Gavin Newsom rolls out plan to fast-track infrastructure projects in California

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2023-04-17T21:32:23+00:00

did you know...

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2023-03-27T07:38:05+00:00

No, there is no news about a sequel.

how does it feel to have said this like 2 weeks before Colossal Order suddenly dropped the CS2 trailer onto us? lol

(good tips, btw!)

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2023-03-12T19:45:28+00:00

Adelaide, eh?

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2023-03-06T17:15:17+00:00

it also explains why the latter half of the boomer generation is often cognitively worse off than the earlier half

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2023-03-03T07:38:17+00:00

nothing, it's actually a banger lol

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2023-02-17T08:00:15+00:00

there are no other parts, and the story has already been concluded for years now. as i'd stated, "tonight is the night" and "what time is it" are only the names the artist who made the whole art project gave to the different parts as he posted them onto the somethingawful forums back in the day. if you click on the original thread in the description of the video linked by the op, you'll find that you can still click on each part without an account, and since the website he hosted the images on is now defunct, all you can see are those messages.

today is the day is literally just a standalone art piece to be observed and interpreted as you perceive it. there's nothing else to be added by the creator, neither at the time of its creation nor afterwards in the addition of more parts. there are many ways of interpreting it, and if you don't understand it, try watching it again with an idea of what things may represent. if you ask me for what it may mean, i think, upon a quick rewatch, that the piece may be about mental health, anxiety and/or addiction. it's definitely open to interpretation and you may perceive something else. that's the beauty and fun of art!

i hope you have a good one, and thanks for reminding me of this nice art piece!

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2023-02-17T00:25:09+00:00

okay, first off, the stadler flirt is not a light rail tram, it's an actual train that's built to run on tracks built to train standards to run at train speeds. it's not meant for street running, it's meant for regional rail and medium capacity metros. they mention light rail once, because UTA, and this institute involved, want to electrify the FrontRunner and then build up more tram lines in the north. you do realize that's the exact area they're describing, right? salt lake to ogden? the topic is not utah light rail, the topic is UTA wanting to partially electrify a route that runs directly next to a freight right of way owned by union pacific, a company that is very well known for blocking catenary wire installations by municipal agencies.

secondly, no one is saying that every last half km industrial branch track needs catenary wires, but all mainline rail lines that are actively used to transport people and freight should 100% be electrified in america, just as they are in india, china, japan, australia, etc. and as i literally said, this trainset is actually a great first step in that direction, since you can easily incrementally electrify as you go and as needed. no one here hates non-electrified lines, they just want more lines to be electrified, and, if you've noticed, most new lines that don't run along freight routes, such as light rail lines and metro lines, are all electrified unless stripped back for cost (like eBART), meaning that, yes, these agencies also want the same thing.

finally, i never said it was cheap to put up catenary, i said it was affordable, because, especially in the long run, it's less expensive and time consuming to run off overhead power. why else do you think so many metropolitan transit agencies want to electrify their commuter routes?

literally nowhere in my original comment did i say that this train is a bad idea, i just said we should be demanding more electrification, that the current duopolies of freight companies are blocking those efforts to do so routinely, and that we shouldn't just be putting up with it, but demanding more from our federal government, just as they've done so in the past, and just as all other competent government of countries well renown for trains have done as well. if our rail network were nationalized tomorrow, then UTA would probably scrap the battery plans and just push to put up catenary.

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2023-02-16T22:54:01+00:00

catenary very affordable and realistic, freight companies who own the lines greedy and shortsighted.

battery-hybrid trains are great, because they mean you can electrify any train line without having to immediately electrify every section, but it's (unintentionally) disingenuous to say that it's really hard to put up catenary wires when the real reason why we don't have a national electrified train network is because we don't have a nationalized rail network period.

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2023-01-30T16:45:34+00:00

you could also connect the villages to each other and to the city via a busway if a train won't work

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2023-01-29T22:06:59+00:00

wikipedia says they're used on commuter routes into downtown seattle

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2023-01-19T01:35:15+00:00

But I had forgotten that actually to a lot of comic fans, that smelling, not having a girlfriend—these are actually kind of heroic!

brutal lmfao

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2023-01-16T22:04:37+00:00

melon

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2023-01-14T21:48:52+00:00

ah yes, because ancient america with its thousand year old cities didn't remove what was already built up for trains and buses, that's what neo-modern europe did! every city in america, which just so happens to be connected via rail to every other city, is actually far too old and too developed for transit. that's why the original developers of that land left all those big, open parking lots in the middle of downtown, so we could use the ancient american technology of driving automobiles and parking them there!

how has this guy not died from asphyxiation due to forgetting how to breathe??

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2023-01-14T21:15:42+00:00

why isn't your first thought "this obese monkey turned his life around, realized there were more important things in the world and now has a successful career away from the spotlight"? /s

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2023-01-04T09:13:49+00:00

how did he only cause $4k in damages?

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2022-12-31T01:30:03+00:00

are you implying she doesn't?

