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"I can hear the ocean"
I can see forever.
That explains a lot
Apple maps sucks for public transit directions. Making me download a separate bus app? Suck my dick.
Google Maps trumps.
Picher, Oklahoma
Salton Sea, California
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard
What have we done.
wut
What could possibly be a bummer about that?
All those dilapidated buildings and radioactive waste are actually history, which is super important.
Seriously, though, that crane sounds neat.
I would imagine the 2 billion dollars in clean up...only for shit to be knocked down and replaced with cheap shitty housing is the bummer.
All that money and history, and for what? 2 room apartments and McDonalds.
when are people going to get enough of that shit?
Why should we keep an irrelevant naval shipyard open that nobody uses?
Why do we do that for any part of our navy that we are not using at this given moment?
Why do we declared anything a monument or historic and create legislation to protect it?
Why are you opening this can of worms? You don't honestly wish to discuss it.
So we should preserve every fucking military base we ever had? In the 1800s we had thousands of forts, because of the Indian wars and slow transport. Should the government be funding a museum at every one of those sites? Who would be going to those museums?
We do keep some as historical monuments. I live next to a bunch because of the Revolutionary War. There are many old shipyards operating as museums. There is a limit though. There are many others that are built for a purpose and then that purpose is done. Better to turn it over to people who can enjoy it and live there.
That article kinda glossed over the part that bugged me. But if anyone looked at the other two places they'd see the pattern. It had nothing to do with historical significance of old shipyards. They're all places ruined by human pollution. Picher is the most disturbing of the three.
As far as HPNY, in the '40s the Navy took 90 ships out into the Pacific Ocean and hit them with two atomic bombs. The ships were then brought back to Hunters Point to be studied. Scientists there also exposed animals (and humans as well according to rumor) to radiation to see what would happen. The place was a radioactive dumping ground. And now, 60ish years later, we are spending a billion dollars to clean it up. What of the damage done to the environment for the past 60 years though? And I need to research it more, but doesnt radioactive cleanup amount to "dig up all the radioactive dirt in the area we want to use and then transport it to a place we dont mind (at this time) being contaminated"?
Yea, that's the thing with nuclear waste. It never goes away. It's just that we try to find a place we can stick it and forget about it for a while.
In a Pitchfork interview, rapper Earl Sweatshirt said he tends to avoid Twitter, as people who he previously thought were intelligent and cool turn out to be fuckwits.
Well, I found Jon Tron's twitter.
I don't know if that port is just any old base. But good job with your site of hand to make your point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Why does this have to be extremes? Why is it preserve the whole thing or knock most of it down to build shitty cheap housing?
Why not like, use it as a port? Or use the buildings for an industrial complex?
Why spend all that tax money on clean up only to hand it over to renters and let them get rich off of it when it could be use for some kind of industry that puts money and jobs into the local economy? And you know, pays taxes to slowly recoup the cost of cleaning it?
That article mentions that several of the more historic buildings on the site will be preserved. Plus, in addition to housing and shopping (which generate tax and help the economy), there will be office and manufacturing buildings (and thus, jobs), and open spaces which I presume will be used for parks or whatnot. Meanwhile, contaminants are being cleaned up that have done/are doing who knows what to the environment for decades. Not seeing the problem.
Nothing will beat the incredible levels of respect lost for Egoraptor from the Sequelitis days to seeing how he actually plays games in Game Grumps.
I don't follow him or Game Grumps, is he terrible at games?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzo
He seemed so smart and funny and charming. I get playthroughs, but I'll never understand Let's Plays.
Let's Plays are the video game equivalent of a bad DJ/MC talking all over the track.
Because we don't need a port there. There are tons of ports. As for an industrial complex, why? Why do we need some factories in San Francisco? To re pollute the area? Put that shit in Hayward or Livermore where it is cheaper and the people who would work there live.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
I'll tell you what San Francisco does need, houses for people to live in. The city has a major shortage of housing supply.
You seriously don't think that people who live in houses contribute to the local economy? Or pay taxes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
That was a Superfund site, and the Superfund law says "you break it you bought it." The Navy polluted the shit out of the site so the Navy pays to clean it up. There's nothing to recoup. Selling it to developers so people can move to a city they want to move to is the best use of the space.
Industry doesn't have to be big nasty Victorian factories. It.could be anything from start ups renting office space, new companies using warehouses for distribution, to new greener manufacturering.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
They can do that from anywhere they live in that area. That isn't so true for business. They might go to another town, county or state.Quote:
You seriously don't think that people who live in houses contribute to the local economy? Or pay taxes?
You're not this dull. Where does the Navy ' budget come from?Quote:
That was a Superfund site, and the Superfund law says "you break it you bought it." The Navy polluted the shit out of the site so the Navy pays to clean it up. There's nothing to recoup. Selling it to developers so people can move to a city they want to move to is the best use of the space.
San Francisco has plenty of office space. It needs housing more than anything else.
And yes taxpayers pay or the Navy, but again, that money is spent. They can privatize the land and recoup the money that way. I would rather a private company manage a housing complex or office space than the Navy. I'm pretty sure the Navy agrees.
