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BiggerBoat posted:Consider me educated today learning from NPR that Phoenix, AZ, which is currently being slow roasted alive, is supposedly the FIFTH largest city in the country (?) Phoenix got real big real fast after WW2 for two reasons: electronics manufacturing and the ability to buy air conditioning. I didn't realize it was still growing noticeably though.
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Prism posted:Phoenix got real big real fast after WW2 for two reasons: electronics manufacturing and the ability to buy air conditioning. I didn't realize it was still growing noticeably though. It may not be growing much longer, between the heat and persistent drought.
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Jul 26, 2023 23:48
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I grew up in AZ and so one of the first things I ever did when Google Earth first came out was have my mind completely blown by just how vast and sprawling the Phoenix metro area is. I would go as far as to say it had a significant impact on my world view at the time.
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Jul 26, 2023 23:53
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Sinead O’Connor has been found dead at 56. Where are you getting suicide from? Not that it would shock me given her age and the fact that her 17 year old daughter killed herself not too long ago but we might want something better than a Hit me hard today as a casual fan with suicidal attempts in my own family and knowing she's the same age as me. E And also Prince, my all time favorite musician who wrote Sinead's most famous song died at 57. BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Jul 27, 2023 |
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Jul 26, 2023 23:57
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Welp, if he is legit, then the world is a much crazier place than I previously believed: How would the Pope of all people even know about the existence of a UFO the Italian government was trying to keep secret? It's not like Mussolini was a devout Catholic who'd run things like this by the Pope if he also wanted it to be a state secret, and if it was from Catholic soldiers leaking it during confession or w/e, wouldn't there be other Italian soldiers leaking it to other sources? It's already a pretty heavy lift to suspend disbelief enough to believe America somehow had its hands on a UFO without anyone knowing, but Italy of all places keeping a UFO under wraps is a leap way too far.
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Jul 27, 2023 00:02
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burnishedfume posted:How would the Pope of all people even know about the existence of a UFO the Italian government was trying to keep secret? You have no idea how deep this goes.
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Jul 27, 2023 00:14
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BiggerBoat posted:Where are you getting suicide from? Not that it would shock me given her age and the fact that her 17 year old daughter killed herself not too long ago but we might want something better than a It says in the article that her son committed suicide and she posted online that she was "following my son". She wasn't publicly sick and nobody is giving a cause of death, so seems like suicide.
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Jul 27, 2023 00:16
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FizFashizzle posted:You have no idea how deep this goes. The Catholic church was just a cover for aliens all along, the succession of popes has just been their elected ruler. Don't ask about the anti-popes, you really don't want to know.
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Jul 27, 2023 00:18
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having re watched a youtube recap of Dante's Inferno, even peeps back then asked "does life exist out 'there' ?" and the answer was "dont worry about it, or dont think too hard., the amount of money you gave me doesnt give you access to this info, pay more please"
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Jul 27, 2023 00:19
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BiggerBoat posted:Consider me educated today learning from NPR that Phoenix, AZ, which is currently being slow roasted alive, is supposedly the FIFTH largest city in the country (?) A lot of cities are actually technically multiple cities close together and not one city. For example the Seattle area is probably bigger than the Columbus area or the Charlotte area. But Charlotte and Columbus proper are bigger than Seattle proper.
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Jul 27, 2023 00:29
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BiggerBoat posted:Pat Tillman. Goes back further than him. A substantial factor in POW/MIA activism stretching back to Vietnam lies in the fact that those men could be, and were, recast as nationally redemptive hero-victims who symbolically reclaimed the moral high ground for the various right wing fuckos who glommed onto that process (started unsurprisingly with Richard Nixon himself, who invented the very term "POW/MIA" to intentionally join the two categories which previously had been separate and distinct forms of casualties not really related to one another). Once the actual POWs came back in 1973 and, shockingly, didn't all immediately sign on to the rah rah America rah rah stab in the back stuff, focus shifted more to the MIAs, who were and remain perfect blank canvases onto which you can paint any picture you want, if you're amoral enough of a scumbag. Shooting Blanks posted:It may not be growing much longer, between the heat and persistent drought. I seem to recall the city passed an ordinance just last month about no new developments without them having first submitted long-term water plans and projections.
