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Cake day: July 9th, 2023
  • hardcoreufo@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.world•Hoboken goes 9 years without a traffic death while LA gives upEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I’m not sure how it got implemented in LA or Hoboken but vision zero in pdx is so poorly thought out. I think we have ~50 traffic fatalities a year. I think ~35 are homeless related and they don’t give a fuck about anything when they cross the road. Traffic calming measures aren’t fixing that. More resources to help the unhoused might. The next ~10 are cause by poor lighting and street racing which can be fixed but aren’t addressed well if at all in our plan. The last 0-5 are ones that would legitimately be solved by some traffic calming. We’ve spent all our money trying to implement traffic calming when that would only fix 10% of the fatalities and nothing on addressing the root causes of 90% of the fatalities. So since implementing vision zero deaths have gone up and traffic has gotten worse.

    Edit. I guess I haven’t looked at the data in a few years and it has gotten better since 2023. The first few years of the plan fatalities were going up each year. Unhoused deaths in particular have gotten much better going from accounting for 74% of the fatalities down to 20%.

  • hardcoreufo@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Whats a good lesson you learned on the job?
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    21 days ago

    Damn I hope you got paid! I meant legit troublemakers like stealing stuff but no one could prove even though we all knew. Not doing work to expected quality. Causing drama within the group.

    At least the stories I’ve heard my company is pretty good about medical and mental issues. I know they kinda forced my old boss into early retirement but they made sure he’d get long term disability until actual retirement which was like a decade away. We’ve kept in touch and he’s happy as a clam with how it turned out.

  • hardcoreufo@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you feel your job is important and are you proud to do it?
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    26 days ago

    I think my job is unimportant in the grand scheme of things, but sort important to the company and at least at the end of the day I got something done.

    I do enjoy my job the hard days go by fast and usually feel like we accomplished something. The easy days I can fuck around or work on projects I find interesting. Most days I learn something new at the very least so that’s good.

    I’m sure I could make more somewhere else but I make enough as it is and somewhere else I’d probably have to work a lot harder on less interesting stuff.

  • hardcoreufo@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a piece of Media that is so underrated you must mention it?
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    2 months ago

    My favorite band of all time is Guided by Voices. Started out in the 80s recording on four track cassettes and pressing 500 copies of the record playing local dive bars. In the early 90s front man Robert Pollard was done after 7 albums and no success outside their hometown so he wrote their final album Propeller.

    Of course that made a bit of splash and got them shows in NYC where they kind of took off (at least in 90s indie rock circles). After that success Pollard kept on going until 2004 with a rotating cast of characters when he disbanded GBV for good. I unfortunately only heard about them around this time and missed out on seeing them live.

    Well when I say for good it only lasted until 2010 when the “classic lineup” reunited. They toured playing all the old hits for a yrar or two, then started releasing new music and haven’t stopped.

    Bob is utterly prolific and has over 100 albums to his name across various solo and side projects. I don’t click as well with most of the newer stuff but I appreciate it non the less.

    Pick any of the albums from 1990-96 for some lofi rock masterpieces, or 1997-2004 for some higher fidelity power pop. The lyrics and song titles are all fairly obsurd on any of them. Bee Thousand is their classic album but I’d recommend Under the Bushes, Under the Stars. Its a bit more polished than the cassette hiss of earlier stuff but still not a full studio sound.

    Anyway thanks for coming to my TED talk.