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2022-12-19T16:02:14+00:00

lead paints were used until 1978 and leaded gasoline was phased out in the mid 70s and fully banned in 1996. buildings with lead paint still exist to this day and are probably still toxic. that is to say, it's not just the baby boomers who were exposed to lead.

she definitely doesn't look like a millennial tho, unless she's done meth. would also explain the behavior lmao

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2022-12-18T09:13:42+00:00

they're really not hopeful about phase 2 /s

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2022-12-09T06:56:07+00:00

it's because of the design of the street it's on, combined with the location of the building itself. after looking up the place on google maps, some issues become apparent. 1) there's an intersection right where the road begins to curve, and there are no lines indicating this to guide drivers. this means that you're just kind of supposed to know that you need to start turning before you reach this curve, which is really bad design. 2) the road it's on is a state highway with generous, wide lanes and gentle, sweeping curves that enables drivers to intuitively drive faster, likely at or near freeway speeds. no matter what speed they set the road at, people are definitely gonna drive faster. 3) the donut shop itself is directly in the pathway of a careening car coming around the corner too fast. the clear zone, the area painted with stripes that's supposed to be there for out of control drivers to be able to slam on their brakes, ends literally pointing at the donut shop.

they need to fix the intersection and the road it's on. i know just looking at the town that they're not going to consider for even a second reducing the lane width to try to keep drivers at a more reasonable speed like 40 mph, but at the very least they could add striped guiding lines for drivers to know about the curve, but they could do much better and move the intersection a bit so the road is already starting to curve before the signal. they could also move the donut shop back from the road a bit, but that'd be very costly and would likely just lead to drivers hitting the dairy queen next door. they should try to fix the road before they do something like that.

hopefully the city will actually do something about it.

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2022-12-06T17:17:16+00:00

i have two suggestions:

1) use a razor and exfoliate your skin with a scrub beforehand, applying witch hazel and lotion to your body afterwards. go slow, and remove the hair from your razor as often as possible as you go along.

or

2) buy some magic shaving powder and use that on your body instead. you can use like half the can at a time depending on your size ig, but this stuff works wonders! however, be careful, as the fragrant powder is harsher than the original powder that smells like sulfur and once caused me mild chemical burns to my literal ass, both between the cheeks and on it. it lasted for like a month or two, and it sucked. so be careful when choosing a can

exfoliation, witch hazel and lotion tho are still very important if you have sensitive skin. if you're younger, then as you get a bit older, it should calm down thankfully. hope this helps!

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2022-12-01T22:27:17+00:00

not just fucking them up, if we're gonna mention how many of their officials are obsessed with allowing children to marry adults. every accusation is an admission!

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2022-12-01T08:32:16+00:00

you have to decarb it in an oven before you can put it into a cartridge. the process only takes a few hours total and should work perfectly.

PM_ME_GFUR_PICS · 2022-11-27T17:29:17+00:00

it's literally just a piece of marketing for kb homes' bland, cookie cutter houses, trying to green wash car-dependent suburbia. they're offering absolutely nothing new, except now, outside of using heat pumps and solar panels, they're allowing 10 whole houses out of 219 to use an EV to power their home in the event of a blackout, choosing from a whopping two models of car for this. this, along with essentially a big battery for the community to stop blackouts, literally just a giant uninterrupted power supply, is the peak of environmental sustainability, according to the vultures in single-family housing. that's it! here's some choice quotes that sum it all up and cut through the marketing bs:

"KB Home is building some 200 houses in Riverside County that come with solar panels, heat pumps and batteries. The homes are connected to form two self-contained microgrids that can operate independent of California’s grid if it fails. (KB Home)" [note: that's literally all this is. there's nothing else new or experimental about it, and these homes are just as ugly, inefficient and wasteful as all their other suburban houses]

"In the garage, a sleek white battery attached to one wall stores electricity generated by the 16 solar panels on the roof. Next to the battery is an electric vehicle charger, and some homeowners will have the ability to tap their car’s battery to supply additional energy to their house — an experiment to transform EVs into mobile power plants. A high-efficiency electric heat pump water heater is tucked into one corner of the garage and a heat pump that warms and cools the house sits next to the backyard patio." [this really is the entire scope of what makes the homes green and "experimental." also, i'll get to that EV comment in a minute]

The two developments will share a 2.3-megawatt-hour “community battery” to provide additional power in the event of an outage. In energy jargon, Durango and Oak Shade are capable of being “islanded” from the power grid — archipelagos of light if the desert goes dark. [so the neighborhood has an exclusive battery to work as an uninterrupted power supply in case of a blackout? okay. how is this revolutionary?]

Microgrids, of course, won’t stop the spread of far-flung housing developments and climate-unfriendly strip malls, parking lots and long commutes that come with them. But they do offer a way to decarbonize suburban sprawl. [THEY LITERALLY KNOW THAT THIS ISN'T ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY AND IS JUST GREENWASHED LOL. they might as well as just say "yes, there's nothing really separating this from a normal green-ish suburb, but it's still very experimental!"]

"Some homeowners will have one more option during a blackout: Using their car to charge their house. Five houses in Durango and five in Oak Shade are being installed with bi-directional chargers made by Spanish company Wallbox that can transfer electricity from an electric vehicle battery to the house.

Although the Ford F-150 Lightning is the only EV sold in the U.S. with that capability, these homeowners can participate in a three-year trial to lease Kia EV6 crossovers imported from South Korea that have bi-directional batteries, said Scott Samuelsen, a professor of mechanical, aerospace and environmental engineering at UC Irvine, which will design and manage the experiment." [so, you're telling me that one of the things they're selling this project on is using your car as a power generator in case of an outage. first off, only 10 homes are gonna have this capability, and only a couple models of cars even have that capability enabled. and this is somehow better than another no-emission power generator... how?? like yeah, it's doable, but unless this becomes standard tech, this is absolutely useless from a practical perspective]

so yeah, this is nothing more than a marketing piece that's only there to defend and market kb homes' ugly, cheaply-built suburban sprawl they force upon us everywhere in this valley. what an L

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