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axeil posted:This would be cool so local-transit-chat doesn't derail USPol. Make sure and let us all know when it's up. I want a place to talk about how subway systems across the country are becoming failed organizations. Agreed, I'd love to see a public transit thread to nerd out about and probably never post in. 
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Luigi Thirty posted:Smaller scale ones have operated in Florida theme parks over distances of a couple miles in for decades. When a hurricane comes along you pack up the gondolas. If the cable falls you just put a new one up. They took the one out of Disney because it was a hellhole of OSHA violations, not because of hurricanes. I rode one of those Disney ones when I was a kid and I'm not sure I've ever been more scared in my life. I really can't imagine riding one of these things as public transportation. Intellectually I know they exist and they're probably a lot safer than I think and that's high density cable and if a bunch of people had died on these things I'd know. But I can't get past the idea that I'm riding in a box dangling on a wire. I'm now imagining a morning commute filled with abject terror.
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STAC Goat posted:I rode one of those Disney ones when I was a kid and I'm not sure I've ever been more scared in my life. I really can't imagine riding one of these things as public transportation. Intellectually I know they exist and they're probably a lot safer than I think and that's high density cable and if a bunch of people had died on these things I'd know. But I can't get past the idea that I'm riding in a box dangling on a wire. I'm now imagining a morning commute filled with abject terror. At least with the one in New York City, for the most of the route you'd just land in the river and float - and if the motor breaks they wheel over rescue baskets with food/water and to take off the braver passengers.
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Popular Thug Drink posted:gondolas only really make sense where you have a lot of significant elevation changes, because the downside of a gondola is that it's really low throughput (only so many people can fit in those cars) and imagine being stuck in one of those when the system breaks. now imagine you're stuck in there with a drunk bum On the plus side, low gondolas are less susceptible to hot-dogging fighter jock impacts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_(1998)
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Apr 1, 2016 01:01
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About to get a live update on the Richmond trooper shooting. Right now it's just reporters not realizing that the pile of microphones two feet away from them is picking up their conversation about yogurt and fish tacos.
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STAC Goat posted:I rode one of those Disney ones when I was a kid and I'm not sure I've ever been more scared in my life. I really can't imagine riding one of these things as public transportation. Intellectually I know they exist and they're probably a lot safer than I think and that's high density cable and if a bunch of people had died on these things I'd know. But I can't get past the idea that I'm riding in a box dangling on a wire. I'm now imagining a morning commute filled with abject terror. http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/08/stalins-rope-roads/100577/
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Apr 1, 2016 01:16
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Apr 1, 2016 01:21
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:I think there's an inevitable backlash brewing. People know our government is nonfunctional and that something has to change. The problem is the "for my team to win your team has to lose" tribal mentality that pervades both sides of the political spectrum and I have no idea how you go about defusing that situation. Look at this stupid false equivalency bullshit. One side works with the other and considers any progress a "win", the other considers anything but burning the entire government to ashes a loss. In no way are these two remotely the same. In what sane world would "accepting a compromise supreme court judge when a retirement opens while the other side holds the white house" be a loss instead of a victory?
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The human mind is a very adaptable thing. If we can get used to barreling down the road at 80+mph and think of it as mundane, we can find rope roads mundane. It's easy, it just takes exposure.
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Apr 1, 2016 01:26
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Apr 1, 2016 01:27
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STAC Goat posted:I'm now imagining a morning commute filled with abject terror. Such is life under Capitalism, comrade. 
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Harik posted:Look at this stupid false equivalency bullshit. One side works with the other and considers any progress a "win", the other considers anything but burning the entire government to ashes a loss. In no way are these two remotely the same.  poo poo didn't always work that way and that's part of the problem. But you have people on the left acting like we need to start having the same sort of rigid ideology and welp. I'm sure I'm betraying the revolution and will get called all sorts of names but I don't really give a poo poo.
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I'm pretty sure those are HD screen shots from Half-Life 2's Citadel segment.
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Apr 1, 2016 01:34
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Unfortunately NBC News has reported that the officer is in fact dead. drat.
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Apr 1, 2016 01:38
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STAC Goat posted:I'm now imagining a morning commute filled with abject terror. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnoetmqDXoA
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Zeroisanumber posted:LOL, no. He gets away with it because he's running a primary campaign and the GOP base is made up of the worst people in America. He's going to get shredded in the general. At this point I'm even chill with the bro-est of Bernie Bros because even Bernie could beat the dogshit out of him. For the love of god, please stop saying this as though it is a given.
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Apr 1, 2016 02:13
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That was pretty tame, and the guy heard in the video is way too high-strung.
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Apr 1, 2016 02:16
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Apr 1, 2016 02:30
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CelestialScribe posted:For the love of god, please stop saying this as though it is a given. It is though friend. There's no demographic group Trump is above water in. Even non college whites and white men. It's going to be okay.
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Apr 1, 2016 02:35
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The Maroon Hawk posted:That was pretty tame, and the guy heard in the video is way too high-strung. This guy is a terrible driver.
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Apr 1, 2016 02:36
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I was daydreaming about a roller coaster-based mass transit a couple days ago - they actually have a cable-car system at Six Flags Great Adventure. A little piece of electric motor futurism, we used to have World's Fairs here.
