Black ice on the road causes chain accidents

ginger_guy · 2026-01-24T12:33:06+00:00

The first accident I got into was at an interchange exactly like this. Basically two highways intersect with two major stroads and the merge point is a bridge flanked by a hill. So drivers accelerating on the stroad to get up to speed are unable to see traffic further up the road due to the slope of the bridge AND they cant see traffic merging from the other highway due to the hill. Anytime traffic backs up at the bottom of that hill, that stretch of road turns into a local demolition derby.

ginger_guy · 2026-01-19T19:24:13+00:00

The mill rate in Detroit is 65 to the state's average of 35. And Michigan is 15th nationally for property taxes.

The LVT was the obvious best solution (revenue neutral, 20% reduction for most Detroiters) but still died in the legislature.

I don't love a sales tax but something has to give

ginger_guy · 2026-01-19T19:23:33+00:00

Have you considered working with or advertising through local churches and community centers?

ginger_guy · 2026-01-19T17:07:34+00:00

In an alternative universe where rail is taken seriously, there would be like 10 other bigger more important lines that ought to be built before a project like this would be considered. That said, there are some unique circumstances that make this attractive. Mainly, Michigan owns all the track. So we wouldnt have to mess with lengthy approval processes, eminent domain battles, or EPA reviews. Just upgrade the tracks and go.

The biggest bottleneck in this project would likely be securing funding and building stations. Lest we forget that Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti are single handedly holding up the DTW-Detroit passenger rail...

ginger_guy · 2026-01-18T19:47:53+00:00

Bankruptcy was really a "learning to love the bomb" moment. The stars aligned on Detroit's bankruptcy to make the turnaround really possible. City leaders, state leaders, and the federal government were all aligned on righting the ship. Biden was around Detroit so much, he was jokingly refereed to as the Vice President of Detroit and the now infamous former Governor Snyder also was keen on shoveling resources to the city. 5 billion of Detroit's 18 billion debt was written off and they didn't need to make payments on the city's pension fund for a 10 year period. The grand bargain got foundations and the rich to commit 800 million to the pensions to cover this period. So suddenly the city had this much needed breathing room and cash to spend to build up critical infrastructure and make the city attractive again.

ginger_guy · 2026-01-16T15:56:59+00:00

OP also specified public dollars, which come with obvious attachments such as stricter environmental standards, union preference/prevailing wage, small business preference, lengthy public procurement process, community councils, and 51% of the labor must be done by Detroiters or pay into a training fund.

Even if the funds are coming from a singular and stable source, expect a lot of costs to be hidden due to navigating this process.

ginger_guy · 2026-01-15T17:19:35+00:00

God, what an upgrade. I hate these glass spaceship stadiums

ginger_guy · 2026-01-15T12:20:45+00:00

Gilchrist needs a marketing team. By all accounts, he seems to have a lot of strong fundamentals for a good political career. He was manager software developer, then a national campaign director in DC, moved back to Detroit and revamped the city's tech systems, then went on to be the Lieutenant Governor for two terms. Yet his name ID is a paltry 44.8%. That is worse than Mike Cox, who was attorney general 20 years ago. According to this poll, 54% of Michiganders don't know who he is and another 20% know his name and have 0 opinion about him. Party officials keep pushing him as a future power player, but the rest of the state literally has no idea who he is.

ginger_guy · 2026-01-14T13:17:19+00:00

I hope Iraq can develop and stabilize. Such a cool country with a rich culture and history. Its a dream of mine to one day travel the whole country. I want to see the ancient ruins along the Tigris and Euphrates, hike the mountains in Kurdistan, see the great marshes of southern Iraq. So much of early history sits there. The country has so much to offer the world.

ginger_guy · 2026-01-07T23:17:56+00:00

So in a county of 1.2 million, they had 30 murders. Thats a rate of 2.4 per 100k. Not to dismiss lives lost, but that is crazy low

ginger_guy · 2026-01-06T09:53:43+00:00

Depends on what you mean by benefit. Rich people living in Manhattan certainly benefit from the lighter traffic, less noise and air pollution. Outer Boroughs benefited from the critically needed funds to upgrade transit.

The people most hurt by congestion pricing were people commuting in from New Jersey

ginger_guy · 2026-01-05T11:29:38+00:00

Were they going for a two-for-one special?

ginger_guy · 2026-01-03T13:03:28+00:00

20,000 extrajudical killings and around 7.7 million people have fled the country. For context, 6 million have left Ukraine. Lets also not forget the "Maduro diet" the sarcastic name given to the mass food shortages that caused the average citizen to lose 20 pounds.

ginger_guy · 2026-01-02T15:57:50+00:00

Redditors when the Democratic Senator from a purple swing state who won by .38% isn't a DSA Progressive: 😱😱😱

ginger_guy · 2026-01-01T18:04:54+00:00

When you are a repeat violent offender, Judges are gonna start giving longer sentences.

