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[Cyberpunk Panatela]

https://web.archive.org/web/20220822034320/https://twitter.com/adamkotsko/status/1561367698587750400

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Holding this kind of opinion indicates both wilful ignorance and complete self-absorption.

"Adam Kotsko" has obviously never given a thought as to what economic activity actually happens in the "remote rural areas" he derides. It almost looks like he thinks that everything outside his city is a sort of wasteland.

In reality any city is dependent on a flow of goods(foodstuffs and water among other raw materials) in, and in the same way the countryside requires industrial and specialised products made in a city.

Farms, lumber plantations, mines, sugar mills, etc. need workers just like factories do, and those workers obviously live close to their place of employment.

If Mr(?). Kotsko ever happens to read this: You are an ignoramus who knows nothing about anything that matters. You also look like you chase trannies. Do the world a favor and shut the fuck up.

I can't properly quote your post, @AUTOEXEC2.BAT , so I'll have to do it like this:

"in the region of Twente, part of the province of Overijssel, the NAM is injecting highly toxic waste water from oil production into the empty gas fields of Twente."

I cannot fucking believe that this is being tried again .

In the late 1950s a paper was published in one of the prominent geophysical journals proposing 'deep crust hydraulic injection of extremely hazardous waste' as an alternative to incineration.

Five years later the author requested that the paper be retracted due to the disastrous results at the 3 sites where this process had been applied (one was near Ford Detrick, MD. and was used for disposal of biohazardous waste generated at that facility, the other two at chemical plants in Brazil).

Each site experienced a sudden onset of seismic events measuring up to Richter 5 about a year after the injection process started and gradually tapering off over about 5 years after cessation. They did cut it out pretty quickly after the tremors started, though.

This became an almost textbook example of what NOT to do with old oil or gas wells.

And now I hear it's being tried again, with predictable results. And not in some third world shithole, in fucking Western Europe. I'm quite confident that the people who planned this didn't bother to consult a competent geoscientist, quite probably because they were so infatuated with their "project" and didn't want to risk a negative assessment causing its cancellation.

Maybe all we learn from history is what mistakes we are going to repeat.

 

[Irrational Exuberance]

Anybody who uses Dahir Insaat as a source has automatically invalidated his own point and deserves to be ignored.

Just look at their "earthquake-proof bed" as an indicator of their untrustworthiness as an authority on anything.

I think you mean the "hell bed", or perhaps "prison cube".

 

[Return of the Freaker]

I think you mean the "hell bed", or perhaps "prison cube".

0/10 no quadcopters

 

[WhiskeyJack]

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Yes, if it kept happening to my vehicle I would wait day and night to catch the MF and ring his head off the curb. And I would be 100% morally justified in doing so. The government might say elsewise. IDC.

Good grief, NJB is an idiot. He might as well just say he's pro-terrorism and be done with it. This is Sam Harris levels of saying the quiet part loud.

 

[TheGrandDragonJesus]

Good grief, NJB is an idiot. He might as well just say he's pro-terrorism and be done with it. This is Sam Harris levels of saying the quiet part loud.

More or less. It's the abusive authority figure thing where they will do bad things too you but blame it some other factor, and if that factor changes then maybe they will stfu and be happy. People like that are a lesson waiting to happen.

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

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Yes, if it kept happening to my vehicle I would wait day and night to catch the MF and ring his head off the curb. And I would be 100% morally justified in doing so. The government might say elsewise. IDC.

I would buy the cheapest , worst quality tires i could, and hope that when they stabbed them the tire would explode.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

I would buy the cheapest , worst quality tires i could, and hope that when they stabbed them the tire would explode.

grapeshot tires strat

 

[DeadwastePrime]

double post, however im just gonna post this here and see the results for funnies

 

[Sprate Header]

double post, however im just gonna post this here and see the results for funnies
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The meritocracy isn't real because GamerGate

Darn you, Zoe Quinn!! If only you hadn't slept with Five Guys, we'd be living in a utopia, with walkable cities!

 

[Cyberpunk Panatela]

I think you mean the "hell bed", or perhaps "prison cube".

Are the critique/diss videos back up? At one stage Semyenov made DMCA complaints about anything even slightly critical of his bullshit, so they were all taken down.

I hope he tried that on with the wrong person. Somebody mentioned that Thunderf00t made a video on their Gyro-bus contraption. I know that he takes the time to fight frivolous DMCAs as he's done it successfully before.

I would buy the cheapest , worst quality tires i could, and hope that when they stabbed them the tire would explode.

We just need to bring the problem to Dahir Insaat's attention. The world is ready for for the in-axle anti-tamper shotgun chain gun.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I think you mean the "hell bed", or perhaps "prison cube".

there's this comment on the Thunderf00t video busting the gyro bus idea (in which he briefly goes into the earthquake bed):

For your safety, in case of an earthquake, any limb sticking outside the bed will be broken or amputated automatically. Thank you for your cooperation.

