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Tonetta posted:the correct answer is to take the loving train/bus if you live somewhere you can, and if you don't, to relentlessly pressure your government for these facilities sorry mate, putting up new signs to the event center, boring tunnels and installing traffic cams. No money for trains/busses.
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Oct 11, 2023 15:32
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Rectal Death Adept posted:Even not considering inflation Trump had the lowest gas prices between Obama and Biden outside of one month in Obama's term. Another Trump W. Can't wait to vote for him to lower gas prices and dismantle the American empire.
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Oct 11, 2023 15:32
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Tonetta posted:the correct answer is to take the loving train/bus if you live somewhere you can, and if you don't, to relentlessly pressure your government for these facilities best we can do is a $500M parking structure for 80 cars
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Oct 11, 2023 15:39
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Tonetta posted:the correct answer is to take the loving train/bus if you live somewhere you can, and if you don't, to relentlessly pressure your government for these facilities oh yeah, definitely, american local governments have a very long history of providing public transit to anyone who asks
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Oct 11, 2023 15:43
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The port authority here is actively and deliberately winding down service, they just cut a shitload of routes between the second and third largest job centers in the state in anticipation of BRT plans that are three years off. It's pretty clear at this point that they're in a state of managed decline and I would be surprised if public transit exists here in a decade outside of student ghetto shuttle buses.
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Oct 11, 2023 15:44
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the correct answer is to vote.
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Oct 11, 2023 15:46
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:oh yeah, definitely, american local governments have a very long history of providing public transit to anyone who asks you're right, we should just relentlessly bitch into the void on a paypig forums
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Oct 11, 2023 15:47
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correct
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Oct 11, 2023 15:48
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Tonetta posted:you're right, we should just relentlessly bitch into the void on a paypig forums lol
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Oct 11, 2023 15:48
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I know the whale Twitter is meh but I like the graph https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1712117600606707793?t=RbS0OwB0LX-2lgVaI8xErg&s=19
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Oct 11, 2023 15:49
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Tonetta posted:you're right, we should just relentlessly bitch into the void on a paypig forums That's correct.
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Oct 11, 2023 15:49
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net work error posted:I know the whale Twitter is meh but I like the graph "Seems sustainable" I chuckle nervously
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Oct 11, 2023 15:50
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not saying you can't accomplish anything with local activism, you can, GoBikeBuffalo has gotten some great stuff done around here but if c-spam isn't for jokingly bitching about the realities of this stuff what is it for?
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Oct 11, 2023 15:51
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:not saying you can't accomplish anything with local activism, you can, GoBikeBuffalo has gotten some great stuff done around here Funding the people's liberation army via illegal gofundme scams and coordinating attack positions via DM.
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Oct 11, 2023 15:53
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:not saying you can't accomplish anything with local activism, you can, GoBikeBuffalo has gotten some great stuff done around here Hundreds of people are going to the Port Authority meetings every month here and shrieking that these changes will mean disabled people will be waiting in the cold for buses due to capacity and timing issues. No one listens to any of it and nothing is meaningfully being done to help those people. Every month we get a piece from the Allegheny Institute about how "expanionist public transit" must be stopped. It's pretty clear that the stone's already rolling downhill here and nothing's going to stop it.
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Oct 11, 2023 15:55
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oh well in that case i guess local activism can't do anything, correction to my previous post
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Oct 11, 2023 16:00
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:"expanionist public transit"
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Oct 11, 2023 16:01
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:lmao https://triblive.com/opinion/colin-mcnickle-how-the-next-allegheny-county-executive-can-start-fixing-prt/ quote:Change is in the air with the coming election of a new Allegheny County chief executive in November. And once the new leader takes office in January, he or she can help ensure that change is the operative word to begin fixing the long-out-of-step Pittsburgh Regional Transit, researchers at the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy concluded. they run half the routes they did in 2000
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Oct 11, 2023 16:06
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SourKraut posted:I recently was rushing in the morning and ended up just stopping at McDonalds to grab a quick meal to eat; getting the combo with a crappy McBiscuit or whatever with shaped egg patty, a small piece of bacon, and a non-melted slice of cheese, plus a side hash brown and an iced coffee, cost me over $14. I was expecting like $8 or $9 at most. They've got that meal for $5 in the app. Gotta subsidize your slurry with push notifications and whatever data they get on you.
