The preference is to find a writing prompt on the label of the beer itself, but I have not been able to do that as of late. Maybe I am running out of ideas or something? Nah. I found one that lets me do it, I just wasn’t looking hard enough. This is my review of Stone ///Fear.Movie.Lions.
In this case, the fun idea is written all over the back where Stone typically makes fun of it’s customers. The name of the beer is a reference to the location of the Stone brewery in Virginia using What3Words. What3Words is a geocoding system that divides the Earth into equal squares of 3M x 3M. M of course is a Meter, a metric unit of measurement similar in length to a yard but is slightly larger for those of you not used to the metric system, or simply prefer to use Freedom units of measurement.
Anyways…. the entire Earth is divided into this grid of 9 Square Meters, an area a bit larger than the size of a office cubicle but smaller than a bedroom. The three words refers to a unique “address”. Why not just use a street address? Many addresses are a reference to what the United States Postal Service defines as an address. Using an address with a street name can be confusing, and can ultimately lead to confusing incidents where somebody will say they are waiting on the corner of “1st and 1st“. Want to know how many roads are named “Peach Tree” in Atlanta? 70. There are many ways to determine where a dwelling or a business is located. Arizona for example uses a grid system with the reference point being where the Gila and Salt River basins meet. Its called the Baseline – Meridian System and this is how the state subdivides real estate into 6 x 6 Mile squares. Yes, Baseline road runs along this system, it is also why the streets cant a bit to the east and return back to running north-south as you drive across Baseline road. My property tax bill references the lot, within the grid, for my property’s exact location. For this reason, no two What3Words grids share the same word. There is also the issue of not every location on Earth has a street address. If you need proof, a typical street address on the Navajo Reservation can sound as random as “2.2 miles south of Hwy 89 at Mile Marker 19” (my apologies if this is your actual address).
Why use words when GPS coordinates work just as well? Do they though? Even though the military can use GPS to a frightening level of accuracy, GPS can easily put you in the “right” place even though what you are looking for is caddy-corner to your present location. As far as it is concerned, you are close enough. Then there is the issue with the network going down, and try to wing it, or it loses your location temporarily and you are not in a position to stop and let it acquire its location. The latter problem might not be resolved by What3Words since it is an app, but if for example you are looking for the entrance to a building, the entrance is more easily identified since the nearest reference point is about the size of an office cubicle.
This is also a geocoding system that was not designed and implemented by a government, which should be of interest to the anarchists floating around here…Its influence on telecom, aside. Finally, the last part of why What3Words might be easier to use: it is easier to say and write three random words than coordinates of two 16 digit numbers, or an alphanumeric street address. For an example, my location as I write this as work is ///Flatten.Income.Magnets. I can say that with a certain degree of safety, because as of yesterday I no longer work there.
Stone was crazy enough to give us its location knowing somebody will be crazy enough to find them and tell them its terrible. This one was not pleasant for me at all, given that I am not an IPA fan. This one is particularly unpleasant but in its defense has a relatively high alcohol content, which is probably how they can get away with hopping it the way they did. If you happen to fancy IPA, it is part of their IPA sampler pack, available at places like Cosco. Stone ///Fear.Movie.Lions: 2.8/5.
Pardon me sir. Do you have any spare grid squares?
No. We’re fighting on freeform measurements. Get a tape measure.
I’ll put you down for a case of chemlight batteries then.
Please add a spool of contour line and a shot group tightener to that order.
Don’t forget a roll of flight line, a bucket of prop-wash, and the ever important frequency grease.
ID 10 T solution
The ID-10(t) is a form, not a solution.
PEBKAC
No, I can’t spare a grid square.
Not a grid square to spare?
Why review a beer style you dont like?
…because you might. Its not all about me.
But your review doesnt tell me whether I might like it.
Do you like IPA?
No, too hoppy.
Some. But I would prefer a review from someone with similar taste.
This is grapefruit mixed with an almost moldy aftertaste.
Also unfiltered, so it does have some texture.
Sorry Mexi, rob obviously doesn’t recognize performance theater.
This is why I don’t review any beers.
I’d like to buy a vowel…….
https://iotwreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/eric-ciaramella-whistleblower-wheel-of-fortune-tweet-.jpg
Hopefully it’s not an I
An I might have helped
Lucky babies
Appointment only or can I just wait in line?
New headcanon – Judy Jetson grew up to be a real bitch – A bolter bitch.
this thing is neatO!
https://w3w.co/grumble.adapting.lobbed
It has my location right down to where I’m sitting in my house, Fuck!
I got an error message. Apparently it requires an insecure browser to work.
JavaScript is a security hole.
Um…yeah you want me to delete that?
sure…
You are now swimming in the river. Don’t drink it
Good advice because I pissed in it @ https://what3words.com/plans.horizon.robot
I just played a round, and got a First, the East wind hooked my disc… into the River, which is very high right now, so close to the course, very funny
It’s managed to do a reasonably good job of figuring out where in my basement I’m sitting right now. Eerie.
Flatten income magnets sounds like a marketing piece Warren or Sanders would pass out.
Flatten magnate’s incomes?
What the actual fuck? Very interesting.
Judy Jetson grew up to be a real bitch
DON’T TALK SHIT ABOUT JUDY JETSON.
Huh, only 70 Peachtree streets? My favorite is the intersection of Peachtree Corners Circle and Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, because J.R.’s Loghouse’s blueberry muffins are delicious.
I used to live on a Peachtree Dr
I lived on Peachtree, just off Tobacco Road, Augusta, GA
A meter is easy. Add ~3 Freedom inches to a yardstick. Rough measurement of fabric when a yardstick is not available is the length of your nose to the tips of your fingers stretched out.
With the head turned in which direction?
South by southeast
Even south of the equator?
Inside-out.
I like using UTM when hiking
UTM is what we used in the field searching for that evil fossil fuel that enriches oil companies and kills the planet.
Don’t think like that. You’re on a holy mission to save the plants of the world be releasing their food from its stony prisons.
