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Post by ed on Sept 30, 2022 0:25:25 GMT -5
Claudio Henrique Barack Obama dos Anjos is such a sick name
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Post by ITID on Sept 30, 2022 0:39:37 GMT -5
urban degrowth good relocating unnecessary requirements for supply and human encroachment, also good
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Post by burp on Sept 30, 2022 0:50:39 GMT -5
What if we stop subsidizing the car industry> raising the purchase price> raise interest rates on vehicle loans> let these goobers overleverage themselves for status symbols and then laugh at them when they cry how they're poor and other people got student debt relief. what if you don't live in an urban center with a high quality public transit system and your car is the only way to get to work in a reasonable way? why do the solutions always have to be making driving as miserable and expensive as possible as if that ever solves anything instead of just immiserating all the people that have to get in and out of cities daily to service the people well off enough to live and work inside the happy hour playground? certainly approaching the problem as object-based rather than systems-based won't actually address anything, but frankly, I have a hard time ever seeing North Americans buying into the idea of non-personal car based transportation. Despite the fact that there isn't a human alive that enjoys driving down a 6 lane stroad with stops every 100 feet, turning into an expansive megamart and experiencing a violent bombarding of ego destruction otherwise known as the modern grocery shopping experience, it's the way things are and we are confoundingly resistant to change and nationally averse to civic duty or civic good. Part of that surely is the big money wrapped up in the car and residential/commercial development industry and that's just as hard to change, but holy christ, was watching a thing about how there are towns in Finland with entire bike based infrastructure, with dedicated snow clearing services that maintain them better than any sidewalk I've seen here in the winter (part of the requirement is that the snow removal team must themselves be regular users of the bike roads iirc) and I can't imagine anything like that ever happening here. Cooked ass brains. And this isn't like... Helsinki, these are little suburban towns.
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Post by burp on Sept 30, 2022 0:53:38 GMT -5
I hate the suburbs because they could be so fuckin dope, real communities that people want to spend time in and not just a pocket of temporary child reading creches.
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Post by Ass Dan on Sept 30, 2022 5:33:53 GMT -5
Inner ring suburbs can be really cool. If I were to ever have a family I’d want to live in one.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2022 6:24:49 GMT -5
There were more dense tram line oriented suburbs even here in the US.
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Post by djilo91 on Sept 30, 2022 7:41:46 GMT -5
The town i live in now doesn’t even have a bus line. Closest train stop to get into the city is like 20 miles away.
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Post by Ian MacFlai on Sept 30, 2022 7:54:51 GMT -5
even LA and NYC are overflowing with drivers... public transportation only stops a portion of the population from owning cars
some people need them for work or carting their families around and the rest are just masochists or something
owning a car in Brooklyn is one of the most miserable and expensive things one could do in life, but 45% of people still do it
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Post by Perm’d by God on Sept 30, 2022 9:01:08 GMT -5
anyone read this? Was recommended to me. Anyhow, there’s a variety of ways to successfully reduce (not eliminate) private car usage, and it’s a good idea to try to do so. It will probably be done horribly and fuck us all over, but logistics and transportation issues are nerdy and lame so no one cares. Given the sprawling/suburbanized nature of most U.S. cities and the generally “fiscally conservative” outlook, Bus Rapid Transit systems coupled with publically-owned, transit-oriented rideshare services is probably a good idea. Introducing automated tech into BRT systems is already underway, and even relatively “boring” innovations like automated lane keeping or automated precision docking dramatically improve service. At least in CA, there is a proposal to test CAV BRT in HOV lanes on the I-5 and I-10. If you google Steven Shladover, there’s a ton of stuff he’s worked on in this area.
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Post by Cholo Molester on Sept 30, 2022 11:40:50 GMT -5
I would highly recommend ya'll check out Climate Town. He doesn't just do shallow youtube essays, he dives deep into why things are happening, and he provides actual alternatives. I'm not big on youtubers, but this is definitely one of the good ones.
