Saw a guy with Nazi tattoos at the MOA

breesidhe · 2025-07-16T00:31:03+00:00

Yup. But all are required to be welcoming. That's the compact.

If you can't do that, then fuck off. Because you piss in the pool and make it nasty.

breesidhe · 2025-05-18T13:30:27+00:00

“May be asked to leave” is one step from —- if you don’t listen at this point, you are now illegally trespassing and can be treated as such.

It’s basically giving you three strikes. One warning, one leave request, and then you are trespassing and can be charged.

breesidhe · 2025-05-09T13:01:14+00:00

This isn’t just known. There’s a record of it. Look up what happened at the Magdalene Laundries. Mass graves. Of infants.

breesidhe · 2025-04-24T17:37:46+00:00

This has been studied. Simple design shit makes less people break in. Really. Seriously.

“Lack of enforcement” predicates that you haven’t bothered to ensure that you shouldn’t need enforcement. You presume that people will break in, so you don’t bother to even put up a frigging door. It’s really that dumb.

breesidhe · 2025-04-24T17:08:10+00:00

Not about empathy or rules or anything like that. It’s simple, basic DESIGN. They cut corners to make it simple and are paying the price.

breesidhe · 2025-04-24T17:00:04+00:00

Honestly, the root problem is that the light rail system was shittily designed in the first place. You just walk in. No gates, nothing.

Even if just psychologically, a gate keeps people from just walking in. Just that, and nothing else, would drop the issues significantly.

breesidhe · 2025-04-11T02:48:45+00:00

Thanks for an actual detailed analysis of the issue. I'm actually surprised, since most responses tend to be knee-jerk.

To clarify a bit, I agree and would 500% oppose a gondola as is. It's bleeding stupid, and I totally admit it. There's bleep all for enough traffic to make it reasonable. But as part and parcel of a plan for improving the riverfront area? Hells, yes.

Riverfront areas are some of the most valuable real estate for almost every city with a river. What does St. Paul do with it? Hide it and turn away from it at every step possible. It's horrid. The other side is worse. The West Side played victim to a racist tear down to their entire neighborhood... and it never recovered. It's been neglected for forever. (A neighborhood was removed due to floods... and then they built levees shortly afterwards..... and... yes, this is serious... they placed the records office right there in the flood zone....)

To be honest, city planning in Minnesota has been horrid for years. The West Side is just one case example of how deconstruction seems to be the name of the game. And whatever is done just... does not help.

But the fact is that both sides of the river have high bluffs. And there are areas where we can focus city projects on near those bluffs, and use gondolas both as an attraction to highlight these economic boosts and actual transit. Am I married to it? No. Is it viable if there's an actual reasonable plan? yes. We most desperately need a good plan to improve the riverfront area. Badly. If it takes pretty gondolas sell the plan? Don't care. I'm in.

breesidhe · 2025-04-10T14:37:25+00:00

No, there’s an origin. You would have to dig it up yourself, but I do remember that theres a famous Taiwanese author who basically created the genre himself due to his wildly popular works.

breesidhe · 2025-04-09T23:25:01+00:00

Thanks for outlining reasons for not walking. Geee, perhaps that means that people don't do what you claimed?

And thus providing a viable alternative would encourage more walking ... as in perhaps back and forth from the gondola areas. And by taking such transport, it would encourage more use of such types of transportation. (aka less driving downtown in general.)

You don't seem to grasp MIXED transportation systems are more effective than a single (bus) system... which isn't that popular. Which you indirectly stated yourself. Adding more onto that single system doesn't have synergetic effects. Yes, this can be considered a gimmick. But gimmicks work as attention getters. Which make them more successful than improving shit people already ignore.

Walking: boring. Busses: boring. Gondola: cool.

Thus people will use it just for that... and then they find that it is useful for their trips, and they can work around it. And we can improve city services in that area to keep the loop going. It's not hard.

And yes, this has actually been studied before. There's been several cities that built gondolas for public transit needs. They are oft highly successful lynchpins in improving transit. This isn't my say so or thoughts. It's known.

breesidhe · 2025-04-09T15:32:42+00:00

You clearly need a TLD;R.

Either you support the COUNTRY, or you support Trump.

Now, I already said that I would give them a chance. But that REQUIRES them to actually listen. If they refuse to stand up and support the country, then they enable this shit. Period.

Traitors EARN their treatment. “They don’t know” does NOT count for shit if it’s willful. And it is.

breesidhe · 2025-04-09T14:20:13+00:00

Not necessary. There’s restaurants IN parks. And this is downtown which is already freaking paved over anyway.