I recall after Exxon Valdez when my 5th grader came home with a poster with a drawing and the caption don’t pollute our oceans. I had to explain to her how they didn’t do it on purpose and that they lose money when that happens.
I hope you also told her that the taxpayers lose money when the government does it.
Do words repeat? Like if I say just one of the words will that give no information on my actual location?
No idea but I searched ///balls.itch.scratch and that place does not exist which is unfortunate.
///fuck.off.slaver is Glibs HQ
That would be so cool if it were true.
Yeah, adjacent squares don’t seem to share any of the three words.
Uh, not as super cool as it seemed after I switched to satellite view. The cube that I picked on the blank map for where I guessed my computer was located had ‘cartoon’ as one of the words. After switching views looks like I was off by almost 50 yards, but that square still appears to be on my property.
I love this. It zeroes in right on my living room.
Bless their hearts but who knows, it might even become popular.
It is pretty cool. People love their GPS games. We used to do geocaching on vacation sometimes just to get out and explore.
I have seen a few in the wild, but I leave em be, since I don’t play,
I hope not.
You know who else thought pinpoint gps might become popular?
The main street running through Bryan/College Station is TX Hwy 6, or as it is known in town, various flavors of “Texas Avenue.”
As you come into town from the north, it is “North Texas Ave.” Driving south it changes to “South Texas Ave.” Continuing south it turns into “Texas Ave,” and finally it turns into “Texas Ave South.
DC has a few (in)famous examples of roads changing names without warning. I know 50-W becomes New York Avenue, which then becomes Pennsylvania Avenue.
Yes. That got teenage me lost in Anacostia back in 88.
Damn, that’s not a good place to get lost in ’88. I’m glad it turned out alright.
DC has a few (in)famous examples of roads changing names without warning.
Toronto has “Avenue Road” which seems to transmogrify every few blocks into some other name, and/or disappears for a while and then re-appears (because why not?). I hated Avenue Road when I lived there decades ago.
Sweet, “builds.loaded.quench” is the front porch of the local pub we go to. At least two of those words are fitting. And my desk at work is “cloud.works.remit”, which…I mean, I’m a web developer and some of the stuff I write works, and our sites our hosted on AWS, which is “the cloud”, so…
My local pub is cult.wizard.bottle. Seems about right:)
<em.As you come into town from the north, it is “North Texas Ave.” Driving south it changes to “South Texas Ave.” Continuing south it turns into “Texas Ave,” and finally it turns into “Texas Ave South.
I like the New England naming convention, in which the name of the road is different depending on which end you’re on.
ex: It’s the “Salisbury road” when you’re in Cornwall, and the “Cornwall road” when you’re in Salisbury.
Those exist up here too, with Milton/Greenfield.
The one I haven’t figured out is why “Rowland” turns into “Petrified Gardens”
Oddly enough, the article about why sex is better with Berniw Sanders was NOT written by Sugarfree. Probably.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/29/10-reasons-sex-will-be-better-bernie
Uh-oh… a bad person slipped into the comments:
Sorry, ladies. Sex is not better in Venezuela and it wouldn’t be better under Bernie. Destroying/bankrupting our economy is no way to a successful bedroom experience.
It certainly has gotten more affordable, though!
Heh. Not a bad video.
“What is your typeos, Santa said Ho, Ho, Ho….”
This is why I always click HM links. Excellent!
Oh no… I’m not falling into the trap of reading that shitpile-of-derp website again.
You retire MS?
I found another yob.
Congrats!
Gracias
For an example, my location as I write this as work is ///Flatten.Income.Magnets. I can say that with a certain degree of safety, because as of yesterday I no longer work there.
Is that a good or a bad thing?
I’ll find out next week!
Best wishes to you!
Danke
Bitte
Ya, good luck in the new venture MS. Plus, who wants to work off Princess Rd.
There’s actually a lot around there in terms of food, shopping centers, hotels, etc.
Good fortune with the Work status MS,
I am familiar with the area and used to hang out in PHX quite a bit back in the day. Scottsdale was a bit out of my price range for lunch even when I used to have some disposable income though.
Treacherous backstabbers
Joe Biden scored the endorsement Saturday of a major transit union that officially backed Bernie Sanders in 2016.
“Joe has been very supportive of the labor movement for the last 40 years. He stands for working families. We recognize he’s a great candidate,” John Costa, international president of the 200,000-member Amalgamated Transit Union, told POLITICO. “We think Joe can beat Donald Trump.”
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In March 2016, the ATU issued a relatively late but important endorsement for Sanders, citing “his long standing fidelity to the issues that are so important to working people are what convinced us that standing with Bernie is standing with the 99% of America that has been left out of the mainstream public debate, cheated out of our jobs and denied the true meaning of the American dream.”
The prospect of a second Trump term in the White House proved too troubling to the union for them to wager on Sanders.
“We appreciate Sen. Sanders,” Costa said. “We don’t want to say anything bad about him. But this is about beating Trump and our members believe Joe is the best one to do it.”
How will the dictatorship of the proletariat ever come into being with wafflers and unbelievers gumming up the works?
I wonder who the actual members support. Not that it matters to the union.
Unless they’re donating more money out of their pocket to not-Biden than that part of their dues which is going to Biden, yes, it doesn’t matter.
Milky.eating.study
I’ve seen that gokkun video.
Is that where the picture on the front page was taken?
I really hate it when the instructions don’t match the sprues.
I’m assembling Judy’s fire and brimstone flying pulpet and there are these decorative shields, half od which have posts on the bottom, and half don’t. The numbers in the instructions for the ones with posts are the numbers for those without posts on the sprue.
Sounds frustrating. I have different hobbies. Today I am smoking tomorrows game time chicken wings so they are ready for frying.
It’s worse, I can tell it was deisgned on a computer because of how wonky and unintuitive it is to fit the torchbearing statues to the vicinity of the decorative wings. Someone prototyping in physical medium wouldn’t have ended up with a funky juncture like that. It came from a computer slicing efficient mold elements out of a 3d model. There are time when these models have details on the inside because the artist lost track of where a given face was going to end up.
