Seems like it’s different in about half the country. Interesting.

These contracts are short, like 1-2 years. Typically you re-trim every 2 years. So if you do a terrible job and then get outbid 2 years later, you basically walk away with money and leave the next contractor with extra work. That’s the typical situation. That’s often how these sorts of disasters happen. Someone underbid and then couldn’t deliver. Now it’s the taxpayer’s problem.

Again, it’s not political. Someone underbid. Someone accepted the underbid. The contractor that underbid couldn’t accomplish the task. Now they’re behind. Where are you seeing a left and right in this?

There is nothing political about this. At all. There are trees. They need to be cut within a certain distance of the line. Budges get cut, they get behind, and a tree they thought they’d trim again in 2 years becomes one that causes a power outage 3 years later. That’s how it goes.

There’s not a left or right wing way to trim a tree. There’s a correct way and a wrong way. It’s about how many miles they need to do in how much time.

You’re imagining an argument about fast and efficient vs. slow and careful. In reality they’re highlighting the dangerous trees and making sure those ones get done in ideal weather, and the others can get done in less than ideal weather. It gets done at the speed it gets done.

Again, it could not be less political.

That’s someone describing an occupation that they have no idea about. Arborist is the step above journeyman tree trimmer. There are specific rules about what an Arborist is allowed to do vs. what a regular tree trimmer is allowed to do. Mainly working within certain distances of powerlines. Kinda like how EMT Paramedic is the step above EMT Basic. There isn’t anything “woke” going on in tree trimming. Just like there isn’t anything “woke” happening at paramedic school.

Nobody does trainings on tree health. That’s not how any of this works. They do apprenticeships. Once they finish they’re basically free to do whatever they want.

Obviously it’s a limited sample of men’s fashion, but yes I think these overall trends of baggyness and hair length are similar to real life in the USA. These are athletes mostly age 19, up to age 21-22. Getting money for the first time in their lives. If you’re familiar with which ones are foreign, they are sometimes the ones that are 10 years behind on the trend.

Literally zero of these kids were rich before the draft. I think it’s fair to say. Each one is in control of their own hairstyle. Each one got to pick what they wore, even if they asked their agent to pick it out.

EDIT: 2018 is also full of bowties. A trend that has come and gone. In 2025 nearly half are wearing a necklace in place of a tie.

It is among the most out of date major arenas. There’s a reason a lot of major music acts skip Portland.

They’ll figure out a way to fund this project eventually. Seems like if they could make it the most green-friendly arena on the planet, they could somehow justify the use of those funds. But that might make it more expensive.

“Pausing match” means they paused for like 4 seconds while they let the crowd chant. They do that all the time in pro wrestling. And being anti-ICE seems to be part of his gimmick.

Tree trimmers are not thinking to themselves “is this how a Republican or a Democrat would trim a tree?” They’re cutting like they were trained to do. Politics could not be less involved.

Just looking at how the NBA draft class has dressed for draft day. 2004 is extremely baggy. 2011 is significantly less baggy, and very limited color choices. 2018 everyone is wearing tight fitting clothes and lots of color. By far the biggest variety of clothing choices. 2025 is notably more baggy than 2018, color choices are a bit more limited, but lots of textures.

Hair also seems to have changed significantly from the first two to the second two. A lot more shaved heads and shorter hair in 2004 and 2011, more long hair in 2018 and 2025.

2004 NBA draft class

2011 NBA draft class

2018 NBA draft class

2025 NBA draft class

“It’s certainly not a conservative value to leave the trees hanging around power lines that will fall during a storm,” he said.

He seems to be saying it’s a Democrat value to do things wrong on purpose?

It’s a terrible terrible sign that tree trimming is being viewed through this partisan lens.

They’ve been talking about building this bridge for as long as I can remember.

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I assume there’s a cartoon where they burn him?

I like it. Reminds me a little of Citizen Kane.

Reminds me of depression era Hollywood. The common theme was how rich people are unhappy, and people living on the edge of broke are living the most fulfilling and happy lives. Frank Capra was the king of movies like that. It Happened One Night (1934), You Can’t Take it With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). Among so many others. My Man Godfrey (1936).

There’s enough that I can name ones just about poor people pretending to be royalty. Midnight (1939), Trouble in Paradise (1932), The Lady Eve (1941), Thirty Day Princess (1934), The Princess Comes Across (1936). And the previously mentioned Frank Capra also made Lady for a Day (1933), and remade it as Pocketful of Miracles (1961). All of those movies are about poor people pretending to be rich, all of them are romantic movies about the rich and poor falling in love with each other.

John Q (2002) is a Denzel Washington movie where he takes an ER hostage until they’ll give his son a heart transplant. Feels even more relatable today. Kind of a different angle, not really about rich people.

EDIT: Easy Living (1937) is a great screwball comedy. A rich man throws an expensive fur coat out the window. A poor girl finds it, and suddenly gets treated like she’s rich. Strongly recommend.

Wow the difference in that before/after shot of all the buildings.

ChatGPT is. That’s probably why it says dumb shit sometimes.

It would be stupid to build it without the light rail. It would be a band-aid that would be in need of improvements by the time it was finished.

When I was a child I’d go on Yahoo Answers and give bad advice and then vote myself as having the best answer. I was a ‘top answerer’ for several niche subjects I know nothing about.