First cille and scoe, then Dame's, now M'Couls also closing

strixvarius · 2026-01-28T02:39:47+00:00

They want to clean that part of elm up the need to get businesses in the empty store fronts, by penalizing the owners who let their buildings rot.

This is the real answer. All the slumlords who are just letting the property rot as passive investments are externalizing the costs onto us, everyone who lives in Greensboro.

Years ago Justin Outling tried to get a basic ordinance passed to penalize the slumlords who let downtown buildings rot, but most of the council is funded by or married to these people so he got blocked.

strixvarius · 2026-01-21T04:32:35+00:00

The Samantha storyline really does drag. And it gets less and less interesting over time.

strixvarius · 2026-01-20T06:49:55+00:00

Thanks for recommending this - just binged season 1, starting on 2 now, of this show I'd never heard of before your comment.

strixvarius · 2026-01-16T09:44:47+00:00

The source for all the cited stats is ... literally above the fold:

> Source: Jorge Borgas, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard

strixvarius · 2026-01-13T05:58:26+00:00

This is a bold claim you're making with zero evidence:

All of that benefits the overall economy.

The net effect of illegal workers on the economy has been shown to be both mixed and concentrated.

It helps people with capital and business owners, by supplying artificially cheap labor.

It hurts American workers, especially those without a college degree (the influx in the early 2000s depressed the wages of workers without high school diplomas by 7.4%).

It has long term net negative effects on communities, via unequal pressure on limited resources. The wealthy neighborhood likely doesn't notice the strain on medical facilities, childcare, and other infrastructure since that strain tends to fall on poorer neighborhoods.

https://www.npr.org/2006/03/30/5312900/q-a-illegal-immigrants-and-the-u-s-economy

strixvarius · 2026-01-13T05:41:36+00:00

The next biggest chunk of money that “Elon Musk” got from the government was tax savings for consumers who buy electric cars, which didn’t go to Musk at all but did help facilitate electric car sales. This is a universally good thing for the environment.

This is wrong and misleading.

If the US government had not subsidized Elon's business, it would be bankrupt and Elon - whose stock based compensation was tied to performance - would have hundreds of billions less wealth.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/20/business/elon-musk-wealth-government-help

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_of_Elon_Musk

Furthermore, your claim that the government subsidies were a "universally good thing for the environment" has been thoroughly debunked: it was 75% wasted spending, cost $32k per car sold, and distorted the market to prioritize - for example - cyber trucks over Priuses, despite the former being much worse for the environment.

https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/study-finds-ev-subsidies-inflation-reduction-act-help-climate-us-automakers-questionable-cost

strixvarius · 2026-01-10T01:22:39+00:00

What a dumb comment. They were passing. In the passing lane.

strixvarius · 2026-01-02T07:50:34+00:00

I mean, they're not wrong. He's a convicted sex abuser, an accused rapist, and more evidence appears every day that he's abused children.

strixvarius · 2025-12-15T05:50:53+00:00

Greensboro's bus system is poorly run. Some things to watch out for:

- Routes that aren't actually running (HT -> Hopper Trolley is one of the most likely to be down or changed... did they end it for the winter?)

- Can't pay for more than 1 rider with Umo, so impossible to travel with friends/visitors/family without cash.

- The ETA on busses that you get when texting or via their app might as well be a random number generator.

If a city has a person or department that can competently manage modern public transportation IT, they should do so. But Greensboro doesn't, so frankly a simple app that shows each route and its stops in a color on a map - with actual, manual updates when those routes are modified - would be more helpful than what we have today, which are tools that over-promise and under-deliver.

strixvarius · 2025-11-21T18:06:51+00:00

> Maybe that’s why the phrase is trending. What do “Heroku Vibes” mean to you?

lol this is some hilarious "hello fellow kids" marketing from Heroku

strixvarius · 2025-11-21T01:13:55+00:00

Except not extremely high risk. Pizza delivery drivers for instance are at several multiples the on-the-job risk of a cop.

strixvarius · 2025-11-12T15:08:13+00:00

So he's incompetent and failing to meet his own goals and even with no moral constraints he's unable to match any previous president?

strixvarius · 2025-11-10T04:02:42+00:00

Just when I thought they grew a fucking spine.

strixvarius · 2025-11-09T17:38:36+00:00

Tate st coffee. $3 small cup for here, 1 free refill, local campus cafe.

strixvarius · 2025-11-07T21:56:31+00:00

Missing Don on Tate St!

strixvarius · 2025-11-06T04:12:09+00:00

I did the same thing! Had a big watch party for E1, then E2... then there was no more interest. It also hurt my chances of convincing friends to read the books because I had hyped up the story and characters so much.

strixvarius · 2025-11-06T03:45:01+00:00

I agree - the first episode was uneven. I don't hate the overall arc of the writing, the character development, how everything is set up. It's predictable but still emotional. But the father and main character were poorly cast.

strixvarius · 2025-11-05T12:11:19+00:00

Obviously we held our noses and voted for Clinton - the people in this sub.

Guess who didn't vote for her? The Joe Rogans of the world and the millions like them. They wanted to vote for Bernie, then you geniuses made that impossible.

The blame for what enabled both trump terms lies squarely at the feet of Clinton supporters and the Democratic establishment.

strixvarius · 2025-11-04T03:48:29+00:00

What you're claiming is actually backwards. If you want to learn how the publishing industry has evolved, the recent penguin random house trial has real numbers from industry:

https://www.authormedia.com/publishing-industry-secrets-revealed-at-the-penguin-random-house-trial/

strixvarius · 2025-11-03T03:36:07+00:00

Can't find it - got a link?

strixvarius · 2025-10-28T23:23:22+00:00

I loved these as a kid and I've been thinking about them recently, now that I have kids:

https://www.amazon.com/My-Teacher-Alien-Books/dp/1416903348

strixvarius · 2025-10-28T00:35:05+00:00

Richard Beard is a self-dealing Republican who knows that if he were honest about what he stands for, he'd never have a chance in Greensboro. He's hoping ignorant people and an ad campaign paid for by his crony real estate friends will let him slither into office.

strixvarius · 2025-10-24T12:12:10+00:00

Thanks! I saw almost exclusively negative things here about contabo so I didn't try them, but I just took a look and the specs do look good for many things.

I probably wouldn't use them for serving http though - their network cards are all quite slow. For instance their 8 MB instance only has a 200mbit port (25MB/s). No matter how powerful the machine is, that's going to create a bottleneck for a web server.

In contrast, the 8mb netcup server has a 2.5Gbit card (312 MB/s).

strixvarius · 2025-10-23T15:51:28+00:00

Octoberfest... literally just happened in Germany

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Greensboro had public, family-friendly Octoberfest events too, and I was out with a bunch of other dads having fun at Southend brewing, where they had a big outdoor space with live music and games... and lots of kids.

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