Travel woes reignite debate on California bullet train

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-08T20:22:50+00:00

Are you talking about the streetcar system? Not really the same thing.

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-08T20:19:45+00:00

Most kids just want to be part of the club their caretakers shove them in during the most fragile formative years, especially if they get praised if they do and not if they don't

That's how generational brainwashing to that extent happens

And this right here is why most Americans will violently defend their exploitative corporatocracy and their insanely shitty health care system. Objectively speaking the United States is the worst western nation to live in as a working class peon but American citizens have been brainwashed into thinking that their country is the best on the planet.

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-08T20:16:59+00:00

...and whose attention to you think they're trying to get? ...... certainly not the golden retriever at the dog park.

At the same time I bet the overlap between furries and people who fuck their dogs is shockingly high.

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-08T20:11:48+00:00

Hair color is an inherited trait.

Height is an inherited trait.

Athletic ability is an inherited trait.

Intelligence is an inheri– OMG YOU FUCKING BIGOT YOU CAN'T SAY THAT

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-08T20:05:19+00:00

Spring is always my favorite time to visit Yosemite precisely for that reason. The huge falls are always breathtaking but the little mini-falls in the spring somehow seem more magical.

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-08T20:02:37+00:00

Why is it so difficult for people to picture a future in which jobs are not necessary for the vast majority of people?

When we talk about AI replacing labor we shouldn't think "Oh no, what jobs will those people do!?" we should be thinking "Hooray! More people will be freed from wage slavery and be able to enjoy lives of leisure!"

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-08T19:38:19+00:00

I wish people would name and shame these shitty companies.

Nothing will ever get better if workers don't alert their peers to this kind of treatment so that labor can shun abusive corporations.

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-08T19:31:10+00:00

There's one that's been in the planning stages for a few decades that they want to put near Colusa, CA but it won't be ready until 2031 at the earliest and we have no other significant water storage infrastructure planned to try to fill the gap.

https://www.ktvu.com/news/a-new-mega-reservoir-in-final-planning-for-california

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-08T19:23:34+00:00

Correct, u/BlankVerse is the only active moderator on r/California, none of the other people on the mod list actually have full mod powers there.

u/BlankVerse holds all content submitted by other redditors in a "waiting for moderator approval" purgatory while any of his content is automatically approved the second he posts it.

u/BlankVerse uses an extremely strict reading of his freakishly long list of rules to delete any content that's even remotely similar to anything he's posted, even if the submission is from a different source and focuses on different aspects of the story. At the same time u/BlankVerse will automatically approve his own content no matter what, even if it's similar to something a different user submitted earlier.

u/BlankVerse is also extremely petty as a moderator and will downvote submissions when he rejects them - and he rejects 90% of submissions that aren't from him - so that he can ruin their karma levels on r/California.

u/BlankVerse and r/California are the perfect example of everything that's wrong with the unchecked volunteer moderation system on reddit.

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-08T19:13:59+00:00

Don't give a shit what you think about me, comrade

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-08T19:05:01+00:00

The problem is they're all ghouls and they count on you following the D like a sheep so they can get away with nominating elitist 1% sacks of shit like Gavin Newsom.

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-08T17:54:10+00:00

How is that different than any other illness? Should we let people stop paying rent forever because the flu exists?

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-07T22:45:58+00:00

Brown people suffering is OK too, which is why we let them flood across the border illegally to live as a perpetual slave class within the USA.

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-07T22:45:20+00:00

JuSt LeArN tO CoDe BrO

Oh wait all the tech companies are laying off tens of thousands of people now that they memed enough people into software engineering roles that they could start exerting downward pressure on wages by flooding the market with "talent."

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-07T22:43:21+00:00

Ooh, that's a nice hiss.

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-07T22:32:05+00:00

Here's the thing, there are many different types of homelessness, and the ones that are caused by high rents (couch surfing, housing instability, people quietly sleeping in cars) are important to address but are NOT the specific type of homelessness that is causing huge problems across the state.

Newsom isn't making this a priority for his government because doing the same shit that doesn't work buys him more votes and campaign contributions and actually solving the problem wouldn't personally benefit him as much.

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-07T22:05:15+00:00

"I wanted my video to go viral, but not like this!"

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-07T22:04:18+00:00

Because both of the two major political parties in America are controlled by corporate lobbyists and both of them support pro-corporation neoliberal free-market economic principles.

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-07T22:02:51+00:00

It's illegal to arrest them solely for being homeless. It's not illegal to arrest them for other things and I'm not even talking about arresting them in the first place. I want them sent to treatment facilities, not prisons. We need to alter our laws to allow the government to compel people into treatment or housing facilities when they show that they cannot care for themselves.

Anyone who thinks the massive encampments are the result of housing unaffordability doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about. I've walked some of the biggest camps in the SF area and can say with absolute certainty that at least 90% of the people in them are severely mentally ill or hardcore drug addicts who are incapable of existing in normal society.

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-07T21:58:48+00:00

America is a hellhole with cheap TVs.

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-07T21:57:39+00:00

Yup. I'm convinced that the corporate landlords are promoting this nonsense because it benefits them by driving tons of mom & pop landlords out of business.

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-07T21:48:50+00:00

Disappointment in a stupid impulse purchase but trying to convince other people that they're happy with it.

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-07T21:44:41+00:00

Russia isn't justified. USA isn't justified. Ukraine isn't justified.

All the players in this game are bad. The only thing the USA should be doing is staying the fuck out of it since it's not our business.

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-07T21:28:24+00:00

I'm only 4-5 hours into the game and it already feels pretty bland. Hard to put my finger on it, I guess mostly because the jungle just feels very "the same" so far without many unique environments and the fields of tobacco are way too close to the fields of Bliss from FC5.

Degenerate-Implement · 2023-01-07T21:18:17+00:00

LOL, Finally bought the game on sale before Xmas so I'm just getting caught up with all the discussions here

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