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Jul 27, 2023 00:41
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Captain Invictus posted:the thing I'm most interested to find out, long term, is what happens with management. supervisors already got benefits slashed and pay cuts, and with this new contract new hire part timers will be making money approaching that of part time supervisors. supervisors have zero job security and can be forced to come in to work during dangerous conditions(storms, blizzards, etc) or power outages and such. most supervisors I know are even more miserable than the average hourly. there's a few that have gone full apathy and have straight up said they will respond to things like "work during the strike" with "no, go ahead and fire me, I won't do it" so management morale is in the pits. with them also often being made to do union labor anyways, and get grieved and chastised by higher-ups for it, stress levels are high for them as well. It is interesting and lol that they're actually so exploitative even the lower to middle management is being hosed over. That's supposed to be your vanguard!
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Captain Invictus posted:
They'll get a decent raise like last time. It'll probably take effect as soon as the master is passed, while we're still hammering out the supplements. However Part-time supe has always been a sucker position. Unless you are for real only going to be at the hub a couple or so years, you're screwing yourself by going supe. Only way it makes sense, other than as a gig through college, is if you actually go full time. Right now we can't get anyone to bite on the position, other than those odd weirdos who you work with on Friday and the next time you see them they're wearing a polo. Honestly I hope next contract focuses on trying to reign in hours to reasonableness. It's bullshit that your options are part-time, where you're only guaranteed 3.5 hours a shift, or full-time, where you're only guaranteed you won't exceed DOT maximums. Maybe you can get that combo, where you'll only be working 50+.
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Born and raised in Phoenix, this summer has broken me pretty bad. Was up at 530am Monday and the temp was already 90.
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Old Surly posted:Born and raised in Phoenix, this summer has broken me pretty bad. Was up at 530am Monday and the temp was already 90. Hey, it's supposed to be 105 on Tuesday. I want to die!
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BiggerBoat posted:Consider me educated today learning from NPR that Phoenix, AZ, which is currently being slow roasted alive, is supposedly the FIFTH largest city in the country (?) Jacksonville, Phoenix, and Houston are only big population wise because they are also huge geographically. Houston and Jax are both twice as big in area as NYC. Phoenix is like 65% bigger. The density of those three is pretty low for what are supposed to be a major cities.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Welp, if he is legit, then the world is a much crazier place than I previously believed: I have been a contractor and I am loving dying at the idea of signing a hand receipt for a loving UFO. Just writing it in there on the line after your laptop and your card reader.
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Gyges posted:Honestly I hope next contract focuses on trying to reign in hours to reasonableness. It's bullshit that your options are part-time, where you're only guaranteed 3.5 hours a shift, or full-time, where you're only guaranteed you won't exceed DOT maximums. Maybe you can get that combo, where you'll only be working 50+.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It is interesting and lol that they're actually so exploitative even the lower to middle management is being hosed over. That's supposed to be your vanguard! Lower management is first tier of salary. They can work folks as much as they want there. This has been a widespread practice for decades particularly in retail.
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Yeah it's a key union busting tactic actually. Lowest tier management used to be worker leadership.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Jacksonville, Phoenix, and Houston are only big population wise because they are also huge geographically. Houston and Jax are both twice as big in area as NYC. Phoenix is like 65% bigger. The density of those three is pretty low for what are supposed to be a major cities.
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Push El Burrito posted:Hey, it's supposed to be 105 on Tuesday. I want to die! Pasadena was about 100F today. For non-LAers, that's not exactly normal, even for summer.