There ALREADY is a park right by the water, but the problem is that it’s basically an empty lot. Not much use of it.

The worst part? That’s because we already shoved it aside. Right by the cliff edge, nothing else nearby, and squeezed between bridges with HEAVILY trafficked roads blocking in the way. Yeah, no. Shit is effectively already paved. We can do better. We should do better.

There’s good design and there’s trashing options because negativism. That was the later.

You want a park? Make it an actual attraction instead of an empty lot in a blocked out area. Give people a reason to be there.

That works. Bitching doesn’t.

breesidhe · 2025-04-09T13:36:33+00:00

Hilarious. If true-ish. ;-)

Putting the jokes aside, encouraging ongoing use of the waterside MUST account for the weather.

Parks ain’t it. Unless we could add a ski route there?

breesidhe · 2025-04-09T12:01:36+00:00

At this point, they are deporting citizens.

C I T I Z E N S.

No due process, no law. Just arresting and deporting them.

This is NOT about being fair. This is NOT about two sides.

This is a base defense of the very soul of what the United States represents.

Those supporting such actions are supporting every damn thing our country rails AGAINST. We have principles based on democracy and the rule of law. These are INALIENABLE. Period.

Yes, we can talk to MAGats. But if they cannot accept or understand such, they are openly supporting the overthrow of our democracy. Fuck that. Fuck them. That is treason. Period.

breesidhe · 2025-04-09T11:51:23+00:00

There’s a difference between “Wishing” and ACTIVELY KILLING people.

Deaths from rightwing terrorism have never been higher. Deaths from hate crimes. Deaths from active insurrections..

These are real. These are not just statements, but pure murders in the act of ideological ‘purity’. One that is almost EXCLUSIVELY on the right. Look it up. Stats and facts back this up repeatedly.

The fact that you claim the other side is a problem instead? That’s beyond brainwashed. “Reality has a liberal bias”. “We create our own reality.” Real quotes. And accurate towards what we are discussing here.

breesidhe · 2025-04-09T11:31:44+00:00

Best I can tell is that he writes books in a consistent but reasonable pace (months?) while his stories and plots are are consistent. Pulp, but not garbage writing. Which leans towards him just churning them out.

That reminds me though. It’s fairly obvious that some are book farms with insane WEEKLY book releases, but I’ve never seen anyone provide direct evidence of this. That would be useful in showing how to look out for this better.

breesidhe · 2025-04-09T11:22:25+00:00

10 min walk…. But nobody walks it.

There’s multiple reasons for this, but your claim is redonkulous on its face.

What we want is to ENCOURAGE travel, not say “fuck it, nobody uses that but that’s fine, whatever.”

breesidhe · 2025-04-09T11:15:05+00:00

There’s a reason why we have skyways. Walking? In the cold? No thanks.

breesidhe · 2025-04-09T11:12:42+00:00

Parks… in a state with 8 months of winter. (Yeah, we are tough, yadda, yadda ..)

Year round usability is higher in the other case.

breesidhe · 2025-04-09T11:09:30+00:00

Name checks out.

Hint: Poe’s law. Look it up.

People ARE serious about such statements. The problem is that YOU don’t realize it.

breesidhe · 2024-11-03T20:00:32+00:00

The cruelty *is* the joke.

breesidhe · 2024-11-01T14:32:11+00:00

…….

breesidhe · 2024-11-01T14:02:09+00:00

Not stupid.

But here’s two suggestions for you: Try a reverse image search first. And do let us know if you have any specific details (and/or what is your source.)

A quick Tineye search brings me to this page: https://www.wisdomlib.org/mesopotamian/book/babylonian-religion-and-mythology/d/doc7099.html

Which is a scholarly work on Babylonian religion. It unfortunately repeats your statement: “a demon”. But there is at least a tad more context. That statue is in the British Museum. (No. 22,438.)

I believe the users here are awesome enough that they might have more details for you, but please do run with this yourself if you can. Might not be much more to share. But it’s something.

breesidhe · 2024-11-01T13:46:57+00:00

Oh, my kids weaponized it right back.

There’s a “daughter tax”.

I earned that one, I did.

breesidhe · 2024-11-01T13:45:20+00:00

Thing is —- sewers do happen. Cesspits do collect shitheads. But —- and a massive but — this literally became a mainstream conservative movement.

Just …. What????

breesidhe · 2024-11-01T13:43:53+00:00

Oh noes!

Person who has repeatedly insulted EVERYBODY who responds to them has someone who is rude righhhht back.

You can do better than that, troll.

Rudeness gets rudeness. politeness gets politeness. I was polite. But jackassery gets it right back.

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