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#21

Canada / Re: How do you say "vigilante ...

Last post by LilianaUwU - Today at 01:01:53 PM

Holy fuck, Montréal really wants people to keep breaking their cars, huh? I bet the city got a deal under the table with repair shops.

Or perhaps there's a powerful pothole-filler union that negotiated a three-day work week, and doesn't want the competition.

You're right... unions are fucking parasitic around here.

#22

Canada / Re: How do you say "vigilante ...

Last post by Max Rockatansky - Today at 12:47:49 PM

It would have been hilarious if Daredevil Born Again had an episode plot line which had the AVTF rounding up vigilante pavers.   There actually is an episode during which Mayor Kingpin loses his shit over the bureaucracy behind filling in a sinkhole on a street.

#23

Pacific Southwest / Re: 🚘 Headlines About Californ...

Last post by Max Rockatansky - Today at 12:44:35 PM

Urbanists are pretty easy to ignore.  The rest of the world does, we as a hobby should too.

In some states, they have significant influence on government policy. You can't ignore that.

Some, but outside of San Francisco and some other highly urbanized places in California their influence is minimal.  Complete Streets is probably the closest thing they have on a state level that had some of their influence in it. 

#24

Canada / Re: How do you say "vigilante ...

Last post by pderocco - Today at 12:35:34 PM

Holy fuck, Montréal really wants people to keep breaking their cars, huh? I bet the city got a deal under the table with repair shops.

Or perhaps there's a powerful pothole-filler union that negotiated a three-day work week, and doesn't want the competition.

#25

Pacific Southwest / Re: 🚘 Headlines About Californ...

Last post by pderocco - Today at 12:34:00 PM

Urbanists are pretty easy to ignore.  The rest of the world does, we as a hobby should too.

In some states, they have significant influence on government policy. You can't ignore that.

#26

Pacific Southwest / Re: 🚘 Headlines About Californ...

Last post by Max Rockatansky - Today at 12:28:50 PM

Urbanists are pretty easy to ignore.  The rest of the world does, we as a hobby should too.

#27

Canada / Re: How do you say "vigilante ...

Last post by LilianaUwU - Today at 12:24:02 PM

Holy fuck, Montréal really wants people to keep breaking their cars, huh? I bet the city got a deal under the table with repair shops.

#28

Off-Topic / Re: Minor things that bother y...

Last post by formulanone - Today at 12:18:46 PM

I'll admit I grew up with "sherbert". Sherbet is probably a bastardization of sorbet anyway.

There are a number of cannabis strains with the word "sherbet" in them. I've been to dispensaries that spelled it "sherbert". I refuse to buy a strain with a misspelled name.

A picky stoner, eh?   

(This is not a judgment, I've indulged from time to time.)

I, too, have indulged in pickiness at times.  It bothers me how Texans pronounce the name of the Pedernales River as if it were the Perdenales River, and how people say New Braunfels as if it were New Bransfel.  I want to Texify "sherbet" and start pronouncing it as "shebb-urt."

Let's face it, if any of us are (un)lucky enough to work for the local frosty snack shoppe, I think various ways to say the same thing are well-understood because everyone just points at the tubs like wide-eyed children and probably don't give much lip at spucfic-pacific-pronoun-city-action-shun.

#29

Off-Topic / Re: Minor things that bother y...

Last post by wxfree - Today at 11:56:19 AM

I'll admit I grew up with "sherbert". Sherbet is probably a bastardization of sorbet anyway.

There are a number of cannabis strains with the word "sherbet" in them. I've been to dispensaries that spelled it "sherbert". I refuse to buy a strain with a misspelled name.

A picky stoner, eh?   

(This is not a judgment, I've indulged from time to time.)

I, too, have indulged in pickiness at times.  It bothers me how Texans pronounce the name of the Pedernales River as if it were the Perdenales River, and how people say New Braunfels as if it were New Braunsfel.  I want to Texify "sherbet" and start pronouncing it as "shebb-urt."

#30

Off-Topic / Re: Why do people still live i...

Last post by wxfree - Today at 11:37:30 AM

When New Orleans goes underwater, it isn't going to be revitalized later.  The disaster upon that city isn't just like other places that get damaged, and it isn't of a different scale, it's of a different nature.  Hurricanes kill and destroy, and then go away.  Tornadoes, floods, and fires do the same.  When New Orleans floods, it's forever.  The water doesn't recede.  You have to build a bowl around it and pump it dry.  In addition to temporary and permanent increases in water level, the ground is sinking.  Cutting up the region has increased erosion, pumping gas, oil, and water out of the ground (which is nothing but mud) makes it compress, and diverting the mud in the river, which is what built all of that swampy land, into the sea is preventing the natural rebuilding process.

This is not New York, Miami, or Houston, and it isn't like a blizzard that dumps tons of snow that later melts and runs off.  What people have always said about the West Coast breaking off and falling into the ocean, it's more like that.  It's land actually disappearing.  Not something that money and inspiration can fix, but the shape of the earth's surface changing.  It's been happening for a hundred years, but in spite of that people are somehow able to ignore it.

It isn't really a natural disaster, it's artificial.  That area can be lived on lightly, hunting shacks and small towns.  Building a major city, cutting up the land for boats, and pumping material out of the ground while also diverting the new land, the mud in the river, to the ocean, this is not sustainable.  If we give the area back to nature, nature will start the process over and rebuild the land, the way it built it the first time.  This means only small areas can be built on, and the rest of it floods frequently, the way it was in the beginning.  Some plants need fires to activate their seeds, even though fires also destroy.  This area needs floods, to deposit sediment and maintain the land, even though floods also destroy.  We've overexploited the resource.  This area is too fragile to be built on endlessly.  That will cause it to cease to exist.