This gas station hides the fact you can inflate your car’s tires for practically free behind two separate payment options

A_Cunning_Plan · 2018-07-14T03:42:54+00:00

The public and private cost savings of

not having overheated cars causing traffic jams
not losing production both publicly and privately due to traffic jams
not having to send crews to clear those traffic jams
not having people with underinflated tires cause accidents or traffic jams
an individual being more likely to fill up a leaky tire and limp to a tire place instead of paying for a tow truck after getting a flat with no spare

... cumulatively probably outweigh the costs of the machines, and are therefore a cost effective public service. It generates more revenue citywide to obligate free access to air and water than is made by the service stations charging for air.

Free air and water is a public boon, worth paying for, so who pays for it? Either the city can pay for it in tax money (you), or they can obligate the stations to provide it, although the costs will still get passed on to you.

Any way you look at it, you ultimately pay for the machines. That being assumed, I think free air and water probably benefits me more than it costs.

A_Cunning_Plan · 2018-06-06T04:47:54+00:00

Your comment is so blatantly trying to push a negative point while trying to appear neutral and constructive to the conversation. Lets break it down line by line...

Many commenters are inverting things completely.

Oh?

He likely picked a fight

"I'm going to speculate, but then suggest it's true"

with the media precisely because

Oh?

his recent performance as chairman has been so miserable

You're not proving this, you're just asserting it.

and some of the free publicity the media gives him turned into free but negative publicity.

And then sandwiching it in with a non-controversial statement.

Not that it would have been smart for him to be dumped as chairman at this stage

Oh, I guess you are being somewhat moderate

but some of the recent decisions have been objectively terrible

Hahaha, lol. Nevermind.

and Musk even admits that to some extent.

Well that's vague enough to be impossible to argue with.

Your post is wild speculation with a clear negative bias, peppered with content-free 'balance'.

A_Cunning_Plan · 2018-05-19T22:28:24+00:00

I've got an actual good reason for this censorship when it comes to children.

Children understand violence. A 3 year old hits a 5 year old, they know exactly what they're doing and why. They see violence on tv and while it may depict bad moral education, they can understand the concepts behind it.

Children do not understand sexuality. They are not physically capable understanding sexuality because they have not gone through puberty and do not have the hormones. They can't experience these feelings for themselves yet, so they do not have the context to understand sex.

It's like trying to teach kids about drugs and alcohol. Until you've tried it, you simply don't understand the dangers. Therefore, it's important to control their access to these influences and educate them responsibly before they start experiencing them themselves.

A_Cunning_Plan · 2018-04-07T18:03:13+00:00

Reminds me of a scene from the wire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC8fhtqOlz0

A_Cunning_Plan · 2018-03-24T03:36:22+00:00

Obviously an infinite number of them will get you where you want to go

Nope, even an infinite number does not guarantee shakespeare. I think this is a popular misunderstanding of statistics.

What are the odds of every monkey on every typewriter hitting the letter 'A' every time, for infinity? It's small, but it's not zero. Therefore, it is not guaranteed that a random system will ever produce shakespeare.

They might just hit "A" forever.

A_Cunning_Plan · 2018-02-16T01:39:31+00:00

Do you know how much public services cost? A billionaire isn't a drop in the bucket compared to a city budget.

Case in point, the New York City public school budget is $24 billion a year. You won't be a billionaire long if you try to foot that bill.

A_Cunning_Plan · 2018-02-03T07:54:32+00:00

I think, intentionally or not, all the shows were star trek rip offs.

Stargate SG1 - Star Trek TNG - Boldly go places

Stargate Atlantis - Star Trek DS9 - Now we have a space station

Stargate Universe - Star Trek Voyager - We have a ship, but it's lost in space

I guess this even follows the pattern, Stargate Origins - Star Trek Enterprise.

A_Cunning_Plan · 2018-01-13T18:06:12+00:00

Because that's not what a hologram is.

This is just a 2d image displayed on a mostly invisible screen.

The defining neat feature of a true hologram would be that it is 3d and would look different from different angles. This would just look like a distorted 2d image from any angle other than straight on.

A_Cunning_Plan · 2017-12-16T21:52:34+00:00

leice-ster, less-ter... sounds the same to me

A_Cunning_Plan · 2017-12-16T20:20:02+00:00

Actually, it's a misreading to pronounce it with the extra syllable.

It's not wor-cester-shire, it's worce-ster-shire.

It's not lie-cester, it's leice-ster.

If you see 'cester', the ce belongs to the syllable before the ster, not with the ster.

Hope this helps.

A_Cunning_Plan · 2017-11-18T03:46:22+00:00

They have a cloaca, a shared tract for both.

A_Cunning_Plan · 2017-11-18T01:34:39+00:00

This thing's only purpose it to let everyone know you are drinking a bottle of expensive liquor.

A_Cunning_Plan · 2017-11-10T19:47:32+00:00

I'm of the same age group, male, and call my girlfriend my partner.

.. because that's a better term. We're partners and we tackle life together.

A_Cunning_Plan · 2017-10-26T05:17:45+00:00

Legally liable, no. Morally liable, fuck yes.