On the lighter side of things, I got my haircut yesterday. The nice young stylist asked if I would like her to trim my eyebrows. Fuck getting old.
San Francisco really, in a desperate sort of way, needs more affordable housing.
San Francisco has decided to allow the tech industry to kick San Francisco out, it's really gross.
These fields were once hippies and perverts for as far as the eye can see, now it's all baby strollers and startup techdouchebros.
You could like, live some where else.
You're not the dirt you reside upon.
Or they can put the industrial complex someplace else.
They could. And not build housing there either.
Why wouldn't they build something the city could really use?
IP doesn't understand city ecosystems. Don't bother, man.
My hairline is really thinning out. I'm gonna grow out my fro until it's really noticeable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
Fine. They could build a park.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
It already is. BwahahahahahaQuote:
Originally Posted by Brisco Bold
Good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpPD82rrzos&t=10m37sQuote:
Originally Posted by Shin Johnpv
Watch this Aladdin boss battle.
Keep in mind that this is a game they "played a lot as a child".
They do seem pretty shitty at games. I couldn't watch this shit regularly. It's like Giantbomb's quick looks. For a bunch of guys that play video games for a living they're terrible at them, and don't understand basic video game shit.
They are. Did you even read the article?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
I meant like turn the entire space into a park. No housing for Dif or yeller's to be upper mobile 30+ year olds at.
How old are you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Brisco Bold
The best was "my wife is so good at Lion King, she played it all the time and she's so good at it." Then she plays and uses and invincibility cheat because the game is so "impossible," and of course she's terrible at it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dunlap
That is EXACTLY what they're like, yes. They pride themselves on being ignorant about the games they play. It's weird.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shin Johnpv
32 turning 33 next month. I notice the thinning out, but when I point it out everyone says I'm nuts. I never grew my hair out until later in life. But I alwayz told myself once I start actually going bald I'll bic.
80% of the hair you will lose you will lose by about 35, I wouldn't worry too much about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brisco Bold
I can't play through a lot of games I destroyed as a kid, but then again I'm not trying to make playthroughs on YouTube.
Yea heaven forbid a city has more successful, stable, well paid people in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
You know that's not how it will work.
Oh sure, it will help for a year or two. They will build the apartments and Mc mansions. The prices will start out pretty good for the area, but after year five they will start to creep up as people settle in and become more resistant to moving.
And when this starts it will be harder to find jobs and pay will decrease a little as people surge in for the new housing. There will be more labor so the demand and price will go down.
But that will stabilize too in a couple of years.
And you and yeller's will be in here again moaning and complaining about h9w expensive one of the most idealized and desirable strip of land in the world is. How you are entitled to other people accommodating you and your desires
Never considering that if you and people like you would just leave and stop demanding to live their the price would drop.
Your entitlement to your life style is why the prices are so bigh. Because you'll bitch and moan and still mail that rent check off. .
Oh fuck that. Whatever nothing I thought you knew you probably know less.
I moved to Pacifica and got a 2-bedroom/garage/laundry room joint for the price of a studio in SF. Everybody still in the city is either getting Ellis Act'd out of their apartments in the city so the landlords can charge more or just straight-up priced out, with the occasional rent control lottery winner in there.
I remember my dad mentioning something about this a number of years ago. He also said that eventually they don't even ask. Same with the ears.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
Does your mom have a brother? His dome is your future.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brisco Bold
You're lucky, btw. You can keep your hair close and just be fashion forward. If I keep my hair close I look like a skinhead.
I wish. My uncle on my mom's side is like 65 with a pretty full head of hair. It is orange, so there's that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
But yeah Brisco you still get a better deal. White guys either go cancer patient or The Human Hotdog.
Imma be bald, broseph.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
So I'll go back to my teenage years, I guess.Quote:
But yeah Brisco you still get a better deal. White guys either go cancer patient or The Human Hotdog.
It's super fucking weird. It made me lose interest/respect for their site. I tried to watch their quick looks, or listen to the podcasts but they just talked with this attitude of yeah I'm 100000000% right, while being completely ignorant of the most simple or basic shit, which they like you said seem to pride themselves on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzo
I actually own, but ok.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
You know what lowers prices, more supply. Like, say, new apartment buildings in land that used to be a nuclear wasteland.
You guys are just going to bring on a session of The Professor.
http://tele3110sunny.files.wordpress...9h28m18s56.jpg
I certainly hope to sweet fuck that's true.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anthony
It isn't.
Join us...
Oh yeah, dj on college radio I was listening to this morning played a track off of Nirvana's In You-Tare-Oh album.
God damn kids these days.
A lot of vids do this and I'm not sure what the point is. The internet exists. Research is way easier. Why not use your platform to educate your audience?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shin Johnpv
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Originally Posted by Fe 26
>>implies I don't know anythingQuote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
>>says the exact same thing in less trolling and aggressive terms.
