bradchris

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by bradchris 1mo ago
I actually view 2012-2020 as peak “PSA messaging” era more, which a lot of people would probably coincide with the liberal optimism from Obama and course-correcting anxiety of Trump term 1. I think since covid Hollywood has “toned it down”,
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by bradchris 3mo ago
These robots cover Los Angeles’ walkable areas, because they’re the only places they work for delivery. My understanding is oftentimes they’re piloted by someone overseas for less pay than the local delivery person market rate. To me, this
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by bradchris 4mo ago
Metrolink’s multi-county governance structure bums me out, as a majority of them are actively against expanding it, improving it, or even funding it. At least Metro has Los Angeles in control of a majority of the votes to squash any anti-tr
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by bradchris 4mo ago
via a 75-year EIFD, which the city successfully lobbied the state to change California law to allow them to enact. Talk about city support! It may not look like it, but most residents in LA are literally begging for an option to navigate th
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by bradchris 4mo ago
Exactly. This line was actually planned for in the approved Measure M Ballot Measure in 2016 to be “shovel ready” [environmentally cleared, funding identified, etc] by 2022, with optimistic projections hoping construction would be finished
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by bradchris 4mo ago
Some of this was covered in the article, but it’s not actually Los Angeles’ leadership’s fault (rare praise for a city I love and call home), it was shovel-ready and funded to be built in the 80s. Then there was a ballot measure due to ongo
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by bradchris 4mo ago
Well, if we’re comparing CA infra costs, for a more 1-1 comparison you can look at the $9.7B Los Angeles is spending on building out a long-awaited subway line (phase 1 of 3 opened Friday!) and see how tunneling underwater looks like a barg
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by bradchris 4mo ago
Primarily the US’s approach is: “we know our system will never be perfect [and the system we have is actually a hell of its own making], so we will ensure an escape hatch for BOTH innocent/guilty from the shortcomings of the system unt
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by bradchris 4mo ago
You clearly have a different view of “innocent until proven guilty” than most US citizens, which is fine, maybe you aren’t one, but that line of rhetoric is going to be anathema to most people on this website. Not that the US criminal syste
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by bradchris 5mo ago
It's wild how much curricula within high schools must differ, because my school went out of its way to teach and encourage/require its use on nearly every quiz and exam. We joked sometimes class felt more like calculator class tha
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by bradchris 5mo ago
> Nothing CEO Carl Pei said at SXSW that apps will eventually go away. Apps will not ever entirely go away because brands will not ever go away, which is what most popular apps are. Not ads, but brands: if someone were to exactly replica
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by bradchris 5mo ago
Especially because in ruby [0, nil, nil, nil, …x100, nil] is the same as [0] in terms of access. In both cases, trying to access the 100th element (e.g. [0][100]) will give nil.
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by bradchris 5mo ago
That’s fun, because I’m from a third generation Dallas family :) I hope they enjoy Dallas and all Texas has to offer. Dallas, TX has continually voted in expanding its DART Rail funding the past 40 years. It has the most miles of intercity
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by bradchris 5mo ago
Because [] is an array with nothing in it, and [0] is an array with something in it. So saying “give me the array containing the first 100 elements of this array with one element” would obviously give you the array with one element back. Sa
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by bradchris 5mo ago
Yes, but with caveats. Culturally, though, it’s because that over half of the population doesn’t know that they would benefit from trains? In the same way outside (just as inside) the US there’s an age-old divide between farmers and city fo
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by bradchris 6mo ago
And we would not need rules at all if everyone was perfect all the time.
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by bradchris 6mo ago
So like what California did, which resulted in only a couple hundred thousand units over half a decade when they were hoping for/needing a couple million statewide. Not the mention that ironically, the private owners with the space to
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by bradchris 6mo ago
I can’t agree with this statement because One Battle After Another is actually a movie about fatherhood and the lengths you go to to raise a child, and very explicitly makes fun of how many “fight the power” movements are often ineffective
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by bradchris 6mo ago
Well, Hollywood is not the end all be all of Los Angeles (though that is the image Hollywood projects out onto the world). It’s not even Los Angeles’ biggest industry. Everything from China enters through the Port of Los Angeles, which is t
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by bradchris 7mo ago
Fundamentally the issue, aside from lack of density, is Prop 13. In LA, and every other part of California, your tax rate will get frozen (forever, essentially) at what you buy your home for. So you have some people who now have a $7m home
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by bradchris 7mo ago
I’m pretty sure Los Angeles is a city in which residents would _gladly_ vote to tax themselves for better streets if they’d actually get done, like Orange County has. In 2024, when Measure HLA passed via ballot measure (basically, legally r
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by bradchris 7mo ago
That was based on the $7.5k EV subsidy. California will still give you $2.5k, though, so just over $20k. Crazy to think had the federal subsidy not been cut, that car would be possible to get for around $15k. Unheard of.
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by bradchris 8mo ago
4 years gets you, historically, an 8-plex built in San Francisco. If you’re lucky. The ship is slowly turning, but that’s what institutional investors would call a short-term win in the most economically productive state in the USA. I’m a s
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by bradchris 8mo ago
Texan here. There’s still ways to get in if you don’t make the top X% of your class (the percentage is shrinking every year as the school climbs up the rankings and more people want to go… I think it’s near top-4% now? It used to be top 15%
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by bradchris 8mo ago
For long distance trains, sure. But there’s plenty of shorter Amtrak routes outside of the NE Corridor where it could make as much or more sense than flying, to be fair Los Angeles - San Diego: 2.5hrs downtown to downtown (less if you’re
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by bradchris 9mo ago
Check out Mrs. Davis (2023)
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by bradchris 9mo ago
> nobody wants this I do.
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by bradchris 1y ago
Being subject to unreasonable searches likely does, still. Depends on what is “reasonable” or not, but just because they’re applying for a status does not mean they give up their right to unreasonable searches and detainment. Note: US Embas
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by bradchris 1y ago
I don’t disagree, but you would think the citizens of such a country would want to check that tyrannical power, not expand it
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by bradchris 1y ago
You're misconstruing what I said— nowhere in the constitution is a student visa a “right” to a citizen or not. But subjecting a non-citizen to a potentially unreasonable search while exempting regular citizens is likely against the 4th

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