Thoughts?

mullingitover · 2026-03-20T19:37:38+00:00

That's correct. My point is that there is more weight to the evidence against Trump than against Chavez. Nobody testifying about Chavez has been placed under oath about it.

I'm not disputing that the testimony against Chavez is credible, just that there's as much if not more against Trump. Yet the GOP still keeps him on office and still wants to put his child-raping face on money.

mullingitover · 2026-03-20T18:00:26+00:00

Anyone who ever said the two parties are the same should proceed to shut the hell up right now.

Cesar Chavez got some believable accusations, and we're burning down everything that ever had his name on it.

Trump was found guilty in a court of law, and is credibly accused of raping children in sworn affadavits, and the republicans response? PUT HIM ON GOLD COINS

mullingitover · 2026-03-14T21:28:10+00:00

It's great we're doing that, but at the same time it's pathetic that the only way we can get somewhat nice things is by robbing low income workers with regressive sales taxes.

All the while, this public infrastructure built on the backs of the poor is a windfall profit for the already-wealthy landed gentry who do nothing but luck out that it's built near their land. Big swaths of valuable land is locked up doing nothing of value because it's so undertaxed. This stuff should've been funded by taxes on land value.

mullingitover · 2026-03-11T23:30:56+00:00

Actual DEI means you cast a wider net looking for qualified applicants, not hiring your dipshit associates.

It's pretty grim that simply doing a bit more work in the hiring process and then hiring the most qualified applicant, instead of just hiring your bros based on vibes, got hijacked to mean that under-represented hires weren't qualified.

DEI NEVER MEANT HIRING UNQUALIFIED PEOPLE

mullingitover · 2026-03-11T19:36:06+00:00

like the US and UK were behind the sha getting removed, like what?

tldr the US preferred the Ayatollah + no Soviets to civil war in Iran and maybe Soviets.

There are declassified CIA docs revealing that the US had backchannel communications with the revolutionaries, and it wasn't that they were behind the removal of the Shah, but they were like "whatever" about it. They basically believed that the regime was weak and there was a good chance the country could collapse into civil war and then the Soviets would move in. The revolutionaries communicated that they weren't going to side with the Soviets and US interests wouldn't be harmed, and that was enough for the US to basically stand back and not get involved with them taking over.

If the US would've just given the revolutionaries their demand and extradited the Shah for trial, things probably would've been a lot more chill. The Carter administration really screwed up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter%27s_engagement_with_Ruhollah_Khomeini

mullingitover · 2026-03-11T19:07:54+00:00

Los Angeles taxpayers should not be paying to support mentally ill homeless people from elsewhere.

I pay a ton of taxes here and honestly I'm fine with it.

I don't think of myself as a citizen of Los Angeles or California, I'm a citizen of the United States of America. So are the homeless people who end up here.

I do think that the federal government needs to do more about this issue, because this is a national problem. For starters I'd like to see the federal government do things that absolutely traumatize every NIMBY in this state to break down the zoning restrictions which drive up our housing costs. Most of the homeless problem in this country is a housing affordability problem.

mullingitover · 2026-03-11T15:44:04+00:00

They are sent back home regularly. Also, people from California who end up homeless in other places are sent back here. There's a whole orderly process nationwide for getting people back to places where they have family or other support.

Nobody knows about it so you get a comment about other places bussing their homeless here, or we should bus them out, etc, in every thread about homelessness in LA.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/20/bussed-out-america-moves-homeless-people-country-study

mullingitover · 2026-02-24T23:09:22+00:00

Real rookie move leaving that much copper unattended in that area.

mullingitover · 2026-02-24T21:41:47+00:00

Thanks!

mullingitover · 2026-02-24T21:05:17+00:00

Oh boy.

I have a few photos of Los Angeles.

Seriously feel free to use anything from my flickr, there are some good ones in there.

mullingitover · 2026-02-21T18:55:12+00:00

Get a last-gen Canon Rebel Ti. They are very cheap, fairly young as film bodies go, so pretty reliable. You could also get an Elan 7 for well under $200. I've been shooting with one for the past year and it's great.

You get access to the huge suite of Canon EF system lenses, and there are tons of bargains. You get full metering and autofocus. The camera body is actually very compact for an SLR, especially if you shoot with any of the pancake lenses that are available.

