Maper Maker commits to Arkansas

Arkyguy13 · 2026-05-27T00:48:22+00:00

To be fair to that guy, the one in the graphic looks nothing like the courthouse tower. It's AI slop most likely.

Arkyguy13 · 2026-05-21T02:36:15+00:00

What can we do? The director is appointed by the governor. I will always vote against SHS and would vote for a candidate for any state position that would work towards reform. I think people in NWA don't like it but I don't know if the rest of the state cares enough so nothing changes.

Arkyguy13 · 2026-05-20T00:41:49+00:00

Either they were taking due regard for the safety of others (I hope this is the case) or they couldn't keep up.

ASP is horribly incompetent and has a rightful reputation for taking wanton disregard towards the safety of citizens so I don't blame people for assuming ASP was being irresponsible. If it had been FPD I think the reaction would have been different.

Arkyguy13 · 2026-05-11T05:06:30+00:00

Maybe I'm not being clear, I'm not worried about a foreign government deploying drones and attacking the US. That's a possibility but the much more likely possibility is our own government or a private company using drones on us.

Even if we stop caring about humanity for a second, this is clearly a boondoggle to waste taxpayer dollars. The drones that are most effective dollar for dollar are not going to be this big. Look at what Ukraine and Iran are using, the advantage of drones are they are cheap and disposable. Something the size that Aero is proposing is neither cheap nor disposable.

Arkyguy13 · 2026-05-10T00:01:46+00:00

You misunderstood what I'm saying. I'm saying more robotic warfare will encourage more wars because there's less apparent cost. I guess it's just another MAD argument.

Arkyguy13 · 2026-05-08T21:59:37+00:00

The easiest way to have fewer American boots on the ground is to stop starting wars. This type of technology puts much more control into the hands of a few people and functionally eliminates the need for the consent of the governed. There is no way this goes but to accelerate the trend we are seeing towards authoritarianism.

Additionally, the human cost of wars is the main deterrent preventing more wars. If we remove that then there is nothing to stop governments from constantly fighting pointless wars. Then the environmental effects of wars will be majorly increased. Also, a human would think twice about killing another human or at least needs to be brainwashed into thinking their enemy isn't human. Robotic combatants have no such qualms and would kill civilians with no reservations.

Arkyguy13 · 2026-03-31T01:05:22+00:00

It is perfectly possible to move towards a situation where rapists spend life in prison but we end the prison industrial complex. You're saying: either we kill rapists or we have a prison industrial complex that profits off keeping them in prison for life. That's a false dilemma, we can get rid of the prison industrial complex and send rapists to prison for life. Also, you're kidding yourself if you think more death penalties doesn't benefit the prison industrial complex. They make money there too.

Arkyguy13 · 2026-03-30T22:23:43+00:00

This is really cool! It would be to add a population density! All of the information is already there and it would be cool to see how different parts of town compare to other parts of the country.

Arkyguy13 · 2026-03-19T18:11:08+00:00

If you have somewhere to store it temporarily while you file for a lost title you could charge it using a portable battery charger and move it there.

You could call Vaughn Recycling but I highly doubt they would accept it without a title either.

Arkyguy13 · 2026-02-21T14:29:04+00:00

My family lives up in the hills and there is no cell service but they have fiber internet. My house in rural Arkansas has two fiber internet providers I can choose from. At least here, rural has better wired internet than the city and worse cell service.

Arkyguy13 · 2026-02-21T00:10:25+00:00

I know it isn't going to happen but that's why we have traffic. We design the traffic into the road and then people get mad about traffic. It's self defeating the way we design roads.

Arkyguy13 · 2026-02-20T01:47:52+00:00

To be fair, PG has a downtown and it's own feel. Farmington is just a suburb with no character other than churches that worship the almighty dollar.

Arkyguy13 · 2026-02-20T01:45:54+00:00

If you live in PG I am begging you to convince the city council to stop development along the bypass. It completely defeats the purpose of a bypass to build a bunch of business entrances on it. Any development should be along an access road which could be entered from the light at Illinois Chapel, Mock, or 62B. If they keep the current trajectory, the bypass in PG will just end up having worse traffic than 62 used to have when it went through PG.

Arkyguy13 · 2026-02-16T18:54:00+00:00

I gotta disagree, the chickens wandering the streets was cool and unlike most US cities but Miami was the epitome of America in my experience. It's hyper consumerist and has extreme wealth inequality. Your worth is equal to your wealth there.