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Oct 11, 2023 16:23
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Chad Sexington posted:They've got that meal for $5 in the app. Gotta subsidize your slurry with push notifications and whatever data they get on you. there is a phenomenon i've noticed at fast food restaurants lately, especially mcdonalds: since everything has been switched to prioritize ordering on the kiosk, app, and drive-thru, there is always a line if you go inside. These are mainly people who are elderly or, for whatever reason, do not want to use a computer. they will stand at the counter waiting for someone to come over and assist them for as long as it takes, and not say anything the whole time. Just kind of look around like "can you believe this?" The one time I tried to tell a guy about using the kiosk to order, he just told me "i don't do computers" lmao
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Oct 11, 2023 16:27
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i get the drive-thru convenience and whatnot, but man even the expensive bougie cafe here that i frequent is cheaper than that
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Oct 11, 2023 16:27
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When the kiosk spits out a recipt to take to the cashier to finalize the transaction 
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Oct 11, 2023 16:31
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Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:When the kiosk spits out a recipt to take to the cashier to finalize the transaction lol just lol if you think those things actually print receipts anymore, the paper ran out ~2 months into the program and the person trained to change the receipt paper got fired and replaced twice already in that time
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Oct 11, 2023 16:34
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:there is a phenomenon i've noticed at fast food restaurants lately, especially mcdonalds: makes you wonder if things really are better now, for both ends of the transaction. people have to wait more for shittier service and the workers now have to pay attention to like three different order vectors yelling at them at once with an underpaid skeleton crew a lot of places that do online ordering stopped putting the orders out on the grubhub/ubereats/online etc shelf because people would just walk in and take a random bag and leave, so you still have to go up to the counter and pick up your order anyway. same deal if you're picking up in the drive thru, like... you still gotta go through the drive thru. what is all this technology really buying us besides complicating poo poo? Justin Tyme has issued a correction as of 16:43 on Oct 11, 2023 |
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Oct 11, 2023 16:41
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Justin Tyme posted:makes you wonder if things really are better now, for both ends of the transaction. people have to wait more for shittier service and the workers now have to pay attention to like three different order vectors yelling at them at once with an underpaid skeleton crew Things are better now, you get more orders per minute and more money for the owners. Sounds good to me.
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Oct 11, 2023 16:43
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:there is a phenomenon i've noticed at fast food restaurants lately, especially mcdonalds: Non computer user and call center caller here: It's because I spend all loving day touching computers and I actually want to have a 30 second conversation ordering my cup of coffee instead of taking 1-2 minutes clicking "I'm not interested" on stuff the McDonald's algorithm thinks I want or have yet another app on my phone harvesting all my information
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Oct 11, 2023 16:46
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Tonetta posted:the correct answer is to take the loving train/bus if you live somewhere you can, and if you don't, to relentlessly pressure your government for these facilities Money to the Boring Company for a feasibility study of HyperLoop, got it
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Oct 11, 2023 16:52
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Tonetta posted:the correct answer is to take the loving train/bus if you live somewhere you can, and if you don't, to relentlessly pressure your government for these facilities cant pressure the government if you are spending all your free time walking to work 10 miles from home with zero walkable streets and deathdozer Broncos hurtle down residential streets at 50 mph
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Oct 11, 2023 16:54
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Rexicon1 posted:cant pressure the government if you are spending all your free time walking to work 10 miles from home with zero walkable streets and deathdozer Broncos hurtle down residential streets at 50 mph LivingInGeorgia.txt
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Oct 11, 2023 16:57
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luddites were right about everything.
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Oct 11, 2023 16:58
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I'm tired of everything "new" being built to be as hostile to human to human interaction as possible
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Oct 11, 2023 17:00
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Because if the neighborhood is on the Metro Line friendly reminder the previous MARTA ceo died under weird circumstances just shorty after proposing an expansion BornAPoorBlkChild has issued a correction as of 17:59 on Oct 11, 2023 |
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Oct 11, 2023 17:03
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Business Gorillas posted:Non computer user and call center caller here: i don't care what your reasons are, i'm just noting your existence
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Oct 11, 2023 17:04
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12 pack of pop at the convenience store is $9.49
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Oct 11, 2023 17:05
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actionjackson posted:12 pack of pop at the convenience store is $9.49 water enjoyers stay winning
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Oct 11, 2023 17:08
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:i don't care what your reasons are, i'm just noting your existence Fair. Just saying that maybe the reason people don't want to use computer is because the computers suck rear end
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Oct 11, 2023 17:09
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Tonetta posted:water enjoyers stay winning yes, and i also enjoy rooibos Business Gorillas posted:Fair. Just saying that maybe the reason people don't want to use computer is because the computers suck rear end not doing things on a computer and being "connected" or whatever the gently caress constantly is also great for your mental health imo i enjoy having a mechanical kitchen timer, an analog alarm clock, etc. but i'm old enough to remember pre-internet and how much better it was
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Oct 11, 2023 17:14
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it's especially cool when the kiosks aren't tied in to any kind of inventory or other human intervention whatsoever so you order a thing and then when you get to the counter they have to tell it's not available and then they have to call their manager to punch in their code so they can void the order and the whole thing ends up being longer than if it was done entirely in-person and then the next person walks up and it happens again because the kiosk STILL isn't saying that the item that's out-of-stock, is out-of-stock
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Oct 11, 2023 17:17
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Chad Sexington posted:They've got that meal for $5 in the app. Gotta subsidize your slurry with push notifications and whatever data they get on you. stop saying this normalization bullshit at all. “it’s cheaper with the app” shouldn’t be words any of you fuckers in here type even if you follow it up with an explanation. it is $14 whether that’s $14 or $5+your location data and life behavior information
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Oct 11, 2023 17:20
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you can get a sausage sammy and hash for ~$2.40 after taxes without having your data stolen and resold, around here
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Oct 11, 2023 17:21
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