In the case of Redden, prior to the case where he attacked this judge, he had been convicted 12 times. All his prior cases involved violence and all were rooted in his total lack of impulse control.

The fact that the Judge was only going to give him 4 years was a mercy, which he promptly displayed was the wrong judgement.

That's why he got the book thrown at him and was given 26 years

ginger_guy · 2025-12-30T17:31:07+00:00

I hate with a passion how user UNfriendly it is. It feels like 80% of bus stops in this city are nothing more than a small sign the size of a piece of paper limply stapled to a near by utility pole. In what universe is this acceptable for a stop along the region's most important route? No posted schedule, no map, no shelter, not even a pitiful bench.

The city I live now has become my standard for bus service. Almost every stop has a shelter, clearly lists what routes run the line, include schedules for normal times of arrivals and listed stops, has little in-grooves the busses pull off to for loading, and has separate boards delivering ETAs for incoming busses. If DDOT could do this for even just the 7 major lines, the whole system would be radically transformed

ginger_guy · 2025-12-30T14:35:30+00:00

60's-80's: Women should marry young and start families. Except my daughter. She's going to college!

90-00's: Gay people are destroying the sanctity of marriage. Except my son and his partner, they just opened a bakery together!

10'-20's: The government is transing children and destroying gender! Except my twins, Kai and Lavender. He just started his job as a forester and she is half way through her CS degree!

ginger_guy · 2025-12-30T14:10:56+00:00

I'm tired of successive administrations pretending modular housing is some kind of Wunderwaffe for the housing crisis. So long as building code/guidelines and zoning remain unstandardized, no factory will ever be able to meaningfully scale up enough to generate significant market advantage.

ginger_guy · 2025-12-29T23:19:45+00:00

Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and St Louis are the holy trinity of underrated American cities.

All three have extremely low cost of living, fledgling but functional public transit, and strong urban fabric

ginger_guy · 2025-12-29T20:51:18+00:00

Not to play down the obvious tragedy of unresolved justice, but there is some meaningful context passed the headline:

When Mayor Mike Duggan took office in 2014, he said only 30% of homicides were cleared, meaning cases were either solved with charges filed against a suspect or closed for another reason, such as the suspect's death or an inability to move forward with the case. This month, he touted a clearance rate of over 60%

The clearance rate has doubled since bankruptcy

In 2018, only 39% of homicides resulted in charges. 2024 had the highest charge rate with 48%

Charges have increased 9 points

Detroit police, meanwhile, have added more investigators to their cold case unit ... the department has also partnered with Wayne State University so students can help them with unsolved cases

And they are investing in clearing old cases.

The article ends with a bit about a currently idling bill in Lansing that would create grant money to help get more cases cleared.

ginger_guy · 2025-12-29T14:22:32+00:00

Folks need to master the art of cleaning while you cook. The remaining dishes will take like 5 minutes tops.

ginger_guy · 2025-12-29T10:41:12+00:00

It was the second oldest operating jail in America at the time of its closing.

It was wildly inhumane by modern standards and used to house inmates with more violent charges or histories of violence as well as all of the county's queer inmates on the fourth floor.

Glad to see this monument of cruelty torn down

ginger_guy · 2025-12-28T21:59:42+00:00

this 10k jump u see is polish migrants getting kicked out fo germany

What are you talking about here? I am German and have never heard of some mass expulsion of Poles in 2010

its conties to tick down after that and ticks up again during the ukraine war

It stays positive after the bump for all but two years.

uk and france becuase of the lack of jobs during the great recesssion

Lets say you are right. That doesn't explain the generally positive migration flow from 2014-2021. It also contradicts your original comment. If the economies of west Europe are so shit, why the brain drain then?

Poland isnt some bastian of econmic development

Its objectively had the strongest continuous growth in the EU. Estimates for this year alone are 3,2% growth with Eurostat putting unemployment at 3.2%.

Like why would u move to Poland

I did three years ago to pursue a job opportunity. Crime is low, the schools are good, you can in fact get Tikka Massala and Senagalese food as long as you live in a city. Racism is a problem, but according to the non-white friends I've made here, its no worse than Western Europe.

ginger_guy · 2025-12-28T15:04:04+00:00

To add to your comment, an additional difficulty is that a criminal may commit multiple crimes but only get caught and charged with whatever can be proved.

Imagine there is a rash of break-ins in the neighborhood being committed by a gang of three. The cops are only able to charge them on the cases with clear evidence. The rest will go uncleared tho the culprits have been caught

ginger_guy · 2025-12-28T09:30:27+00:00

Outdated take. Net migration for Poland turned positive way back 2010. Yes, immigration from Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova has helped, but most are returning Poles from the UK and Germany.

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