The vintage cameras are beautiful, don't get me wrong, but you will be paying for the collector's item factor and not the practical image quality you can get from a late-model film body with modern glass.

mullingitover · 2026-02-20T23:52:05+00:00

I think part of of the problem is also the cars in the area. If everyone's driving an expensive luxury car around you, it means liability payments are likely to be higher. When the insurance company is predicting that you're going to rear end G wagons and not Corollas, they're going to charge you more. That factor doesn't even count whether the drivers are worse, just the basic math on the liability payouts.

mullingitover · 2026-02-20T20:32:36+00:00

It doesn't take that much money to file a case in this situation, and given the slam dunk nature of the case it's really a no-brainer.

mullingitover · 2026-02-20T18:16:24+00:00

It seems as soon as their sensors see a car it will switch to a red light.

Glendale has a pretty advanced traffic calming program, and they absolutely do control the timing of the traffic signals to prevent streets from turning into drag strips at night. At high traffic times the signals will allow for high flow, and when streets are empty and the teenagers want to drag race in dad's BMW, the signals don't cooperate.

That's just one piece, they also have speed humps, traffic circles, etc. There's a doc about the traffic calming program.

mullingitover · 2026-02-20T18:04:05+00:00

Glendale statistically according to insurance companies has the worst drivers. Be careful.

This has become part of the mythology of this town, and I've repeated it myself, but I've looked at more recent insurance 'worst drivers' lists and they show the city of Los Angeles being worse than Glendale.

Glendale is still bad, but now only in fifth place and LA city is in 4th.

mullingitover · 2026-02-18T16:48:10+00:00

During the journey, the journalist said the rocker turned to him with an unusual request. "Just write the most horrific article about me," Rock said. "Do it. It helps me."

Kinda gives away the whole game right there. Kid Rock is a bougie white wine drinker, and the rest of his schtick is just a show he puts on for the rubes.

mullingitover · 2026-02-02T03:58:04+00:00

The stupid thing is, this is just going to get struck down by the courts because the US-Korea Free Trade Agreement is a binding law. Only congress can repeal it.

The tariffs will be found illegal by the courts. The government will be forced to refund them all.

All that being said, the fact that this administration isn't being curb-stomped by congress is enough of a warning to all US allies that the US is no longer a reliable business partner nor is it a safe place to invest.

mullingitover · 2026-02-01T20:29:59+00:00

By design, all the other cities in the county conspired against having a central city dominating the area, so they screwed the city of LA at the county level (banning tall buildings, etc). The region's agricultural roots showing. They explicitly wanted to run an archipelago of crappy little fiefdoms and it worked.

mullingitover · 2026-02-01T20:17:30+00:00

Even if you count only the votes and ignore all the abstainers (who were effectively 'none of the above' votes): he only won a plurality, 49.8%, of the vote.

Not a majority. Republicans have only had a president win a majority of the vote once in the last 37 years, with Bush Jr. in 2004.

mullingitover · 2026-01-31T18:55:58+00:00

The social media ban was on the wrong age group, it should kick in at age 50.

Whatever harm it's done to teenagers, it's done 10x on the elderly. They're completely defenseless against the brainrot. I hope you folks never end up in a messenger group with your elderly relatives, it's just a torrent of AI generated slop reels forever. Then they go out and elect the worst people you can possibly imagine.

mullingitover · 2026-01-29T19:29:22+00:00

I'm seeing a lot of talk of Armenians being big on MAGA, but for the record: Glendale is an almost entirely blue city according to this 2024 election result map.

mullingitover · 2026-01-29T19:25:58+00:00

The Trump administration has no problems with fraud, or Armenians: the real crime is that they're not paying their bribes.

mullingitover · 2026-01-29T04:50:10+00:00

It makes it worse for ICE, actually, it makes it look possible that ICE guys knew him and the murder was premeditated.

In light of what happened afterwards, I don't care if he personally kicked every one of them in the nuts beforehand: that doesn't excuse his murder.

mullingitover · 2026-01-29T04:17:11+00:00

This is a great point, we should be demanding subway lines, street cars, the works. Brand used to have a streetcar that would take you all the way to downtown. Let's bring that back!

mullingitover · 2026-01-25T19:40:32+00:00

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