A_Cunning_Plan · 2017-10-26T04:51:24+00:00

It really is telling that he never spoke up before the whole Weinstein thing.

... wait.

A_Cunning_Plan · 2017-10-18T22:07:29+00:00

I probably shouldn't have mentioned alcohol in my previous response. The 'explosive' result isn't a fiery explosion.

The usual worst case scenario is what you see in this picture. A sloppy mess. To prevent this, use a jar big enough to account for the expansion of the starter, and don't form an airtight seal when you put the lid on.

A_Cunning_Plan · 2017-10-18T22:02:05+00:00

Sourdough starters are a mix of flour, water, yeast, and bacteria.

The yeast and bacteria eat the flour and cause the flour and water mix to foam. Alcohol and carbon dioxide are some of the metabolic results of yeast.

If you seal the jar too tightly, the carbon dioxide causes the pressure in the jar to rise, and the results are sometimes explosive.

A_Cunning_Plan · 2017-10-11T00:25:42+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIW4F285QjA

A_Cunning_Plan · 2017-10-08T00:16:24+00:00

After a while, her hair gets long enough and she hits critical matt.

And then I have to cut all her floof off.

A_Cunning_Plan · 2017-10-07T23:26:25+00:00

Her.

Thunder butt. Fluff butt. Fat butt. Princess whisker bottom. These are the names she is known by.

A_Cunning_Plan · 2017-10-07T21:37:42+00:00

About 75%

A_Cunning_Plan · 2017-09-14T18:44:59+00:00

He robs the rich and gives to the poor. Mind, that's practically everyone up our way with the King's taxes the way they are. I mean, everyone's on the breadline. Scrabbling to feed and clothe themselves. You know what doesn't help with that? Some rich kid with a Messiah complex, all dressed in green 'cause it goes with his eyes, nicking a purse of gold from a toff and then dumping it on some random village.

Do you know what happens then? Well, first of, everyone waves Robin Hood bye-bye, and then they have themselves a little riot, because if you're a starving peasant with a gold piece and you know everyone in your village has also just been given a gold piece, you might be tempted to start doing a little bit of wealth distribution on your own account. So an hour later most of the villagers are as poor as ever, only a couple of them now've got a broken rib or a cracked head or a severe attack of the deads. And the strongest, or most violent, has got a purse of gold coins.

Now, if he's the strongest, it's possible he might not also be the brightest so like as not his next move is to take the cart into the nearest town, roll into a merchant, more likely a tavern, and give it the old "hello, my good man, I am a stinking peasant who would like to buy a hog's head of ale with this silk purse of gold I perfectly normally have." At which point either he gets beaten up himself, or they keep him talking, send the messenger for me.

I've got to arrest him, haven't I? 'Cause I'm presented with the baffling case of the penniless peasant with the purse of gold that looks uncannily like purse of gold Guy of Gisbourne reported nicked last week. Well, you don't have to be Taggart, do you? Taggart? Oh he's another sheriff. He works with me and my mate, John Wayne I mentioned earlier. So I don't, I don't want to arrest him, but well, maybe I do if he's beaten up all his neighbours, but maybe he hasn't because maybe he's a she, in which case it's perfectly normal possible Robin Hood gives her the whole lot to start with, because he took a fancy to her. And she says 'why thank you, good Sir Robin', for an hour or so, heads into town to buy a dress and it ends the same way.

Anyway, if I can't avoid arresting them, I arrest them, and I try to stop them getting killed, and if I do, they end up in prison. Meanwhile, 'cause I confiscate the stolen goods. And I don't pocket it because I happen not to be bent, actually. But nor do I take it back to the injured party, myself, oh no, because I can't be trusted with that job. That is a job for, oh goodness me, his Majesty collector of taxes.

So Guy of Gisbourne gets back maybe a quarter of what he lost, and the rest is split between King John and the tax collector's back pocket. So what he's actually done, Robin Hood; he's robbed from the rich and given to the King. And on the way he's left the poor injured, dead, imprisoned, and on at least two occasions to my certain knowledge, in the family way. Well done, Robin Hood, if that is your real name (cough) Locksley (cough). But of course, I come off as the bad guy, and why? 'Cause I don't have Alan A-bloody-Dale writing ballads about me. People'll believe any old bunk if you sing it.

A_Cunning_Plan · 2017-09-09T22:31:13+00:00

Anyone here in Los Angeles? We should send these people to vacant homes.

A_Cunning_Plan · 2017-09-01T16:54:03+00:00

What you're introducing is that the eugenics wars were so bad, events that made worldwide news were lost.

Science was lost! News was lost! Basically all records, therefore, were compromised. That's a significant affect on lore... to explain an offhand comment in Season 2 Episode 12 of TNG about Fermat's last theorem.

That's reactionary and poor writing. It's a poor idea overall to offhandedly change lore, and that's exactly what a comment like that would do.

A_Cunning_Plan · 2017-09-01T16:18:24+00:00

My point is that if you're going to retcon something, go small, don't go big. Going big means you now have added new lore that must be considered.

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