I had one of the 10" eeePC machines for years. That thing was a tank. It did everything I needed it to, especially weird networking configurations. The battery also lasted over 6 hours. I mostly ran Crunchbang #! Linux on it.
I don’t think I could live on a 10" screen anymore, but back in the day it was a dream machine.
Nice. Germany has some good visa programs for skilled workers. If you’ve got the credentials, the consulates will work with you on immigration and it’s not a very onerous system.
The hotel itself was nice, and the balcony had a great view. The problem was the mattress. It was so soft that it provided zero back support. No other options were available.
The net result was both my wife and I ended up with month long back muscle spasms. It taught us a lot about how to resolve back issues, but it’s not a lesson I wanted from a relatively expensive hotel in Leavenworth, Washington.
I’m already on the road ahead of you.
Spent 30 years campaigning, calling, sign waving, writing letters, donating to candidates, causes, and groups. Even ran for office a couple of times. Every year it gets worse and I’ve got kids. They don’t need to live in a dystopian place so we’re on the road. Headed to a developed nation. Greener pastures,.but it’s worth a try.
Very few of the pots in my city are city owned. They’re all private. They refuse to build anything else since using it as a parking lot has very low taxes so the profits are good, plus the land value goes up so just waiting makes them millions.
Tax them like crazy or all you get is downtown Houston in the 1980s.
A) this is RT propaganda under the hood
B) I’m betting I could find quite a few US soldiers (plus the Secretary of Defense) who have prevalent Nazi symbology tattoos and/or post pro Nazi materials online.
Every city should be repurposing every above ground parking lot.
Housing, open plazas, parks, transit systems, 5+1 housing everywhere.
If you want a parking lot in a city it should be below ground and taxed out the ying-yang.
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Show Toronto how Paris built 13 tram lines in the last 20 years. Make sure to do it in Parisian French too.
Of course my city is delaying the construction of a fucking BUS line to 2030 because the freeway build out (which is about 3 miles away from the someday bus line) is delayed. Why these two are connected, the public isn’t sure. Given my city’s ineptitude, at least Toronto is trying at all so I can’t throw any bricks.
Edit: but we did declare a downtown parking garage a historic building and put it on the historic register so we have that going for us.
The dumbest part of the US’s “fuck you poor people, die in the gutter” approach to homelessness is that it’s more expensive than using a system to provide homes to people:
“A further study of Finland’s Housing First program found that giving a homeless person a home and support resulted in cost savings for the society of at least €15,000 per person per year, with potentially even higher cost savings in the long term.[7] These cost savings for society are in part a result of reductions in usage of emergency healthcare, police, and the justice system when homeless people are given a home.”
[7]“London wants to eradicate homelessness. Here’s how Finland is doing it”. cbc.ca. Canadian Broadcasting Centre (CBC). 28 January 2023. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
(From Wikipedia)
Children are especially vulnerable and costly to not provide housing to. The US is, at its core, an essentially a selfish and heartless nation. You can removed all you want about that stance, but a budget is a statement of your values. Those values don’t include helping people and they don’t include being cost effective, so what is being achieved here except paying more to be cruel to children and their families?
It’s also California: the weather is usually really good. Maybe this “Becker” should add an amendment that requires bike roads to be built instead of parking spots.
I assume he’s against being proactive in problem solving, though.
Just another TACO Tuesday.
TACO style fascism rules the day.
Chicago’s flag is a masterwork.
My city did a redesign about five years ago. Our flag was in a D to F tier flag ranking. After the redesign it’s much better, but still feels like a logo more then a flag. At least they got rid of the written slogan, though!
Props to Chicago. Put that flag on everything.
I’m hoping Milwaukee adopts of the People’s flag of Milwaukee soon. That’s a serious banger too.
Yeah, the US has reached an incredibly low standard of literacy for what is supposed to be a developed nation. The numbers on reading level are scary. Also look at how much people read as adults. We just don’t learn how and then we don’t practice during our lives. It’s a nation of partial literacy being kept together my hyper nationalism and smart phones to distract us with 6 second videos.
Using a capitalist/economic solution to solve a resource scarcity problem?!? We can’t have that (says the hard-line capitalists).
Congestion pricing works and should be the rule in every notable city. We need fewer card and car trips as part of the transformation of humanity’s civilization to adapt to a limited world. The line cannot go up forever.
And he needs money! He just can’t handle it so he needs more.
– Abbreviated George Carlin
Fascist dictators don’t have loyalty, soldier. That’s a key element to them.
We also train young adults to gather evidence, use a skeptical process when presented with ideas, and have enough resources to speak up about problems in communities.
It’s a trifecta of things conservatives hate.
Sample size: 1
That’ll do! Let’s hit the pub.