I was assaulted in the MAX line in the tube under Washington Park for holding hands with my boyfriend on the Blue train; had my glasses punched through my right ear and a tooth knocked loose. Police response, even though they got the guy, was "don't be gay, then". This was in 2008.
If you are a Female, looking for a Male, do you really need this? A gay man wont date you. No shit. No need for a "facial scan" to tell me to avoid someone who is going to say NO anyway
No, but if you're a guy, looking for a guy, getting this wrong in the new deep south like Portland or Seattle will cost you teeth. Guess how I know?
...definitely applies to this situation. This has some pretty negative implications in particularly homophobic regions. All the more reason not to visit the pacific northwestern US or the middle eastern region in general if this thing gets to be widespread.
Ones I've personally encountered are pretty much every 50 or so miles on Interstate 44 from Wichita Falls, TX to Joplin, MO; pretty much any interstate entering California; and the occasional outdated, extremely short onramp that hasn't been updated since the freeway opened last century all over the country.
Except in the onramp case, all of these occur on the freeway itself.
Then there's Interstate 5, which, in addition to having stop signs at either end of it because DUH, the two busiest border crossings in the world at opposite ends of it, it also has traffic lights in the Portland area thanks to the drawbridge, since Clark County is so spiteful it can't be arsed to accept light rail to Oregon.
Poverty is the norm, and poverty tend to breed hate, resentment, bigotry, austerity politics and regressivism. That's the Oregon I know. The only time this wasn't true was the late 1990s when the only people who didn't have jobs literally didn't want jobs. Otherwise it's an intensely conformist, WASPy, homophobic and racist place to be. Portland moreso than the desert, and the desert exactly as much as you think.
I think it's just greedy and dumb. I pay Cox $80/mo for 150Mbps. For comparison, that's about the same price my mother is paying Frontier for gigabit (and they keep giving her basic TV for free when she calls to drop the TV since she doesn't really watch that much).
Needless to say, my cable company can suck my Cox.
Google Maps struggles badly with offline caching. And if you have to recalculate when you don't have data? You're probably SOL, even with cached data in Google Maps. And if you're not in or around one of the top 10 largest US metros? All bets are off with Google Maps even if you do have a solid data connection, they just don't care about keeping the map current where you are then.
Osmand doesn't tend to suffer any of these problems.
Unions certainly had their time and place in history, but these days it seems to be less about standing up for the little guy and more about how much money can we bring in via Union Dues. ( My opinion of course, I work within a Union Company )
Sounds like your union sucks, therefore all unions suck? Maybe you should get more involved in your union.
That said, $21 an hour is a rather laughable wage in a State with a high cost of living like California.
I'm not sure why you're calling out "hardcore liberals" here. I have no doubt that hardcore conservatives also "park" in the way you describe.
Because American politics have a conservative wing that is so far out there and is so convinced that they are entitled to having a monoculture that anything that has a neutral point of review, and by extension, reality itself, has a "hardcore liberal bias" from their perspective. The same ones that think Breitbart and Fox News are neutral, and NPR and BBC are leftist plots to make them look stupid. I'd love to say this was a rare thing, but it seems this is the nominal middle of the modern Republican movement.
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In this case, the mountain range is not the Cascades, but the Coast.
I was assaulted in the MAX line in the tube under Washington Park for holding hands with my boyfriend on the Blue train; had my glasses punched through my right ear and a tooth knocked loose. Police response, even though they got the guy, was "don't be gay, then". This was in 2008.
If you are a Female, looking for a Male, do you really need this? A gay man wont date you. No shit. No need for a "facial scan" to tell me to avoid someone who is going to say NO anyway
No, but if you're a guy, looking for a guy, getting this wrong in the new deep south like Portland or Seattle will cost you teeth. Guess how I know?
...definitely applies to this situation. This has some pretty negative implications in particularly homophobic regions. All the more reason not to visit the pacific northwestern US or the middle eastern region in general if this thing gets to be widespread.
Except in the onramp case, all of these occur on the freeway itself.
Then there's Interstate 5, which, in addition to having stop signs at either end of it because DUH, the two busiest border crossings in the world at opposite ends of it, it also has traffic lights in the Portland area thanks to the drawbridge, since Clark County is so spiteful it can't be arsed to accept light rail to Oregon.
Can it be both? Because it's probably both.
...and it's generally tech-heavy audience, probably can't hurt, either.
Poverty is the norm, and poverty tend to breed hate, resentment, bigotry, austerity politics and regressivism. That's the Oregon I know. The only time this wasn't true was the late 1990s when the only people who didn't have jobs literally didn't want jobs. Otherwise it's an intensely conformist, WASPy, homophobic and racist place to be. Portland moreso than the desert, and the desert exactly as much as you think.
Did you just assume the size of my screen and the size of my pointing device? Stop. All bets are off on both.
This is damn near identical to the plot of TaleSpin episode 9, "I Only Have Ice For You".
I think it's just greedy and dumb. I pay Cox $80/mo for 150Mbps. For comparison, that's about the same price my mother is paying Frontier for gigabit (and they keep giving her basic TV for free when she calls to drop the TV since she doesn't really watch that much). Needless to say, my cable company can suck my Cox.
Maybe you should blame the generation that thought it would be a good idea to hand out participation trophies just for showing up.
But I don't have In-n-Out here, you insensitive clod!
I seem to recall this has been a thing going on since the 1990s. I'd be kind of screwed if it wasn't.
Ostensibly, the US is one of those countries where it's primarily driver's responsibility to not run over people on foot.
And yet, still 25 times slower than Korea for five times the price.
Yeah...but you're still stuck in Seattle.
It's not like they didn't tell us...
Oddly enough, I moved from Portland, Oregon to Tulsa, Oklahoma to get away from exactly the bullshit you're referring to. Successfully, I might ad.
Google Maps struggles badly with offline caching. And if you have to recalculate when you don't have data? You're probably SOL, even with cached data in Google Maps. And if you're not in or around one of the top 10 largest US metros? All bets are off with Google Maps even if you do have a solid data connection, they just don't care about keeping the map current where you are then. Osmand doesn't tend to suffer any of these problems.
Unions certainly had their time and place in history, but these days it seems to be less about standing up for the little guy and more about how much money can we bring in via Union Dues. ( My opinion of course, I work within a Union Company )
Sounds like your union sucks, therefore all unions suck? Maybe you should get more involved in your union.
That said, $21 an hour is a rather laughable wage in a State with a high cost of living like California.
That's rather the union's point, is it not?
Same with Tulsa, Oklahoma...which that and really comfortable stations appears to be the only two things Tulsa's ahead of the curve on transit-wise.
And, you know, don't make it 1/25th the speed and 5x the price of Korea.
So does that mean Windows won't automatically be bundled with no way to unbundle it before purchase there now?
I'm not sure why you're calling out "hardcore liberals" here. I have no doubt that hardcore conservatives also "park" in the way you describe.
Because American politics have a conservative wing that is so far out there and is so convinced that they are entitled to having a monoculture that anything that has a neutral point of review, and by extension, reality itself, has a "hardcore liberal bias" from their perspective. The same ones that think Breitbart and Fox News are neutral, and NPR and BBC are leftist plots to make them look stupid. I'd love to say this was a rare thing, but it seems this is the nominal middle of the modern Republican movement.