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in-game_sext t1_jabrtjs wrote

Dennis Hopper actually got drunk and invited a bunch of people to a speedway and sat in a chair while everyone watched and lit dynamite beneath it, it exploded and he survived. There is actually video of it. Another weirdly tangential stadium story for you.

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in-game_sext t1_j8gcwj1 wrote

The delusion is very real here in the Bay. People are actually like this, its mindblowing...meanwhile my friends kids are witnessing dead bodies being shoved out of vans at stop signs in broad daylight and all the dudes working the taco trucks wear bullet vests. At minimum twice a week i hear sideshows and gunfire within a couple block radius. Totally super normal...and our DA's are letting it all ride.

It's a trip living and working around some of the planted wealthiest zip codes but much of it looks like a third world country...

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in-game_sext t1_j1isv0d wrote

Everytime I see above-ground wires strewn between fucking wooden posts sticking out of the ground, I'm reminded how poor our infrastructure is in the US. We need to have started investing in buried line decades ago. Edison himself would recognize the technology and that should concern us all.

My rural county got cut off for two weeks about three winters ago. It was traced back to the fact that power for over 150,000 people could be traced to one. fucking. line. coming over a hill and a blown-over tree took it. Ridiculous.

Instead of proper upgrades that utility company (PG&E here in California) chooses to pay out stock dividends to investors. Their negligence has resulted in death and destruction in the form of everything from fire their equipment has started to leveling entire blocks of cities like the infamous San Bruno gas line explosion. We need to get our priorities straight and stop giving these companies a pass.

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in-game_sext t1_j0je5uc wrote

I think it still rightly freaks people out because the Chinese government is famously impartial to the quality of life or well-being of their population. They have a long track record of putting productivity at the top end of all public interests. Why do they care so much about this still, at the extreme detriment of things like business and productivity? Personally it sometimes makes me think they still know something about it that we don't.

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