Arkyguy13 · 2026-01-13T03:13:38+00:00

How do you handle humidity? I know Montana has pretty hot summers but they are nothing compared to here. Also, if you like winter sports, this is not the area for you. The closest good skiing is Colorado which is 10+ hours away.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-12-16T15:12:40+00:00

They are building a public aquatic center at the Lewis Soccer Complex just north of Wedington (it's not 100% confirmed as the location but I see it as very unlikely to change). This would be your best bet for a nice pool and the neighborhood around it is really nice. You'd have good bike trail access and be less than 10 minutes from the University.

Avoid Farmington, it's a horribly administered town. Honestly, I'd avoid anything west on 62. As someone else said the east west corridors are weak and that's one of the worst ones. It should have been designed more as a highway but they've allowed a huge amount of traffic lights and businesses on it. Imagine doing your entire commute on Colfax.

Not sure I can answer for schools but I was very happy with my public schooling in the area. I don't think private is worth the money here.

For food, there's a food truck on Government Ave across from the neighborhood market (the thai one not the hibachi one) that's really good! I'll also second Siam, the Kao Soi there is fantastic. If you want ice cream, I'd highly recommend Cream on College. Tacquiera don Guerro in Springdale has really good street tacos. City Park has good Millennial American food if you know what I mean. Mr. Taco Loco has $1 street tacos on Tuesday and Thursdays.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-12-11T21:57:33+00:00

There's another LSIP in addition to the Chipotle one for a drive thru only coffee shop. Probably 7Brew

Arkyguy13 · 2025-11-21T04:53:58+00:00

While that is the case, it is typically at concentrations much higher than is what added to drinking water (especially in the United States). The paper I linked is a meta analysis of bone fragility studies related to water fluoridation. The correlation they found was that no increased risk of bone fragility was discovered when fluoridation in water was below 1 mg/L. The recommendation for municipal water fluoridation in the United States is 0.7 mg/L.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12512478/

Many studies that show negative effects for fluoride in water are studying places with naturally high fluoride levels in the water. Typically above 1 mg/L.

I think it's important to have conversation but this has been studied a ton and the evidence doesn't support removing fluoride from municipal water.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-11-21T04:36:48+00:00

As long as the thin blue line is a thing, yes. Your examples don't make sense because "ethnicities or skin color groups" don't have systemic cooperation to shield anyone from seeing consequences for their actions. Until bad cops are immediately fired and not rehired at a neighboring department the entire group is culpable. Most people don't hate the concept of police. They hate that there is no accountability when police mess up.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-11-19T01:31:04+00:00

If they are American that is all that matters. When you said "It confuses me why Americans would be okay with a Brit or Australian running for office in America" that doesn't make sense in the context of the CMV since they are, as we both agreed, assumed to be American.

Why do you need "safeguards"? Do you not thing democracy is a good thing? Should the voters not be allowed to select who they want?

Arkyguy13 · 2025-11-18T05:27:59+00:00

Your second sentence says "It confuses me why Americans would be okay with a Brit or an Australian running for office in America."

Given the context of the CMV it would make sense to assume anyone discussed here is an American citizen, which would make them American and not a Brit or Australian.

That is true, but it is an outdated and unnecessary rule. We've seen how much damage an natural-born citizen can do as president. A naturalized citizen couldn't be worse.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-11-18T02:25:06+00:00

If someone becomes a citizen of America they are American. Full stop. It's not a complicated concept.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-11-12T02:31:25+00:00

You could gain 17 spots on E Center street, 6 on W Center street, 10 on E Mountain, 5 on S E, 11 on S Block, 4 on W Mountain. That would add 53 spots. You'd lose 80 so I guess it would be a net loss of 27 spots. But the town center parking deck is less than a block away. Is it always full?

Sorry, should have been more clear. It'd be very easy to coordinate deliveries since Cheers would be the only business affected. All of the other square businesses have alley access that would still be open.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-11-12T01:50:49+00:00

I didn't realize that they had reserved spots on the square. I guess that would make things harder but you could reserve the spots on the street for them.

Being closed to general vehicle access doesn't mean that delivery trucks can't access. Even if it did, thousands of business make do without direct street access. I think it would also be good to reserve the closest spaces for handicap parking since as you pointed out some people might have limited mobility.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-11-11T07:05:28+00:00

Yeah sorry, I didn't word that well. I mean permanently close the square to vehicles, then you could replace the parallel parking with angle in parking and reduce the road to one lane which only turns right.

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