We’re doing chicken wings (carrots, celery, ranch dressing), and loaded nachos. Fried tortillas, ground beef taco meat, guacamole, sour cream, shredded cheddar, pickled jalapeños, black olives, salsa. The beverage program will remain simple; Evan Williams and Pepsi, red wine.
I am doing chicken wings, a hot artichoke green chili onion dip with toasted buttered sour dough rounds for dipping and cajun shrimp scampi on fried corn tortilla strips. I would submit recipes but I haven’t made them up yet. Wings are pretty standard but the sauce varies depending on what I have on hand. Beverages include Mich Ultra so I feel athletic, and Tequila lime and soda.
Whole Foods has wings on sale for 3.99/lb.
Incredibly cheap for that place.
Yesterday, I got tequila lime, buffalo, and gochujang.
They’re all gone. Ima have to get more.
Well, Judy’s pulpet is almost done (just purity seals left to add)
I have to assemble Judy too. From the looks of it I’m best off not attaching her to the pulpet until after painting, because I could then reach the details, and there are convient pegs on her feet to pressure-fit into the floor of the pulpet.
I just wish the model could be used for a generic hero, instead of a specific named individual, because the keywords don’t line up with the rest of the army.
I first read that as “Judge Judy’s pulpet. My first thought was, “huh, well that’s random”.
Clearly the solution is more spending.
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2020/01/31/US-health-stats-remain-low-despite-trillions-in-healthcare-spending/3991580502635/?sl=5
Those other countries can thank the US for doing the vast majority of R&D for them. I’ll wait.
Its quite difficult, after being a physician who has worked in multiple aspects of healthcare over the years, to hear someone talk about how wonderful everything will be with Medicare for All and keep my yap shut. It’s just not worth the possible repercussions of engaging these people. But I would love to say, “yes, we now really have all the medications, medical devices and treatments we’ll ever need, so let’s take away all incentives for research and development.”
Highest suicide rate of OECD countries? I was unaware Latvia, Lithuania, S. Korea, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Finland, Poland, or Austria were not OECD countries.
http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/suicide-rate-by-country/
https://www.oecd.org/about/document/list-oecd-member-countries.htm
I don’t trust articles with no link to the study they are citing so we can see methodology. I did a study last week and those who want free health care are lazy greedy fucks who are envious of other peoples money.
We’ll have better numbers if we switch to socialized medicine… because then the government will change how they count things to make the numbers look good, like everybody else does.
These seem like “lifestyle” issues, not “healthcare” issues.
Exacerbated by the government’s bad dietary policy.
I’ve been intrigued by What3Words for a couple years now. It is much more efficient to use than Google’s Plus Codes, plus (!) I am trying to use fewer Google products overall.
Thanks for the explanation of Baseline, btw. I had to look it up after we’d been here a couple months because I couldn’t find anyone who knew what it was the baseline of/for.
You can thank the AZ School of Real Estate & Business for that.
Baseline is common, actually, it’s a surveyors thing, Here’s a really big one,
https://images.app.goo.gl/S8annoaAMo923NHo6
Yep, there’s a Meridian and Baseline Road/Avenue for Edmonton, and another one for Calgary. It always kinda weirded me out to see addresses south of Calgary like “815 St W and 417 Ave S”. Otherwise known as “Range Road 15 west of Hwy 2” or somesuch.
Should be the Mt. Diablo baseline meridian.
Got gibberish? Thank a teacher!
But equity groups across the state argue that the solution to the housing crisis can’t be as simple as “build more” – the how, what, where and for whom matter. “What the ‘build, build, build’ mentality completely ignores is the question of power,” said René Moya, campaign director for Housing Is a Human Right. “The supply-and-demand narrative is far too simplistic to account for a housing market that works for different purposes, for different income levels, at a time when housing is increasingly a speculative aspect.”
Critics argue that in the free market, low-income communities rarely benefit. “We know that trickle-down housing doesn’t work and trickle-down economics doesn’t work,” said Deepa Varma, executive director of the San Francisco Tenants Union
Tenant groups also say that building more market-rate housing without including stringent, enforceable tenant protections like rent control will put new generations of renters at risk. They fear that up-zoning areas could increase the land value, and prompt other landlords to increase their prices, too.
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Opponents to the Yimby ethos of “build, build, build” are not outright against building more. They reject attempts to paint them as “Nimbys” – “not in my backyard”.
But these groups fear a repeat of history, of out-of-control rents, widespread displacement and a lack of affordable housing. They have seen what happens to communities – in particular, communities of color – when housing is treated as a commodity . During the foreclosure crisis, more than 10,000 buildings in Oakland went into foreclosure, of which 42% were purchased by investors who flipped the properties for the highest profit and irrevocably changed the landscape of the city’s housing market.
“We have to act as if gentrification is not inevitable,” Moya said. “Gentrification is not a hurricane, it is not an earthquake. It is the deliberate end result of certain policies that are meant to benefit certain economic interests.”
Whycome them developers no wanna build for free?
The “supply-and-demand narrative” for housing died when the first zoning laws were passed around a century ago. But by all means let’s keep pretending that pushing the same failed policies even harder will have the opposite effect than they already have.
Wiener and other SB 50 supporters have vowed to continue their efforts to revitalize housing production in the state. “Its defeat does send a negative message about the legislature’s approach to housing,” Wiener told reporters on Thursday. “But with that said, I also believe that we’re going to pivot quickly and get something big done this year.”
The bill’s opponents plan to make sure their voices will be included in the discussion.
“I welcome the discussion around a housing production bill, but one that is actually grounded in the needs for social justice,” Moya said. “Housing today is the civil rights issue of our time. We cannot continue to produce or make bills around housing and housing justice that doesn’t center the demands and the needs of the people who are most impacted.”
“I’d rather see you sleeping on the sidewalk than lose my social justice advocacy meal ticket.”
Shorter Guardian: “Gimme!”
There was a lot of eye-rolling by commenters over California not passing SB-50 in the links yesterday, but I couldn’t respond as the thread was long dead.
So today I can.
