@caraathome @bikingdallas How does remove 25% of the agencies funding make them better?
Would removing 25% of the City's funding make them better?
Would removing 25% of your income make you better?
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Patric Morgan
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Patric Morgan
@patmorgan235
IT Generalist in Healthcare
Katılım Kasım 2011
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@bikingdallas Wanting a well run transit agency isn't making it worse, it's literally making it better. More money for DART isn't the answer, maybe less executive bonuses? It will be interesting to see what happens next.
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Wake up Dallas - you pay a full cent of sales tax for DART with ever-increasing fares.
Ft Worth pays 1/2 of a cent for transit & gets a FREE downtown circulator.
DART has a bloated budget that has massively increased while ridership has decreased.
Downtown Fort Worth@DTFortWorth
💙 All aboard! Trinity Metro’s new Downtown circulator, the BLUE LINE, launches today — offering free rides every 7 minutes, from 7 AM to 7 PM, 7 days a week through Downtown Fort Worth! Learn more here: bit.ly/3HnFSGC
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@caraathome @TheJevil2005 DARTs rail trips are longer than most urban systems, it functions more like regional/commuter rail. So of course trips per rail mile are lower, of you calculate passenger miles per rail mile the system preforms much better.
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@TheJevil2005 DART ridership is at 80% pre-pandemic and it was really low pre-pandemic. For rail, it is the lowest ridership per rail mile of any major system.
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@caraathome I'm pretty sure the city of Ft. Worth is paying for a portion of the downtown circulator. If the City of Dallas wants one they are more they free to contract with DART for a "free" circulator.
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how did we swing from “random normal people should have their lives ruined forever because they tweeted something dumb ten years ago” to “guy who explicitly demonstrated a Nazi worldview a few months ago deserves to be one of the most powerful people on the planet”
@jason@Jason
50%+ of young kids say something stupid online in their youth today This is down from 100% of boys in schoolyards in the 1980s — when we didn’t actually have a permanent record (even though they told us Tele did!) Write an apology, say what you learned since then and get back to work
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@Metaforest @nisten @lauriewired Unsafe rust still has more memory safety checks than C. Unsafe rust doesn't turn off all restrictions, just some.
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@nisten @lauriewired all rust foundational libraries have problems because they use unsafe rust to do things at the hardware layer that rust cannot do safely. It makes the whole idea of using rust pointless at the kernel level.
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summary of linux kernel drama:
1. dev posts patch for Rust support in kernel
2. maintainer said they would never allow patch
3. lead dev of Asahi Linux calls this out as sabotage on social media
4. Linus says social brigade makes him not want anything to do with the Rust patch
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@theo The SSA has only issued 400 million SSNs.
ssa.gov/history/hfaq.h…
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@rufftamu @brewdawg8892 @TheBattOnline Current class sizes are around 15k abpa.tamu.edu/accountability…
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@brewdawg8892 @TheBattOnline I had the same question. I skimmed the report linked and didn’t see the answer either.
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Texas A&M will limit the number of new undergraduate students it enrolls to 15,000 annually for the next 5-7 years as one of several initiatives aimed at "right-sizing" the College Station campus, Welsh announced Thursday. thebatt.com/news/am-to-lim…
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@menglish8286 @TheBattOnline No. Legacy status in admissions is an anti merit signal. We want the best students, regardless of their family background.
Signed a 2nd generation Aggie graduate.
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@TheBattOnline Bring legacy back as partial consideration for enrollment and have students that want to be Aggies attend
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BREAKING: Texas A&M will pause undergraduate enrollment growth for the next 5-7 years, according to an announcement from President Mark A. Welsh III.
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@luomostesso @Rafamonsta @maxdubler "Finally" bruh urbanist and yimbys talk about how bad our zoning maps are, and how the only housing we zone for is Single Family Homes, ALL THE TIME.
