shastaxc

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[–] shastaxc 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That sounds like a great program, but what do they do with kids who are allergic to dogs?

[–] shastaxc 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Public schools are not private property

[–] shastaxc 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah it If you see a link like https://discord.gg/abcdefg123456 it is likely an invite to someone's server. I don't see how that could get your email address though.

[–] shastaxc 3 points 1 year ago

I read that most of the candidates in the recent GOP debate supported it or deflected.

[–] shastaxc 4 points 1 year ago

We'll have a Dalmatian plantation!

[–] shastaxc 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Assume it was Darmok and Jalad ordering a milkshake. You take the kid to order a milkshake, point and say "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" and now they know. It's the same way you teach language to anyone. Point to the picture of the zebra and say "zebra" over and over.

[–] shastaxc 12 points 1 year ago

NoBoDy WaNtS To WoRk!

[–] shastaxc 12 points 1 year ago

The network integration is done now. No more need for those guys.

[–] shastaxc 11 points 1 year ago

I think adding lanes helps up to a point but after that just creates more problems. Here are a couple problems with adding lanes:

  1. It assumes that everyone drives efficiently. For example, that everyone knows exactly where they're going and if they're in the left lane to go fast that they start migrating over to the right lane well in advance of their exit. But this is not true and instead causes people to panic swerve across 10 lanes while slowing down in order to get to their exit. Anyone who has been driving for a few years has seen this happen. Multiply this problem by the number of idiots on the road, and again by the number of exits. And having more lanes makes this a bigger problem because it has a higher capacity for more of these idiots to exist, and more "obstacle" lanes between them and their goal (not to mention more victims in those right lanes).

  2. If you don't expand the lanes across all the exits from this super highway, traffic will still back up because the traffic cannot smoothly flow out to the rest of the city where people are trying to go. This backs up traffic on the highway itself. It's like having a clogged artery. And expanding those roads is not always an option if it's already in a heavily developed part of a city. If there's no room due to buildings, you simply cannot add lanes.

In addition to the zoning and walkability suggestion someone else made, I would propose that more alternate routes (even if not as direct a route) can help offload traffic especially at peak times, and is a much more feasible solution in the short term for our country that is built around private vehicle transportation. This is also an effective solution if you add tolls to one of those routes and increase the speed limit. It has the side benefit of funding other city projects, and acts as a sort of tax for people who want to go fast. The lazy implementation of this that I've seen in some places (including in Texas) is to add toll express lanes on the same highway. I see this as mostly a money grab but does not help much, if at all, with congestion. It's more like a streaming service raising their subscription costs just because they can.

[–] shastaxc 1 points 1 year ago

the city of Yekaterinburg, almost 2,000km (1200 miles) east of Moscow

I think it's funny that there's so little in Russia that the nearest recognizable landmark is 1200 miles away.

[–] shastaxc 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not really following. Can you explain why it would be better? I've never had an issue using GitHub.

[–] shastaxc -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is just communism. Distribute wealth until everyone is equal. You don't even need to bring race into the equation to achieve the same results as being proposed here.

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