It’s actually pretty popular in New York and when the developer isn’t a scumbag a good look for all.

Yep, then they could capture some revenue from renting the space. Instead they allow them to just be thrown around neighborhoods and take up sidewalk / crosswalk and sometimes even street space with no revenue gained from the city for the inconvenience, and less accessible sidewalks for everyone else.

Yeah its reallllly stupid

Would be great if the companies were forced to more tightly regulate where / how their product is stored. Really don't want to be one of those city's where bird scooters are lying around everywhere making the streets less ADA accessible. Lord knows our city is too cozy with tech and cares too little for its citizens to actually regulate these companies, or their riders.

I don’t mind them in principal, just don’t love it as a requirement as it just provides another potential barrier to getting housing built.

I think both are overly restrictive. We need to make building housing easier, not harder.

Not really. It’s highly relevant. I think the city should cut down on cars as well. Has nothing to do with regulating another hazard.

That’s just textbook whataboutism. I also think it’s silly to have parking requirements in construction

It’s not left alone, the whole city is switching to electrify and get off natural gas. There’s been massive amounts of legislation passed to do it this year.

Yes I agree they are better than the alternative, but doesn’t mean they should be unregulated.

No thanks. That’s just another requirement that makes it harder to get RFP’s approved and drives up the cost of construction.

I mean it’s a real issue. There’s been people killed in fires these things have caused…..

People have been asking for the change for years, just giving it a shot.

Don’t need to ask me. You can read the article That’s really clear that this is not a crime. No need to get upset at others because of your own confusion or need to feel persecuted.

They’re directed to the crime mega thread that is stickies to the top of the sub.

Agreed.

I guess if you want to ignore the actual response and facts here so you can play the victim, sure.

This story is about a labor violation, hence the fine. If they prosecute this as a crime that would be great, but the article is about the labor violation and subsequent fine.

It’s a labor violation not a crime.

It’s a labor violation which unfortunately isn’t considered a crime. Despite the fact that wage theft is the largest type of theft in America each year

You can stop reporting this article, it’s staying up.

Yep we can just agree to disagree. To each their iwn

I don’t think Tolkien would care but neither of us know? You could say “did Tolkien want this shot in HD? Do you think he wanted this to be streamed online?” It’s really got nothing to do with him. I personally don’t mind the race blind casting. I think only a small portion of folks seem to…..also this has nothing to do with the comment you responded to?

I think they did the castings race blind vs race conscious. I think race blind is better. I can ignore that some elves are black and some are white, I don’t need a genealogical explanation of why. It’s a fantasy tv show.

The author apparently didn’t even read the foreword to LoTR when it points out there’s hardly any history of men recorded by elves as they don’t care too much about it. How can we take their opinion seriously if it’s based on such false building blocks?

I mean he goes from literally questioning his existence to declaring he’s there for good…. We know several istar were corrupted so it absolutely isn’t pre programmed for him to align with forces of good, especially not when others are trying to lead him to be evil. He literally goes from asking if he’s bad to declaring he’s good. That’s a pretty obvious linear character progression. Not everyone has character development in one season that leads them to be a completely different character. That would likely be bad writing.

There were plot points in two episodes about Numenor, but it wasn’t “two whole episodes” and much of this was character progression for other characters / relationships etc. it would have been weird to have Numenor flip the script in one episode. Could we have seen them move right along and miss some of the plot points in episode 5? Sure, but could have felt rushed / would have missed out on some of Halbrand’s character as well as the upcoming events in Numenor, like it’s fall and the rise of the cult of morgoth.

Also there are 17 other rings to forge and it wasnt just ten minutes of the show, literally several plot points converged, halbrand, mithril, Galadriel learning to share power etc, to enable the forging of the rings….