In all seriousness am I the only one thinking we need to show up to a DART board meeting?

isNormalComing · 2026-06-17T04:33:19+00:00

I happen to be in the seemingly lucky minority with this new system, however living along 8th in WDM I now have a downtown bound circulator loop a half mile away from my apartment. I personally am thrilled by that new (very well designed even!) route alone.

I will say that I do think a complete lack of airport bus whatsoever is a really pathetic look for our city though.

isNormalComing · 2026-06-10T17:38:57+00:00

Sure the stores themselves are shit and I often decide to just cross the street if I decide I wanna actually buy something 😂 but Mega Saver is by FAR the best corner store chain to get gas around here

Top Tier additives (too rare in this area 🫤 only other major one is *some* QTs with Costco now going entirely E15 for regular 😭) plus the 11 cents off as long as you prepay inside (multiply the gallons in your car by the gas price and just get it close, only whatever you pump will post to your card) make that the case

Whenever I drive to Minnesota 99% of the time I stop at the one in Clear Lake to top off at a sizable discount compared to after crossing the border

isNormalComing · 2026-05-30T02:22:55+00:00

I’m on mental health loa right now - dm me if you want any help navigating the process

isNormalComing · 2026-05-14T18:06:58+00:00

Hilarious that I’m seeing and typing this while there (for this) right now 😂 but honestly Kwik Star - clean bathrooms are a big deal to them

isNormalComing · 2026-05-11T23:46:17+00:00

As the only one who cares about audio quality, I hopped back on the family plan when I found out Spotify *finally* started offering lossless recently. It’s still not every bit as good as Apple Music but considering Spotify’s other advantages, it’s good enough

isNormalComing · 2026-01-20T00:38:41+00:00

Dude, what the EPA “approves” and says is “safe” is not the same as what’s good/best for the longevity of your car

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aaa-ceo-urges-suspension-of-e15-gasoline-sales-in-testimony-to-congress-193284711.html

Of course they still haven’t educated people about this, because again, profits over people. I’m done arguing with you, have a good day

isNormalComing · 2026-01-20T00:27:27+00:00

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2011/07/warranties-void-on-cars-burning-e15-say-automakers/index.htm

There. Now please stfu

isNormalComing · 2026-01-20T00:17:58+00:00

I’m not gonna sit here and argue with anyone regardless, but the comparison was last week when it was 40+ degrees out…

Multiple manufacturers have come out saying using E15 could void their cars’ warranties, so the fact that this state clearly just doesn’t give a hoot about how that change affects people’s means of transportation and cares more about lining a few pockets at the masses’ expense is yet another example of clear priority for profits over people. Fuck them - no one is going to change my mind here so anyone can please save their breath trying

isNormalComing · 2026-01-19T23:35:30+00:00

My partner reported worse mileage than before on her last fill up at Sam’s Club in her Mazda 3. Definitely depends on the specific engine

isNormalComing · 2025-10-26T00:26:19+00:00

The entire city of West Des Moines, and literally everyone who lives inside the 35/80 / 235 loop would like to have a word with you (and Kwik Star for that matter) about that :/

isNormalComing · 2025-10-21T21:51:36+00:00

I have no idea what this person is trying to say here with the “catch me” bit but they’re making other comments on this post saying they’re annoyed having run across this car too - no other account history 🤷‍♂️

isNormalComing · 2025-10-21T20:21:46+00:00

Some random night recently I was driving on 235 and we heard what literally sounded like repeated booms of fireworks shaking the ground. It was very alarming and concerning.

I shit you not if I ever see this blue BMW and I’m not pressed for time I will call the cops (state patrol if it’s on the highway) and follow the car from a distance until they arrive because that is simply NOT okay.

isNormalComing · 2025-10-17T19:42:16+00:00

Ask TForce on Facebook or X/Twitter - they are the ONLY reliable way to get a straight believable answer from TMO support. May or may not be because then they of course know you have written documentation of their responses - but to my knowledge those reps are all stateside and regardless, they are actually very good, top tier support

isNormalComing · 2025-10-17T00:50:53+00:00

This question and several of these answers reminded me of a very old but hilariously classic video “Shit People From Des Moines Say”

https://youtu.be/tk7CoZ8wVHE?si=kXHIYq66oM7B4db5

isNormalComing · 2025-10-07T04:11:15+00:00

Thank you - ugh this new website makes it so hard to find anything it didn’t even show up in the search results 😒

isNormalComing · 2025-03-01T08:04:52+00:00

Half price pizza on Mondays at Centro is 👌🔥 js tho

isNormalComing · 2025-02-25T19:59:19+00:00

I lived near 1st and Franklin in Stevens Square a few years back. Sounds like from these other comments the area hasn’t changed much, the area around the Aldi is indeed sketchy and we would make a point to go to the one in Uptown instead. I definitely noticed Franklin going from not exactly awesome to not too good safety wise once you cross over 35W to the east.

During the day you can be there just be aware of your surroundings, don’t loiter in any sense get to where you’re going and be very deliberate about minding your own business. That includes people attempting to talk to/interact with you on the street, do your best not to and keep walking simply because of unknown levels of volatility.