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Zero_Grade posted:Yeah the Jacksonville city limits encompasses an absurdly large amount of land. You pass the "Welcome to Jax!" sign on 95 and it's surrounded by nothing but forest. Then it's another long stretch on the highway until you start seeing outskirts (the Miami and Tampa areas are the opposite, with the technical core being quite small, but surrounded by dozens of neighborhoods/towns that form the actual city). I grew up in Tampa, I didn't realize it at the time but it was really strange how much of the Tampa metro area is unincorporated areas with only a handful of other cities or towns. Like Riverview, FL isn't a real place, it's just a name on a map. No Riverview downtown, city hall, or anything like that. Just an endless expanse of subdivisions and strip malls. Has to be one of the worst examples of suburban blight in the country. Whereas now I'm in Seattle and the metro area here is made up of Seattle along with other distinct towns and cities.
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The heat index in Columbus on Friday is expected to be 108. I might just take Phoenix at this point - dry heat isn’t nearly as bad as 95*, a billion humidity and zero wind
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Jaxyon posted:Pasadena was about 100F today. LA had a glorious winter, and a fabulous spring, and an unexpectedly amazing start to summer. I really thought we were going to avoid the worst of everything, but now we are in the poo poo of it and I just want to sit in my dark, air-conditioned little house and do absolutely nothing. My kids have to start school in 2 weeks, and I guarantee they won't be doing any outside PE or activities for the first few weeks of school. It breaks my heart that this is the future we are giving them.
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VorpalBunny posted:LA had a glorious winter, and a fabulous spring, and an unexpectedly amazing start to summer. I really thought we were going to avoid the worst of everything, but now we are in the poo poo of it and I just want to sit in my dark, air-conditioned little house and do absolutely nothing. My kids have to start school in 2 weeks, and I guarantee they won't be doing any outside PE or activities for the first few weeks of school. It breaks my heart that this is the future we are giving them. I have a friend who's a LAUSD teacher and she said her students are unbelievably depressed about climate change and the future. Good times!
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Zero_Grade posted:Yeah the Jacksonville city limits encompasses an absurdly large amount of land. You pass the "Welcome to Jax!" sign on 95 and it's surrounded by nothing but forest. Then it's another long stretch on the highway until you start seeing outskirts (the Miami and Tampa areas are the opposite, with the technical core being quite small, but surrounded by dozens of neighborhoods/towns that form the actual city). Hell driving inJacksonville you just randomly pass "Welcome to Jacksonville" or "Jacksonville X Miles" signs. The weirdest part is that almost none of the signs are from before the city and county consolidated, so they're intentionally putting up incorrect signs.
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selec posted:Bud there are a ton of videos and pics of crafts out there, many of which are fake. I also think you’re putting an enormous amount of faith in journalistic outlets that have acted as mouthpieces for the government, and censored stories at the informal request of powerful people many times throughout their checkered pasts. They're bored. Congress has been gridlocked all year and is gonna stay that way for another year and a half, and it's still a bit too early for campaign season. As long as they're stuck in DC pretending they have any work at all to do, listening to some kooks rant and rave for a while is probably a good break from making fundraising calls all day or listening to Freedom Caucus folks rant about every other conspiracy theory under the sun. And if letting the UFO kooks have their say buys some actual goodwill from folks like Rubio who genuinely Want To Believe, and maybe even convinces people that the government isn't a coverup machine dedicated to suppressing any opinions that go against orthodoxy, that's a small price to pay. Maybe it'll distract the people who think COVID was a government plan to purge white people with crippling vaccines. In the end, what decides whether something is credible or not isn't how high-ranking members of government approach it, it's whether there's any actual evidence. After all, the government has to worry about things besides simple truth. A great example of this is how Havana Syndrome has been treated - so far, every indication is that it's a psychogenic illness, but it's politically difficult to tell basically the entire foreign service establishment that their health problems are their own fault, so it's being treated entirely seriously.
