specseaweed

I have mixed feelings about this. I'm a public transit maximalist, but I'm also old enough to feel like any progress is still progress. The loss of the Avalon station sucks but I'd be ok with it if the bus lines that run 35th got a big old makeover with bus additions, which looks to be the offer.

It's a slippery slope. If you allow for a sidewalk for children between a school and transit, where does it end? Safe sidewalks for adults? What about able bodied adults? Shouldn't we be means testing sidewalks or are we just gonna hand out free sidewalks to everyone?

That's communism, friend. Can't have it.

Disclaimer: I'm not giving advice here and I don't have insight into Rad's specific situation. I am very, very progressive, I love regulation, and I own a Rad bike. I don't have the battery in question. I like my bike, but I don't love Rad. I also happen to know quite a lot about the CPSC.

The CPSC is typically led by a board of 5 members. Trump fired the 3 Democratic members which was plainly illegal but the appeals court order to reinstate them was struck down by the Supreme Court in an emergency order (dirty Supreme Court doing dirty Supreme Court things). 1 of the remaining 2 members resigned, leaving a single person in charge of the entire CPSC. CPSC's power comes primarily through two vehicles: enforcement action (fines) referred to the DOJ for charges (usually for companies that it believes are intentionally hiding defective products), and reputational damage to the company by going public when it wants to apply pressure (like we're seeing here with Rad).

With a solo Republican commission running the place, you would think this would result in a toothless agency that was generally uninterested in enforcement. You would be very, very fucking wrong.

I'm a guy that's complained that the CPSC should be more aggressive, but their stance in the last six months (and especially the last month) has gone waaaaaay past reasonable. They're firing off demand letters in all directions, at anyone and everyone. They're fully on the attack. If there's even a whiff of product problems, they're attacking first with maximal threats.

Why is this a bad thing?

Companies (most of them) self report issues with their product and work with the CPSC on solutions, if one is needed. That is how the CPSC is made aware of the vast majority of product issues. A company realizes there's a product issue and is incentivized to work with the government to fix it, instead of hiding it and hoping nobody notices. This is a system that works surprisingly well because executives can be held accountable (including criminal charges) if they hide issues and don't want that liability hanging over them while at the same time, consumers are protected by the willingness of companies to be open and honest. The only real friction between companies and the CPSC is when the CPSC thinks a company should have been more forthcoming or figured out the problem sooner. Again, this is a good thing because it incentivizes companies to be proactive in product safety.

But now the CPSC is changing the equation. It's going after EVERYBODY that's self reporting, demanding maximum fines. Now instead of executives deciding how to work with the CPSC on product safety, they're deciding whether or not they can win a court case that the CPSC brings against them for not self reporting.

Or put another way: you're an executive. you know the CPSC is gonna either sue you or publicly damage your reputation for reporting a POTENTIAL (not confirmed!) product issue. can you beat the charges saying you weren't aware there was a specific issue with a product that should result in a report to the CPSC? if so, why the fuck are you even reporting it to them at all? why would you have a dept in your company that looks for product problems if it's going to cause you to get sued for knowing and not reporting? shouldn't you be firing those people immediately?

Again, I don't know the specifics of Rad. Maybe they're the bad guys here! But maybe the CPSC's asshole idiot behavior is what's going on.

Wikipedia functionally ended the market for encyclopedias. When I was a kid I would go to the library and read an encyclopedia just to see what random knowledge was in there. Traveling salesman would sell encyclopedias door to door and they were hugely expensive. Then Encarta came along and it was mind blowing you could have all that information on some CDs. Then Wikipedia killed all of them and did it for free.

When computers began to take hold in middle class homes, one of the biggest gold rushes was to be the encyclopedia of choice on the computer, since consumers saw encyclopedia software as an obvious (and maybe best!) use case for a computer.

Where do you look for stuff like that?

My account has been locked up because my daughter has three separate BG3 games going with friends. Last week my son said we need to put a time limit on her because nobody else can play on Steam.

I play SSX 3 Gamecube like it's my 2nd job.

you're on the internet too much

holy smokes that headline sucks

Oh, when was that, when two people were honestly debating their views and policies? Was it Nixon? Reagan? Bush? other Bush? Which Republican was it?

what bullshit

You can be critical of a politician and still support that politician. Why that's suddenly a super difficult thing to understand is beyond me.

...so then you totally did understand, you just wanted someone to waste their time explaining it so you could immediately come back with jill stein nonsense. that was a dick thing to do.

KillerTofu got it right, I just wanted to post and agree rather than just upvote. Yeasts changed the flavor of my homebrewing pretty significantly as well.

He said he could connect to windows and fedora thru bluetooth.

I was having the same problem last night trying to connect an controller thru bluetoothctl on Mint.

Is this bait? It sure feels like bait.

Thanks for posting this. I didn't know it existed.

It wasn't for you. Your posts are banal and amateurish. It was for other people.

Back in the before times, bills would come to a vote and bills that had virtually total support would go thru with unanimous consent. Now, bills are blocked from being voted on so that Senators aren't on the record being shitbags. As you quoted Vance saying, "“it’s idiotic for us to take the bait” in regards to Democrats using the bill to force Republicans to publicly declare whether or not they support IVF."

Think about that statement from a Senator, then marvel at how fundamentally different he sees the job of a Senator from say, you or me or regular humans.

Duckworth is putting a face to whoever opposes a wildly popular issue, IVF treatment. It causes people to think about the issue, because legislators are in fact advocators (you know, in complete contrast to Vance trying to hide what he advocates for). There's nothing performative about it.

in my opinion, it is the standard democrat cynicism. it is simply something that in the future can be used as a bullet point for her future candidacy. without context, one could write ‘honestly’ she “fought” for IVF.

For Duckworth and for many people, IVF is a opportunity that is basically magic. It changes their lives and it gives them the opportunity to have children. There are few things more powerful than that, and it's tone deaf to an extreme degree to think that something is performative just because it isn't targeted at you.

I mean, usually I'd say you're being a petulant childish asshole, but I'm trying to be better too.

It's ok if everything isn't important to you, champ. It can be important to others and we can support that. There will be Republican supporters of IVF that wanna know too.

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