@AurelienCa80656 @playcanvas Where can I play around with this?
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Shadow Conservative
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Shadow Conservative
@ShadowConserva1
Trying to keep up with the news
Katılım Aralık 2020
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For architects, I developed a @playcanvas construction monitoring interface integrating Gaussian Splatting, project plans, and AI-generated videos. The goal is to provide better immersion, clearer project visualization, and a stronger understanding of the future space.
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@jasonc_nc Why aren’t we just building fire trucks into buildings? Or better yet, let’s have distributed decentralized firefighters that are quartered into homes on every street. They could even be volunteer firefighters, wait.
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How do I capture this populist zeitgeist for banning private equity from building rental homes & redirect it to banning private equity from building oversized, expensive fire trucks so they finally deliver the right-sized, affordable trucks Americans actually need?
Jason,@jasonc_nc
On ladder trucks: A Pierce (US) 100’ ladder is ~46’9” in length. A Rosenbauer (EU) 105’ turntable ladder is 33’9”. -13’ (28%) shorter -5’ MORE reach -articulates AROUND obstacles vs straight ladder -Cheaper -More nimble -Faster setup -Superior extraction for disabled or injured
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@jasonc_nc Part of the problem is that CA taxes their residents every which way (sales, income, property) and abuses those taxes + takes no fiduciary duty in spending wisely.
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How does every person in California think the entire rest of the country works?
This is a solved problem. People don’t need a subsidy solely based on being born sooner. It’s ludicrous.
Chinmay A. Singh@chinmay
My neighbor in Fremont was a trucker. Bought his house for $26K ($3k extra for fireplace so $29K). In 1960s. When I moved in 2014, he was barely walking. His property tax were 1/10 of what I paid. But now explain to me how you want him to pay for his property tax as his property gained almost a million, if his tax were not pegged to the price he bought. It's a house and not a hen that lays egg ($). The dude has lived almost all of his life in that house. So your solution is that he shd sell the house and buy/rent cheaper? That's what CCP is for.
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@UziCryptoo South Asia. “I was visiting family in Pakistan a few weeks ago and X never updated my location” right right right
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There is an argument going on in America right now. A man set a warehouse on fire in Ontario, California because, he said, his employer would not pay him enough to live. He made $18 an hour.
A one-bedroom apartment in Ontario costs $2,265 a month. Gas is $5.34 a gallon. At $18 an hour, full-time, before taxes, you have roughly $615 left after rent.
One side calls him a criminal. The other side calls that math a confession.
That is the argument.
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@jasonc_nc @SinaiLawFirm Legal vs underwritable/profitable are not the same thing unfortunately.
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@SinaiLawFirm I’ve never seen a pro-housing bill that made building the left example harder. They’re already legal effectively everywhere.
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People move out from CA to places like Austin and Nashville so they can afford the image on the left while our politicians (and pro-housing people) are busy figuring out how to build more of the right
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@ShadowConserva1 @damonhemmerding Long thread about lack of municipal ready cab over commercial chassis being an obstacle to city goals around smaller service vehicles imminent
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Disagree. I love them.
I love how they look, and I love that they’re safer for pedestrians.
Dr. Hoff@drhoffmo
Death penalty for whoever designed this.
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Retail professionals, what goes best here between a liquor store and a donut shop in the hood?
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@jasonc_nc @damonhemmerding Firefighters sweating reading this
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@damonhemmerding What’s funny is absolutely no one who complains about them understands the functional purpose of why they look the way they do.
More service and municipal vehicles that were purpose built for safety and function would be good, actually.
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@jasonc_nc Feels like this is maybe missing a family or two
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Missed the one year anniversary but still feeling good about this one
Jason,@jasonc_nc
There is a very real possibility that Americans in a generation are poorer, less educated, and enjoy fewer freedoms.
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@ShadowConserva1 Basic math still makes this better than Greek statue head’s idea.
Jason,@jasonc_nc
Here’s the thing. You can have disdain for someone who is objectively not fulfilling their role and do basic math. I can both be mad about that and not think punishing their child is the right choice, or even the economically efficient one.
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Anyone care to guess the average annual cost of SNAP for a child vs the cost to incarcerate someone?
Also the kid still needs to be fed afterwards.
Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius
I've got an idea. Let's require parents to feed their children. If they do not, arrest them for child abuse and actually punish them. Problem solved.
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@jasonc_nc You can have common sense fire truck reform when you peel it out of their emotional vice grip of first responders.
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Many (more) are saying this lately.
Is it time to talk about launching The American Fire Truck Co?
Jason,@jasonc_nc
Who in the U.S. is well situated to build more compact urban fire engines and ladder trucks on a commercial chassis for speed, reliability, price benefits (aka EU model). With the cluster that is the PE monopoly for custom trucks this is the moment for some enterprising companies to step up and replace photo 1 w/ a US version of photo 2. Take standard NFPA specs for engines and ladders and build standardized trucks that are perfectly capable with significant cost savings.
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@jasonc_nc But Jason they fight fires, we should bankrupt every small city in America to meet their demands…I mean equipment needs.
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And so we buy tractor drawn ladders and pretend they’re for “tighter, urban spaces”. Meanwhile companies that deliver to urban businesses don’t bring a tractor trailer. They use shorter trucks. In fact many urban areas don’t permit tractor trailers except on corridors, because common sense says they’re a bad format.
Yet fire departments are increasingly trying to tell the public that these are the “strategic” solution, rather than smaller ladder trucks with equal reach.
Take a look at the size of the truck compared to the houses it’s driving by. Ironically its comical length and width means it takes the entire street and it still can’t actually turn without hanging over the curb.
But again, you need a second driver to run it and that’s really cool.
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“Then they come back to Pierce like an abusive spouse”
Yesterday I noted Charlottesville VA’s move to “metro” sized engines to meet street improvement & safety goals. Charlotte NC has chosen the opposite - purchasing even larger “specialized” apparatus like a new 59’ tiller truck which has been awaiting repair more than it has been in service.
“It’s a nice truck,” said Lou Lesesne, a former lawyer for the firefighters union. “Other than the fact it doesn’t work.”
This is a recurring, increasing issue with the oversized, all-custom preferences of American fire departments. Poor reliability, expensive repairs, and a lack of parts that sidelines emergency vehicles for months at a time.
In return for the excess size and expense the city also gets to add 3-4 fire fighters (plus future pensions) for the 2nd driver position. But it has let the fire department post some really cool hype videos on Facebook.
Patrick Glass@GCElLLC
@jasonc_nc All the surrounding municipalities trial other manufactures then come back to pierce like an abusive spouse. Nobody is immune anymore in the states. Wait until you hear about the American fire helmet vs euro helmet debate…
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@jasonc_nc It’s kind of like the F35 of fire trucks. Custom and specialized to do everything all at once yet can’t do anything at all because something is always failing
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@jasonc_nc I would accept just a % of times roster in elevator ve use of elevator with patient in a gurney.
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This is a very good question.
Has anyone done research on the life safety benefits of being able to spin a patient in a circle during transport?
Are the left side elevators impacting safety? What about the nonexistent ones we end up with instead?
danbianconyc 🇺🇦🇬🇪🇺🇸⚪️🔴⚪️@DanBiancoNYC
@jasonc_nc Why do we need to rotate a stretcher in an elevator???
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@Adventuring_RE 32 million cubic feet of stored product and a 1.2 million square foot industrial building in one of the highest cost per square foot locations in the nation for industrial buildings. The numbers are both pretty accurate.
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@jasonc_nc Well I don’t know about that but fair enough
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@ShadowConserva1 I appear to be impossible to place into any clear tribe. For better or worse.
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