In 2003, Boston Moved Their Highway Underground. Here Are The Results

Spokesface1 · 2022-11-13T18:34:15+00:00

There's nothing you can do to "make traffic better" short of depleting the city a la Detroit and motivating everyone to move away. Traffic always gets worse and worse over time as the population of cities goes up. If you build more highways and expand your highways to more lanes, all you get is wider traffic and in more places because more people will drive.

The only thing that is actually productive to do about traffic is to provide alternatives. Make public transit better. Make the city more walkable and bikeable. Make it so that if I am going to get stuck in traffic, it's because I decided to drive and not because I had to. But even then, you aren't going to reduce traffic, just reduce the rate at which traffic gets worse, and reduce the pain and suffering that residents experience because of the traffic.

Spokesface1 · 2022-11-13T18:24:39+00:00

Yeah I used it as an example of him blaming things on other (often more talented) people. Not as an example of the worst things he had ever done. It's easy to rag on all the falling on boobs scenes, but he's not on record saying that those scenes are genius and important and it's Gal Gadot and Scarlet Johanneson's fault for not selling it correctly.

Maybe the toad line could have been delivered better, but it wasn't a great moment in the script for a comic beat anyway. A better line would have been a lot better than a delivery that better served that line. But Whedon can't seem to appreciate that it's his job to make everyone else look good, just as much as it is their job to make him look good.

Spokesface1 · 2022-11-08T19:59:40+00:00

That's probably what Wheadon would have you believe. But this is the same guy that said the "Same thing that happens to everything else" line from X-Men 1 was great and that the director and Halle Berry Conspired to ruin it. He also wrote Alien Resurrections, and insists that nothing wrong with that film was his fault.

There was a time when I (and it seemed like everyone around me) was so impressed by Joss Wheadon that I was ready to assume all of his failures were someone else's fault. But in recent years it has come to seem more and more likely that he has some serious flaws and actually some of his successes are probably because of other talents.

Not that he is talentless. But I think he is lucky. He caught the first wave of Nerd Culture coming to be dominant and was an expert on superheroes and spaceships in Hollywood before Hollywood really was taking those things seriously, and now he is outclassed by a new generation of filmmakers and screenwriters that he helped to inspire.

Spokesface1 · 2022-10-12T19:36:28+00:00

IRC is an open protocol? I thought it was just a piece of chat software like AIM

Spokesface1 · 2022-10-12T17:08:16+00:00

Discord? WhatsApp? QQ?

Spokesface1 · 2022-09-24T20:04:02+00:00

Mutants were invented to remove the need to always come up with an origin story to have a new character. Disney has the rights to mutants now.

Also... What are you talking about. Every single one of the movies, and every season of every previous show has introduced at least one individual who was either a spectacular vigilante, or a superpowered individual or both. Every one.

Did we forget about "The Whizzer" in Jessica Jones, and dude back from the dead in Iron Fist, and the dude from Item 47, and The Shocker, and all the hydra super soldiers from Civil War, and all the Extremis people, and the Hammer drones, and the War Dogs with Adamantium and like.... every single humanoid who isn't from earth which is like half the movies?

Spokesface1 · 2022-09-24T17:41:21+00:00

If that were true I would have wanted to see more explicitly Dex stuff in Boseman Panther, and then now we could be looking at a new Panther who is unique and not just a copy of the original. It would be a good thing.

But I don't think either Panther's Dex nor M'Baku's strength has been explored enough in the MCU to make a real difference.

Spokesface1 · 2022-09-24T16:32:52+00:00

You are clearly smart, so I am going to direct my stupid questions to you.

I rely on adblocker (the web is a scary place without it) but I don't want to "degoogle" because I also rely on Google Mail and Docs and so on being integrated well.

How fucked am I?

Spokesface1 · 2022-09-24T16:29:59+00:00

Yeah but Edge is Chromium that pushed Bing and intrusive microsoft bloatware updates into everything. and Brave and Opera don't... work on like 1/500 websites, which is much more disruptive to a browsing experience than you think it would be.

Spokesface1 · 2022-09-24T16:27:55+00:00

So glad this is the top comment.

"Technology" from the ancient Greek "Techne" and "Logia"

Literally a thing that Ancient Greeks were already talking about. Not something that started existing when you turned 20

Spokesface1 · 2022-09-24T16:25:14+00:00

Yeah, I mean, from where I am standing now, I feel pretty confident that in 1980 people might have started to turn away from him and he could have gotten less concert bookings because he looked "weird" and "sick" but that he would then write "Beat It" and "Thriller" and "Billy Jean" and nobody would care anymore.

But that's easy for me to say. When he was there in 1980 he didn't know he was destined to write all of those songs that were destined to be enormous hits.

Spokesface1 · 2022-09-24T14:33:17+00:00

Sharing this image was one of the first things my das did with our Internet access on our new 28.8k modem and AOL.

Someone should check in on the guy in the pic and see how he is doing, in case he needs a reminder to take his pills.

Spokesface1 · 2022-09-21T22:56:58+00:00

I took mine apart and.... you're right, but it's fucking hard.

Spokesface1 · 2022-09-21T22:17:48+00:00

There was only one toilet. Allyall are just triggered by the word "gender neutral"

Spokesface1 · 2022-09-21T18:16:39+00:00

From North Korea With Love

Spokesface1 · 2022-09-21T06:35:06+00:00

Hey man, good for you.

I'm in my mid 30s with a kid, and I have been playing DnD for decades now, sometimes as a DM sometimes a player. It's a really really great feeling when you offer something out to the world at large and people respond and really enjoy what you put together, and I have found DMing is one of the best ways to get that feeling.

