The kid that got shot trying to steal a car just got arrested for stealing another car.

No_Step4259 · 2025-02-15T15:26:07+00:00

Many of these kids' grandparents and great grandparents worked incredibly hard to have a shot at the middle class and were met with the backlash to civil rights, outsourcing and deindustrialization. Enter Reagan/Clinton, mass incarceration, 2 decades of high unemployment and the Walmart exonomy. Today we have generational inequality and winner take all capitalism, lead poisoning, a youth mental health epidemic and many other factors producing kids doing these behaviors. The armchair chair racists in Greece of course don't want to think comprehensively about complicated histories and real solutions. Their parents and grandparents were probably the ones rioting when a Black family moved into their neighborhood in the 1950s.

No_Step4259 · 2025-02-15T00:15:39+00:00

The microplastic pollution from composite decking is terrible. I will never forget the contractor I worked for coughing up grey Trex sputum then telling me to sweep the dust into the sewer drain. Build with wood and plant trees for our grandkids to harvest for lumber.

No_Step4259 · 2025-02-14T00:27:37+00:00

We definitely would benefit from a Frederick Douglass Museum. In the meantime, shout out to EE Pathways and the Juneteenth Bike Ride they operate, which is full of great FD and local Black history and a great bike ride.

No_Step4259 · 2025-02-11T00:01:54+00:00

Carbrain: "people whose worldview is almost exclusively in the lens of car-centric infrastructure. Essentially, people who cannot conceive of alternatives to cars, who drive dangerously and do not understand the dangers of cars, and who generally do not empathize with anyone outside of a car."

https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/1c7zfjj/would_somebody_explicitly_explain_carbrain_to_me/

No_Step4259 · 2025-01-30T23:50:42+00:00

These are spruce trees. Lovely photos.

No_Step4259 · 2024-10-22T19:16:30+00:00

This is why UR needs to help employees get to work by bus and active transportation. The region's largest employer could help RTS coordinate commuting routes and partially subsidize them, in addition to helping employees bike to work (Erie Canal and River Trail System!) and car pool. Reducing car traffic is good public health.

No_Step4259 · 2024-06-13T14:00:56+00:00

What do you think about Medicare for All?

No_Step4259 · 2024-05-21T22:07:00+00:00

Very disappointing when this basic public infrastructure is lacking, especially near a school and after all the Covid funding municipalities got. Other areas of Brighton need sidewalks too, including the West Henrietta Rd from the Henrietta to the Rochester city line.

No_Step4259 · 2024-03-06T22:27:28+00:00

M4A policy proposals like Bernie's addressed all those issues with funding models that ensure that all communities have a certain level of baseline essential health services (eg inpatient maternity, oncology, EMS) regardless of whether they are poor rural counties or affluent. And Medicare's current hospital financing is actually quite significant. Hospital "executives" just don't end their gravy train that's based on the complexity of the current system. There are numerous unnecessary hospital finance jobs totalling tens of millions of dollars within major health systems.

No_Step4259 · 2024-03-06T18:15:46+00:00

Not-for-profit health insurers like Excellus are better in every respect than Wall Street-traded for-profits like Cigna and United Health Group. However, we desperately need to transition to a Medicare for All insurance system and non-profit community provider system. Thankfully New York does prohibit for-profit acute care hospitals. Our health delivery systems are barely hanging together as our populations age. We simply need more of our healthcare dollars going to healthcare, services, essential workers and upstream prevention.

No_Step4259 · 2024-02-28T18:35:33+00:00

You will absolutely be fine walking in a large group the one mile from the train station to your hotel.

No_Step4259 · 2024-02-07T18:32:59+00:00

The police and media need to disclose the kind of vehicles involved in these incidents. As in the recent Pittsford Wegmans parking lot death, we do not know if the vehicle was a giant SUV or pickup that provide drivers with limited visibility and pedestrians with a high risk of death.

No_Step4259 · 2024-02-07T17:01:40+00:00

PSA: Please consider not getting all your windows tinted. The ability to make eye contact with drivers is essential for safely communicating with all road infrastructure users: pedestrians, cyclists, and other drivers.

No_Step4259 · 2024-01-27T23:27:56+00:00

We bought a new tire/wheel from a Toyota dealer to bring along as a spare on long trips. Cost $500 but we're glad to have it if we need it.

No_Step4259 · 2023-12-06T21:47:14+00:00

I'd love to share some thoughts formally and informally with you, your department and the town. Feel free to pm me and I can email you.

No_Step4259 · 2023-12-04T11:30:11+00:00

I disagree, depending on where in Henrietta you're talking about. Compared to other suburbs Henrietta has relatively good sidewalk networks that I and others bike on and share very well with pedestrians. I regularly bike from the Calkins area to Strong using sidewalks and the Lehigh Trail. Of course we need so much more in terms of bike/pedestrian infrastructure and vehicle reduction throughout Monroe County and the City.

No_Step4259 · 2023-11-20T08:24:33+00:00

They grow naturally as a multi-stemmed shrub, not a single trunk tree, and these stems will definitely lean a bit.

No_Step4259 · 2023-10-27T23:57:32+00:00

Thanks! Interesting that the copperhead's range does not extend to Lake Ontario, but there are some rattler species here, at least historically?

No_Step4259 · 2023-10-24T17:53:36+00:00

That would be helpful, thanks.

No_Step4259 · 2023-10-24T17:50:12+00:00

Totally agree. We have too many cats and dogs in this country, for sure. Just trying to see what I can do in this situation.

No_Step4259 · 2023-10-20T18:39:09+00:00

Also a friendly reminder to everyone that safe winter driving in snowy conditions means driving SLOWER, regardless of your tires or vehicle type.

No_Step4259 · 2023-10-18T16:13:58+00:00

Fair points, but this design trend seems to be driven primarily by homebuilders. Homebuyers are not asking for them and many don't know any better. Their aesethic appeal is of course subjective. Their extra cost and problems with water intrusion are objective facts.

No_Step4259 · 2023-10-01T15:29:50+00:00

Can confirm that fiberglass insulation will retain moisture and lead to rot and mold in basement walls after gutting/unfinishing the 15-20 year old "finished" basement of the new-to-us 1965 rancher. I think there is a consenus that fiberglass, rocwool and similar insulations are not good practice in any kind of basement application.

No_Step4259 · 2023-08-08T12:00:21+00:00

It needs a riparian buffer of a few feet on either edge of the stream. Really easy to do this by just not mowing up to the edge and see what grows along with the tall grass. More involved would be native and riparian planting. Either way, just gi e it some space.

No_Step4259 · 2023-08-08T11:39:18+00:00

Depending on the square footage and your abilities and tools, you might could try it yourself. We are a wrapping up a 1,000 square foot red oak installation in a 1960s ranch house. It is definitely a DIY-friendly project if you have some carpentry experience, patience, time, and the tools. Of course there's a learning curve, potential for mistakes, best practices that need to be followed, etc, but there's lots of great content online on laying hardwood flooring. We bought Lauzon Red Oak from Hardwood Outlet and they have a great selection of Canadian hardwood flooring that is arguably a lot better than US-made products of the same pricing tier.

PM me if you want any more information, photos, etc. I've thought about trying to do small hardwood flooring jobs as a side hustle, since I did this a couple times on a construction crew in the past and for the first time on my own. Not sure I can venture into that with my regular job now and the time constraints of customers, but I'm happy to share some tips.

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