I got my bike today. I spent a shitload of Money on it. The fuck today worth part of this is not the price, though.
It took me the whole day to get to the bike shop, since someone died falling on the tracks today, and disrupted the whole regional traffic. I’m not kidding, the effects cascaded.
Anyway, I arrived before the shop closed down for the day, and I got my bike. I’m a happy mutant.
Er . . . “fuck today” because someone died?
I think it’s because she hosted a fund raiser for his opponent? I think there are others who are in the legislature who she sent the letter to…
As I understand it, she sent to all of them. He wasn’t singled out.
I wanted to comment this morning, but I was too upset and close to tears.
This is such a horrible reflection of the United States right now. I know that not all landlords are bad people, but a lot of them are investment groups looking to milk the rental market. Raising someone’s rent several hundreds of dollars just because makes them horrible people.
NOBODY should have to sleep in their
car. NOBODY should have to rely on the kindness of strangers. EVERYBODY should have access to adequate housing. EVERYBODY should be treated with dignity.
He was the only one who was able to get out of it though… The judge said that the only one that she can’t go after this one guy… They covered this tonight on a local show with the legal analyst. It’s in the first 15 or so minutes of the show and explains the whole situation.
I do think she should be able to hand this off to another county DA (maybe Dekalb or Gwinnett) and have them take over his specific case.
yeah. it seems not uncommon for places around where i live to be owned by “landlords” on the other side of the country. they have people who locally manage the property while the owner is an llc somewhere
my understanding is it doesn’t really matter how long it takes for the place to get rented / sold because it’s all projections in some list of commodities somewhere
definitely not how housing should work. and im left wondering if there was some rules change that made it all possible, or new technology for tracking and selling properties, or something about the housing bubble that happened?
eta: and things like this seem like they should be illegal, or at least heavily f’ing regulated
My neighbors own a duplex up north and another house nearby (each owned a home when they married). They do have a property manager for the NorCal property, but they swing by a couple times a year to be sure the tenants are happy.
They told me that the property manager told them to raise the rent at the beginning of 2021, but they said absolutely no way. They don’t need the extra money and it was unfair to do this during a pandemic and now with a spike in inflation.
Yep. It’s the new VC trend! 
I am following up on my earlier “fuck today” because it resolved.
And yes. A person was killed, gruesomely.
The person either jumped, or fell, on the tracks at my final destination. I arrived there 4.5h later than expected - investigators, the emergency services and the coroner all long gone. Even the cleanup was done, and only a small segment was barred for entry.
However, the unpleasantness of my own timetable being completely disrupted fades against this backdrop.
I can enjoy my new bike. I could go on and on about it.
But the circumstances make this … sad.
I can’t describe my feelings.
I know the feeling. Long train delays due to gruesome “accidents” are all too common here as well. I have seen blood on the tracks before.
They are finally putting up barriers on the boarding platforms that only open when the train is stopped in the station, but people still find a way.
Same here. Near Philly we have a lot of commuter stations where regional lines, freight traffic, and Amtrak go through - but most cases are not accidents. Once I was on a train in NJ when someone jumped on the tracks in front of it. The place where we stopped was so far from the next station that they backed up another train to transfer passengers while officials investigated. Climbing down into the sloping track bed, hiking past the cars, and having to be pulled up to reach the stairs on the next train made me wonder even more about the victim. Those tracks didn’t seem very accessible.
Holy shit, that is fucking horrifying. However, anyone who has looked into the history of nutrition science can find the same pattern of fraud and deceit turned to unassailable fact by the reputation of a senior scientist. I was puzzled by the lack of any sign of clinical improvements in the Aduhelm studies, but it makes a lot more sense now.
Horrifying is a good word for it. Whoever is responsible has robbed countless people of hope, not to mention the millions of dollars on R&D that’s been spent on medicines that never really worked but that this study held out the possibility that they might.
Yeah, nutritional science in the area of calorie usage and retention is unbelievably bad, but dogma seems to rule the roost still.
It’s pretty astonishing overall how poorly most research is repeatable. There was an article a few years ago that went over several “foundational” studies and discovered that true replication of results was about 50%, if I remember correctly. This is why it’s seen as a good thing in science to be able to change the framework as new data is found, instead of saying “this contradicts previous work, so it must be wrong!”
A big part of the problem is that the scientific community seems to have decided that repeatability is… not important? Repeatability, and more generally independent verification of findings, are a cornerstone of the scientific method. But somehow the interest in repeating experiments and publishing confirmations, failures, etc., is nil. I guess because you can’t get additional grant funding or market a new drug off of that research. I mean, that’s not all of it to be sure, but there are definitely perverse incentives at play.
(And don’t get me started on p-hacking.)
Meanwhile, there’s a grass fire in progress here in drought-plagued central Texas, about 8 miles from me. Packing some bags. I went through a wildfire mandatory evac in 2006 and that wasn’t during a drought.
