IrateAnteater

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[–] IrateAnteater -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"traffic sucked for a couple hours a day for a week, therefore no more anything ever" that's kinda shit reasoning. Sounds more like a good excuse to push for more money for infrastructure improvements.

[–] IrateAnteater 0 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Why would you not want an area in the downtown area of your city?

Or is this more of a not wanting public funds to pay for it protest?

[–] IrateAnteater 73 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Why is it that whenever something is spitting out junk data, those specific characters are involved?

[–] IrateAnteater 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The dead don't care about responsibility, and hence I'm not really commenting on it. I'm just saying it's not in your own best interest to rely on others for your own safety, when it's entirely possible to handle it yourself.

[–] IrateAnteater -1 points 4 months ago

Don't be so quick to make assumptions.

Have you never been in a shop that uses bridge cranes? I can see a half dozen 200 ton versions from where I'm standing now. At best the operator might hit the warning buzzer. And no, there's no formal training requirements to use them.

[–] IrateAnteater 15 points 4 months ago (13 children)

I've never really understood this type of thought when it comes to safety. Simple self preservation should lead you to the same conclusion. When it comes to safety, the squishiest one loses.

We don't blink an eye when told to not stand under something being lifted by a crane, so why balk at being told to be safe around the two ton travelling metal boxes?

[–] IrateAnteater 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I'm not up to speed on how US tax laws work. What does getting deemed a hobby entail?

[–] IrateAnteater 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The government probably wouldn't have if both rail lines weren't shut down simultaneously.

The Teamsters should take a page from the way the UAW/CAW handles the Big Three; focus negotiations on one, then tell the other "here's the template".

Keeping the rail lines running is too critical for the government to allow a protracted lockout/strike, but a (non-conservative) government would likely allow far more leeway if only one of the railways are shut at one time.

[–] IrateAnteater 104 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nothing says "small government" and "freedom" quite like mass surveillance.

[–] IrateAnteater 19 points 4 months ago

World's best swap drive.

[–] IrateAnteater 79 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Things happen by accident or on purpose. No one over the age of 3 should be using "on accident".

[–] IrateAnteater 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

There's a difference between WMDs that can reach the US, and ones that can only be deployed locally. Russia has the former (and a lot of them), hence no invasion.

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