Not Just bikes has some informative videos.
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Post by Perm’d by God on Sept 30, 2022 11:48:55 GMT -5
Both solid! Subscribed! CityNerd, City Beautiful, and Alan Fisher are also decent.
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Post by Cholo Molester on Sept 30, 2022 12:00:00 GMT -5
Not related to climate, but other youtubers I enjoy would be Contrapoints, Second Though, Yugopnik, Marxist Paul, We're In Hell, and azureScapegoat. For like psychoanalysis stuff Evers Brothers Productions knock it out of the park and usually keep their videos under 20 minutes which helps my short attention span. Engaging With had some great videos like the one with Todd McGowan, but their output is very slow, still worth a follow tho. Oh, and Epoch Philosophy has vids worth checking out.
Steven Seagull and bust FM for the cumtown clips.
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Post by Perm’d by God on Sept 30, 2022 12:04:29 GMT -5
COVID-19 gives rise to new risk calculus for supply chains
Journal of Commerce; New York [New York]. 29 Sep 2022. “Trade over longer distances is expected to be negatively affected by rising transport costs, logistic disruptions, and geopolitical frictions,” the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development wrote in a forthcoming report shared with JOC.com. “The whole really amazing global supply chain network that was built during the 1990s and the 2000s was based upon efficiency and managing costs. “Some of it is short term, some of it is cyclical, and some of it reflects a change in the nature of the global economy.” With spot container freight rates in the eastbound trans-Pacific plunging to about $2,000 per FEU — a level few thought would ever be seen again after rates briefly peaked over $30,000 per FEU last year — a new possibility is emerging. That being that the legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on supply chains will be less about permanent cost increases and more about permanently altered attitudes toward risk.
Even if trans-Pacific spot rates descend to pre-pandemic levels, which they are rapidly doing — unmistakably illustrating that supply and demand dictate container pricing, as they always have — attitudes to supply chain risk formed over the past two years won’t change nearly as quickly because the shock was too great to ignore.
A system that since the 1990s enabled the proliferation of globalization and long-haul supply chains — ensuring low costs and a high degree of reliability to the point they receded into the background of many companies’ thinking — was revealed during the pandemic to be unstable, undependable, and in the aggregate, completely incapable of holding up under serious pressure.
That fact, and the lack of obvious solutions to build credible global resilience into a global system dominated by private sector priorities, is leaving individual retailers, manufacturers, and other corporates into a reassessment that will have far-reaching consequences in the years ahead.
“Trade over longer distances is expected to be negatively affected by rising transport costs, logistic disruptions, and geopolitical frictions,” the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development wrote in a forthcoming report shared with JOC.com. “Traders and policy makers will need to prepare for a future where shipping may be more costly and volatile than in the past.”
Geopolitical variables
On top of risks associated with inadequate capacity to handle unexpected surges in trade — the main issue during the pandemic — geopolitical risk has arisen as an entirely new element of risk that has largely been absent during the era of globalization. The Russia–Ukraine war has shown that large-scale war is not just a thing of the past and has brought into focus the reality of a possible conflict with China over Taiwan and the impact of such a conflict on trans-Pacific trade. No corporate leader can ignore how the geopolitical landscape has changed just since The Journal of Commerce’s TPM22 Conference in late February, held days after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.
“Most major companies are rethinking their supply chain strategies,” Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, most recently of “The New Map,” and vice chairman of S&P Global, told JOC.com in a recent interview. “The whole really amazing global supply chain network that was built during the 1990s and the 2000s was based upon efficiency and managing costs. Now there's another dimension, which is resilience and security.
“And there’s a political factor as well,” Yergin added. “As an example, I was talking recently with the CEO of a major apparel brand and his firm is consciously scaling back on sourcing from China as they think about political risk in a way that was not on the agenda even a few years ago.”
In other words, the risks are now compounding as geopolitics enter the calculus of corporate leaders depending on global supply chains. From one perspective, that could have been seen from a mile away given that globalization, which arguably hit its high-water mark in 2001 with China’s accession to the World Trade Organization, has been slowly receding ever since and is now potentially fracturing.
