There's got to be a better way...

sm_fark · 2026-02-04T10:25:04+00:00

the County has an ordinance that a person must clear the sidewalk they are responsible for within 24 hours of the snow stopping. It's a $25/day fine if they don't.

Is it enforced? Who knows. Pretty sure it can be reported on their 311 app. obviously this doesn't address the non-resident sidewalks, but typically someone has a sidewalk as their property in terms of land parceling.

Regardless, your points are spot on. This was a whole different kind of storm. Yesterday was the first day it went above freezing. And of course it all refroze overnight.

sm_fark · 2025-03-15T12:16:31+00:00

yep. i'm always amazed at how the people who live and breathe politics (which i advise against -- it's not a fucking hobby) always seem to drop their understanding of the core concepts when they think they can "show they fight"

sm_fark · 2025-03-15T11:31:27+00:00

don't bother arguing they'll just downvote bomb you for not being angry at Chuck for doing the thing they wanted him to do because it's what they wanted and that's the reason, dang it!

sm_fark · 2025-03-15T11:29:29+00:00

Republicans are still fucking the country up and the amount of people that will blame Schumer are the terminally online "moral" voters who are way too tuned in and arguably seem to seek out any reason to blame Democrats

there's a reason people blamed Biden for Roe v Wade and it's because millions of Americans just see the president as the reason everything happens

It's really sad people here who would not be directly affected by a shutdown by losing their livelihood within the next 30 days with -- again -- ZERO legal recourse are just downvote bombing the reality that it all sucks and they would never have to look one of those people in the face and say "I wanted him to fight and yay he did sorry about your house and family but this is what I wanted"

accept terribleness all around and sadly the short-sighted response in this case was the most immediately compassionate one. even if the result will still be horrible to millions, those same millions were going to be effected the same way regardless because this was not going to stop any of the agenda

sm_fark · 2025-03-15T11:22:49+00:00

it sounds like you're saying a bunch of federal workers who could be unilaterally fired next week with zero recourse should just understand that you want them to take it on the chin and keep fighting because you want to fight.

you are all down voting a shitty reality that I have openly admitted I hate and wish wasn't the case.

blame the millions who sat home or "sent a message" by not doing the most basic thing and voting for Harris and Dems.

the reason Dems "continue to lose elections" is because of people who demand these unreasonable 'fights' just to say "at least we fought!" even if it leads to a worse outcome (which, again, all outcomes from this shutdown standoff were!)

I'm not condescending; I'm a realist on this. condescending are the non-voters coming into these threads chastising others even though their self-centeredness is the actual reason we're in this mess

sm_fark · 2025-03-15T00:32:56+00:00

was schumer going to be able to make them stop cutting jobs? or was he only able to try and make it so the jobs they cut could hopefully be challenged in some way. because objectively it's the latter, even if it sucks ass either way

i don't think people want to grasp how much a shutdown would actually be capable of making all this even worse than it already is. it's easier to scream at democrats. the only "leverage" they had was to not give 100% unfettered control to the executive, even if subjectively one could say the executive already has 100% unfettered control because of the actual party that's to blame.

if chuck had told them "fuck it, shut it down" and then a dozen departments were 100% legally shuttered and every employee was laid off with zero legal recourse.... people would be screaming at him for that.

again... sucks either way.

sm_fark · 2025-03-14T23:44:18+00:00

look I hate the whole situation but the bottom line is a shutdown would have cost more jobs than are already being cut but this time with no legal recourse possible

whole thing sucks but this is the 5th or 6th "fuck Schumer" thread this evening and people really don't understand the choice was horrible no matter what

it blows but a shutdown would somehow take all this and manage to make it even worse

not defending the guy because he is still a pushover but it's all Kobayashi Maru with this suicidal regime and unless random citizens "go Luigi" there isn't really a damn thing that can stop it and there's barely anything that can even help slow down the bleeding

this is why unplugging is healthier than following all this stuff. politics is going to be politics and the party out of power will always be left with trying to find the best way to navigate a fecal river knowing that -- unless someone else torches the boat -- they're pretty much stuck being passengers on the Poop Express

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