Do recognize that the press of the Bay Area seems to be incredibly sympathetic to the viewpoints of the big developer community. I know that most of the courtside Warriors seats are owned by the richest developers, and so it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if those seats haven’t been filled from time to time with local journalists who get an earful of ‘how we can fix the housing crisis in the Bay Area’ from a hosting developer, and gosh his side seems so obvious, especially because he keeps buying me $19 cups of craft beer.
Here’s some things to know:
*the Bay Area “Housing Crisis” is taken as a fait accompli in the local press, but this ‘crisis’ is mainly that getting a place locally is expensive, especially compared to the rest of the country. But if you’re willing to live with roommates, or take a small place in a less-desirable area, there’s plenty of stock that can fit into one’s budget out here. Meanwhile, there are dozens of cranes throughout the Bay Area constructing new residential buildings, there’s no ‘absence of development’ that needs to be overcome that you might think from reading some of the local news.
*the sympathetic press looks at the homeless/tent cities and say this is due to a lack of affordable housing, as if the guy pushing the shopping cart around is just a paycheck away from a luxury apartment. The vast majority of the street people have chosen this way to live because there are no rules, but even a free apartment would mean they couldn’t shoot up, build campfires, and they’d have to keep it clean, etc, none of which are required when you have a tent under the overpass. Ask anyone who works with these individuals on a regular basis, as we do in the ER every day, where offers of housing assistance are usually met with impolite versions of ‘no thanks’. This Forbes article explains it well:
Homelessness experts and advocates disagree. “I’ve rarely seen a normal able-bodied able-minded non-drug-using homeless person who’s just down on their luck,” L.A. street doctor Susan Partovi told me. “Of the thousands of people I’ve worked with over 16 years, it’s like one or two people a year. And they’re the easiest to deal with.” Rev. Bales agrees. “One hundred percent of the people on the streets are mentally impacted, on drugs, or both,” he said.
*Most of the developer-advocated ‘solutions’ are all about forcing built-out leafy suburbs with good public schools to have no design review, eliminate their local control, and remove any height limits. And the gullible press seems to actually buy that forcing a suburb to build a complex of six-story apartment towers with several hundred units overlooking a golf course, with the average apartment starting at over a million dollars, will solve homelessness. Meanwhile, many parts of Oakland have huge swaths of abandoned industrial/warehouse land right next to BART (‘subway’) stops, and a supportive city council, that could be great for building reasonably-priced condos that actually would make sense for workers who commute — but the developers are seemingly completely uninterested in this. One recently was caught being candid in a local paper as to why this might be. “Our profit for an apartment in an affluent suburb is 300%-400% per unit compared to building a moderately-priced unit building in Oakland,” he said.
*When the local press was decrying SB 50’s failure yesterday and calling all opponents NIMBYs, they couldn’t believe why anyone would be against such well-intended legislation. Well, perhaps they should have read the actual bill instead of the developers’ narrative. SB-50 would have removed any ability of a city, county or individual neighborhoods to stop ANY development that met certain density conditions, and indeed rewarded such construction with ‘density bonuses’ of additional floors, if the property was either near a transit hub OR in suburb with ‘above-average public schools’. So let’s say you lived in your decent house with a nice yard and some trees in a bedroom-community suburb with good schools. SB-50 would have allowed your neighbor to bulldoze their house, and build a five-story building to the edge of your property line — but actually get to build seven stories because of a density bonus — and block your views, even the sun, and have a ton of windows looking down into your yard, and there would be absolutely nothing you could do to stop it.
Great law, eh? Thank goodness it died. But they’ll be back with something soon to take its place, they never stop trying, and no doubt they’ll sneak something through in the future.
Yes, and? Non-property owners should have very little say in how a property owner disposes of same.
Again, I’m not seeing the problem here. He’s only going to build those high-profit margin units if he thinks he can sell them, which means there in market demand. Unless the contention is that a single developer is buying up all the land and choosing NOT to develop the less-immediately profitable lots, how does building in the ‘burbs prevent Oakland from developing?
The problem is that the people who live in the neighborhood of single-family homes would like to have a say in what happens in their community. What goes on next door does affect them, how they live, and their property values, so it’s not like they don’t have a stake in things. And there’s tons of available property in other locations crying for development, but the developers would prefer to get the government to force towns that don’t want tall buildings in the middle of their semi-rural spots to allow them to build. If they were really concerned about a so-called ‘housing crisis’ they’d be taking on the available space rather than trying to game the bedroom communities.
Do you really agree that non-property owners should have zero say in how a property owner who shares a property line does with their property? I believe that a neighbor should be able to remodel, landscape etc without my interference, but when it starts to trample my rights and property it becomes a different story. You bought a house and have kept it well, improved it, and been a responsible neighbor on your little family-oriented street with tons of kids around, and then in your mind the guy next door should be able to put in a tall building with a marijuana dispensary and a strip club on the first floor, just inches away from where your kids play? I’ll give you that’s probably the ultimate libertarian approach but is way too anarchist for me — or even worse, if it’s due to government cronyism.
I think also there’s a difference with government creating incentives to build those sort of housing projects and the difficulty of unwinding existing land use regulations. The SFH property owner bought with the understanding that they couldn’t just bulldoze and building a housing bunker but neither could their neighbors.
There’s also the parking issue that prog governments actively do not want now to cause pain to car owners to push them to give up ownership.
The whole thing is a mess and it’s at the heart caused by government picking winners and losers for decades now. CA is reaping the whirlwind of land use planning. I thought it was bad as a kid but really that was only about 30 years or less of regulation. This is the dust settling and the problems showing up.
Well yeah. People love to have a say in how other people have to paint their houses, or what kind of swingsets they have in their back yards or what kind of vehicles they are allowed to have in their driveways, and of course to make sure that none of… them move into the neighborhood.
First of all, towns don’t want anything. Towns have no capacity for desires of any kind. And the idea that “government” is “forcing” towns, but the towns aren’t themselves government, and the town governments aren’t forcing actual human individuals is kind of a brain-breaking viewpoint for me. So if one level of government is removing restrictions that another group of guys-with-guns is forcing on actual humans, I’m pretty OK with that.
