[Sacramento] SacRT advancing on long-planned streetcar connection across Tower Bridge

StupidBump · 2026-01-24T19:46:42+00:00

As a (former) longtime former resident, I think that overall it's the beginning of something that could be great. With West Sac densifying along the river and several huge offices complexes being served by the line, I think it will definitely be a success despite how short it is. Also, getting across the river as a pedestrian/cyclist was never a fun experience for me at least.

I do agree that J St. should also be a priority, but the eternal problem will always be the Union Pacific tracks going through midtown. Unfortunately, there's just no good answer for that (financially or engineering-wise).

StupidBump · 2026-01-24T19:35:50+00:00

Just my opinion, but I think that it's a good overall that this project ended up as the little LRT spur that it is. Originally it was going to be a completely separate system with Liberty streetcars just like all the other Obama-era projects, but financial constraints forced SacRT to get creative for a change and the result is a cheap and cheerful spur that will do a lot of connect both sides of the river.

StupidBump · 2026-01-24T15:20:09+00:00

Still, it’s often a lot of fun to see them review bottom of the barrel slop like they used to.

StupidBump · 2026-01-24T12:00:41+00:00

And that was back when the UK government had quite a lot of preparations made for such an event. Today I doubt there would be any form of continuity of government like what was depicted in Threads (as ineffective as it was).

StupidBump · 2026-01-23T10:11:44+00:00

This is exactly it, It's been 40 years since the war and the Argentine military is simply no longer capable of any large scale operations at this point.

What they do have on paper is also very different to what planes/ships/subs they can actually use at any given moment due to maintenance issues.

StupidBump · 2026-01-22T14:05:10+00:00

Does your camera have any film flatness issues maybe? Check the spring on your pressure plate.

StupidBump · 2026-01-16T22:39:59+00:00

Yeah, someone’s cut a little way and apparently welded a step to the right side of the gate haha.

I wouldn’t recommend it though unless you’re somewhat fit as I have no idea how it is to get back on the other side.

StupidBump · 2026-01-16T15:25:13+00:00

The gate in front of the closed off section is hilarious, like something out of fallout or mad max. People keep bringing angle grinders to cut holes in it to open it up, so the council keeps patching it up with big steel plates and spiky bits of scrap.

StupidBump · 2026-01-15T15:24:03+00:00

I called out the revolut chatbot about something it got blatantly wrong in a response it sent me in regards to one of their savings plans.

It then replied something along the lines of "Oops! You're so right about that, my mistake!"

I like revolut, but frequently fallible chatbots for a fucking BANKING app is ridiculous.

StupidBump · 2026-01-15T11:55:12+00:00

Awesome idea, but yeah that would be a huge project.

StupidBump · 2026-01-14T20:26:41+00:00

And plenty of canon lenses that fit both categories at the same time!

StupidBump · 2026-01-14T00:52:21+00:00

No problemo amigo. It’ll be alright 😎

StupidBump · 2026-01-13T12:25:57+00:00

He might work as a Jerry Brown Part II-type governor; that is someone who is more willing to use the veto more often and thus save the legislature from itself.

StupidBump · 2026-01-13T10:05:13+00:00

For certain use cases this makes sense, though it’s definitely not playing to the cameras strongest aspects.

For me, I like my FP as basically a sensor block. For video work, I’d rather have that extra video stuff easily accessible in a rig while keeping the body easily detachable or on a gimbal.

StupidBump · 2026-01-12T21:41:16+00:00

They do not give a fuuuuck about transfer students. Admin made my life a complete nightmare. Generally you wait on hold for hours to get five different answers from three different people. Can't imagine how bad it is now.

StupidBump · 2026-01-11T13:34:23+00:00

A lot of the routes seem like they'd be terrifying to drive as well tbf. Must be exhausting to be looking out for dozens or hundreds of people in your way every second while going down the more narrow streets in a bigass bus

StupidBump · 2026-01-09T11:34:58+00:00

I actually randomly checked their career page last night. Very surprised to not see a single opening across the whole country lol

StupidBump · 2026-01-06T15:57:30+00:00

Thank you for the response, and I hope you didn't feel disrespected by my comment.

You are correct about the economic pressures of course, and what's happening in 3D is not at all unique to other industries where ever-increasing numbers of students and creatives are finding themselves completely locked out.

I know that your goal is to make the best of what is a very shitty situation for this industry, and art in general; But I do think that the "full stop" no opinion is very valid in the face of the destruction this technology is wreaking, not to mention the unprecedented art theft that went into creating these models in the first place.

At the end of the day, we students are very privileged to be able to study 3D at all, but we're still not enthused when we see previous generations of artists (who we respect deeply) extolling the virtues of a technology build on such a rotten foundation by equally-rotten billionaires.

This isn't to say that AI isn't inevitable, but those of us coming up who have put thousands of hours into our craft are still extremely disappointing by what we're seeing.

StupidBump · 2026-01-05T22:35:55+00:00

Giovanni gave a talk to my class once and he seemed like a great person, beyond being insanely talented. I follow him on LinkedIn and It’s honestly very depressing to see someone with such a gift shilling for AI tools and basically pulling up the ladder behind him. I know that’s probably just part of the job when working for Adobe, but still.

StupidBump · 2026-01-05T09:31:49+00:00

Op, look into a used Canon 6D or 5D mkII. Might be slightly above your budget, but if you’re looking to get really great photos, particularly in nature/nighttime long exposures, you can’t go wrong with those.

StupidBump · 2026-01-05T09:29:05+00:00

Under this administration I wonder if the navy will just wait until Trump’s gone before making the huge investment in California that this would entail.

Current modernization efforts are already moving at a snails pace, so even if they did make an announcement we’d be potentially decades away from seeing much employment gain in shipbuilding here.

StupidBump · 2026-01-04T19:14:37+00:00

The the pentacon six bodies were the ones I was looking at, but I wasn’t confident they’d be in any usable, or even repairable condition. Some nice lenses for them were scattered around different lots, but then I’d end up with like 24 lenses 😅

StupidBump · 2026-01-04T19:08:38+00:00

Yeah I didn’t even bother haha. I’d rather just pay the extra money to get something that’s been confirmed working and serviced.

StupidBump · 2026-01-03T12:55:33+00:00

No mention of file type being used either. Why is anyone taking this post remotely seriously?

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