@Lib_Development Moving just the operating budget of Interstates to toll based financing would solve so many problems...
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Sam!
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You’re not going to believe modern best practice in red states for funding new highway expansions
Richie Floyd@richiejfloyd
Imagine if we judged highways off how much profit they generated
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@Lib_Development @jahorne Vision Zero tells us, "Spend until you got $0 left", so this is probably where they ran out of money.
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We love a good protected bike lane! 🚲
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@dilanesper Seems to me they had the Rick Perry case in Texas in the back of their minds.
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4. Because the immunity they created is so vague and contradictory it is entirely manipulable.
All they did was say an prosecution cannot be based on "core presidential powers" or recite facts related to those powers.
But what are core powers? The Court doesn't say.
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I literally like all the people in this thread, but I am annoyed by the argument they are making.
1. There are enormous controls against abusive prosecutions of government officials, including grand juries, motions to dismiss, restrictions on the prosecutor, venue rules, etc.
Jan Crawford@JanCBS
This is exactly right. The immunity decision was immediately misreported/mischaracterized as a “get-out-of-jail-free card” for Trump and continues to be used as a weapon to attack the Court, even though its real impact was to shield Joe Biden from Trump’s DOJ
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@sharghzadeh There's one left in Ann Arbor, but it does seem to be a specific style to pre depression Detroit.
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There is a very distinct Moorish revival apartment building style that I only recall seeing in Detroit, it's a shame most of them are abandoned.
Dion@2024dion
Abandoned jewelbox apartments in Highland Park. Reminders of the vast wealth once created there and the city’s stunning collapse.
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Walking across the freeway Detroit is planning to tear out has really reinforced the case for North Loop removal in my mind. This is a much worse project, connecting the edge of a very unevenly developed part of downtown to a low rise residential area. The North Loop slices through two thriving commercial districts.
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@atrembath Or-and hear me out-instead of data center waste heat, the waste heat from a geothermal plant. And instead of urban, in the middle of absolutely nowhere. And instead of pubic, a tourist trap with eye watering prices.
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Urban public pools with microreactor-powered data centers in the basement.
Kevin Patrick Mahaffey@dropalltables
More people would be pro datacenter if every one had a beautiful open-to-the-public heated pool.
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@hege_money Yup, and it has maybe 500 year round residents in a state with 10 million people.
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for the record there is a car free city in michigan lmao
saying cars are essential for michigan culture isn't true
i get that it's a large economic sector but we've had large econ sectors that were net negatives that we've abolished
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@Lib_Development Easy. I'm hearing there may be a BART fire sale soon and we may be able to pickup the rolling stock cheap. So as a requirement, the new line must use BART's broad gauge. Value engineering solved!
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Also, you just *have* to propose something that value engineers are not inclined to turn into Some Bullshit such as pictured
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There are like 3 trains that Chicago really needs to build and this is not one of them lmao. Speaking of "trains that would get low ridership because they mostly serve low-density suburbs..." this is a nearly 1 for 1 replacement
Midwest Moderate@ModerateIndy
This line would be shorter than the red line even without the expansion and provide 10x the benefit of the red line expansion.
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@Birdyword @mattyglesias Also, they do generate *a lot* of traffic when they’re being built.
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@Birdyword @mattyglesias It’s more of a class thing. Locals intuit (rightly or wrongly) that the “tech moguls” are getting rich off these and they’re not. They then backfill stories about electricity and water costs. It’s the sort of thing that wouldn’t happen if they were building an aluminum smelter.
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@DaveBondyTV The program was long defunct and the administration was in the process of doing this anyways. The council caught wind of this and decided to pretend it was an actual accomplishment.
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This is the video of when Ann Arbor, Michigan City Council voted to spend $18,000 to remove neighborhood watch signs because they are not inclusive. What's your take?
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@2024dion How do locals pronounce the name of this town?
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@mishalgorithm Nah. Ann Arbor is a one company town. You're describing a north of 12 Mile thing.
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@dilanesper And people intuitively understand this. Literally no one says, "Wow! Harvard and Yale have amazing teaching! We must study their methods and replicate it at Big State U."
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@dilanesper No, no, no. The whole point of Harvard and Yale is to groom the next generation of Presidents, Senators, Supreme Court Justices, and captains of industry, i.e. gatekeep the elite. MIT and Caltech exist to groom geniuses who will invent novel ways to split the atom.
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Of course one thing we could do is require the Ivy schools to expand and admit more kids. We could also ban legacy preferences. And finally we could push elite employers to cast wider nets than the Ivy League.
Because these schools shouldn't get to be gatekeepers for the elite.
Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns
One of my least favorite discourses that pops up every single year: "This kid got a 99% SAT, and no Ivy Leagues!" followed by blaming wokeness or whatever they hate. Look. 2M kids take the SAT each year. By definition 20K will get top 1% scores. It's impossible for them all to get into the Ivy League, who admit around 15K per year. And that doesn't account for the fact that a bunch of Ivy admits are legacies, rich kids, or athletes, so the pool is actually smaller. And it doesn't account for the idea that the Ivies would legitimately rather have a kid with top 5% scores plus [other really cool thing] rather than the top 1% TestBotOptimizer. It is *not a story* that kids with strong numbers get rejected from elite universities, but every year it's portrayed as a shocking new trend caused by whatever the current culture war item is.
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@stevemouzon Two slightly related things:
Details cost money. Much cheaper to paint the brick a single color than repoint it.
Houses are thought of as financial assets. Colors are chosen to be inoffensive to the most buyers.
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Can someone explain to me the blandification of the nation we've been seeing in recent years? Colorful places & buildings going 50 shades of grey?
Hayden@the_transit_guy
While we've seen great transformation in Detroit, I'd like to point out that the number of vacant homes in Baltimore has decreased by 25% in the five years of Mayor Scott's tenure. Never bet against America's cities.
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@DE_Gifford I can't for the life of me understand why planners liked these "split apart" interchanges. Is there a writeup on them somewhere?
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@DastDn New Zealand is about the same.
stats.govt.nz/news/census-re…
The population of Australia is almost a third foreign born.
abs.gov.au/statistics/peo…
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Roughly a quarter of the Canadian population is now foreign born.
I can't readily think of a precedent in modern era. (The highest the US ever got was 15% in the 1890s. And also in 2020s)
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@Cthulhu4Prez @BrunoTertrais Makes sense. France definitely can't have other countries running around nicking far flung island possessions.
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With this Falkland kerfuffle, the world is in shock to discover that French and Britons are brothers.
Guys, where have you been for 150 years ?
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@rruetigger @JacobAShell That really came from bottom up slightly later. Probably started around 2014 with Ferguson. I first really noticed it in 2015 when the video of the student at Yale screaming at Nicholas Christakis over an email about Halloween costumes.
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@JacobAShell Do we agree the identitarian turn originated or accelerated during BO's reelection campaign, then became amplified by legacy media & academia?
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The point emerges in starker relief if you compare 2015 left with 1990s left:
-90s radical left was anti-globalization ('99 Seattle protests etc);
-90s center-left supported use of US military power to topple dictators like Milosevic;
-90s left-wing intellectual culture was postmodernist and distrustful of "master narratives" as well as materialist ("Wall Street and wages"-focused) framework;
-90s left enjoyed MTV alt rock sexual libertinism and would have hated idea of government getting involved in how college students date each other;
-90s left-environmentalism was of more localist, treehugger variety, wasn't so interested in vast abstractions like "planetary climate"
Wie Dan🍃@LudditeHacker
@JacobAShell What did the left from 2015 disagree with the left from 2005 on?
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