Pretty much, as long as what they do doesn’t cross into yours. If they put up spotlights that shone into your bedroom or loudspeakers or the like, or have a tire and pig manure composting business, then you are being harmed. As to your scenario, aside from the Helen Lovejoy nature of it, think about what you’re saying. You are postulating that your property is in an area that can support a vastly larger number of people and additionally commercial space. Your land is worth a shitload. It’s time to cash in. Yes, moving sucks, but you’re going to have to move anyway once the assessor hands you your increased tax bill.
Oh, but yeah, giving incentives to overbuild is also bullshit.
Someone who claimed that protecting property tights was “forcing towns” accuses me of being a commie. A-lol.
I am not saying that you have a moral obligation to move. What I am saying is that under your “think of the children scenario” the way to deal with your next door neighbor becoming a new urbanist megaplex-luxury apartment tower-drug emporium-brothel combo was to sell your house for the megabux it’s now worth, and buy up a few thousand acres of land to turn into your own private community paradise, where you can sell housing lots only to those neighbors who agree to build on their lots the way you see fit.
You are postulating that your property is in an area that can support a vastly larger number of people and additionally commercial space. Your land is worth a shitload. It’s time to cash in.
Wow, straight out of the Ninth Plank of the Communist Manifesto: “gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country”. Sure you’re on the right website?
Perhaps I like where we live, and it’s our property. Are you saying we have a moral obligation to sell because that would be the greatest good for the greatest number?
The Bay Area is already overcrowded in most spots. We live 15 miles from downtown San Francisco, and there’s only two ways to get to there — taking the BART train or driving over the Bay Bridge. The Bridge is so backed up most days that those 15 miles typically can take two hours to drive. And every BART car is packed to a Tokyo-like cheek to jowl. How exactly are all those extra people we should apparently be jamming vertically above every spare inch of free space going to move about?
Are other US cities trying to do this, or are they rightly focusing the high-rise development in the urban centers? Even though Manhattan is the poster child for urban planners, who somehow feel they can replicate Midtown in any location in the country, even there I haven’t heard of their Dem supermajority legislature and Governor demanding that NY outlying suburbs like Rye and Westchester replace their estates with condominium complexes.
Do we get to a situation that because so many people want to live in the Bay Area, we move so many in that we destroy the quality of life that made the area desirable in the first place? But even more in question, would it even be possible?
There’s a limit to how much an infrastructure can handle. Already we are facing regular electricity blackouts of 24 hours and longer. We are frequently in a drought, and as it is our water bill is typically $200 a month. There are no plans for new reservoirs or desalination plants, and they’d likely be killed by environmentalists anyway. In fact, the only action about reservoirs in recent years was a ballot initiative to drain the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir near Yosemite, which supplies virtually all the drinking water for San Francisco’s 800,000-plus residents, because the hiking community rues that it apparently was quite a beautiful valley 100 years ago. Perhaps, but for crying out loud, we barely have enough water as it is, but with several different mountain ranges and national parks in CA, we have plenty of scenic mountain valleys accessible around here, we can keep just one of them to allow people in SF to brush their teeth.
I’m not quite sure why every single person who might want to live around here should be entitled to an inexpensive apartment, and to make that a reality, no one should be able to have a house with a yard? This is basic supply and demand. The area is restricted by the Bay and the different mountains and hills, so there’s a scarcity of land. But you can go fifty miles inland and buy a nice house cheap in Modesto or Stockton. And of course, most other places in the country which are far cheaper than even Modesto. But I guess it wouldn’t be fair to people to ask them to live where they can afford it, instead they should be entitled to the house and yard that we’ve owned for 20 years, so a high-rise tenement can be built in its place.
We are frequently in a drought, and as it is our water bill is typically $200 a month
Jesus. I get pissed off at $25 and half of that is “fees”.
Sheet, I pay $44/$45 per quarter, and half of that is fees.
So, $15 a month I guess.
I’m so glad we got out when we did. Our water bill averages $35 a month. Gas and electric in the hottest/coldest months of the year run about $300. 1/3-1/2 of that the rest of the year. Irrigation water is paid for through HOA dues, which are $900 a year. I estimated I put 40-50,000 gallons of irrigation water on my property per week.
Fascinating. We’ve gone from “the law eliminates height restrictions” to “the law seizes my home” somehow. I guess this was in the fine print that I didn’t read.
Indeed it is in the fine print. California law now permits municipalities to declare single-family homes a ‘blight’ for eminent domain purposes, and can take land to put higher-density housing on it.
And SB50 would have made it illegal for any community to reject any development that meets density guidelines. So indeed, it would have been possible for them to seize my property because it’s only got one house on it, turn over the land to a developer, and then be ‘powerless’ to stop them from building a towering highrise in its place. Fortunately, not quite yet, as the state legislature had a rare moment of lucidity in rejecting SB50.
And since there is now a new post up and I’m corpse-fucking, I guess I’ll have the last word on this 😉
Requesting technical input: I need to purchase a new laptop. Currently have a MacBook Pro. Questioning whether to go with another MacBook Pro or move away from Apple.
If you enjoy the Apple ecosystem, then I would suggest staying with Apple. I personally am not a fan of their systems, and prefer to go the build your own route (I also prefer desktops to laptops for that reason).
I have a MacBook pro and a MacBook Air.
I find that they last 3-5 years with heavy use. I’ve never had a windows laptop last more than a year.
Oh, and the touchbar is a gimmick.
I am currently glibbing on a Windows gaming laptop that I’ve had for about 8 years.
I have a still-working laptop running Vista of all things. It does not go on the internet.
I have another laptop running linux Mint. Both are pretty reliable, but the Linux machine is newer and faster, so I tend to use it more.
I have not had an apple laptop, so I can’t speak to either utility or reliability.
I am on a mac book pro now and am considering updating my mac mini since it is 10 years old. I would never spend my own money on a windows computer. I am a simple non computer geek and mac works for me. My work laptop is a windows pos that I hate and the non plugged in battery life is about ten minutes. pos is about four months old.
Leaked footage from the delayed Kenobi series on Disney+
Would.
