Christopher Arnold

They can effectively do it as is via budgeting. Luckily elections are run by the states and voters have an expectation of voting. The GOP needs to own this fully and face the consequences. The filibuster just muddles the point and lessens the electoral consequences.

Decidedly mixed. I think this is us having a different way of understanding costs. You are choosing the criteria that suits subways being cheaper. I am looking at soup to nuts cost for Subway vs bus. journalistsresource.org/economics/bu...

That can’t be factoring in build out and debt service though. That and it’s harder to keep up rails than pavement. The driver is a difference for sure but as noted above the lack of human supervision per traveler creates issues.

Just really depends on what the rider wants to do. If there is no commute then the goal is to get folks to use buses for errands and I don’t see that happening if they are fumbling for a fare and also have limited buses to use. If commuting then they or their employer will pay for the subway pass.

But I admittedly don’t know what to do with surface trolleys.

Buses more expensive than subways? News to me.

Free buses (paid for by rush hour rolling of private vehicles) and fare based Subway service is probably the best solution. Would need employer buy in. But folks could get around for free but slowly (may just need a few stops anyway) or pay for a faster service.

Rhule is Franklin with everyone aligned in a way they never where under Franklin.

Not going to be showering much with that QB. Just a brutal injury as it turns out.

See the sarcasm. Yeah actually I don’t think they care either but they are also not in favor of it so being the regime that will put a stop to it won’t cost any political capital. This is our main argument.

Folks here seem to put greater urgency on disagree. Certain threatening and harassment speech was never protected. However because enforcement can be spotty they want to empower the government to broadly censor speech which is just handing a gun to conservatives who have access to national power.

The mainstream folks showed up to protest later in numbers (and are relatively chill) which will happen every single time. Why pundits can’t figure this out is amazing because it keeps happening. GOP overstating the political advantage and the pundit class keeps buying it.

I've had a secret theory for a while that I guess I'll just throw out there:

The right is inevitably going to turn on AI, not because LLMs hallucinate or get things wrong, but because they mostly *get things right*, and reality, as a great man once said, has a liberal bias.

Or simply embrace a center left mindset. Which the previous generation of business leaders generally followed.

I know because there was no turning off of the lights (Medicare/ core institutions/trade) till now. Folks will be voting from a different head space moving forward. At least for 10-15 years. Then things should devolve your way once folks know the ground rules won’t actually be broken like Trump 2.

I am thinking of Dems as a more interim deal. Basically California nation wide. California used to elect GOP folks very regularly and still has far right representation. But folks want the lights on and trash picked up so they stay disciplined. Ballot measures help hold back ideas too L or R wing.

Once again it is Father’s Day, which means it’s time to share the most Dad* thing you did in the last year. As is custom, I will go first:

Watching YouTube videos for small repair jobs around the house has turned into watching YouTube videos for large repair jobs I cannot and should not attempt.

Drones. That’s what they will resort to. Will probably work like in Ukraine and decent souls are going to need to pay for flights to a friendly airport for these people to avoid those “tranquilizer” fields. We are still not at the bottom of this.

Been a couple situations in the past where accessibility options where clicked so often that they brought them to the main display option menu. My guess is they will just add the reduce transparency to the main display menu sooner or later.

It should or all hell will break out with the visually impaired crowd. Steve Jobs was a big proponent of this menu even ahead of any mandates.

Reduce transparency is the current option.

You can hopefully suppress this in the accessibility/ visual options menu. I have all along anyway.

Really needs to be the SOP on this site. Maybe a once a week vetting of grievances but not the immediate hair trigger stuff that we are all guilty of at one time or another.

Trump “straight forwardly and with a degree of candor” lies. Standard politicians spend more time dishonestly telling a version closer to the truth than Trump does with overly calibrated and coded language. There is a certain group of voters who are ok with the former and hate the latter.

Horrifying

the longer you spend on the internet the more true this rings

trolls are not original and they're not interesting and eventually you have seen them all

everyone is of course welcome to do their own thing but as someone who's tried it all, 'don't engage and block' is easily the best approach

Of course I can't Find the link easily now.

That’s how I thought it would go. Get past the knicks (winning 1 of the first 2) and then get crushed.

Some would say doing the choke sign in game one is sketchy and I say why are you waiting to become someone’s worst nightmare instead of doing it right now

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.