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@Rafamonsta @maxdubler Finally! Evidence! I think single family housing is good for when it’s time to have kids but for people in their 20s it’s not good
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If nobody wants to live in condos, why do we need zoning to make it illegal to build them?
Melissa Savenko@melissasavenko
The YIMBY crowd that is constantly pushing urban density as the solution to the housing crisis does not understand the buyer market. Most people don't want to buy a home in a multi-unit building for lots of reasons: 🚩 Privacy 🚩 Sound privacy 🚩 Lack of private outdoor space 🚩 Everyone hates HOAs 🚩 Financing is harder 🚩 You are subject to the financial issues of your co-owners 🚩 Pet limitations 🚩 Master insurance issues 🚩 Can't control maintenance schedule That's just off the top of my head.
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@maxdubler What zoning laws? I ask every day but I’m never given 1 example. Just complaining. It’s hard to rally people to your side without any shred of evidence
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@Paulfisherdc @fperrywilson @zalaly @NatureMedicine @Medscape If all impulse behaviour was the same/had the same driver sure. I think it's reasonable to think that impulsive eating and impulsive driving generally have different roots.
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@fperrywilson @zalaly @NatureMedicine @Medscape Devils advocate here, wouldn't it be reasonable for the car crashes to go down? If this is limiting impulse behaviours, shouldn't people drive safer?
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Every week, I see a new study talking about this or that effect of GLP-1 receptor agonists like #ozempic. FINALLY, we have a study evaluating all the outcomes (good and bad) in one dataset. There are some... surprises. 🧵
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@elon_cousin @peterboghossian >"Pardoning someone in advance is illegal".
Pardoning someone for future actions is illegal, pardoning someone before they have been prosecuted is perfectly legal.
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Pardons are Reversible as they are outside of precedent.
👉Those pardoned have not been charged with any crime.
Pardoning someone in advance is an illegal precedent. These pardons are a misuse of power and should go under review by the Supreme Court to decide the outcome.
Otherwise Trump and anyone in his cabinet could commit any and all crimes and be pardoned upon Trump’s exit. If that seems ridiculous…that’s because it is and Supreme Court should see it the same way.
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Check out Biden’s signature on his recent “Executive Grants of Clemency” (Pardons). These are publically accessible on the official Justice Dept. page.
Biden clearly did not sign these. Now look at his signature for his son, Hunter, in the next post.
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@imjaredz @typesfaster Cars != People. You can remove cars without removing people.
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@typesfaster What is going to boom about Lower Manhattan now that all the people are gone? Congestion may be effective, but not in the way you want.
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Mind-blowing how effective congestion pricing is. Lower Manhattan streets remain completely empty. It's an important lesson to remember: how price-conscious the typical consumer is - a daily $9 fee changed the entire landscape of NYC. Lower Manhattan is going to really boom now with all the honking and congestion cleared out.
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@hecubian_devil If we created the warming we can reverse it. Things will get bad before we try though
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@Hondo320F16 @eyeslasho Because it's TeleVISION not TeleHEARING
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@eyeslasho Given this info, why would a deaf person even be tuned into a TV at all.
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@TheTexanRhino Yep, the reason most rail projects are successful is because they're more likely to be given dedicated, grade separated right of way. The rail projects that are given less grade separation are less successful.
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I want to be more optimistic about this project than I am. But the fact it isn't grade-separated on one of the densest linear corridors anywhere in Texas and instead street-runs in already congested areas speaks to the bleak, unambitious way we now plan these transit systems.
Hayden@the_transit_guy
I am so beyond supportive and excited for light rail to come to Austin, but this cannot be the land use surrounding such a system...
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@MattForner @jaredpolis PR has nothing to offer the U.S. in return for statehood. It’s in massive debt, & rife with corruption with a 3rd world power grid.
Greenland is strategically located & rich in minerals & likely oil
Greenland makes much more sense
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If it’s the choice of the people of Greenland to join the greatest country on earth, I would welcome them as our 53rd state, right after we admit Puerto Rico and Washington DC as states.
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