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Apr 1, 2016 02:38
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:
Liberals are perfectly capable of accepting a non-perfect solution if it at least appears like our side is trying. You don't go to a dealership and offer the sticker price. Most of the anger is because the strategy of stomping your feet and holding your breath tantrums seems to work - either they get their way or nobody does. Ideally we'd go back to a government of give-and-take, and the balance of where the compromise lands is based on who has a majority. The other half of the anger is that the minority party (by votes) has such a ridiculous majority due to gerrymandering and pretends that it's a mandate. Sorry I'm not calling you names and calling you a betrayer of the revolution. I guess I'm not ideologically pure enough either!
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Apr 1, 2016 02:41
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Rygar201 posted:It is though friend. There's no demographic group Trump is above water in. Even non college whites and white men. It's going to be okay. The demographic is known as "angry stupid people". This unfortunately makes up a large percentage of the US population.
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Apr 1, 2016 03:09
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This dude is really pathetic and a horrible driver
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nerve posted:This dude is really pathetic and a horrible driver Hence the constant fear. But I don't live in Denver, I live in a place where people gratuitously abuse the "farm truck" loopholes and end up pushing insurance rates up for the entire city because they lack poo poo like blinkers and a functioning/sober driver.
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I've read that before, thanks for the reminder. I think they tried some of everything over the years. Reminded me of this bit of insanity they built in the caspian sea. quote:The foundation of the main settlement consists of seven sunken ships including "Zoroaster," the world's first oil tanker, built in Sweden. In Neft Dashlari's heyday, some 2,000 drilling platforms were spread in a 30-kilometer circle, joined by a network of bridge viaducts spanning 300 kilometers. Trucks thundered across the bridges and eight-story apartment blocks were built for the 5,000 workers who sometimes spent weeks on Neft Dashlari. The voyage back to the mainland could take anything between six and twelve hours, depending on the type of ship. The island had its own beverage factory, soccer pitch, library, bakery, laundry, 300-seat cinema, bathhouse, vegetable garden and even a tree-lined park for which the soil was brought from the mainland.
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CelestialScribe posted:For the love of god, please stop saying this as though it is a given. Actually it is. It's as much a given as something in political can possibly be. But enough your Arzing I guess. Anyway. the Chicago PD has absolutely no loving shame. Police union hires officer charged in Laquan McDonald's killing FFS get the Feds in there and clean loving house from top to bottom. This is sick. Shimrra Jamaane fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Apr 1, 2016 |
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Actually it is. It's as much a given as something in political can possibly be. But enough your Arzing I guess. It's me, the professional Jack of All Trades.
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Harik posted:I've read that before, thanks for the reminder. I think they tried some of everything over the years. I think that the entire philosophy behind it is to build things so that the less safety critical bits corrode through first and hope that they replace the more safety critical bits at the same time.
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CelestialScribe posted:For the love of god, please stop saying this as though it is a given. IDK dude, like a good ~70% of Americans have a negative opinion of the guy, up from 60% a few weeks ago. And this is before the Dems have really done any oppo campaigning against him. Also the data from the poll I'm referring to predates the events of this past week, which almost seems to have been sent from heaven specifically to further trash his appeal among women of both political parties.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Actually it is. It's as much a given as something in political can possibly be. But enough your Arzing I guess. Just a few bad apples (who are elected by a majority of cops as their representatives).
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Stultus Maximus posted:Just a few bad apples (who are elected by a majority of cops as their representatives). yeah it's not like a few bad apples spoil the bunch or anything
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Harik posted:Ideally we'd go back to a government of give-and-take, and the balance of where the compromise lands is based on who has a majority. Bring back pork-barrel spending and appropriations. I'll put up with helping to fund some random bridge in the middle of bumfuck nowhere if that means that more money is spent on proper infrastructure elsewhere.
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:I have a hard time believing that FIFA is as bad as the literal Mafia or the cartels who regularly have people murdered in gruesome fashion. The slave labor is more on the Qataris' hands than FIFA directly, but I still agree that FIFA deserved to be RICO'd. I'm from DC 
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Harik posted:Liberals are perfectly capable of accepting a non-perfect solution if it at least appears like our side is trying. You don't go to a dealership and offer the sticker price. Reminds me of that barry gold water quote regarding the religious right “Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible drat problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.”
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Apr 1, 2016 04:52
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Okay, almost nobody is from DC. 
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Electric Bugaloo posted:IDK dude, like a good ~70% of Americans have a negative opinion of the guy, up from 60% a few weeks ago. And this is before the Dems have really done any oppo campaigning against him. People will vote for someone they have a negative view of as long as the alternative is worse.
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Apr 1, 2016 05:20
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CelestialScribe posted:People will vote for someone they have a negative view of as long as the alternative is worse. If my middle-aged, middle-America mom & dad tell me flat out that they'd sooner vote for Donald Duck than Donald Trump, I think we can safely assume that he's already lost the moderates.
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CelestialScribe posted:People will vote for someone they have a negative view of as long as the alternative is worse. So what you're saying is that Independents are going to vote for Hillary in a landslide because Trump is way worse. I agree.
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