"Good people make good things" is 'fear, uncertainty, doubt'? Have you been huffing paint fumes again aspaceman? Try as you might, you'll never get to space that way; all you're doing is killing your braincells (which is probably why your head hurts!)
The set of "worst things about these disasters" includes a pile of corpses. Non-engineering members of the general public continuing to be non-engineers is not even remotely as bad as a pile of corpses. It isn't in this set.
> 20 years of pumping concrete is enough to know if it's significantly wrong.
No, that doesn't make sense to me. Concrete buildings are expected to last longer than 20 years, though not expected to last forever. If the shortcuts they take were cutting the expected lifetime of the structure in half, 20 years of experience would not be enough time to see those failures start to happen.
If the Hyatt walkway had been built as it was designed, I'm sure it would have worked fine. But was it realistic to build it as designed? The design called for something like 12 meters (12m is my estimate from it needing to span the 2nd to 4th floor) of continuously threaded rod. Is cutting 12 meters of continuous thread on one rod a realistic design? This is a real question, I don't know the answer but this seems suspect to me. Wikipedia says the reason the construction company changed the design is because they would have to screw the bolts past several meters of thread per rod and they thought such long sections of threading would be subject to damage during construction.
Obviously their "solution" was lethal. But the original presumably safe design seems impractical at best.
Nice try, but it's not murders and violent crimes that this discussion is about. Murders are not the crimes that 70% of San Franciscans are getting upset about. This degree of neighborhood destroying homelessness, rioting, and organized shoplifting at this scale are local phenomena, not national. These are the crimes that personally impact almost everybody besides the exceptionally privileged in cities like San Francisco and Seattle (were, across the street from me visible through my living-room window, a homeless camp has burned down twice in the past two months. I've lived here for ten year, but enough is enough. I'm getting the hell out of this city, and I'm far from the only one who's fed up with it. But keep on gaslighting, jackass.)
Instead of being passive aggressive with this psuedo-scoratic bullshit, why don't you just say outright what you mean? You're talking about covid.
A global pandemic is a shitty excuse for these hyper-local phenomena. It's not covid; it's the voting public of San Francisco (and two or three other west coast cities) and the disastrous politicians they elect.
You're serious? Holy fuck get real. I'm not even the guy upthread you were responding to, screw off with your "burden of proof" crap and go walk into a weed store with your bitcoins. They'll laugh in your face. They don't want jackasses like you hanging out in their store for an hour waiting for transaction confirmations.
> Again, do you have any reputable sources for these claims?
> The following list contains just a few businesses and workers that the state has classified as "essential.": [...] Workers in other medical facilities, including blood banks, mental health, and cannabis retailers.
The drug stores never closed. They've been open the entire time, and the entire time they have only accepted cash. You bitcoin people are completely delusional. You would need your head buried under several meters of sand to not know any of this already.
Lmao are you serious? Source is 15 years of buying drugs. The illegal drug dealers only took cash, and now that buying drugs is legal, the legal dealers only take cash too. They have an ATM in their shop, but that's because they only take cash.
I guess you never buy drugs IRL, if you really want a source for "drug dealers only take cash". What's next, wanting a source for "water is wet"?
> Also, did you just forget we were (and we are) in a pandemic that started a year ago, forcing almost every person in lockdown?
Guess who stayed open the entire time? The drug dealers. They were excluded from lockdowns due to ostensibly being essential businesses who sold "medicine". And guess what, the entire time they have only accepted cash.
When I was a teenager on the swim team in the early 00s, the school had to ban 'deck changing' [changing into or out of your swimsuit in view of the public] because, in a game of one-up[wo]manship, it became overtly sexual with towels falling "by accident." The sort of prudishness described above surprises me.
> Pew Research surveys find that similar shares of Christians (29%) and Jews (31%) say the U.S. is not supportive enough of Israel. Among white evangelical Protestants, nearly half (46%) say that the U.S. is not providing enough support for Israel.
(When the offense against you is criminal, it [is/may be] the government that foots the bill for prosecuting it. For instance, this is how it works with the Department of Labor when you report wage theft to them.)
What alternative do you propose? That we give up on the concept of rights entirely? Without offering constructive suggestions, it seems like you're letting perfect be the enemy of good.
I hope they don't get into the habit of blackmailing politicians when the cause is just. For one, because Google's perception of justice may not always be right. For another, because once they get into that habit, once they have established the methods and procedures for doing it, could we really trust them to not abuse this tool simply for their own profit?
Maybe not, though a Mars colony might not have to run as a totally isolated system. Perhaps solar power could be used to extract oxygen from the rocks or something. It's definitely a tricky nut to crack though and I'm far from confident that it will happen.
> Public universities can kick you out for expressing your 1st amendment right based off of whatever bs reason they want to give just to expel you.
Yeah, and a company can fire you for being black if they give a bs excuse for it too. In both of these cases your rights are being violated and you can sue them for that. What's the alternative? I can't conceive of a system where it's impossible for your rights to be violated; giving legal recourse to the victim seems like the best we can do.
> Corporates usually replace hardware every 3-4 years don't they?
At the companies I've worked for the programmers generally get new hardware about as often ...but other workers not so much. They are more likely to get the hand-me-down hardware.