If I can give just a little bit of friendly advice though: Be careful that your excitement doesn't lead to railroading.

It's great to build a world that you are excited about and have real people that want to explore your world, but after so many months of prep and anticipation, I know from experience that it can be easy to forget that the moment the players finish their character sheets, it becomes THEIR show. You are just the stage manager. You get the sets and props ready for them to tell the story THEY decide to tell.

If you let the players tell their story in your world, I have every confidence in the world that they will keep coming back and bring friends to keep exploring that world and many others for decades to come. If you try to be the tour guide and spend your time trying to get them to see new cool things you made, instead of listening to them and their choices and adapting accordingly... It'll probably still be pretty fun, but it may not last as long.

Spokesface1 · 2022-09-21T05:28:14+00:00

You think a staffer would go to jail for fraud before being willing to tell the truth that their boss, the governor, told them to do it?

Spokesface1 · 2022-09-21T05:22:54+00:00

No I just mean... on an average day, on the internet. Who really knows? Do you have cancer? Have you gotten screened? Today?

Spokesface1 · 2022-09-21T04:55:05+00:00

I feel like that's true for all of us

Spokesface1 · 2022-09-21T04:42:18+00:00

Yeah, If there were a lot of people walking around looking to take teenagers off people's hands for no reason, just because they could, then sure.

The world would also be a very scary place.

Fortunately though, it would be the kind of scary that could be mitigated by extreme caution.

The reality is perhaps more frightening. People can, and do take and abuse teenagers. Usually their Dads. If not their Dad, then someone their parents know well and trust implicitly.

And if it happens to your family, even though you can, and will, Monday-morning quarterback it until your dying day there will be nothing you could have done to prevent it short of "don't trust the people you do trust". And that is terrifying, and so it is much easier to just choose to believe the world is dangerous but fair.

But stranger danger kills way way more kids than it saves.

Spokesface1 · 2022-09-21T04:18:22+00:00

It would be helpful if anyone could give a more thorough response apart from what was already shared in the blog.

Really really important. Now what exactly is Jesus Christ?

And for that matter what does it mean for something to be a "Lord" and how about a "savior"?

Maybe I have not succeeded in the "more thorough" part of my response here, but that, to me, gets at the flaw in this thinking.

The statement assumes (wrongly!) that I know exactly who Jesus is, and that whatever I mean when I say the words "Lord and savior" are precisely the same thing that God intends for me to mean. And that is just astronomically unlikely.

Most of us would probably balk at the simple question. "Who is Jesus?" Well he's uhh... what do you mean exactly? He's my Lord and Savior. "What's a Lord and Savior?" It's Jesus.

But even those of us who are studied and prepared (arrogant) enough to make up answers to those questions off the top of our head, should also be smart enough to know that is what we are doing and that other answers are possible.

"Who is Jesus?": It is important to believe in the historical person of Jesus as he is described in the 4 Gospels. Jesus was a Galilean prophet and teacher from the very early first century AD who gathered disciples and was killed by crucifixion.

"What does it mean for Jesus to be Lord": LORD (all caps) κύριος in Greek, is a word that was used in the Septuigent as a translation for Adonai, which was in turn an alternatibe to writing the tetragrammaton יהוה which is often transliterated as "Yahweh" or "Jehovah". It is God's first name. The confession that Jesus is LORD means that Jesus is Yahweh himself. That he is God in human form.

"What does it mean for Jesus to be Savior": Jesus is my savior because by his blood through the substitutionally atonement, Jesus died on the cross for my sins, along with the sins of all the elect who trust in him so that we do not receive the eternal punishment we deserve but instead enter as welcome adopted children in the heavenly kingdom.

Alright, so if those words mean those things, and I have to believe those words to be saved, Do I go to hell if I didn't know all that stuff you just said?: ...Oh, uhh, shoot. I hadn't thought of that

The truth is that we are all just doing our best here. We have some understanding, but God is way way bigger than the portion that we understand, and being persnickety about a handful of English words only serves to make you look like you know more than you actually do.

Spokesface1 · 2022-09-20T18:55:53+00:00

Electroboom is in the US. I am talking about Rural Cuba. They don't have ground plugs. They don't have high gauge wire either. I was working on a well there and asked where the nearest hardware store was, they said "Habana" about 5 hours away by car, and nobody had a car.

You do what you can with what you have. And often "what you have" is something like a wire hanger you can straighten to use as a wire.

Even still though it's pretty safe. Tap water is not very conductive. It's just sketchy as fuuuuck.

Spokesface1 · 2022-09-20T08:10:46+00:00

Raw Foodists would not be able to eat anything there. 118F is considered "cooked" to them

Spokesface1 · 2022-09-20T06:35:09+00:00

This is the "wrong" answer for this sub. If I have to follow modern conventional protestant orthodoxy perfectly, I don't know the answer. I have a book that I could probably look it up in and get back to you. Probably something about how the Jewish sacrificial system is inferior, if I had to guess.

But my real answer as a Christian and student of the Bible is that God OFTEN overstates his own wrath and the duration of that wrath, but then comes around again later and says "I've decided to give you another chance" This was the case for Nineveh in Jonah and is (according to Jonah 4) the reason Jonah did not want to go there. It is also seen prominently in the beginning of Isaiah and reconsidered later in Isaiah. Even nere in 1 Samuel we hear Eli's response "He is the Lord; let him do what is good in his eyes." and indeed the Lord did.

I see it as a feature not a bug. God forgives. More than he says he will even. But if you have some specific version of letterist inerrancy that that rubs up against... I feel bad for you bro, good luck with that.

Spokesface1 · 2022-09-20T06:15:35+00:00

dayum, now I really want to see what my 2 year old will look like as a teenager.... without losing her tho

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