Nick Peterson

This is what China tried to do with their HSR system, connecting lots of relatively sparsely populated areas across long stretches, and its turned into a financial nightmare.

This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food

Seconded

The Brenner base tunnel is one of the most expensive infrastructure projects ever undertaken, & its scheduled completion date is 24 years after start of construction.

Also mountains are not mountains, even within the Alps geology varies enough to make certain tunnel routes completely impractical.

Planned outages are hard enough to schedule and budget, even most experts would have almost no ability to accurately forecast time and cost to get back to previous levels after even a small attack.

Clearly the salt. You have an insanely reactive metal chemically bound to a poison gas, and you're putting it in your drinks!

Supporting a family on one income which hasn't been the norm for over half of families since the early 70s. If Sky had a partner working just a part time or low/minimum wage job it would almost certainly bump household income decently above subsidized housing qualification even for a family of 4.

To maybe get out in front of this for the 2028 Hopefuls. I will pledge my vote to whichever candidate promises to RAISE my taxes in exchange for improved social services and infrastructure investment

(Doesn't even need to be 1:1 if you want to do deficit reduction as well.)

Me after stumbling into an obvious quagmire dick first with no way out: well, no one could’ve seen that coming

Reminds me of when someone tried to argue that Hindenburg was a liberal.

Oh yeah, congress would have to get involved, if for no other reason than there being no infrastructure in place to run a draft.

There are also a bunch of steps beyond selective service registration that would need to be rebuilt and basically nobody alive who knows how to set up and run such a system, and the current military isnt structured to function with a bunch of low skilled draftees

Certainly fair. Minutiae aside, my overarching point I think the public is ultimately responsible for who/what they vote for. No one was forced to vote for Trump or Harris or stay home (caveat for cases of voter suppression) this is what we as a collective country decided we wanted

There isnt really losing an election, its simply disparate and informal coalitions coming together to reach a consensus. The US reached the small consensus that it wanted to policies Trump represented. That's personally disheartening, but is the choice of the voters.

Few campaigns really follow that model because so many voters view their vote through a consumerist lens where they're voting on a product rather than participating on building coalitions, which is a Mohamed going to the Mountain problem of needing to meet people where they are.

Campaigns can raise awareness, but should be mostly bottom up e.g. local volunteers knocking on doors or what we think of as grass roots campaigns.

Ideally, a politician's personal campaign is 90% logistics around ballot access & the like.

Not able to reply, but yes it is the voter's job to motivate themselves and others, not the candidate's who is simply serving as an expression of the will of the voting public. US constitutional democracy in particular wasnt designed for campaigns or parties, but on collective coalitions.

If they did, it might require them to more deeply evaluate their politics and the idea of coalition building...so probably not.

Yes, that is true of every voting citizen in western democracy, learn to live with that burden and try to build coalitions that move things in a better direction, rather than stick your head in the sand and try to pass responsibility to others, making your own voice irrelevant.

Where the Secretary is failing is by refusing to admit any sort of mistake or error occurred to cause this tradegy which when combined with all the maximum violence rhetoric whisky pete is spewing simply makes everything so much worse.

I wholly support this, amd not just because one of my sisters works for the CRS

Give me the insanely hot metal slide that was tall enough it borders on recklessness

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A land of contrasts....

Negligence is a very high bar to hit within the Geneva Conventions standards of proportionality and distinction and I think people over index on the reliability and accuracy of airborne weapons where in reality miss their intended targets quite frequently due to countless random factors.

When you actually see the instructor off to the side with his face in his hand.

Its also possible that it really was just a horrible error/shoddy intel mixing with the administration's inability to ever back down or admit it made a mistake.

That element is trickier to pin down and there are a lot more reasons why you might have a target hit multiple times that arent what would be considered a double tap.