John Ericson

Lol at the thought of them making their hitlerite petit bourgeoisie constituents file more comprehensive employment data with the government, though

Now I finally understand MAGA Communism

Using Nix, I really can't relate

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Huh? I think we're talking phase 1 only here?

2nd Ave was already dense (there are new towers, yes, but also 1960s-ish ones). I think this will really grow the outer boroughs. I think this will affect a lot of neighborhoods a lot.

"being Bad at Computer is old orgs' *binding* constraint" is a foundational assumption, but the binding part doesn't need to come from other things being easy.

Remember, a lot of startup ideology comes from "existing orgs cannot adapt to computers, so we need to make our own more nimble ones" 1990s tech libertarianism

You make it sound like the DOGE people want government-run studies to work better, but I think there is some overlap between that tech ideology and the respectable "process vs outcomes" thing we see here. That leaves a "if data gathering is really hard, just act anyways with less certainty" retort.

Oh yes that too!

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Now that they are Türkiye, we can be Turkey

I'm sorry but I think the point is OK, at least with a charitable reading:

Classic Keynes that stimulus is just artificial / "starter motor" animal spirits, so comparing investment mania to gov stimulus is Correct Keynesian Thought

Police 👏 Reform 👏 is Military 👏 Preparedness 👏

I want to believe this is "we have to replace sewers anyways, so we might as well take the generational opportunity to do free-on-the-margin road redesigns" teeing up

(not a one time jump, but discontinuity and then a new trend)

The recession was a culture event when the racism became either greater, or less counterbalanced by other things

The difference is that wants got a hell of a lot cheaper relative to needs 💀

The bill is mostly rhetoric lol, you can see for yourself

Please email Kathy Hochul and tell her this. She will ultimately be making the decision. The union is going to lobby hard against driverless, so the governor needs to hear from New Yorkers that we want better service and lower costs: www.governor.ny.gov/content/gove...

Yeah I know so many of the inner outer borough "I don't like Manhattan" crew, and I'm like, this is the train for you! It will be ready soonish! We're just upgrading an existing RoW! Dare to dream!

To be clear when I mentioned transfers, I was still thinking about within-outer-borough trips. TOD will lessen that over time, but only so much.

I still think 2009 broke the spirit, especially at the EU-wide level. This is part cultural commentary. You were joking about "Schengen is done". Obviously that doesn't help either.

We'll see if it comes back. Fingers crossed.

Totally agreed, but psychology is not physics. What I suspect is that people will become more latency sensitive because waiting for pickup vs waiting in traffic hits differently.

Yeah Eurostar + recession fucked Europe, but it's Too Soon to Tell with Caltrain.

Also the rolling stock procurement was really good, right?

Yeah shorter + more frequency is really extra powerful for a line whose main purpose is transfers.

(I also wonder to what extent it's the future for transit in general to compete in a Waymo world, but that's a separate conversation)

Yes, exactly. Fix the loneliness and then the rest of the right-wing radicalization automaton is rug-pulled.

Yes, totally agreed. Much more straightforward to fix the physical realm. Start from where the policy answers are clear, not from where while the problems are also clear but the policy response is not.

(I just like to point out the dating app part because I think it's under-discussed)

But, if there are specific problems with extending the N in your view, I didn't know that. That makes me understand this better --- it's less "I love Wyes" and more "we need *something* to connect rail to LGA to, the IBX works better than other options"

to/from LGA feels radial to me, both in the literal sense of the trajectory points to/from midtown, and in the more generalized abstract sense of the different ends have different sorts of demand (clear destination vs source valance).