Nice. She went for the throat.
The addressing system that you’re most likely familiar with (e. g., “123 Main Street”) is the Philadelphia addressing system.
Interesting.
Interestingly, that system was applied to the side streets in Manhattan – but not the avenues. So on old-timey (i.e. paper) street maps you’ll often see the formulae to calculate the cross street for an avenue address.
Also it was applied to avenues in Brooklyn but only from 39th Street on. So like 889 5th Avenue is followed by 3901 5th Avenue. Whee!
Phoenix is much simpler. Central avenue runs north-south through the center of town. The building/house numbers correspond to the numbered street that increases as you move away from central avenue. Avenue on the west side of town, street on the east side.
I always liked Miami’s system, because you could give me almost any address, and I would know where it was.
The city is divided into four quadrants (NW, NE, SW, SE). Avenues, Courts, and Places are North/South. Streets, Terraces, and Lanes are East/West. Roads, Trails, and Boulevards are diagonal or just directionless. Numbering starts from the center. Building numbers are based on the cross street, so for example, 2255 SW 16th Avenue would be in SW quadrant, on 16th Avenue (N/S) near 22nd Street/Terrace/Lane (E/W).
Queens has something similar. But there’s like a couple dozen different grids built at different times for once-independent towns that all got shoehorned into the system so it’s a complete nightmare.
Tulsa had North-South streets named and East-West streets numbered. Plus the address numbers were also on a grid system, so 3572 E 71st street was always due North of 3572 E 81st street. It made navigation dirt simple.
Many of the cities are like that here. My county renumbered unincorporated county roads to some sort of scheme based on distance from the courthouse and sequential house numbering. As a result our house number is a 5 digit one. Ridiculously long.
My house number is 5 digits but I have no idea how they came up with the numbering system. Guess where you have to buy the approved address sign you are required to buy to put at the end of your driveway.
Jeezus. The fire district put those up for free a couple years ago. Almost makes up for continual tax increases from those guys. Almost.
A 2-d surface needs 3 names why?
It’s not even a coordinate system, it’s just gibberish applied to arbitrary squares, so you can’t really use it to figure out how to get there from here very easily.
I assume there is some hashing function, but that would be nice to know.
Yeah, it’s just for fun.
It will give you directions, if you enable location services on your browser.
In the app, one can hit the Navigate button and it asks which map app on one’s phone one would like to use and opens it and does, indeed, give the route using the mode of transport one specifies.
The site provides a functionality – but the system of addressing does not. My point is, it’s an added alias for existing coordinate systems that can’t be used in of itself without first translating to the underlying lattitude and longitude.
Hey, UCS….there is nothing forcing you to use this system.
My guess would be to keep a simple collection of words (no antidisestablishmentarianism in the word set), and keep unique sets per every 3×3 meter area.
A unique set does not provide any utility when you can’t use it to relate to any other position. It seems as if it’s deigned to provide as little utility as possible. Lattitude and longitude at least tells you how a spot relates to any other spot on the coordinate system.
I think the point is to provide easily memorable words rather than long strings of numbers. You’re positing uses it’s not designed for.
Can you tell me what use it was deisgned for? Because “fish hill crew” is less useful than “44 west, 13 south”
*all values are arbitrary examples and I can’t tell you if those are even close to each other.
For fun. Not everything has to have utility. I’ll get off your lawn now.
I am with UCS on this.
**shudder**
We should get rid of domain names and just use IPs too. This game is pointless! *turns over table and walks away*
IPs? Those are just concealing the underlying numerical address. https://3497101858/
You want to know why that’s not comperable?
Domain names make sense.
Sort of like “114 Peachtree Ave, Orchard Grove, Georgia” makes sense and can be trnaslated into a machine-friendly value in the corresponding coordinate system (IP or Long/lat)
Random gibberish that needs to be translated to a machine-compatable system and then into the human readable system doesn’t make sense.
“Domain names make sense.”
Not all of them and there are no protocols in place to ensure they do. If you can’t deal with the three words, how are you ever going to deal with the three shells.
The website says what it’s used for. Basically, sharing a location with friends and customers.
fish hill crew is easier to remember. Sounds like a 90s hip hop group.
Or something about a craigslist hookup.
I think Rhywun’s got it. I think of them as something similar to QR codes, just human readable. Plus, it allows businesses to market with their choice of grid location to pick the best of their words for them.
Of course it does, it may just not be parseable by a human. Think of it as a URL for a physical space.
“Hey guys meet you at 1:00 at the traihead for neat trail I just found
cucumber, fig , avacado”
“I’m sorry that you’ve contracted aphasia.”
My word for the day.
But things have been hard since the bass boat went down and all our stuff with it.
pineapple, post, phlegm I think
My quick calcuation shows that there are about 10000^3 squares (3m on a side) in the US, so you’d need 10,000+ words to map just the US, never mind the rest of the world.
Why would we need to map places outside the U.S.?
I would love to say, “yes, we now really have all the medications, medical devices and treatments we’ll ever need, so let’s take away all incentives for research and development.”
Incentives? Bah! That’s just a lot of right wing late stage kkkapitalist propaganda. The People’s Research Collective will produce glorious advances in medical science never possible under running dog capitalist moneygrubbers.
“Your paid med ration has been increased to 50 pills!”
Their all placebos anyways.
They’re
OT: Things have been going well, as far as I can tell. Yesterday I sent all of my documents to the school I’m going to be teaching at in Korea and have finalized Act II of my immigration/hiring process. I still have to later go to the Korean consulate in Chicago to get my passport officially gone over, but for now I’m out of the woods.
I think too much about it, the back right part of my skull (behind my right eye in the very back) feels sensitive. Nothing to worry about. But different than the other bits of skull. It’s tied together with titanium and you have a long history of being anxious about details, Evan. Just get used to New Reality.
I am off in a sec to see a triple A hockey game in Indianapolis with the whole clan, including the two young nephews. I’m the only one in the family who ever played, and even then I was forced to by my not-ever-having-played father because he thought I was being lazy when it came to sports in high school. I find this odd because I was a gymnast and baseball player for 10 years each; later did this hockey; nationally competed (and won in Dever) in powerlifting and against my will was also forced to become a blackbelt in taekwondo all around the same time. How was I being lazy?
