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Post by robeiae on Nov 21, 2016 18:13:06 GMT -5
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Post by Christine on Nov 21, 2016 18:39:29 GMT -5
At first I thought "gender equal snow plowing" meant men and women had to shovel equal amounts of snow.
Hey, I'm a Floridian. Snow's not real, it only happens in the movies.
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Post by Don on Nov 21, 2016 19:31:09 GMT -5
So how were people supposed to get to those places where the sidewalks and pathways were cleared?
Here's an idea: Arteries, then feeders, then locals, and order them by volume. Sidewalks are definitely local, except right downtown where people live and public transport terminates.
I cannot believe that in a place like Sweden, that has no shortage of either snow or smart people, nobody told the Emperor he was naked before the first snowflake fell. Not only did somebody think this was a good idea, nobody anywhere down the chain of command, where the work actually gets done, was brave enough to bell the cat.
That says way too much about their society, IMO.
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Post by Don on Nov 21, 2016 19:42:25 GMT -5
As for "Europe is laughing at the U.S...." Let 'em laugh. Since Sweden is in the topic, let's start there: More generally: I'm really, really tired of the pro-European snobbery that seems to be so popular these days.
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Post by celawson on Nov 21, 2016 19:57:59 GMT -5
I agree with Christine - I assumed they mandated that equal numbers of men and women had to plough. And then the women couldn't plough as much. Wow I must be very sexist! 😃
Also, I SO agree with Don about this pro-Europe stuff. There's no excuse for being a fan of fiscal and governmental policies that aren't working. But as has been mentioned, can't let the facts mess with the narrative.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 20:05:40 GMT -5
I had no idea that being a woman, I didn't use roads.
I hail from Buffalo, New York, where we know a thing or two about dealing with snow and do it pretty damn well most of the time. The city plows the roads, and by and large I've been amazed at how quickly they dig out from under a major storm. Businesses and residents take care of most of the sidewalks. If they can't do it themselves, there are people you can pay to do it for you (usually no shortage of eager-beaver kids, if you want it done cheap). Businesses (including day cares) have an excellent incentive to keep the sidewalks and entryways snow and ice-free -- you generally see them dug out and salt on the sidewalks in pretty short order.
Seems to work the same way here in NYC, but we rarely get much in the way of heavy snow and when we do, it melts fast. But the city keeps the roads and public transport going, while businesses are out there while the storm is still going making sure pedestrians can get to them.
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Post by Christine on Nov 21, 2016 21:29:56 GMT -5
I guess if roads were always cleared first, and men used roads more than women, then it was an inadvertently unequal outcome by gender. Obviously some women would be using roads, too, and some men would be using sidewalks, but overall, it was disproportional. (Sidewalk discrimination?)
Very curious as to why women use sidewalks as opposed to cars more than men do.
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Post by Rolling Thunder on Nov 21, 2016 22:40:53 GMT -5
I want to know when will there be a Swedish motorboarding thread?
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Post by Don on Nov 22, 2016 5:42:58 GMT -5
I guess if roads were always cleared first, and men used roads more than women, then it was an inadvertently unequal outcome by gender. Obviously some women would be using roads, too, and some men would be using sidewalks, but overall, it was disproportional. (Sidewalk discrimination?) Very curious as to why women use sidewalks as opposed to cars more than men do. Let's talk about that bolded part first. Obviously, Daddy drives the car, and Mommy walks Junior from the car to the Day Care. Everybody who grew up in the 50s understands that's just the way the world works. When you look at it from that perspective, it looks like this new policy was actually the sexist one, whereas a policy that concentrated on the most-likely areas to congest first, is the logical one. And this is the right's problem with "PC" in a nutshell, from what I can see. Doing stupid stuff that makes no sense unless viewed through a "politically correct" lens. Nobody could have seen that solution as a good one unless they were wearing some sort of double-plus-ungood "super equality glasses." Now let's talk economics and the knowledge problem. One of the central themes of the Austrian school of economics is that knowledge is dispersed throughout society, and those closest to the "front lines," as it were, have the fullest knowledge of how particular resources might best be used to fulfill important needs. As knowledge moves away from the "front lines," it gets summarized, regurgitated, and, in a political economy, politicized on its way up the command chain. That poor information is then acted upon by someone unlikely to give it the full attention it deserves (remember they're making a lot of decisions for a lot of people, and trying to satisfy a diverse constituency with each decision, so the decision will tend toward the popular one, rather than the logical one anyway). The most likely result will be bad decision-making leading to misallocation of resources, making society overall poorer as a result. This little tale of gendered snow-plowing is a textbook example of precisely that thesis. Apparently the same process also makes society stupider.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2016 10:02:25 GMT -5
I somehow doubt women do use sidewalks more than men do -- or at least, that both don't rely equally on roads.
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Post by Rolling Thunder on Nov 22, 2016 16:42:03 GMT -5
Does that mean women who don't use sidewalks are categorized as street walkers?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2016 16:51:23 GMT -5
Rob, would you mind terribly if I ban RT?
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Post by tanstaafl on Nov 22, 2016 18:30:01 GMT -5
Lowbrow jokes should not be sufficient for the ultimate penalty..................I'd have to think about puns if I were Rob.
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Post by ben on Nov 23, 2016 0:51:45 GMT -5
I cannot believe that in a place like Sweden, that has no shortage of either snow or smart people, nobody told the Emperor he was naked before the first snowflake fell. Not only did somebody think this was a good idea, nobody anywhere down the chain of command, where the work actually gets done, was brave enough to bell the cat. That says way too much about their society, IMO. Surely someone said something, and they promptly lost their job. I had no idea that being a woman, I didn't use roads. I wonder how much this has to do with being "politically correct" in respecting Islam in which Muslimas are not allowed to drive (by their fathers and husbands). Of course, this shows that indirectly both men and women are equally affected by the ability (or lack of) to drive, regardless of who does the actual driving. If no one can drive the food to the grocery store, neither men nor women can eat. The advent of self-driving cars should put and end to that. Or so I would think, but there's no telling what the next Politically Correct edict will be.
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Post by Don on Nov 23, 2016 2:49:19 GMT -5
In the Trump regime, only women and sissies will be allowed to use "them danged robot cars." Manly men will still drive themselves. Even if if means they have a fatality rate ten times higher than "them danged robot cars." There will be warnings posted on the hub of the steering wheel.
For men:
"If you wimp out and let some danged robot drive for you, your balls will shrivel up and fall off. Men don't let robots drive cars."
For women: "Attempts to rotate the wheel surrounding this message will lead to chest hair, a two-octave drop in your speaking voice, and both boob and booty shrinkage. Use at your own risk."
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