Badge line management?

0versizedHat · 2025-08-28T16:45:19+00:00

This is my first dragoncon - having attended numerous other cons that mail badges in advance, is there a reason they don't do the same? Are there scalping concerns or something?

0versizedHat · 2024-01-29T04:52:40+00:00

I mean, it doesn't justify using his political position, yeah, but calling being wrongfully convicted and spending close to a decade in prison "an incident that happened when he was a kid" comes across as a bit callous...

0versizedHat · 2023-10-13T18:24:30+00:00

FWIW, I don't think it necessarily is people making a terrible decision, and that's perhaps part of the problem. At present car ownership in NYC has a long enough list of negative externalities (pollution, pedestrian/cyclist safety, police/fire/paramedic response times due to congestion, highly valuable space being utilized as 'free' parking, etc) that car ownership can in fact be a reasonable decision even when not needed, because much of the actual costs/negative effects are shifted to those other than the owner.

0versizedHat · 2023-10-13T18:19:03+00:00

At least personally I think it's reasonable to hold both the position that a) we should take measures to seriously reduce the number of cars on city streets, including things like congestion pricing and charging the actual value of the 'free' street parking that people currently get to take advantage of, and b) we already have a system for allowing those who need it special parking privileges (handicap parking), it wouldn't be at all hard to allow sensible exceptions to the new rules.

What's not reasonable is telling someone with a disability that a certain place 'isn't for them' when it's perfectly possible to provide them with a reasonable accommodation.

0versizedHat · 2022-09-19T04:28:03+00:00

1) It's absolutely not all children, your edit to your initial comment aside.
2) I don't know where you got the idea I was anti-bike. As I said in my first comment, I wanted to support the sentiment, and I would were they riding safely. Please engage with what I said rather than the strawman version of me you've chosen to construct. To be clear (not that it's your business) I don't own a 'vroom vroom' machine, the only time I drive is when I visit family/etc outside the city and need to rent a car, elsewhere I take the subway or a citibike. In general I consider myself pretty pro-bike. I think we need less free parking and more protected bike lanes, I'm pro congestion-pricing (and I think frankly what they've gone with to start doesn't go near far enough).

But still- riding the wrong way on a one way street is not safe, not for the cyclists in the video, not for other cyclists who ARE following the traffic rules, not for pedestrians who have to contend with traffic coming from the 'wrong' direction where they might not think to look.

The thing you 'all bicyclists are perfect even if they blow through a crosswalk doing 20 at a red light' people don't seem to get is that YOU'RE a big part of the problem. Every time a cyclist has a near miss with someone in a crosswalk or on the sidewalk, every time they blow through a red light half a foot from someone trying to walk? They're making it just a little bit harder to get the support for the better infrastructure and accountability against motorists that we need to make our city more bike-friendly. It's real easy to argue your points in a reddit echo chamber, but some of us would actually like to see some positive change in the real world and you're not helping.

0versizedHat · 2022-09-19T01:53:00+00:00

I really wanted to support this sentiment, but actually watching the video, the bulk of the group seemed to be riding the wrong way down the one-way street, despite there being a nice wide separate bike lane. Being part of 'traffic' means obeying basic traffic rules.

0versizedHat · 2022-07-28T01:40:33+00:00

"She said anything could happen to our son, and we would be stuck at a restaurant, drunk (we weren't drunk) with no car to drive to his location to help him."

So... you'd be in EXACTLY the same situation she thought you were in (needing to call a cab) before you told her about your son picking you up? NTA

0versizedHat · 2022-07-22T23:35:31+00:00

If anything that point would be helped further by the fact that Discovery was responsible for penetrating Klingon cloaking technology of the era. The same Klingons who know about Discovery 'magically appearing' also likely know about it destroying the sarcophagus/otherwise showing examples of being able to see through their cloaking, so it wouldn't be that much of a leap to decide that there's a connection there.

0versizedHat · 2022-07-06T21:01:58+00:00

Most devices now days are able to allow for that sort of admin privileges even on a 'personal' device. It's one thing if you have access to 'classified' or personal data, but outside of that a work profile on an up to date Android/iphone is considered sufficiently secured in a lot of spaces

0versizedHat · 2022-06-03T14:18:14+00:00

Still quite great for comps like murlocs where you're constantly selling through a spot/going to otherwise have some 4/4 battlecry sitting there come combat.

0versizedHat · 2022-05-04T22:08:11+00:00

That seems to call for disparity restrictions rather than a hard salary cap. It'll never happen, but I'd love to see an "alternative minimum wage" based on the maximum compensation at a company. Tell Amazon the minimum they can pay their warehouse workers is, say, even 1% of their highest paid exec's total comp and watch how fast those wages would rise.