Yeah, but like I said, the price will be back up in a matter of years. You're not talking about some generic US city with a finite amount of demand. You're talking about what, the second, third, most popular city in the US? One of the most popular in world?Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Level the whole port and build apartments. Prices will be high on them in like 5 years, assuming they don't start high.
My little two year old daughter has had this little puppy toy that she's carried with her just about everywhere for as long as she can remember. She lost it tonight, and I'm pretty sure we're not going to be able to find it. Fabulous.
http://watchdog.org/170149/dui-checkpoints/
give that a read if you want your blood to boil. MS troopers are getting better and better and bending the law. Apparently they had a judge out there and were using rejection of searches and probabl cause for warrants, and using those warrants for on the spot blood tests.
Yeah, someone remind me of where the "if you aren't doing anything wrong, you don't have anything to worry about" is at in any of that? Remember this shit when you think about the NSA and similar. Don't console yourself with some shit like "its just MS" It isn't.
I don't get it either, it would take them all of 60 seconds to research a game. It's not even just ignorance of what's out there. At least the giant bomb guys don't seem to know what a controller is, or how video games work. Every quick look almost feels like it's the first time they're playing a video game, some times once they've previewed saying they played it. It's just so silly and stupid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brisco Bold
here is your daily dose of feel bad
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/char...b_5836238.html
"Oh honey, you did so well at soccer/football/whatever-sport-uses-cleats-practice. Let's go to the new game store, look around, and buy nothing. Game Guy will certainly appreciate you leaving clumps of mud and grass all over his carpet!"
lol
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When I used to work for McD's as a teen, I had a women and child walk into the store, sit down, have the child puke on the floor, and then leave. I just had to pick up the puke.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
Oh, I've cleaned up child puke before, and piss. Same scenario as you, parents did nothing but leave.
At least that store had tile and not carpet.
Acts of Gord Pt. 2.
No, that was my blog. But when I got bored with that concept and tried something else, no one read it.
I worked at one of those big "family fun centers" in high school. My 4th week there some kid shit themselves while going down the big slide in the big ass playcenter and left a trail down the entire slide. I was tasked with cleaning it up and talked two brand new employees into doing it for me. I never had to do the cleaning but kids puking in the ball pit was an almost weekly occurrence. And kids puking somewhere else was much more common. The number of parents who would attempt to clean up after their own kids was staggeringly low.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brisco Bold
"They get paid to do that."
Totally, and 9 times out of 10 it's a minimum wage employee doing the cleaning.
I bought some packaged tomales from the grocery store. I was about to eat the last bite of a tomale, when I noticed a small black line in the corn meal. I thought it might have been a hair (fell off of my shirt) from my black dog, but upon further inspection I discovered that some dickhead had put a pubic hair in the tomale; it even had the little white spot at the end of the follicle. I tried to file a complaint on Mama Julia's website, but all they had was the stupid follow us on Twitter and Facebook logo.
clearly they want you to friend them and post a picture comment on their facebook
I wish I knew what devil plants north la had. I'm getting really tired of waking up with painful swollen eyes at 3 am just because of changes in the season and their sex cycle.
Take an antihistamine before bed (like generic Allegra), it'll make your life better.
Set an alarm for work though.
Normally I'd take a zytacwhatever but I was out today.
Allergies really make me wonder how we conquered the globe. How many people died back in the day just because pollen weakened their natural defenses and a sore throat lead to something more deadly?
I'm betting a lot.
Yes, that's why all these peanut allergy losers are taking over. Now that we can keep them alive, the gene spreads more and more.
I say we give natural selection a helping hand.
It really makes you wonder. Our ancestors were the sort that thought illness was a sign from god. The berries killed you because God didn't want you to eat them. Everyone got sick on your travels because you were traveling on forsaken sinful lands.
How did people justify traveling when so many were really only built for a certain area? Leave it and you get all kinds of allergies that could lead to more deadly illnesses?
Oh wait, greed.
That doesn't explain the pilgrims though.
Yes the reason early homo sapiens spread out across the world was greed. So much greed.
I'm clearly talking about that and not early European to America settlers.
Maybe not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapyQuote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
Yeah, yeah. I was the first to post about that. It's also why southerners were stereotyped as lazy.
I doubt everyone had hook worm though. I'm pretty sure was only ever an epidemic down here. Something like 40 to 60 % of the population.
All the southerners except for yoshi ' family ofcorse. They've always had mighty fine boots to protect from hook worm.
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Originally Posted by Fe 26
I guess it depends on how you view Columbus, was he more concerned with proving the world was round, or was he more concerned with opening a trade route to India. Which group specifically were you talking about?
People that came to the Americas for religion or money.
It has mostly been disproven that he was trying to prove the earth was round.
Taking it right as you're going to sleep puts a little bit in your system without making you drowsy as hell the next day, it's a good practice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
I still say he was just looking for some Indian pussy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
The draw of Strange was enough to build a Nina, a Pinta, and a Santa Maria.
I'm about to pay some plumbers $180 to unclog my toilet. My much cheaper regular plumber isn't answering the phone for some reason. Fuckballs.
Shit in the bathtub. Stomp it down the drain.
I'm not certain that would help.