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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How it looks on a typical day

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Blade Runner

[–] [email protected] 123 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I love how it seems that the entirety of the US refers to it as "lockdown," despite most retailers being open for business, Karen bringing all 6 kids with her to Walmart, Kyle assaulting anyone who even looks like they suggest that he wear a mask, and legions of "essential workers" being treated like shit on all sides. Sure, "lockdown."

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

In Kenmore WA, you could hear a pin drop. The birds sang and you could hear your self think. It was weirdly quiet.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There was actually a lot of good news during that time. How quickly nature recovers when humans just collectively stop milling about for a while. Did we learn a lesson from that? I fear not. The economy needs to roll on!

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We learned it is much harder to keep tabs on workers when we can't physically see them and that is much more important than productivity.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Also that commercial real estate is more important than residential estate.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This should have been obvious since everything else about business is more important than the general public. You can commit mass murder as long as it is for profits, and if you commit fraud as a company policy then nobody goes to jail.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

As far as I've noticed for as long as I've been alive, a corporation can get away with things such as:

  • harm their costumers
  • kill their employees
  • tax evasion
  • commit fraud
  • bribery (lobbying)

And that is just from ths tip of my tongue, but for some reason laundering money is a big no no. I think only the alphabet bodies can get away with that.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 days ago

It's Humans, hi, we're the problem, it's us.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

At the time, I was just a few miles from I-5 and the noise travelled pretty far. The first month or two of lockdowns, it was super quiet with barely anyone on the highway.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Everyone at the time "we should really try and keep this...right I'm off to the corner shop in my f250"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is it not normally like this? Need a comparison to a typical day

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

It's looked like this pretty much every day since the clean air acts of the late 80s.

This picture specifically is the morning after a rainstorm. That always cleans it up a bit more.

LA is not anywhere near as bad as the movies make it out to be. It was that had, though, before emissions regulations.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There were blue skies in L.A. before the pandemic and after. Not everyday, but they existed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I assumed LA was always deeply yellow tinted, like it is in all media set in the city.