I really do hope that they never find the woman who ruined the Tour de France this year. I hope the international manhunt gets them nowhere and this woman becomes the D.B. Cooper of bad cardboard signs
For those unaware: A woman holding a single handmade sign up to the cameras at the Tour de France accidentally knocked a cyclist at the front of the pack off of his bike, causing a pileup that became the largest mass crash in the race’s entire history. She fled the country and there is now an international manhunt to find her and sue her.
As a gender nonconforming cis dyke, I’ve received a lot of weird hostility in bathrooms. Like, a lot. The mild but frequent stuff is when people see me, do a visible double take, and go check the sign again. The not entirely common, more aggressive stuff is when people verbally question why I’m there. More than once I’ve had someone call me “it” or confront me about my gender in public settings. I’ve had people try to tell me to leave.
But the only place I’ve had someone physically try to remove me from a bathroom was in London.
Some random middle aged woman thought that she had the right to put her hands on me simply because I don’t match her ideas of what femininity is, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this happened in a place where transphobia is running rampant. Of all the weird stuff that’s happened to me in pretty conservative parts of the US, they simply are not as emboldened here as they currently are in the UK; but don’t think for a moment that they don’t intend to get there.
Trans people are reason enough to fight these bigots. It’s a good enough reason. Trans people deserve respect, dignity, compassion, and protection. But if you think they’ll be satisfied with only pushing trans people back into the closet, you’re utterly deluded. They want absolute conformity, simple as that, and they’re increasing their push here too.
Any lesbian who aligns herself with transphobia is a traitor. Simple as that.
The head of Atlanta’s police union confirmed Wednesday June 17th, 2020 that officers from the Atlanta Police Department in Zones 3 and 6 walked off the job Wednesday afternoon.
Police are doing what they call theBlueFlu: a strike action, especially among police officers, in which workers are absent on the pretext of “sickness”.
name one other profession in which an employee commits literal murder, and all their coworkers walknout in “solidarity” when they face consequences for it. the insanity. ACAB
That’s a pretty cool political opinion you got there dude. Did your web of online friends and mutuals who all subconsciously monitor each other and self-correct in a panopticon-esque fashion to ensure that your views all stay in line with each other’s at all times pick it for you?
“I’m safe from having my political views dictated by others because I’m catholic” is probably the funniest thing you could add to this
okay wait i went back and screenshotted some (most?) of the good ones that were like on the main plot here so you all saw the top posts with the Irish Stegosaurus well that evolved into
also kind of unrelated but because of this stupid subreddit im actually not as bad at identifying flags
anyways sorry for the long post i just really loved this whole thing
Without the goverment, who will help those in need?
Okay, the notes on this are giving me hives and I am seriously
concerned about the absolute lack of critical thinking present, so some
things about this from a union electrical worker who works a city contract:
1) Are those stairs up to code?
Just
by looking at them: no. Open risers are a
tripping hazard, I don’t see any tread grips so they’ll become a death
trap in wet conditions, and those treads don’t look thick enough,
supported enough, or even level. But hey, maybe it’s just a
bad photo. But how far do the railing support posts go underground? Are
they below the frost line? Were they properly supported in concrete? Was
the concrete prepared right and given enough time to cure properly? Is
the wood properly treated for weather resistance? Did he take into
account the ground shifting on such a steep grade?
Even IF he did all that and the stairs were 100% up to code, the city has no way to verify that. So no, the city can’t just leave them there.
2) Who cares if the steps are up to code?
I saw a concerning amount of this in the notes. I thought we were all on the same page re: Cities have a moral obligation to make sure their structures aren’t deathtraps waiting to happen, and that’s what codes are for. I promise you, you WANT buildings and structures to follow codes and regulations. But in any case, they definitely have a legal obligation for it, so if they leave those stairs up on public land and someone trips, the city could be on the hook for millions in damages. So no, the city can’t just leave them there.
3) There’s no way stairs cost that much, it’s just the city stuffing its pockets:
$65,000 definitely seems on the steep side to me, and I’d want to see a breakdown of expenditure. But I also don’t know the scope of the project. For a set of stairs like the ones above? Yeah, that’s a lot. To excavate the entire grade and put in a concrete structure that includes stairs, an ADA compliant ramp, and good quality weather resistant material? That sounds more reasonable.
But the city also likely needs to have the following: a ground survey of the build site, architects to draw the plans, civil engineers to OK the plans, and the contractors - typically union, and therefore more expensive - to excavate and then build the structure. All of those steps are going to take a LOT of people and a LOT of time and therefore, a LOT of money.
4) Labor doesn’t cost that much, someone is just giving the job to his contractor buddy who’s inflating the price:
Labor does cost that much. Stop telling people to unionize and demand the value of their labor and then getting mad when people do it.
Anyway, in my city at least, contracts are done by blind bid and the lowest bid wins. Under most circumstances, my city legally cannot take a higher bidder, explicitly to prevent the above circumstance.
TL;DR:
“Local man puts up steps” is NOT a safe solution to this problem, the city legally and morally cannot let an unsafe structure stand, even simple construction is complicated and expensive as hell, and acting like the city could have done this for $500 is ridiculously out of touch.
Building and egress codes are /literally/ written in blood just like so many other protections, we take that shit seriously.
Also, speaking from the healthcare angle, a broken hip from tripping on stairs can lead to complications that kill an elderly person.
Having them not be open, having tread grips, etc, is potentially life or death for the elderly. There’s a reason hospitals take fall risks so seriously (that’s why beds have those lockable railings on the sides.)
I made a game, it's OK: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/682543, also this is where my avatar is from: http://cloudyfan.deviantart.com/art/Cloud-vs-Barret-Armwrestling-59005421 They/Them
