Random Rants Eighty-Four: Rants Gone Wild!!!!

[Arakhor]

If you're going to get Surviving Mars, get the First Colony edition. That's definitely the best version to get.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I'll keep that in mind. I plan on picking it up eventually. I'm not even sure it'll run on my laptop though.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I played it a bit. It's good.

Rant: My blood pressure dropped

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Yes and the police only dutifully enforce the law as written and won't use it as an excuse to go after the homeless and people of color. Which is worse?

Sorry, but my concern here is for lungs. You have the right to wreck your own, but you do not have the right to wreck other peoples' lungs.

 

[Hygro]

Sorry, but my concern here is for lungs. You have the right to wreck your own, but you do not have the right to wreck other peoples' lungs.

I used to agree with this line of thinking but now I see that it hurts us in other ways.

 

[Synobun]

I used to agree with this line of thinking but now I see that it hurts us in other ways.

Hygro spotted sucking tailpipes on the SF freeway.

 

[Lexicus]

Sorry, but my concern here is for lungs. You have the right to wreck your own, but you do not have the right to wreck other peoples' lungs.

Okay, so I take it you don't use cars then? Because cars wreck other people's lungs.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Okay, so I take it you don't use cars then? Because cars wreck other people's lungs.

Or buses and most trains.

I do not see how second hand smoke outdoors, away from buildings is a valid health concern in its own right, much less when compared to other pollution sources.

 

[Takhisis]

Okay, so I take it you don't use cars then? Because cars wreck other people's lungs.

I haven't gone the whole granola boy yet, but I certainly refuse to own or drive automobiles with internal combustion engines.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Or buses and most trains.

I do not see how second hand smoke outdoors, away from buildings is a valid health concern in its own right, much less when compared to other pollution sources.

Of course you don't, if you're not someone who has extremely bad reactions to even a little secondhand smoke. I guess instantaneous headaches, eyes streaming, heart pounding, extreme coughing to the point of throwing up, and gasping for air, trying to clear out one's lungs is nothing to you.

BTW, I had that reaction in my own back yard, from my dad's smoking and his girlfriend's smoking (by that time I had finally convinced him to stop smoking in the house). We did not live anywhere near a freeway or busy commercial street, and that yard was an oasis of greenery. But that smoke was enough for me to have an extremely bad, very frightening reaction. I actually ended up clinging to the garden fence, trying not to fall.

Before you snarkily ask if I have the same reactions to exhaust pipes, I have felt nauseous around some of them. Whenever possible, I hold my breath when I'm too close to them, or they're especially strong. Needless to say, I don't go out much.

 

[cardgame]

Or buses and most trains.

I do not see how second hand smoke outdoors, away from buildings is a valid health concern in its own right, much less when compared to other pollution sources.

Electric buses are starting to become a big thing, I hope all city bus fleets everywhere go 100% electric by 2030

 

[Ajidica]

Electric buses are starting to become a big thing, I hope all city bus fleets everywhere go 100% electric by 2030

We tried electric buses in Minnesota.
The winter killed them.

If I remember right, they were only going something like 1/5 of the distance they were supposed to on a charge, and it took far longer to charge than it was supposed to.

This sort of plays into a lot of my issues where transit promoters are like "We solved the issues with personal transit!"* What works in southern California where 'bad weather' is a slight overcast, does not work in Minnesota where it regularly during the winter drops to -10F for weeks at a time or lots of snow is dumped. I walk and take the bus to work, but if I had mobility issues or small children, public transit simply wouldn't work for me.
* States with winter need not apply.

 

[cardgame]

Damn, really? That sucks.

 

[Birdjaguar]

One size does not fit all when it comes to solving transportation needs. What works in one community or for one group of people may not work at all for others. And as far as the US goes, until we get over our "car thing" lots of solutions will be ignored. Autonomous cars are an excellent first step.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

There are a lot of natural gas powered buses here. I have not yet seen an all-electric one.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

There are a lot of natural gas powered buses here. I have not yet seen an all-electric one.

Yeah you have, you just didn't know it. When I dropped you off at the train we were at the Palmdale Transit Center, which is the hub where all the local bus routes meet...and the AVTA is around 75% electric buses. A bunch of them came and went while we were standing there. The target date for all electric is 2024, IIRC. The transit center has induction chargers under the pavement and if I'd thought of it I'd have pointed out the electric buses copping a squat to juice up.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Why do multiple surveys always pop up when I'm in the bathroom? Maybe I should start taking my phone in but I'm afraid of dropping it in the toilet.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Yeah you have, you just didn't know it. When I dropped you off at the train we were at the Palmdale Transit Center, which is the hub where all the local bus routes meet...and the AVTA is around 75% electric buses. A bunch of them came and went while we were standing there. The target date for all electric is 2024, IIRC. The transit center has induction chargers under the pavement and if I'd thought of it I'd have pointed out the electric buses copping a squat to juice up.

I was talking specifically about Irvine* in that post but point taken.

*We're a hundred miles apart which in any other metro would be - well we wouldn't be in the same metro in most other locations

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I was talking specifically about Irvine* in that post but point taken.

*We're a hundred miles apart which in any other metro would be - well we wouldn't be in the same metro in most other locations

LOL...yeah, southern California does take some getting used to. My whole life I've told people that I'm "from LA" without really giving it any thought. Then when I'd bring people along when I went home for a visit they'd be like "where we goin'?" as we hit the freeway for fifty miles.

 

[Arakhor]

London to Gloucester is a mere 112 miles. That's not even the same part of the country...