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aka @JWBananas@startrek.website aka @JWBananas@lemmy.world aka @JWBananas@kbin.social
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So I am sorry you don’t want people to talk about an impending genocide
Quite the contrary. Say it loud and say it proud.
how pissed off I am to have that thrown at me every fucking day.
This part. This is the part that makes me think “He needs a break.” And again, I say that as someone who also needs a break.
Maybe that’s projection. I don’t know. All I know is this is the first week that has left me seriously thinking about just deleting all my accounts, taking a break from the doom scrolling, and waiting for the dust to settle. The unproductive, bad faith, aggressive discourse on top of what is actually happening is mentally and physically exhausting.
You’re still putting your time and energy into emigrating, right? That’s got to be an exhausting process for a whole family to handle as it is.
I implore you, seriously. Take a few days away from being terminally online. “Flood the zone” is in full effect right now. This is the part where they’re purposefully wearing us down. Save some of that energy for later.
Maybe it’s not my place to offer that advice. I certainly don’t know you personally. But you remind me a lot of me when I’m overwhelmed. Sorry about the bad-taste post before.
Squid, as a highly stressed out banana who also needs to touch grass, I implore you, seriously, please touch grass.
The Temporal Wars threw a–
You know what? It’s not even worth it. This is truly horrifying.
You can buy $NANC and do the same
Leak it, Jack. What are they gonna do, fire you? Leak it. I double dog dare you.
I pay extra for the food because they’re outsourcing to Door Dash, and it takes two hours to get a pizza.
It takes 2 hours because they’re sending a bid to drivers for your delivery contract, which may also include someone else’s delivery on the same route, for a base pay of $2 plus your tip. After enough drivers decline that, they add 25 cents and send it around again. This process repeats until someone (hopefully) eventually accepts it. And – whoops – the merchant’'s contract with DoorDash requires the driver to have a pizza bag. So the bid only even gets seen by the subset of drivers who do.
That’s $2, plus your tip. And that’s if the merchant was nice enough to actually pass that tip along when they outsourced the delivery. They aren’t contractually required to do so, and some don’t.
As an unpaid independent contractor, if I can see it’s an outsourced order (placed through the merchant instead of through the delivery marketplace), I won’t even accept it, because it’s also going to mean losing 10-20 minutes of unpaid time standing around waiting for the merchant (who sent out the contract way too early) to actually start making your pizza, that they already lied about being ready when they sent a notification to you and to me. It’s nearly always a disaster.
Edit to add: Just order from Domino’s, they do everything in-house.
You’re intentionally misunderstanding the situation. Heavy duty bollards are expensive.
Are we reading the same article?
The report outlined three different crash-rating standards for bollard systems. It concluded that the highest crash rating, which could withstand impacts from 15,000-pound vehicles traveling between 30 to 50 mph, was “not compatible” with the city’s needs to move the bollards every day.
“Specialized lifting equipment like a truck-mounted crane or heavy machinery would be necessary” to move such bollards daily, the report said.
They don’t want to pay, because they don’t give a fuck.
The funding comes from the state. The administration comes from the state. The last set the state funded in 2017 started failing within 6 months. That is why the replacement project was even happening.
It also took years for the state to fund the replacement.
There has historically been a lot of this type of tension between the state and the city. Despite the [mostly Democrat] city’s tax dollars largely funding the rest of the [mostly Republican/other] state, the state loves to cause all sorts of problems for the city.
The bollards, for instance. The state administers the FQMD. The FQMD commissioned them in the first place.
But will the FQMD operate them?
“We do not employ personnel that actually do work on a functional basis. We need to partner with the city, and we need a partner with other organizations like NOPD, like the sheriff’s department, like Troop Nola, to accomplish our objectives,” she said. “And so we’ve had discussions about all of these things over the years as it relates to public safety.”
Will the FQMD ensure that happens?
According to board meeting minutes reviewed by InvestigateTV, there were concerns about the bollard system itself — but also an ongoing staffing struggle over who was locking them into place each night.
In a Jan. 2019 report from the then-chair, state police and homeland security were not positioning and locking Quarter bollards despite requests to, and the city asked if the FQMD would consider taking on that responsibility.
This was met with concerns about liability, with one commissioner saying the bollards were “not a good system.”
Copycat killers exist. It worked once, why not do it again, they will accurately think.
Again, are we reading the same article?
The city currently has no bollards at Canal and Bourbon streets, where the attacker entered, but the roadway was blocked by an SUV police cruiser parked sideways on New Year’s.
Attack suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. combat veteran from Texas, exploited another vulnerability in the city’s security planning: He squeezed his seven-foot-wide pickup onto an eight-foot-wide sidewalk between a drugstore wall and the police vehicle, stomping the accelerator and plowing through the crowd at about 3:15 a.m.
The police SUV blocking the street was more than sufficient as a replacement for the bollards. But the bollards (and the SUV) only block the street, not the sidewalk. Block the sidewalk too, and you run into ADA issues.
Is your username a back-formation of Verdana, the font?
Sorry
I live in a corporate-managed apartment complex in Louisiana. Corporate recently made an abrupt switch to ActiveBuilding (from RealPage) for property management, and the market rate went up 25% at every property they own in the area.
The ownership and management didn’t change at all; they simply switched their software. When I heard it was coming, I took screenshots of the property websites for comparison. The 25% increase was literally overnight and market-wide.
I am hopeful but not optimistic about the DOJ case.
This kinda shit always pisses me off because if you actually look up the statistics for the use of tobacco products over the years, we’ve been seeing a steady decline since the 90’s. So I’d like to counter your counter and say where is the actual data showing the increase in tobacco products among the youth?
Five seconds of Googling will find those results for you.
The TL;DR is that the 2024 numbers are down significantly from 2023, and that much of that decline is attributed to bans on certain vaping products. But in many years prior, usage was on the rise. For example, in high school students, use of any tobacco product rose 38% from 2017 to 2018 alone.
Sure, but that doesn’t mean he owns any trademarks that might appear within those account names, like, say, Infowars or some such. He can give the account to whoever he wants. But he can’t protect them from being sued for trademark infringement if they use it.
In Minecraft, right?