Mike Potter

It's facial warts. Which is wild.

Of all the BRT projects, the Blue Line is the most essential, IMHO. The fact it was the last to be built is depressing and the fact it has faced the most opposition is frustrating. The idea you would propose derailing any PART OF IT for a freaking Wawa is WILD.

As someone who grew up on the east side and still goes there multiple times every week, I am confident the community needs Bus Rapid Transit infinitely more than it needs another damn convenience store.

Being over 30 be like...

Almost every aspect of the city/community planning process is a double-edged sword. Just absolutely brutal stuff.

The fact Sam is the son of the former Labor Secretary is wild.

Doobie Brother

I understand that inflation didn't go up quite as much as expected (though it did go up) in July, but core inflation is still over 3%. Does the Fed cut rates when it's over 3%?

Also he was running in an environment where a Republican president had started two unpopular wars with no end in sight and a looming economic collapse. Obama was obviously a historic candidate but that was an election Democrats were probably going to win.

They help you understand the shape and progression of the artform/genre, but you can enjoy individual works just fine without that background. And making kids slog through stories that lost their novelty through assimilation can be counter product to enjoying the genre.

Do you need to read the classics to win arguments with gatekeepers? Sure. Can classics be really enjoyable for modern audiences! Absolutely. Are they essential to enjoying modern art? No.

Most really monumental, important works of art have already been "absorbed" enough that the very thing that made them important seems unremarkable to an audience 30 years later. Doesn't mean they don't matter, but you don't NEED them to enjoy the artform.

I feel like the "you need to consume the classics" argument is mostly so people who read the classics can talk to you about them. I read "Ender's Game" in middle school without ever reading Asimov or Clarke and enjoyed it immensely.

I already won, you see, I have cast myself as the chad "per my last email" writer...

Hot take: Large Language Models (LLMs) and similar products will likely have a huge impact on a handful of industries, but it's not going to "transform" most people's lives beyond adding another layer of "let me talk to a human" to all of your customer service attempts via AI chatbots.

Anthony Richardson hurting the pinky on his throwing hand on a blindside sack in the first quarter of the first preseason game is just...

Indiana is already highly gerrymandered, with Democratic voters "packed" into two solidly blue districts to protect the Republicans in all the other districts. Breaking up District 1 would create two districts with a lot of Democratic voters rather than one.

Socrates asked for it as his last meal.

Also work for home became increasingly common, especially for folks in the kind of income bracket that can afford a car for every family member.

The post-COVID pedestrian spike does make sense here though, just a lot more walking going on.

More cars but less driving is weird. Not like "doesn't make sense" just... bizarre.

35% of Americans had smartphones in 2011. Now it's 86%. I can't find a significant change in car ownership throughout the rise over the last 15 years, other than a slight uptick in the number of cars per households (though new car sales have fallen).

I guess the chart was just very eye opening for me. I didn't realize, as the OP said, I grew up in the golden age of pedestrian safety. I would have thought the increase WAS directly proportional to vehicle size.

For sure. Vehicle size and distracted driving are probably the toughest to deal with from a public policy stand point (especially in the current regulatory environment). Enforcement and roads are more of a money issue than a "what do you do" issue.

So I'm fairly confident that the increase in car size is not the definitive driver of the increase in pedestrian fatalities, and that my anecdote is born out by the facts. Thanks.

The increase in size in the average car between 1990 and 2010 was significantly greater than the increase between 2010 and now, and in some cases, that was the maximum. As seen in the above chart, 2010 was a low point for pedestrian fatalities. www.teoalida.com/cardatabase/...

Given that infrastructure plays at least as big a roll as the average size of vehicles and is a much more easily controlled factor from a public policy standpoint, I stand by the fact that increased vehicle size isn't the dominant factor as that trend started while deaths were still falling.

Vehicle size is often discussed when talking about increased pedestrian fatalities, but also the nadir was during the heyday of the Hummer so I don't think that's it?

The idea that a country with more than 300 million people would only have a handful of major cities is WILD.

We used to have a country.