Good for them. We need to see a resurgence of unions and strikes if we ever want a pro-labor candidate to actually stand a chance...

Hopefully Biden won't make this one illegal too...

You can here in Colorado. They have specific areas set aside for it.

Ok, thank you for your correction. Reading into more, they are asking for a 30% raise across the board. Maybe my comment would have been more correct if I had said, "school workers shouldn't have to strike for a 'living wage'.

Get zapped in to the past with a good ol pistol grip pump on my lap at all times

yea i got these mdma pills that were shaped like donald trump, he must be selling them. and this fent bag i got had this cool picture on it too.

The strike here isn't about paying teachers. It's a strike by service workers - cafeteria workers, bus drivers, custodians and special education assistants - for their wages to be increased. Teachers are striking in solidarity, but not for their own wages.

I think that the service workers deserve to be paid a living wage as well, but it's not correct to call this a strike to get teachers paid a living wage.

When I worked at an East Coast resort, we had way more trauma deaths from tubing than from the skiing/snowboarding side.

Most mountain deaths on the ski resort side were heart attacks, the tubing hill on the other hand would have 1 or more per year of conditions getting a bit too slick and a tube flying over/crashing into the barrier at the end or into a person at high speed.

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Pager shows green. Looks like it was very deep, so it had mild shaking in a very large area, but no heavy shaking anywhere. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000jln7/pager

We call it "Colorado Jumbalaya w/And Do He Sausage"

Knowing where that half pipe is, I doubt it was hundreds. But easily 50+.

5 stories or 20, it doesn't make a ton of difference.

Even when I got my permit at 16, I’m fairly sure I was restricted to like 1 passenger or something, or family. It’s been so long I’m sure I’m misremembering something.

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Yep.

I'm a rather good snowboarder. I stay on valid and legit tracks. No way I'm offroading.

I used to live in IL, and am now in CO.

Bringing sleds on a ski hill after hours is pretty common, and it’s crazy how quickly it can get out of control.

I did it a small handful of times my first year here when I was younger and much more stupid. We were on the bottom third of a very mellow green run with probably 100 yards of clearance to bail when or if necessary. I had been sledding my whole life and snowboarding that whole season. And it still scared the shit out of me. I can’t wrap my head around taking a sled on a half pipe.

Midwest sledding is generally pretty chill. But it’s mind blowing how quickly you pick up speed with no way to stop or control yourself out here on these big runs.

If you’re ever out here, leave the sleds at home (or take them to a park in town with a normal sized hill. We have those too).

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Tourists are always clueless - look at Yellowstone. Cold, early spring, looking for food - something moving at ground level - animal doing what it does. Lets run and call the cops!!

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Ya, exactly. I straight up fell off of roofs, drunk, without a scratch or bruise. Yea, plural. Not in the same night, but still.

The level of shit kids can get up to is beyond stratospheric. And, then you add booze or other inebriation and it’s that much worse.

Groups of kids (I’m using kids loosely at this point, for people under 25) can be a double edged sword too. I was at a music festival and saw a wook climbing a piece of art. Before I even processed the view ahead of me I said “it’s time for another good idea, bad idea” and then the guy fell from a height and I saw him break (probably shatter) his femur. It took the ambulance an awful long time to arrive.

My first thought once I processed was “where were his friends?” Because at the end of the day, the people you’re out partying with are the same ones you have to be able to rely on, and well, so much of the time…. What if someone said “hey Kyle, don’t”? Maybe they did, but I bet the odds are lower than they didn’t.

Statistically, something will happen to someone, but there’s no need to increase your own odds too much.

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I think he's asking why this one guy is on the news. The answer being that they identified him and connected him to a specific murder.

Paying teachers a 'living wage' shouldn't require a strike.

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