“Globalization is under pressure,” Yergin said. “It’s being fragmented in many different ways. Look at the two big pieces of legislation that have passed through the US Congress and sighned by the president: infrastructure and the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. A lot of that is about reshoring and reducing dependence on China.
“All of these things will be pressures that container shipping will feel,” he added. “Some of it is short term, some of it is cyclical, and some of it reflects a change in the nature of the global economy.”
Conflicting emerging claims to vast bodies of water, such as China’s claims on the South China Sea, are no longer just an interesting newspaper story but could have real-world ramifications on supply chains.
As Brookings Institution fellow and TPM23 speaker Bruce Jones wrote in his 2021 book “To Rule the Waves,” “The world’s oceans are rapidly becoming the most important zone of confrontation between the world’s great military actors — the United States and China above all, but also Russia, Japan, India, and others. How these powers manage their naval rivalry will shape the next half-century. The reality is that more than 85 percent of all global commerce is a function of sea-based trade.”
Contact Peter Tirschwell at peter.tirschwell@ihsmarkit.com and follow him on Twitter: @petertirschwell.
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Post by leftbeef on Sept 30, 2022 12:28:27 GMT -5
I didn't realize how strong Brazil's novelty political candidate game was. I mean, Tiktok Wolverine grabs my attention more than Vermin Supreme, Deez Nuts, Striborg, and Jimmy "The Rent Is Too Damn High" McMillan combined.
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Post by crossbreaker on Sept 30, 2022 12:31:43 GMT -5
Love 22, the founder of the $22 bill and perennial presidential candidate, would like to have a word.
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Post by tomservo on Sept 30, 2022 12:33:19 GMT -5
Setting up a profile with a pic of the blonde with the honkers to see how much money I can scam out of guys for promising to go to Logan’s Roadhouse with them or whatever
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Post by crossbreaker on Sept 30, 2022 12:38:44 GMT -5
She’s a couple years away from having those dog the bounty hunter boobs
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Post by ed on Sept 30, 2022 13:22:24 GMT -5
I'm not big on buttplugs but here's a list of 13 different buttplugs, off the top of my head, that I love to shove inside myself.
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Post by MMST3K on Sept 30, 2022 15:35:52 GMT -5
Setting up a profile with a pic of the blonde with the honkers to see how much money I can scam out of guys for promising to go to Logan’s Roadhouse with them or whatever
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Post by Poseur on Sept 30, 2022 17:48:00 GMT -5
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Post by pbcookies on Oct 1, 2022 11:17:34 GMT -5
more Irish people like this please
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Post by Ass Dan on Oct 1, 2022 11:20:52 GMT -5
I have loans like this and when I looked into consolidation it was a really bad deal. Way higher interest than I’m currently paying. That might be why they’re canning it so people don’t consolidate and end up pissed after they find out their internet costs on remaining debt wen't ups
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2022 11:33:27 GMT -5
were forgiving some loans and we will be back to where we started in four years oh oops haha actually were not even doing that
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2022 11:37:14 GMT -5
I keep posting these ben vids about latin american un speeches but they rock so I ain't stopping
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2022 12:12:48 GMT -5
search this thread for the word "lithium" for a cruel joke
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Post by tomservo on Oct 2, 2022 19:11:57 GMT -5
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
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Post by djilo91 on Oct 2, 2022 19:29:25 GMT -5
Probably just a coincidence
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2022 19:39:40 GMT -5
Why the hell do people care about Brazilian politics in the US? I’ve always found it bizarre
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2022 19:43:00 GMT -5
cause we're all bleeding heart libs
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Post by djilo91 on Oct 2, 2022 19:47:17 GMT -5
Why the hell do people care about Brazilian politics in the US? I’ve always found it bizarre I don’t give a shit about there politics. That’s a map of Escaped Nazi families.
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