 

[Chuck McGill]

As usual, the youtube grifters take a halfway decent idea and ruin it. Every single fucking time that someone has a common good like "We should improve public transportation so that it is a legitimate option for people who want it" the retards on the internet try to turn it into the worst idea possible.

You can't ban cars for a myriad of reasons, and even if you could, people love to drive, but American public transit is a bad fucking joke in the US and we should try to fix it. If nigs bother you on public transit, wait until your car gets hit by Jamal with no insurance, or until you accidentally rear end Jose and his family sues you for "back pain." Public transit should be an option, and people like NJB are actually right about that.

That being said, they sperg out at every possible opportunity. They never ask WHY public transit is so bad in the US without pointing to comfortable answers like "muh redlining" or "muh auto industry lobbying" when the real reason is crime and other uncomfortable factors. NYC, a liberal haven with a well functioning transit system, a system so good that it is considered to be the best in America, has a problem where it can't get people to pay the fucking $2.75 to get on the high quality train. Even after they pay, there is a crime problem, people get pushed on tracks, the smell of weed is constant. I was visiting NYC and the refusal of the city to get rid of the problem clients has lead to the subway being anarchy at some stations. Public transit needs to be maintained and kept crime free.

I lived in Portland for a minute, and while I was living there a lawsuit had gone through that completely prevented them from barring non-payers from riding. Before this it was a common sight to see transit police hand out lifetime bans for riding for free. But nooo, we can't have that now anymore can we? Don't you know having standards is racist and classist? Don't look at is as getting mugged, look at it as an unplanned donation!

 

[WhiskeyJack]

We just need to bring the problem to Dahir Insaat's attention. The world is ready for for the in-axle anti-tamper shotgun chain gun.

In South Africa, they used to install flamethrowers on their cars as anti-theft devices.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

I lived in Portland for a minute, and while I was living there a lawsuit had gone through that completely prevented them from barring non-payers from riding. Before this it was a common sight to see transit police hand out lifetime bans for riding for free. But nooo, we can't have that now anymore can we? Don't you know having standards is racist and classist? Don't look at is as getting mugged, look at it as an unplanned donation!

Well a few years back there was one article that said Protestant Work Ethic is white supremacy as well as showing up to places on time (showing that you value others time)

 

[NerdShamer]

Before this it was a common sight to see transit police hand out lifetime bans for riding for free.

Did it go down like something like this?

But nooo, we can't have that now anymore can we? Don't you know having standards is racist and classist?

It ain't racist if it applies to everyone.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Anyone else remember when Phil (ADF) called cars "four-wheeled fedoras"?

 

[LaxerBRO]

I would venture a significant part of the push to nudge people into the citizens has political motivations.

The primary desire is get people into the cities so they can socialize all the cities problems to the new residents.

I highly suspect most of them would want to ban private schools / gated communities if given the chance.

 

[Nicest Person on a Honda]

I lived in Portland for a minute, and while I was living there a lawsuit had gone through that completely prevented them from barring non-payers from riding. Before this it was a common sight to see transit police hand out lifetime bans for riding for free.

There is more to it than you think, the clients that cause the problems are the ones who aren't supposed to be there. Every now and then a paying customer will get into a dispute with another paying customer or they will engage in a crime of opportunity, but by and large it is the non-paying riders that cause problems. There was a study done a few years back basically stating that like 80% of the problems on NYC MTA were caused by non-paying riders and that cracking down on fare skippers leads to a reduction in crime, same with cracking down on the homeless.
People who would skip fares often show other problems, such as a willingness to vandalize, harass other customers, or involve themselves in other activities. Unfortunately, this leads to a racial effect as blacks and hispanics are going to be more likely to do this kind of shit. It is not 80 year old asian women who are entering through the emergency gates or jumping the turnstyles.

The cold fact of the matter is that you need an enforcement mechanism, it does not need to be a lifetime ban, but you need some kind of stick to persuade people to actually pay and a mechanism for removing those who do not pay. I know a guy who proudly claims that he has not paid for the MTA in a decade and never will. He has not gotten a single ticket because he knows how to beat the system. This makes the MTA a charity, not a government agency.

 

[quaawaa]

I know a guy who proudly claims that he has not paid for the MTA in a decade and never will. He has not gotten a single ticket because he knows how to beat the system. This makes the MTA a charity, not a government agency.

At least that guy is honest. I can't fault him for stealing the small portion of the train cost that riders are expected to pay considering how much the taxpayer is expected to fork up. He's stealing 100% of the cost of a train ride, and every other rider is stealing at least 70% of the cost:

Transit in the NYC metro area is actually subsidized at an even higher rate because none of the capital costs are paid for by fares.

 

[WhiskeyJack]

At least that guy is honest. I can't fault him for stealing the small portion of the train cost that riders are expected to pay considering how much the taxpayer is expected to fork up. He's stealing 100% of the cost of a train ride, and every other rider is stealing at least 70% of the cost:
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Transit in the NYC metro area is actually subsidized at an even higher rate because none of the capital costs are paid for by fares.

That’s a pretty good argument for abolishing it entirely.