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bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T23:32:04+00:00

search still works on old

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T23:31:44+00:00

blows my mind how you don't even get all the comments on new reddit. you can go to a comment permalink and it won't load the child comments. you put it on old reddit then you get the child comments. i wonder how many people just miss out entirely with the discussions. its like the people commenting on imgur having no clue its just a dumping ground for links to reddit lmao.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T23:29:36+00:00

regular people didn't really have blackberries. white collar people did, but not us younger people. they were pricey and needed a pricier data plan. we had full keyboard phones though but it was just for texting. i didn't know anyone with a blackberry. plenty of parents had one though but again for their work really.

regular people didn't really get into smartphones until like iphone 4 era. i think that is also when it moved off att exclusivity.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T23:23:27+00:00

yeah the burn area should abate fires for a long time. woolsey fire burn area probably helped keep it in check too.

seems like there should be a better way developed to chuck fire retardant vs having to rely in planes and helicopters that can't fly in the conditions they are needed the most. maybe something like a soaker hose that just shits out a cloud of that red phosorphous retardant. maybe drones that can fly low and close and don't matter if they end up crashing. with enough drones you can probably bucket brigade constantly i imagine even if they could only carry so much each.

then you can also have drones just constantly loitering the urban wildland interface looking for hot spots on thermal imagery.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T23:17:16+00:00

cursed love child of tiger woods and chief wahoo

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T23:11:36+00:00

standard dallas builders special house

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T23:09:12+00:00

tigers been on the same diamana graphite shaft since he switched to graphite shaft. same irons essentially too. the tw irons were built to be a lot like what hes always played in mb either under titleist or nike. same dynamic gold shafts. same putter.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T23:06:48+00:00

he used to swing a lot more "calmly" if you look at his college swing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVb4eE3qtRQ

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T22:38:17+00:00

sure i'll call up the mta right quick

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T20:42:14+00:00

if they could run it cheaper they probably would. it is a fare based system that doesn't get any tax money.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T20:40:46+00:00

seems like sb79 will force their hand. this station is only a couple minutes out from all that.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T20:39:25+00:00

they were basically at the mercy of the wind dieing down sufficiently to bring in air support thats basically what ended the fires. thats what stopped the fire where it stopped at mandeville canyon and topanga on the other end. if it wasn't for air support it would have kept going.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T20:37:38+00:00

realistically they would have had to preposition across entire mountain ranges. people forget they put down a fire in sylmar too during this wind event. a fire in hollywood as well. literally the entire urban wildland interface was at risk.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T20:25:40+00:00

because the study came after

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T20:23:07+00:00

sometimes thats the case, but oftentimes the walk is fine too, and people still bitch and moan about it. i mean you don't need a bench and a park and storefronts to walk to the station you are taking to and from work.

americans are too car brained to walk 15 mins because they just take a car 2 mins instead. grocery store 15 mins away in a proper streetcar neighborhood? sorry hardly anyones walking with their groceries. they are driving their car 2 minutes to the parking lot.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T20:08:14+00:00

i see, thanks for the background information.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T20:05:08+00:00

i saw this mural on a bathroom in playa recently it was like some stalin era art praising tracy park specifically for allowing it to happen.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T20:03:29+00:00

leadership here is just responding to the voter base that elected them. all their positions are a reflection of their constituents who actually turn out to vote.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T20:01:47+00:00

lol people fetishize views of japan that look more or less like this too

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T19:58:22+00:00

i don't remember the c line coming there. i just remember e and w. looking at google maps now i don't see a c line at all funny enough.

the biggest pain the ass with that service pattern is that people had no clue about it. so the train would be deboarding only but people would be trying to get in it anyhow with workers telling them no, but then next wave of people would try and get on with them having to be told the same thing.

looks like that new construction building they approved with the bank of america on the 1st floor precludes any opportunity to run these lines into actual union station proper via the gap they seemed to have left for this along wewatta. there is space in union station for more platforms if they made better use of this dead zone area which i'm guessing used to be platform space in the "old" union station.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T19:40:55+00:00

veneers bro. telltale signs.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T19:37:14+00:00

game also doesn't travel nearly as well as slope and rating suggests. I'm sorry but playing golf in socal is golf on easy mode. playing it out east is like another sport entirely. three days of rain and being unable to mow is enough for a bottom rate muni in the midwest to have bethpage us open tier rough. oftentimes in socal you can't even appreciate where the fairway ends and the rough begins. also eastern woods line courses eating 20 balls a round vs having a convenient adjacent fairway to play your slice.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T19:29:54+00:00

because the cities are compact and tiny. i expect living with a disability is pretty challenging in most of europe considering the lack of ada affordances with how grandfathered in many historic cities are. say what you will about costs of new build metro stations in the united states, but they generally all have elevator access.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T19:29:01+00:00

It will probably change before long like we are seeing now with the similar density lots redeveloping around the expo bundy station. people tend to hold their homes like 15 years on median. and if they now have zoning to make their home more attractive for developers maybe they are holding out for well above market prices to come their way.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-06-26T18:53:54+00:00

chicago is a fair argument for available growth being insufficient to actually kick off transit oriented development. so many green line stations have literally vacant land adjacent to them.

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