I’m getting too worked up about living in my parent’s place or moving down 20 minutes to stay with my brother. Nothing is mine and no place is private and there isn’t that security that I’ve long endeavored to create and build.
Sorry for this random typing! Things are going well with some natural caveats of life thrown in. Embrace them as best as you can, Good Evan tells me and I think today will be a great example of that working out!
Evan, glad to hear things are on the upswing for you.
Awesome news, Evan! Keep plugging away.
Very nice!
Good to hear things are getting better.
Keep on truckin’ Evan!
MOOOORAAAAH!
Thanks guys! Normal, normal, same-same, adjust, be surprised that New Normal is oddly better than Old Normal…embrace as best one can!
I promise I will attempt to be more interested in the hockey game than attractive ladies, but they both have to compete with the nephews. Eh. Who am I kidding. I know how to steal glances with the best of ’em.
Nice to hear you’re on the mend, Bravo!
Ignoring the naming convention problem, I have issues with square tiles to map a roughly spherical surface.
I would be more impressed with a mix of hexagons and pentagons, and then the naming convention wouldnt be so bad.
I think they should be like puzzle pieces.
Why not both?
+1 Geodome
The world in triangles!
Use a Fractal that starts out as large as the country as one unit, with 2d coordinates within the fractal to navigate at the level you are at. Then add a multiplier to zoom in to the next level of detail with similar coordinates system at each level.
My son is starting to populate his guitar with stickers…any good resources for some underground 80s & 90s punk stickers? Im talking trashy bands like F.Y.P., DFL
search ebay for skateboard stickers
Cool will do. We found a local shop here in town that might have stuff.
Sticker backed printer paper and google image search.
We got no printer….but for an option
Etsy
Help! She cried
https://www.redstate.com/kiradavis/2020/01/29/774006/
What exactly is she proposing? We invade?
How in the hell is that even constitutional? (not that that has stopped them before, but still) Outlawing how people make a living will shirley be struck down by the courts. I hope. And don’t call me shirley.
Yaaaawwwwnnnn.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/palestinian-leader-abbas-says-he-is-cutting-ties-with-us-israel-over-peace-deal
We had ties to cut?
No way. You mean a peace deal has been reached wherein the Palestinians can begin to prosper and join the civilized world and they turned it down and started stirring the shit again?
Who could have seen that coming?
I saw the map of the new “Palestine”, I wouldn’t accept it either, landlocked, pockmarked with another country, (Israel),
I’m all for them stopping their Shit, but this ain’t a good deal regardless
If they really wanted a separate country, they would see this as a starting point. But they don’t.
Got approved for my medical marijuana card today, though it’s going to take the state 2-3 weeks to process it before I can go to the dispensary.
Really hoping this works and I can get off the SSRIs I’ve been on for two decades. Or at least taper somewhat.
It helps for a lot of things, but it’s not a miracle drug, YMWV
unzips.treasures.x is the location of my kitchen
“Ya DAMN right it is!”
Sooo… Don’t eat at Nick’s
Especially when he offers you a cracker.
Tube steak, all you can eat!
There was a lot of eye-rolling by commenters over California not passing SB-50 in the links yesterday, but I couldn’t respond as the thread was long dead.
So today I can.
I appreciate the response. i may not be in complete agreement with all of it, but I appreciate it. Zoning and other restrictions are without question driven by property owners, and are not merely top-down edicts from the planning office. Much of the action involves neighboring property owners battling tooth and nail to stop perfectly legal projects from being approved and built.
There is a lot of talk about “affordable housing” around here, but when you scratch through the surface, it’s mostly about housing affordable to municipal employees like cops and teachers, not the people who work at Walmart or Town Pump (think 7-eleven). Nobody is calling for more trailer parks or single room occupancy hotels.
As someone who dated the Austin city planner, I can assure you this is not always the case. Central planners are absolutely going to centrally plan and if property owners don’t like it, it’s because they haven’t been adequately educated on how great this new plan is going to make everything once it’s been put into effect.
Austin is quickly moving out and annexing the outlining towns.
I read San Antonio does the same thing.
<em.And there’s tons of available property in other locations crying for development, but the developers would prefer to get the government to force towns that don’t want tall buildings in the middle of their semi-rural spots to allow them to build. If they were really concerned about a so-called ‘housing crisis’ they’d be taking on the available space rather than trying to game the bedroom communities.
This is a real (and complicated) issue. i am opposed to single use zoning, but I am also opposed to changing the rules in established neighborhoods willy nilly in response to political pressures. “Reclaiming” disused industrial sites with multi-use development (I hate to even use that word) is a good way to go.
Keep in mind that all of those crisis’ are there by design. It is easy to point a finger at the pols and claim they did it (they did), but remember they are elected. 99% of the misery in the world is self-inflicted.
This has been happening around us a fair bit. My neighborhood (Eastport) was historically the blue-collar sister city of Annapolis, a neighboring peninsula joined by a bridge that, at one point, was torn down rather than repaired with no replacement intended until the town was annexed by Annapolis and a new bridge built. It was a working-class town dominated by marinas, sail lofts, and small shipyards; the last working shipyard only shut down maybe five years ago. About fifteen years ago it started to gentrify as people who wanted to live in downtown Annapolis but missed out on that gentrification started to buy up places on our side of the creek. Now what you see happening pretty quickly is old buildings that used to be like maybe a mechanic’s garage, or an old volunteer firehouse, or just an old, run-down home, are being either renovated or demolished and replaced with upscale townhouses, offices, and restaurants. The area has always been mixed-use, but now a lot of it is moving from stuff like warehouses or boatyards into condos and gastropub-type things.
It’s sad on the one hand because it’s an end of an era, but on the other hand there are a lot of lower-income families who are selling out and making bank, which is letting the get out of the city and into better areas with more house. Hell, we might even be able to unload our little crappy house and escape.
