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Christopher Schmidt
@crschmidt.net

i swear to god if kavi had not described this to me in real life I would have assumed this was a bit making fun of how useless the mayor of LA is. Like, YOU CHOSE TO PUBLISH THIS VIDEO! YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO DO THAT! YOU COULD HAVE COME BACK THE NEXT DAY AND SHOWED THE POTHOLE BEING FILLED IN!!

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉@kavi.bsky.social

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Christopher Schmidt
@crschmidt.net

"Can you please fix this pothole?" "No, but we can put up a no parking sign!" THAT DIDN'T FIX THE PROBLEM! "Hopefully this car will move and then we can fix the problem tomorrow" is not a winning message! The whole point of these feel-good social media bits is to show problems *being fixed*!

Christopher Schmidt
@crschmidt.net

It's not about "they didn't solve the problem that day". That's fine. It happens. I'm not worried about that. It's that, in response to being told about a problem, *they published a video of them not solving a problem* as a social media bit!

Christopher Schmidt
@crschmidt.net

The pothole has been there for a long time, you've had plenty of chances to fix it, but didn't. Who says you're actually going to fix it this time? Is that crew going to show up tomorrow? If the car doesn't move, are you actually going to tow it, or are you just going to leave it and forget it?

AlanDesu
@alandesu.bsky.social

How do you know the length of time it's been there? How do you know they've had plenty of chances? Do you have some intimate knowledge of how many workers they have versus the number of jobs that need doing?

Christopher Schmidt
@crschmidt.net

"Thanks for making a request! I will now show you that we are incompetent to do anything about it. Feel free to report other things to us so we can also do nothing about those!" WHO LET YOU PUBLISH THIS.