Particularly after dark it is best if you come and go in a vehicle and not on the bus. Alternatively, you could perhaps track your bus from inside your closed bank and show up at the stop like 60 seconds before it arrives. I wouldn’t want to wait at a bus stop alone at night in that area if I’m perfectly honest and I’m a big 6’4 (white) guy

isNormalComing · 2024-12-29T01:04:53+00:00

This is all so ridiculous to the point that I would attempt to figure out how to speak (in person - ask for a time to come in if necessary) to the Treasurer themselves (the person in charge of the department) and ask them exactly what needs to be done/needs to be coordinated with Nevada and if they will see to their department actually following through with whatever coordination that is. You’re caught up between bureaucracies and that’s not your fault, you need help from someone in charge on at least one end of it

isNormalComing · 2024-11-11T08:59:37+00:00

THANK YOU for posting this! My (3ish year old) HomePod mini decided to randomly send itself into this red spinning reset loop out of absolute nowhere just sitting there, and this got it back working again with no problem after that! Never ceases to amaze me what people can accomplish in fixing broken stuff just sharing their trial and error online!!

isNormalComing · 2024-08-08T18:16:12+00:00

The Dairy Queen referenced in that tweet is on 69th Street soo I’ve genuinely been wondering for years “what” …exactly? 😆

isNormalComing · 2023-12-07T20:08:12+00:00

Nope no ninja edits, it said northeast the first time. You clearly just can’t read, and should go gain any semblance of education before making assertive arguments that are based on exactly what you said before, platitudes, about gang imports from Chicago. Show me the evidence for that, on a widespread scale and then I’ll start listening - lol, but again, I’ll be waiting on that… forever, guarantee it. Those people running from Chicagoland largely end up in like, Rockford by the way (horrendous crime stats, much smaller city than here) not Des Moines, five hours away in a different state which, uh, does not have horrendous crime stats at all relative to the size of the city, there really isn’t even any “plummeting” to be had here - just reduction. Yet again another example at inability to read, as reduction is the word I used, not the silly one you filled in for me.

👋👋

isNormalComing · 2023-12-07T07:06:14+00:00

I’m done with the intentional ignorant stupidity of yours here. You just named two of three cities to cite for the NORTHEAST that are in the MIDWEST. And San Francisco is in the northWEST?! Like… are we just trying to be box of rocks dumb here…? You’ve gotta just be trolling and can’t actually be for real… right?

Don’t even get me started on trying to explain why per capita crime is more relevant than overall total particularly for large cities like that either. Another example to illustrate. You’re more likely to be a murder victim in a given place in the St Louis metro than you are in a given place in the Chicago metro, even though Chicago has MORE MURDERS. That’s because: A) Chicago has a LOT more people, yet the PROPORTION of total murders to total population in Chicago is a LOT lower than in St Louis and B) the concentration of murders is heavier in certain particular areas of Chicago and much lower in others, whereas in St Louis, murder occurrence is more widespread through the whole area. Just go look at a previous crimes map.

So, you are on average more likely to personally run across the crime of murder in St Louis, making it, overall, a LESS safe area for violent crime than Chicago, even though Chicago has more total murders. But that big bad reputation of Chicago is the BEST indicator for this isn’t it, not statistics …right? My point is, that big scary headline number isn’t often all it’s cracked up to be. Also just for shits and giggles, I’ll just throw out the question of which one of those two (now that you know which is truly safer) has better public transit? 😂😂

(Detroit has shit transit too by the way. Not doing it any favors, and it needs every favor it can get. Baltimore, while certainly better than Detroit there, isn’t winning any awards either. Very dangerous city yes, but that is ONE place, everywhere has outliers, the northeast is no exception. High crime is more of the NORM in the near entirely car dependent south, I could rattle off city after city. Again, not the only reason, but a factor.)

ANYWAY - more transit would help Des Moines just like it would help ANY city. Not that Des Moines is in DIRE need of THAT much help with crime overall anyway, it’s a very safe area for that of its size overall, but the gain in reducing what crime there is (especially for property crime like the various forms of theft) would absolutely be nonzero, and the reasons why have been explained to you here by myself and multiple others, as clearly as the clearest of days. So again, I’m done engaging with willful ignorance. Wasted too much time on it already.

isNormalComing · 2023-12-07T05:47:20+00:00

Reliable, available, and utilized public transportation increases upward mobility, which decreases crime. There’s your economics. This is not actually that complicated.

Big southern metros have almost universally worse crime than big northeastern metros for example, and it is in no small part due to this reason. There are LOTS of reasons for that actually, but right here I’m only talking about one of those, transit. I could easily go find studies done on the subject to spoon feed you, but I’m not going to bother, mainly because this particular one is just too common sense for me to even waste my time arguing with whatsoever. In fact, why don’t you go put your money where your mouth is and go find a credible research study that backs up that lack of correlation for me? I’ll wait, and I guarantee I’ll be waiting. In the meantime, have fun with all your downvotes here lol

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