibly fast to completely rip up and replace a section of track before the trains needed to start again I wish I could find.
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If the job doesn't have the salary range posted, it's because they know they're underpaying, hth
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Milo and POTUS posted:What are the other four Not Philly cause the trains stop at midnight. I have many a memories of taking a drunken $40 cab ride home at 2 AM in my 20s. I always assumed BART was pretty good but I’ve never been there. Chicago…maybe?
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The Nastier Nate posted:Not Philly cause the trains stop at midnight. I have many a memories of taking a drunken $40 cab ride home at 2 AM in my 20s. BART stops at midnight too. From what I read, most systems shut down overnight because that's the only way they can perform maintenance. New York can stay open because their system has so many redundancies and express tracks that it's possible to route around track work most of the time.
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I can chime in with "not Boston", but I don't know where they're actually supposed to be.
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Shame Boy posted:Apparently the piss test they used at the time wasn't very sensitive so the secret was do a specific amount of coke right as you went on shift and drink tons of coffee and it wouldn't be detectable by the end of your shift when they did the random tests Ah yes, the "Bad Lieutenant Method"
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Business Gorillas posted:If the job doesn't have the salary range posted, it's because they know they're underpaying, hth Ehhh kinda. A lot of fields, and a lot of countries, it's just not standard to ever list salaries. It's definitely a positive sign if they do list it though. Of course, in the Marxian sense, every job is underpaid to a greater or lesser extent. In my field I will usually be approached by recruiters with a salary -less job spec. If they can't provide a representative salary range then I simply tell them I'm not interested, but it can go either way
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euphronius posted:correct. I almost added "(Cue every single person in this thread replying with 'yes, unironically')" at the bottom of that post but then I decided I should just let it happen naturally.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Ah yes, the "Bad Lieutenant Method" That is what I was thinking of when he told me yeah lmao
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it's funny because nina is a goldman sachs puppet who's friends with a person who denied hate crimes can ever happen and all that matters to the slavering idiots of team blue is that she once said something mean about a democrat therefore her right of center views are too left for normal democrats
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The Nastier Nate posted:Not Philly cause the trains stop at midnight. I have many a memories of taking a drunken $40 cab ride home at 2 AM in my 20s.
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Zvahl posted:it's funny because nina is a goldman sachs puppet who's friends with a person who denied hate crimes can ever happen and all that matters to the slavering idiots of team blue is that she once said something mean about a democrat therefore her right of center views are too left for normal democrats I don't think any of the people in those screenshots would self-describe as democrats
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Shame Boy posted:Apparently the piss test they used at the time wasn't very sensitive so the secret was do a specific amount of coke right as you went on shift and drink tons of coffee and it wouldn't be detectable by the end of your shift when they did the random tests no wonder they just kill people at the slightest provocation
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Milo and POTUS posted:What are the other four Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan at a guess. Also thanks for telling me once again that America is a gently caress. The idea that your best bet is having a sober friend to drive you home makes me claustrophobic, you can't just leave when you want.
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i just simply dont go out at night because all the drivers are drunk. its easy.
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Real hurthling! posted:i just simply dont go out
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