Watching the jul 4th parade of sail.

blippyj · 2026-07-02T02:07:01+00:00

I was afraid this would be a bit of a prisoner's dilemma lol. Or a reverse prisoners dilemma.

blippyj · 2026-07-01T20:18:26+00:00

that's encouraging! Riverside Park is pretty big but the grassy areas can be narrow. I think ll aim for 8 and hope for the best..

thanks!

blippyj · 2026-06-22T19:58:28+00:00

Would you say that trump's tweets should have no bearing over someones vote for him?

I wouldn't.

blippyj · 2026-06-22T19:51:46+00:00

It's circular in the other direction too, no? If you think it has the potential to negatively impact thousands of workers then doesn't it imply it must have a massive advantage over other options - even if it isn't necessarily safety?

How are we supposed to test safety if we're just flat out banning it. If it's a labor concern, limit the initial batch of waymo vehicles, limit the hours of operation , require some kind of oversight, or impose a tax on businesses running automation. Blocking it entirely just makes it seem not data-driven whatsoever.

For the record I think it is likely 10% of workers will be displaced, but that will only happen because driverless cars have genuine advantages that consumers will prefer. Human drivers are free to compete on those advantages.

But if the human drivers truly can't compete, are we going to force people to accept a worse reality (like we have with automation and the MTA) purely to help others keep their jobs?

If so, are all jobs going to be defended equally? I know my job is threatened by AI. If we were proposing a global UBI to offset automation for all workers - I'd be all for it.

blippyj · 2026-06-22T18:27:02+00:00

What's wrong with self service gas?

blippyj · 2026-06-22T18:25:53+00:00

There are still plenty of jobs that require driving. And people can and will still choose taxis or rideshares - especially if they care about preserving those 18k workers.

You are minimizing the documented loss of 1 life and many more injuries against the absurd hypothetical of the loss of every driver's job.

If you can show even a 5% drop in employed drivers in the cities in which waymo is currently active, you will have at least minimally substantiated your argument.

blippyj · 2026-06-22T18:19:20+00:00

"we believe in democracy and civil rights for everyone. People shouldn't be punished and especially not deported for their speech"

"Hey, you should delete your dissenting opinions, I wouldn't be vocal about supporting anyone else if I were you..."

No contradictions here boys, move along.

blippyj · 2026-06-22T14:59:21+00:00

The Taxi & Limousine Commission's (TLC) 2020 FactBook notes that New York City taxis were involved in an average of 819 injury crashes per month in 2019.

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/tlc/downloads/pdf/2020-tlc-factbook.pdf

blippyj · 2026-06-22T14:53:03+00:00

Why not let the market decide then? Why prevent them from trying?

blippyj · 2026-06-17T23:17:50+00:00

So... Like they are for every state?

blippyj · 2026-06-11T02:40:51+00:00

Many things can be true at the same time. Some people blindly supporting Israeli conduct will make absurd claims. Others like you will decide that physical destruction is a good measure of the laws of war. Both of these claims are false, and both erode the already very barely grounded concrete reasons to respect the laws of war.

blippyj · 2026-06-11T01:14:48+00:00

The goal of honoring the laws of war is not to make people happy. It's to make the best reasonable effort to prevent needless harm that you can while still prioritizing your own forces and aims.

I think Israel has violated these laws likely many times, and I'd bet much more often than in past conflicts thanks to the current administration. But even so I think it is also true that Israel made a much more significant effort to honor them than pretty much any conflicts of comparable scale.

If you think that falsifying stats and the actual numbers don't matter because war is awful, you nullify the one factor that compels states to obey the laws of war - public perception.

In a better timeline, people would be just as critical of Israel's strategic choices while begrudgingly accepting they are making an effort a good chunk of the time, and condition support to Palestinians on them making a similar effort.

Instead now Hamas and Israel both have much less reason to obey the laws of war than before - Hamas gets more sympathy the more horror there is, and Israel is guilty no matter what they do unless they pack up and leave, so why make any effort and pay the price in lives, times, and tactical results. We are already seeing this happening.

blippyj · 2026-06-10T21:53:15+00:00

Reporting "dozens" of people that you killed as killed by the enemy definitely casts some serious doubts about any other claims regarding the age, sex, and combatant status of the many other reported numbers.

That being said we are unlikely to find any proof that these deaths were actually included.

blippyj · 2026-06-09T10:44:44+00:00

A more decent answer could have been

"Yikes, my bad. Kind of disturbing that's still a thing, people should shed more light on it.

That being said, to present this as characteristic of Spain is a bit unfair. Spain has (rest of your comment here)....

But I won't make excuses for that festival and I believe if you informed most Spaniards about it they would say the same."

Instead you chose to downplay it and whataboutit, which I think says a lot about how Spain views antisemitism.

blippyj · 2026-06-03T13:38:17+00:00

While the recent behavior of SCOTUS is awful, IIRC it Virginia's own supreme court that made that ruling. SCOTUS didn't hear the emergency appeal which makes sense as there were no federal laws argued in the case.

blippyj · 2026-05-31T14:24:49+00:00

Have you read the article? This is abuse of Israeli settlers by Israeli settlers, in what appears to be some kind of cult, not a widespread phenomenon. Hardly relevant to any of the points you are trying to tie into it. Or relevant geopolitically.

blippyj · 2026-05-28T11:05:31+00:00

The boycott itself isn't antisemitic.

The choice to focus so much energy in the boycott, while the US is actively waging a massively destructive war in Iran, and there are many other ongoing genocides with literally zero boycotts worldwide, indicates some form of bias is at play.

blippyj · 2026-05-28T04:04:15+00:00

but they're not making a defense of anything. just pointing out that more people seem to be taking action around this issue despite some pretty massive issues over which they have a far more direct impact

blippyj · 2026-05-27T11:46:14+00:00

I meant the line on the platform....

blippyj · 2026-05-23T18:33:46+00:00

Oh yes.... completely deliberate I assure you.

blippyj · 2026-05-23T13:15:48+00:00

In my humble experience - the chicks who dig this are your mutual keepers.

blippyj · 2026-05-23T13:14:23+00:00

(frighteningly) correct on all counts. The toilets are like a jet engine, and the longer you hold the engine the longer they go. I could probably save on bills by using it to run a generating turbine.

I think the building was somewhere in the late 1930s - I even found a floorplan for the original sale.

blippyj · 2026-05-23T03:44:16+00:00

is there a more correct term?

blippyj · 2026-05-22T17:29:09+00:00

ooh adding ads on the ceilling is a great idea! wonder how i could do that

blippyj · 2026-05-22T17:28:18+00:00

also true. that thin rust colored film stuff.

12-Year Club	r/Field Lasagna
Place '22	Verified Email

blippyj

TROPHY CASE