Peter Som de Cerff

I'm really glad to see this!

What we also need is to vote out the other councilors from the most car-centric parts of town - like the Heights - in favor of others wouldn't keep voting down reasonable downtown improvements.

...Ford-transit (the small one) minivans, instead of box trucks. Let's not have vehicle deliveries overlapping school commute times. Let's charge Ubers extra to pick up in 'hoods, vs at a nearby major arterial.

Let's just make cars into second-class citizens, so humans can go first.

...for a "bus then drive" or a "walk then drive" outbound commute, if needed, and others can drive in for a "park-n-ride" train to NYC. And NOBODY needs to park on neighborhood streets.

Let's push for smaller delivery vans, like cargo bikes as used in many global cities, or at least the little...

We really don't need $10B spent on a turnpike here. We need a few million spent on bollards, planters, and bulb-outs, and reasonable restrictions on parking and deliveries, and simple enforcement of the laws.

Better still, spend the $B on a parking garage at the turnpike, where locals can park...

...is the primary commute to work, that a few seconds of convenience for a driver is not worth the lives of our children?

When will we decide to simply hold our electeds accountable, and vote out those who offer platitudes, or (worst) victim-blaming, while worshipping cars and elevating drivers?

... teachers, and rabbi, calls to action, and even comments noting that anger is appropriate when our electeds and our communities fail the most vulnerable.

When will we all decide that here, in a highly diverse global city, where 1/3 do not drive, and 1/3 are car-light, and mass-transit to NYC ...

...halfway between here and the park I take my granddaughter to visit, which is only 8 blocks away.

Tonight I attended the vigil, with a thousand or two others. I was really happy to not hear "thoughts and prayers" or anything about "too soon", but instead, amidst the remembrances by family, ...

#jerseycity

When last I visited JC, about Feb, a car ran into a house a few blocks from my grandchild's home. A month or two ago, a 73-year-old man was killed in a cross-walk, crossing legally, less than a mile away. Yesterday, a 6-year-old boy on his bike was run over by a UPS driver....

Chaos is not indicative of strength.

I thought Iran had only one reactor,tho many nuke-related facilities?

Presumably it’s one of the latter, if true at all?

Let’s just use an inherently safe tech and not 1950s light-water weapons-focused reactor designs.

This is at the root of much of the problem, but it's not so much causal as correlated, as part of evolving feedback loops. Western judeo-christians are relative wealthy, and Muslims tend to be poor despite vast resources, esp since extractive-industry wealth tends to promote heavy inequity.

...preserving power structures of privilege while thereby ensuring a poor, unempowered underclass which is forever ripe for populist-fueled uprisings and fundamentalist fervor.

If only all were growth-mindset and collectively focused and not zero-sum selfishly minded!

If we imagined the US all having average wealth (vs most having median wealth), we'd all be better off than the 50's WASP-male heyday, yet poor white guys think they are just one small step from being Elon Musk if not for a few other brown guys in the way.

An awful lot of effort goes into ...

Likely the same will be said about the US someday?

Here in the US those making 20K per year think those making 200K are rich and spend cash hedonistically, yet those making 500K per year still do not feel rich, and those with 5M in the bank don't feel secure.

Now imagine those making $5 per day...

...vs wealthy, secular, educated, and non-reproducing for the technocrats and productive, yet perhaps also elites, of the world.

It's always easier to break than build.

I'm not sure of the global pattern, but I think it's save to say that Islam is the religion of the poor in many areas. Fundamentalism of other religions seems to align with poverty also.

Poor, fundamentalist, ignorant, and fecund is a crappy pattern for global stability...

Did not matter in substance....

Even Reagan was a reaction to the progressive pushes of the 60's and the post-war peaking of US production coupled with the poorly understood consequences of going off the gold standard plus some coincidental factors like US oil production peak and 3 Mile Island.

All is overlapping shades of gray!

...that it has ever been, and yet our most powerful and the most fundamentalist are agreed that we should throw all of this away in favor of greater inequity, division, and strife.

The poor and downtrodden can be argued to be pawns in this, but the religious leadership & the elites are complicit.

I maintain that our TSA nonsensical "security theater" alone has provided more than enough ROI to encourage fundamentalism.

Empires turn - rise and fall - and for the US the question is not "if" but "when".

The world is in the best shape, from humanitarian, wealth, tech, & energy perspectives

*4 planes. Two were more successful.

Rights and war crimes are the flip sides of the same coin - reflections of power structures. No rights are inalienable (as we in the US can now watch this fiction dissolve when one man is not held to account by those with physical power).

Forever the issue with violence is that 98+% just want to grow radishes, and 1-2% are willing to kill for non-radish related reasons, and so that small minority takes control.

The US militia sorts are counting on this factor here...our fundamentalist thinkers are learning from the Taliban sorts.

What is the evidence of that vs Iran? The Palestinian situation is not necessarily the same...though probably in the end it really all comes down to religious convictions on both sides.

There will be no easy solution and maybe no solution at all, for conflicts where the strife is a key value.

Do Iranian women have the right to not wear hijabs or to have pre-marital sex?

Do non-Christians in the US have the right to keep tax payments from funding religiously conservative private schools?

Would be nice if these were secular discussions on the realities of power, vs veiled fundamentalism.

Why do I keep seeing posts like this?

What is even the point of such a question?

It's OK to recognize when other places are doing better than the US, and it's even better if we learn from others and copy them!

Normally, I'd say this would make our gas prices go up quite a bit, which bothers me not a whit. But thanks to the recession we will surely have, oil prices will crash, & there will be no interest to invest in US refineries for an uncertain future.

Maybe the next administration can repair things?

Of course all of this was fine. We sold the good stuff and imported cheap, land-locked oil.

But now Canada will export its oil and gas, as quickly as it can turn up pipelines, and the US will have to reinvest in refineries else import some at high prices and sell some against other tariffs.