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by buzzert 3y ago
The quality of public transportation has been getting steadily worse and worse the time I've lived in SF, and it's not because of self-driving cars. Perhaps, maybe, we fund things based on consent rather than force?
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by buzzert 3y ago
> car companies killing off successful street cars in SoCal You're referencing a conspiracy theory/urban legend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp... > residents block the exp
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by buzzert 3y ago
I'm not joking, and if you live in a democracy then yes, I do get to dictate the laws where you live.
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by buzzert 3y ago
Can anyone name at least one positive effect Money has had?
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by buzzert 3y ago
That's fine with me, to be honest. Good people don't steal, so only bad people would be getting their hands cut off.
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by buzzert 3y ago
I'm talking about taxes because I don't think money is the problem. If money was the problem, we should be able to raise taxes to meet the needs of, say, the public school system. The problem is, the additional amount of taxes to
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by buzzert 3y ago
Imagine I take half of your income, and I tell you that it's supposed to go towards helping the poor. Instead, the poor become poorer, all city services get worse, and nobody really seems to be getting helped. You are then expected to
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by buzzert 3y ago
I think that's supposed to come from the extremely high taxes that they already pay. Which, in the context of the original article posted here, is all apparently wasted. I certainly wouldn't want to give any more money to an organ
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by buzzert 3y ago
> extremely rich people who give absolutely nothing back to their communities + > encourage rampant gentrification Something tells me any attempt to give back to their community would be unwelcome, and labeled as "rampant gentrif
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by buzzert 3y ago
> That's because putting someone in jail for stealing less than $950 worth of goods is bonkers. I really can't believe you still think that way. Have you been to a Walgreens/CVS in the city lately? Where everything's
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by buzzert 3y ago
The drugs available now, for example fentanyl, are nowhere near the same league as the drugs that were available after the Vietnam war. It's a completely different level of addiction.
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by buzzert 3y ago
When questioning whether or not to make something legal, I believe it helps to frame the question as, "should someone be allowed to profit off of yet another addictive substance?" The companies selling this stuff (yes, companies
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by buzzert 3y ago
Yes, nothing cooler than joining a social network run by your government.
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by buzzert 3y ago
Just to get this straight, "please focus on making public transportation cleaner and safer" is "bullshit" to you?
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by buzzert 3y ago
Go ahead and keep doing that, while also letting public transportation get filthier and less safe every day. See what happens to car ownership. If you are a public transit "activist", I'd suggest trying to actually improve
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by buzzert 3y ago
Really surprised not to see a single mention of masks in this article. N95 and surgical masks are made from an energy intensive process that spin microplastics into a woven structure. When wearing these masks, you're subjected to a sma
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by buzzert 3y ago
Care to elaborate? Objective-C's simplicity and minimalism is what makes it one of my favorites.
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by buzzert 3y ago
> Not once have I ever downloaded someone's Python project from github and tried to install the dependencies and run it has it ever gone smoothly and without issue. Same here. If it can't resolve dependencies or whatever, then
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by buzzert 3y ago
You're certainly doing a great job making public transportation sound appealing to us "techies".
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by buzzert 3y ago
Just wondering out loud why people use this word, but only for this issue. What else is so obviously true that one must have belief in it, lest they be considered a "denier"? Are there people who don't believe in the homele
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by buzzert 3y ago
Why do you see climate change as a belief?
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by buzzert 3y ago
Okay, so why is it?
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by buzzert 3y ago
So, spend more money then?
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by buzzert 3y ago
IMAP is a really difficult and antiquated protocol to work with also. It's responses are in a non-regular grammar (as opposed to JSON), and IMAP server implementations vary wildly. As a result, properly functioning IMAP clients/li
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by buzzert 3y ago
Nearly all of the things in this list can be blocked by simply disabling JavaScript, or selectively enabling it for certain origins. NoScript is a fantastic extension for this. I don't even have any other ad blockers installed. Just bl
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by buzzert 3y ago
Thanks for the reply. I do hold out some hope for technology in solving this problem. In theory (albeit at great cost), we could build a desalination pipeline from San Diego/Baja California to Arizona, and there's also the Source
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by buzzert 3y ago
I looked into this and saw this as well, but Rio Verde Foothills is a tiny community far northeast of Scottsdale. It seems like more of a political issue (i.e., people who aren't paying taxes to the city are benefitting from the city&#
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by buzzert 3y ago
By law, anyone who wants to sell or lease land in Scottsdale needs to prove that there's a water supply for at least 100 years[0]. Is that phony or something? What was the writing on the wall that you saw that made you leave Scottsdale
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by buzzert 3y ago
Is it because students are growing tired of the culture war that seems to be getting fought in the classroom? I think the media may be overemphasizing this, so I would love it if a parent would dispel the rumor, but it sounds to me like the
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by buzzert 3y ago
Utah as well. Arizona also has a much higher standard of living than California.

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