At the risk of drugs falling out of my ass, Remember the Glendale, AZ sadists?
Glendale, AZ voted to approve a disability pension for the officers. They must undergo a medical examination before receiving the pension.
Puke
It seems I may watch the Game after all, YT TV has 2 weeks free,
Go Chefs!
As someone who dated the Austin city planner, I can assure you this is not always the case. Central planners are absolutely going to centrally plan and if property owners don’t like it, it’s because they haven’t been adequately educated on how great this new plan is going to make everything once it’s been put into effect.
I should have said not strictly top down edicts.
No planner is going to pass up an opportunity to boss the citizenry around.
Looks like it’s going to be a long weekend. Tonight is a bourbon and Irish whiskey tasting at a friend’s house, tomorrow is a breakfast brunch with a second friend, and then super bowl party at a different friend’s house.
You’ve got friends? Cool!
I will be watching the game and commenting here with people who tolerate my idiotic comments.
So, you’re expecting a bunch of newbies to show up?
j/k, couldn’t resist that fastball down the middle
We got few today, you never know what will creep out of the corners ’round Hea
*looks around nervously*
*loads shotgun*
lol……….uh, what? hey! Fuck you!!!!
You First, I’ll be here, tolerating your spew just like you tolerate mine,
Cheers!
That’s more interesting than mine. I’m still sick. I’m going to make some tea with bourbon soon, then start my taxes.
I would say feel better, but you seem to have that covered,
/Feel Better
It kind of makes up for being on call for the next two weekends (one secondary, the other primary).
Culinary review – Pickled sausage.
Direct from the jar, it has a flavor somewhere between “I want to vomit” and “Dear god, why?”
After a quick pan fry, however, it became a taste of “smoked sauerkraut”
I’m still not sure how I would use it in a dish.
Paired up with some sliced, fried potatoes and onions. I would use bacon grease.
And a green vegetable.
Now your talking good eats…
Totally. This sounds like an alternative to what we often do with kielbasa.
Pickled sausage
Does not compute.
Two words I like on their own that sound horrific when combined. Why would anyone do that to an innocent sausage.
I saw the jar in the store and was curious. Though the $4/lb price tag should have been a warning.
I only eat pickled sausage’s in single serving wrapping from the beef jerky section of the local convenience store. Hot Mama’s will burn your bung hole butt worth it.
Sort of related, these are delicious pickles:
https://bubbies.com/kosher_dills
I recommend.
The jury is still out for me on kosher dills. I grew up on pickled pickles.
“I’m still not sure how I would use it in a dish.”
Sparingly.
I have receive my score-change pool numbers –
0/3 Niners/Chiefs
0/6 Niners/Chiefs
pays on every score change, reverse score change also pays (1/3).
Chiefs score first, I’m back to even (unless it’s a safety). After that, I don’t care.
So brief good luck to you Chiefs fans!
I’ve got $10 to get $80 from a future I did when the season started and I stuck $40 on the Chiefs to cover. I gotta say, none of the odds are doing much for me. I’m not seeing anything that’s jumping out as an especially good value.
PSSST, it’s Chefs……..
How’s that work? wouldn’t whether you’re back to even after one score depend on the total number of score changes?
I went in on multiple boxes in multiple pools – 2 of those pools pay out on _every_ score change, including the “reverse” score.
Let me amend:
if the Chiefs score a field goal first, I win $250, which covers what I put in on all 4 boxes. They get a touchdown, I get $166.66.
I get $83.33 if the Niners get a field goal first, $50 if they get a touchdown first.
I should get _something_ on the first score, as long as it’s not a safety.
I guess my question was if they pay out on every score then won’t the pay outs decrease with each score change. Still unless there are 50 unique or more changes I figure you’d make money on one hit if you bought two spots on the board.
Payout is fixed; they’re $500 boxes (which I only bought part of one), so they’ve got $50k to work with – from the sheet:
– score change 1500
– reverse score change 500
– 0-0 win 2000 automatically
– last score change 4th quarter wins balance
– in an event there are more then 22 score changes:
the score change will drop to 1250 per score change and so forth by 250
26 score changes ex: so for the entire game each score change is 1250 not 1500
30 score changes ex: so for the entire game each score change is 1000 not 1250
Ah, I’ve never seen one like that. Seems like a lot of shit to keep track of for the operator, although I guess he could use an abacus or something.
The more complicated a betting schema, the less it pays out, as a rule.
Thats better than mine…i got 5 and 8
Another winner from the Bee
https://babylonbee.com/news/cnn-criticizes-d-day-soldiers-for-lack-of-diversity
TBF, it’s hard to keep ahead of the derb, but here the Bee has slipped into regular reporting.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4722408/Brian-Truitt-ridiculed-Dunkirk-diversity-review.html
Yeah, how do you parody the current state of Idiocracy.
I would say Joe Biden has a prescription for this but it might be malarkey.
LOL
For you model builders out there.
TW: language
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7_ycj7FBwN/?igshid=119itsg068o7v
“…or a buffalo or some sh…”
Thank a teacher?
“This is some National Geographic shit!”
“Ma! Call the fucking cops or the ASPCA or some shit!”
Bwahahahaha!!!
Dude’s lucky they didn’t turn their attention to him.
Can we get a review on that watch?
Mine is the SRP773 Blue Dial.
https://wornandwound.com/review/seiko-prospex-srp777-775-review/
How Julia Fox hustled her way into Uncut Gems
I’ve got a reaction in the front of my trousers, if you know what I mean.
“Uncut Gems”. So, an anti-circumcision show?
No, it’s a movie, and she is a pretty lady who is in that movie.
I support her decision to wear what ever she wants.
10 Reasons Sex Will Be Better With Bernie
Sign me up!
Funny, none of my loved ones tried to illegally cross borders, nor committed crimes that got them incarcerated. I suspect we’re no anomaly.
Funny in the authoritarian way, or funny in the delusional way?
Some people are turned on by the thought of conjugal visits or sex with criminals.
+1 titty scene from Midnight Express.
One of my 3words was “jugs”, so I’ve got that going for me.