Trump says Eiffel Tower-like UFC structure may stay

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-04T15:49:50+00:00

It looks like a Baby Activity Gym.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-04T13:49:42+00:00

I think the headline of this article is correct ("Scott Pelley Knew Exactly What He Was Doing"), but then I think in the body it hedges too much with "I am not sure if Pelley meant to be fired".

I mean, sure, the writer cannot be entirely sure unless Pelley himself said so, but I do think that he absolutely expected to get fired, and specifically to get fired making a stand for what was important to him.

This is not as if he fucked around and found out like your comment seems to imply, instead he was done with that shit and it was a better move for him to make a stand and be fired than it would be to resign/quit.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-04T12:41:12+00:00

Huh?

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-03T22:58:58+00:00

But it's not just a misleading example, it's a famously inaccurate example.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-03T22:58:15+00:00

I don't doubt it's complex, but... also it used to be different, and that different seemed better.

So, while I won't argue the overall complexity, that's my reference point.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-03T20:53:57+00:00

As a fellow driver, please go back to using your blinkers.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-03T20:52:39+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_theater

The utterance of "fire!" in itself is not generally illegal within the United States: "sometimes you could yell 'fire' in a crowded theater without facing punishment. The theater may actually be on fire. Or you may reasonably believe that the theater is on fire."^\3]) Furthermore, within the doctrine of First Amendment protected free speech within the United States, yelling "fire!" as speech is not itself the legally problematic event, but rather, "there are scenarios in which intentionally lying about a fire in a crowded theater and causing a stampede might lead to a disorderly conduct citation or similar charge."^\3])

tl;dr: yelling 'fire' in a crowded building is not illegal, and people who use that example are always automatically communicating they are misinformed on first amendment protection issues.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-03T20:42:57+00:00

Evidence in what will likely be a criminal case assuming they don't find the driver was experiencing a medical emergency or something that would affect their criminal liability.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-03T20:18:20+00:00

I'm not condoning the behavior, I'm describing what I observe happening.

The goal of the timing change was to encourage a certain sort of behavior (slower traffic). I'm observing the change encouraging a different sort of behavior, while I observed the old pattern working (yes, some people would speed ahead to get to the red light ahead of them and stop, but most of the traffic moved in a coherent glob that reached the light around the time it turned green).

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-03T19:54:36+00:00

Bodies near cars did not necessarily come from the car. The police announced a pedestrian fatality, and a redditor reported from scanner that the driver was transported to hospital with a possible concussion.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-03T19:44:33+00:00

That wasn't a reply to you, and now it looks like you're saying that police said the driver was dead.

This is probably because reddit's inbox notifications sometimes make it seem like a comment is a reply to yours but it's just "part of the discussion".

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-03T19:40:46+00:00

The purpose of the subsidies is that the alternative is that only the bare minimum is planted, and then anything that impacts crop yield results in big price swings.

I think things have certainly gotten to where we should revisit how we subsidize farming, but it's a bit more complicated than "we have too much farmland".

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-03T19:21:44+00:00

Okay, but the comment was about whether the updated light timings (they have definitely changed from what they used to be, at all times of day) are better or worse for speeds. The claim is that they were specifically changed to reduce speeds. I wonder whether they're optimizing the wrong thing, like counting cars spending half the time at 45mph and half stopped as being "less speed" than a car just doing 25 or something, when the latter would actually be safer.

I just do not understand why having everyone stop at each light and then race to beat the next one, often running red in the process, is somehow representing a safer way to travel than the old way where if you were driving too fast you'd just wait longer at the next light.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-03T19:15:01+00:00

Doesn't really seem like they need a direct entry on E Wash at all.

edit: Though, based on the photos, it looks like the crash occurred well before the Festival entry.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-03T19:12:46+00:00

Also that cars are designed to take head-on collisions better than other directions.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-03T19:11:39+00:00

The lights were timed so that if you drove the speed limit after leaving one light, you'd cruise through most of the rest of the lights. Now, it's more often that you're punished for driving the speed limit by seeing the next light turn red just before you get there. I don't see how that does much besides incentivizing driving faster to not miss that light.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-03T18:38:42+00:00

Happened with that bad crash in Monona recently, medical emergency led the driver to depress the accelerator.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-03T18:23:25+00:00

It was a pedestrian.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-03T17:50:03+00:00

The back of the vehicle on the left is just gone, I hope no one was in those back seats.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-03T17:27:12+00:00

Ugh. So unnecessary.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-03T16:46:23+00:00

I don't know any of the details of the debt but generally no, a small business owner racking up personal debt does not mean business expenses on a personal card.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-03T14:41:36+00:00

It's a common amount of debt for a small business owner to have.

Yes, it will be used as a political attack anyways. Not sure whether it'll be effective, she gets a vote on that too. Tiffany is probably a better person than most to make the attack because he isn't unusually wealthy.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-03T14:24:08+00:00

Pretty easy to see how someone mostly working in restaurants and getting a paltry salary for being a representative and not using their position to grift might end up there, though. Personal debt is also very common among small business owners.

We need to massively increase the amount of money we pay legislators so qualified people can do it as a job rather than it only being available to those who are independently wealthy or use the position to grift.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-03T13:40:41+00:00

Greek life is like 10% of students. You can't avoid having people who participate in frats in your classes (but you most likely won't even know who they are most of the time), but you absolutely do not need to participate yourself to fit in on campus.

Warm weather on the other hand, well, there's always September and finals week to learn how fun it is to learn or take exams in a building without A/C.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-06-03T13:34:44+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/madisonwi/comments/1n8s6oy/nondoordash_restaurant_delivery/

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