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VorpalBunny posted:LA had a glorious winter, and a fabulous spring, and an unexpectedly amazing start to summer. I really thought we were going to avoid the worst of everything, but now we are in the poo poo of it and I just want to sit in my dark, air-conditioned little house and do absolutely nothing. My kids have to start school in 2 weeks, and I guarantee they won't be doing any outside PE or activities for the first few weeks of school. It breaks my heart that this is the future we are giving them. School starts on August 15 now? Is that earlier than it used to start?
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I AM GRANDO posted:School starts on August 15 now? Is that earlier than it used to start? August 8th!  It's been creeping earlier and earlier, some chuds are assuming it's because teachers aren't paid for the summer months so they pressured the schools to start earlier and earlier. All I know is, these kids are getting screwed with shorter summer breaks AND climate change!
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Do they still get out in June with just two weeks off in December? That sucks.
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VorpalBunny posted:August 8th! So I have a handful of causes that I'm actually super cereal about and I get all activist about it and even get involved in local politics over it. Creeping in the deadlines has been a dumbshit move for a variety of reasons.
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Shooting Blanks posted:It may not be growing much longer, between the heat and persistent drought. Trust me no matter how hot it gets idiots will continue to flock to AZ for the like 2-3 months of actual nice weather they get there. Like this summer is horrible, but it's not like an average summer is a whole lot better there and that never stopped the influx of "You can't shovel sunshine" wackos from moving in.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Do they still get out in June with just two weeks off in December? That sucks. School start and stop dates are different all over the country. It is not a standardized thing.
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yougov(B+ 538 rating) has a new poll showing Biden up 4 (about the same amount he won by in 2020). He won 54% of Independents last time, I wonder what will happen to that number. https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/pvpz4fi6ym/econTabReport.pdf also public opinion strategies(b+ rating from 538) has a poll with Biden up by 1 in Arizona. https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/pvpz4fi6ym/econTabReport.pdf Interesting to see how the incumbent leads with Independent women in Arizona.
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Ethiser posted:School start and stop dates are different all over the country. It is not a standardized thing. I think it's also still typical to have 180 school days per year in most of the country, same as it was at least as far back as the 1980s. If a given district has a shorter summer break than in the past it's probably because there's more time off elsewhere. It's not like "kids off in summer to help on the farm" is nearly as statistically significant as it was years ago.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Do they still get out in June with just two weeks off in December? That sucks. They get out at the end of May, usually the Friday before Memorial Day. They get the standard 2 weeks at Christmas/New Years, a week for Thanksgiving and a week for Spring Break. I know some states/districts have random extra weeks off in October and April (fall & spring) but not us! My kids get 10 weeks off for summer. So 2 1/2 months, barely. A few years ago, we were planning a big end-of-summer trip and were looking at return flights into late August until we realized the kids were back in school in early August. It was a real kick in the crotch, it felt like we barely had time to have fun before it was back to school. Why can't it be out at Memorial Day and back in after Labor Day? That seems like the perfect bookends to summer.
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For families that have both parents working, A hefty 3 months off is a lot. There's also a lot of learning lost without use that has to be made up. For food insecure families, that's a long time to be out of school with guaranteed breakfast and lunches. We are in a year round school and it works out great.
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Congress...good? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/put-american-public-first-senators-211500437.html 'Put the American public first': Senators propose law that bans members of Congress and executive officials — including the president — from trading stocks quote:A new law has been proposed that would ban members of Congress and the federal executive branch — including the president — from trading stocks.
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The best part of an actual enforced ban on legislators owning stock is that it would keep anybody who wasn't okay with not having stocks out of the legislature. It's honestly loving crazy that they can trade stocks and the fact that everybody gets rich as gently caress as soon as they get off the plane in DC shows how much of an absurd advantage insider congressional knowledge gives you in the market. Which is, of course, supposed to be illegal already, but is an enforcement nightmare - banning stockholding altogether is much simpler. Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 13:42 on Jul 27, 2023 |
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