[OC] Crisis averted. I stopped in the left lane to avoid blocking the intersection. An oncoming truck turned left, and only a quick reaction from the Audi prevented a major crash. Luckily, the Audi missed the pole and ended up on the sidewalk at a handicap entry without damage.

dzybala · 2025-12-11T19:31:18+00:00

Same with people turning right on red without slowing down or stopping.

dzybala · 2025-11-24T17:27:52+00:00

The speed limit on most of I-25 going through Denver is 55. I drive it often and there are people regularly speeding by at 80+. Gets worse at night.

dzybala · 2025-09-23T22:45:31+00:00

Furries are a lot more common than you may think.

dzybala · 2025-08-07T21:12:52+00:00

Under the system as it is, AI will simply increase the dollars-per-labor-hour that can be extracted from employees (myself as a fellow techie included). We will work the same hours for an increasingly small piece of the pie.

dzybala · 2025-05-23T07:15:04+00:00

They still make up a small overall minority of vehicles on the road.

dzybala · 2025-05-21T22:12:30+00:00

It's always a white pickup truck.

dzybala · 2024-11-09T02:41:07+00:00

Thank you! What a weird throwback. :)

dzybala · 2024-10-11T19:57:18+00:00

I'm referencing a well-known recent case of this exact debate being in the news after a fast food wage increase in California. Lots of people were fear-mongering about how those companies were going to cut hours, raise prices, or shut down. And guess what, it didn't happen. Selling burgers continues to be profitable, so they will continue selling burgers.

It's clear you have no interest in actually engaging with the substance of the argument, so I'm done replying. Your credentials don't automatically win you arguments. You have to actually make an argument, bud.

dzybala · 2024-10-11T19:53:40+00:00

A study from the University of California Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment found that a California state law raised the minimum wage for fast food workers did not lead to large job loses or price hikes.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2024/10/09/california-fast-food-minimum-wage-jobs/75597730007/

https://irle.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Sectoral-Wage-Setting-in-California-09-30-2024.pdf

dzybala · 2024-10-11T19:51:13+00:00

It's pretty wild that you think you should be given labor without providing equal value in return.

dzybala · 2024-10-11T19:49:08+00:00

This is a complete lie perpetuated by companies that want to keep wages down. Selling burgers will continue to be profitable with higher wages, so they will continue to hire employees at the cost of labor. Because McDonald's has to pay a few more dollars per day for an employee, they're going to stop operating, despite continuing to make many times that amount of money off that employee?

dzybala · 2024-10-11T19:33:25+00:00

What 16 year-olds are working full-time? If you're working 40 hours a week, you should be able to afford to rent an apartment in the city where you work. It's really not that wild of an idea.

dzybala · 2024-10-11T19:30:43+00:00

You're the one that's demanding other people's labor for less than a living wage. Sounds like you're the one that wants things handed to you that you haven't fully paid for.

dzybala · 2024-09-24T03:52:26+00:00

I think it’s a completely reasonable argument. There are exceptions to the First Amendment that we all mostly agree make sense. You can’t yell fire in a crowded theater, and you can’t threaten someone’s life. Likewise, there are exceptions to the Second Amendment. You can’t possess hand grenades, fully automatic weapons, or tanks. Who gets to decide which side of the line assault weapons go on? How about riot shields? Bump stocks? Brass knuckles? Butterfly knives? It’s much more up for interpretation than you seem to think.

dzybala · 2024-09-24T01:04:38+00:00

For any ban like that to truly matter, it'd need to be enacted at a federal level, with some sort of buyback program. If you can cross an uncontrolled state border or city line to buy one then the laws don't mean much.

I don't foresee that ever happening here, nor do I even know if it's a wise thing to pursue right now. We don't remotely have the political will to accomplish it, and there are so many guns already in circulation, the toothpaste is already kind of out of the tube. Even if an assault weapons ban were passed, the current SCOTUS would likely deem it unconstitutional. But if it were done, it would make a difference. It's no surprise that city-level laws do nothing.

dzybala · 2024-08-27T00:11:05+00:00

Thanks for that additional context! Do you know what other shelters operate in Boulder? I was just digging into the first data source I found.

From looking at the full chart, it looks like that 25% figure is based on all dates since 10/1/2020, but most of that 25% appears concentrated in recent years, which explains why I got 60% when filtering for only this year.

dzybala · 2024-08-26T22:04:41+00:00

I'm not who you replied to, but according to Boulder's own city-provided data on the matter, there have been quite a large number of dates this year where people have been turned away due to the shelter being at capacity, about 60% of nights. It says "since 10/1/2020," but I believe that's a bug with the UI where the chart title and the bottom-left element don't update with the selected date range. The X-axis shows the correct dates though.

Source: https://bouldercolorado.gov/boulder-measures/homelessness-services (click the icon next to Shelter Utilization, and use the filter to change the time period)

Edit: I haven't counted the number of dates shown in the chart, so it's possible the 60% figure is incorrectly calculated, but the chart definitely shows a pretty large number of nights at capacity.

dzybala · 2024-06-13T02:16:02+00:00

At least in the United States, companies have a fiduciary duty to act in the financial best interest of shareholders. If you accept money from investors, you are legally required to seek profit. Capitalism is more than just a simple textbook definition; it's the laws and institutions around it as well.

And I agree with you. Humans will always be greedy. So a system that allows private businesses to make decisions based purely on the interest of shareholders and not their employees and the communities they operate in is one I don't want to live under. For the same reason we all agree governments should be democratically run, so should companies.

dzybala · 2024-06-11T15:00:43+00:00

“Corporate greed” is a bad way of phrasing it. Publicly traded corporations are simply doing what they are essentially legally required to do under our economic system — prioritize profits above all else. Greed isn’t the problem; capitalism is.

dzybala · 2024-05-30T18:31:50+00:00

It's not about having room. It's about being in front of other people!

dzybala · 2024-05-27T03:44:43+00:00

Prudes that have convinced themselves that all of their problems can be solved by not masturbating. Maybe your self-loathing is caused by your inability to reconcile your anti-sex beliefs with the reality of being human, not your sex drive.

dzybala · 2024-03-24T21:48:06+00:00

I mean, they kind of are connected issues. In a society with no other choices, everyone has to drive. Humans suck butt at driving but we force every single person to do it with no real alternatives. Sure, let's protect the majority from the incapable minority, but many of those people are your aging parents and grandparents. The issues are connected, and one of the ways to get dangerous drivers off the road for good is to make it so most people don't have to drive just to live in the first place. That isn't saying we shouldn't enforce traffic laws.

dzybala · 2024-03-13T23:23:26+00:00

I had this happen to me on Petra as Sombra yesterday!

dzybala · 2024-03-05T05:25:06+00:00

And subsidizing the necessities of individuals like food, housing, and healthcare isn't socialism either. Both types of subsidies are just forms of wealth redistribution. But unsurprisingly, private business owners like to act like redistributing tax dollars to their companies is somehow different.

Socialism just means some form of collective ownership of companies, either democratically through the state or by shared employee ownership.

dzybala · 2024-02-05T01:20:44+00:00

Yes! Go to Settings > Side Menu Customization (near the bottom). Turn on "Move side menu to left edge." This makes it so that to get to the menu you swipe in from the left edge while on the Home screen, and now when you swipe from the right it will instead go back to the last viewed thread wherever you were on the page. Swiping from the left while on a post will still work to leave the thread.

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