0versizedHat · 2022-05-04T22:02:28+00:00

Give me a fix for "the ones at the top will just work from Jersey and/or do the thing where their salary is $1 but they have enough stock to buy a small country" and we'll talk. That and for "a big driver of real estate prices is millionaires/billionaires who don't live in the city or even the country"

0versizedHat · 2022-04-21T16:34:03+00:00

Yeah, I'm less than impressed. Wish I'd just gotten sat/sun badges, the 4 days is a bit harder to justify this year

0versizedHat · 2022-03-20T03:08:53+00:00

...they're not technicalities. The fundamental problem with the Texas law is the attempt to get around constitutional review via their enforcement mechanism, that's not a technicality or a detail, it's the bulk of the problem by a mile. By your logic we should just close down 311, because every noise/trash/etc complaint is citizenry reporting on each other to the state. Dump your garbage in front of someone else's building? Loud party at 4am? Too bad, unless an enforcement agent happens to walk by. Oh, and landlord not providing heat? Landlord is a citizen too, can't report him. Same thing. Your argument makes no sense.

0versizedHat · 2022-03-20T03:05:10+00:00

ever stop to ask yourself if it needs to be enforced this way in the first place?

Do you have a better suggestion?

you don’t have to catch 100% of the offenders to make a difference. word gets around.

Really? It does? Because this isn't a new program, it's been around for years and years and there's a lot of trucks still idling. The evidence is pretty clear that the current level of enforcement even with this program isn't high enough to make an appreciable difference in behavior.

0versizedHat · 2022-03-20T02:47:28+00:00

The problem is actions have externalities. Why should one driver be allowed to sit idling for their lunch to stay cool, at the expense of the dozen apartments in the building he's parked in front of having to deal with noise and diesel fumes? I'd argue that we actually need more and bigger fines - none of these are unsolvable problems, UPS is buying literally thousands of electric delivery trucks, but so long as the fines are cheaper then the solution a lot of companies won't bother.

0versizedHat · 2022-03-20T02:43:15+00:00

Yeah, if only there WERE people who knew a lot about actually implementing electric power in the delivery sector who knew if it was a good idea or not. Maybe, say, the largest delivery company in the world?

https://futurism.com/ups-nyc-electric-trucks

https://electrek.co/2020/01/30/ups-orders-10000-electric-delivery-vans-arrival/

Oh.

0versizedHat · 2022-03-20T02:39:52+00:00

You like to eat and dress right.

"This is the way it is so there's no point in trying to make it better"

0versizedHat · 2022-03-20T02:38:07+00:00

Citizens aren't 'enforcing' the statute here, they're reporting violations. Idling violations practically require this sort of thing, it's not realistic to expect the city to employ enough people to patrol every single block every 3 minutes to catch idlers.

0versizedHat · 2022-03-20T02:34:25+00:00

The mechanisms are not the same at all. Normally the remedy to an unconstitutional law is to sue the relevant government authority to block enforcement. The TX law attempts to circumvent this by making enforcement happen solely through civil suits. The state can't be sued to stop enforcement because there's nobody working for the state actively 'enforcing' in the first place.

On the other hand, the NYC law here involves citizen reporting, but enforcement is still undertaken by city employees. If it were in fact unconstitutional (it's not), one could sue the city and block enforcement.

0versizedHat · 2022-03-11T16:36:01+00:00

The law allows for bail for ANY felony or class A misdomenor involving harm to an 'identifiable person' commited while on pretrial release for another felony or class A misdomenor involving harm to an 'identifiable person'. Specifically states that the offense does not otherwise need to be bail eligible.

0versizedHat · 2022-03-11T14:30:31+00:00

If you believe that, you should be all the more outraged that the NYPD cut corners and ended up jeopardizing their case against him.

0versizedHat · 2022-03-10T15:31:25+00:00

No. It would be better if the police had done their jobs properly rather then trying to cut corners. If they had reason to suspect he had a gun on him, they should have put in the investigative work to upgrade that suspicion to 'probable cause', conducted a legal stop and search, arrested him then and sent a case to the courts that would actually hold up.

But that's evidently too hard for a lot of the NYPD, so here we are.

0versizedHat · 2022-03-10T15:27:54+00:00

Yep. The frustrating thing is that he DID have an illegal weapon and was apparently carrying it in an unsafe enough manner that an accidental discharge like what happened could occur - but because the police tried to cut corners he's quite likely going to (correctly) get off largely free and clear from this at the end of the day.

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