@Justinian777 @Boenau So you are here just to make sure everyone knows you think that cities should be amusement parks. Thank you for your contribution.
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Rob Shaw
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@tillyhazel @Boenau Genuinely if your worldview was 100% correct then Disney would have never built the Skyliner and the monorail b/c nobody would want to use them b/c they prefer to just drive everywhere. Disney literally is telling you you're wrong but you're too stupid to listen lol
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Weird that Americans don't choose to vacation in destinations that look like this. I mean, I'm supposed to believe we love this.
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@Justinian777 @Boenau Poppycock. Parking exists bc people want to drive, not bc they have to. Several worldwide Disneys have rail transpo; they also have enormous parking lots. Also FYI nothing at Disney is public, everyone is paying big bucks.
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@tillyhazel @Boenau they drove there not because they wanted to over other modes of travel it's that policy makers decided for them that they will drive there. Even still there are Disney owned public transportation that connects the parks and Disney Hotels that people prefer to driving
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Of course CBS is not credible, the refiner problem in California is fairly straightforward monopolization.
CBS Sacramento@CBSSacramento
For years, California leaders accused oil companies of price gouging at the pump, but a state investigation found no evidence of that. Instead, a CBS News California investigation found what's really driving the highest gas prices in the U.S. cbsloc.al/3PPOHwW
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GDP doesn't mean shit.
Example: you can get an MRI scan in China for about $50, same day.
Food costs less, rent in most cities is less. A 5 star hotel in China (same chain) costs 1/10th as much as in America. You can get a good electric care for about 20K, etc, etc...
The c in causal stands for Cory@coryfromphilly
Chinese infrastructure photos are wild because they seem so advanced, except then you're reminded that China has a GDP per capita similar to Mexico. Impressive 30+ year gains, but what this tells us is that infrastructure is actually kinda easy to do!
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@juliogatx Total BS. $ spent per user is extremely high and the potential user group is minimal (and use is weather dependent). Build a few sure where it makes sense but everywhere is a waste.
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Can’t be a fiscal hawk & hate on bike lanes
Bike lanes are cheapest people-moving capacity. Even tiny bike mode shift pays for itself given how expensive roadways are & how much money folks save by reducing car use.
Affordable city = frequent buses & big bike network
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@JohnTeufelNYC Maybe but those people don’t decide elections- the people that just want things to work decide elections.
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One of the weirdest tics of centrism is pretending people don't have actual ideological differences, that everyone is a technocrat who just wants things to "work." I assure you that talking politics with essentially anyone for longer than 1 minute will cure this delusion.
Majority Democrats@MajorityDems
Elissa Slotkin to Bill Maher: “The average person just wants shit to work. I don’t give a shit if you’re a Republican, a Democrat, an Independent—just live in the zone of practicality. And the far right and the far left live in a different universe.”
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As an American it’s cool reading about the Cubans curing lung cancer, the Japanese building 300+ mph high speed trains & China reclaiming the literal desert, meanwhile my government jails women for abortions, hunts the homeless for sport & puts immigrants in concentration camps.
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@Harryjwilliamss Actually the opposite - without the car accommodations everything goes out of business.
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Cars are the worst thing we ever did to our city streets.
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@IamKingWilliams @MountainBull27 If this is the way, I’d like you to show me ridership numbers for the rail that runs right down 400. They are dismal. Dismal. Same for the rail that goes out to Dulles in VA. Total waste.
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Because it won’t, expanding highways doesn’t solve traffic.
That same $4.6B that GDOT is spending could’ve built beltline rail, expand the streetcar and fill every pothole inside of the 5 counties.
But at least now the highway is now displacing rich people
WSB-TV@wsbtv
Drivers aren’t convinced that $4.6B project won’t solve GA 400 problems wsbtv.com/news/local/for…
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@IamKingWilliams You know how you solve traffic? Kill your local economy. (I’ll take the traffic, thanks.)
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@EvInFour @MeghnaWBUR Play the word association game and say the word Somalia - people’s first answer will be “pirates”. Are those people racist too?
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Has a president in the last 100 years been THIS blatantly racist?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump: "In Minnesota, it's very Somalia-oriented. These people come from a crooked country, disgusting country, one of the worst countries in the world. They come to our country -- low IQs -- and they rob us blind. Stupid people, and they rob us blind."
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@ChrisMartzWX They won’t. If Ds win they will spend all their time defaming and prosecuting.
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TDS is a real mental illness.
I will honestly be glad when Trump is out of office just so these stupid, insufferable pieces of crap whining every day finally shut the heII up.
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bike commuting has a lower mortality rate per mile than driving, eliminates parking costs, improves cardiovascular health, and means you arrive having done your workout. it is objectively the superior commute and we have spent 70 yrs engineering cities to make it feel impossible
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@davidsirota Dumb. Hub & spoke air travel is way faster and so much more efficient and there’s no monopoly of operators. No one wants to ride a train for 6-7 hours from NY to Chicago and then have to switch to some other random slow train to get to Green Bay.
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Living here in the oft-ignored middle of the country, I'm thinking the airport/air travel meltdown is a reminder that maybe the richest country in human history shoulda invested in high-speed rail like 40 years ago when most advanced industrialized economies began doing that.
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@cityaestheticss Then we would’ve wasted that 1%. Related question- why are there never any bikers on pictures of bike lanes? Hmmm
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Imagine if we invested even just 1% as much in bike infrastructure as we do in cars.
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@TVietor08 Bessent is smarter than you by at least a factor of 5 (probably more) and has 100x more intel than you, so…yeah I’m gonna go w him on this one thanks.
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These fucking morons are allowing Iran to get $14 billion in the middle of a war against them. This is the biggest, dumbest concession ever given to Iran by the US and all you need to know about what a disaster Trump’s policy is.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent@SecScottBessent
Iran is the head of the snake for global terrorism, and through President Trump’s Operation Epic Fury, we are winning this critical fight at an even faster pace than anticipated. In response to Iran’s terrorist attacks against global energy infrastructure, the Trump Administration will continue to deploy America’s economic and military might to maximize the flow of energy to the world, strengthen global supply, and seek to ensure market stability. Today, the Department of the Treasury is issuing a narrowly tailored, short-term authorization permitting the sale of Iranian oil currently stranded at sea. At present, sanctioned Iranian oil is being hoarded by China on the cheap. By temporarily unlocking this existing supply for the world, the United States will quickly bring approximately 140 million barrels of oil to global markets, expanding the amount of worldwide energy and helping to relieve the temporary pressures on supply caused by Iran. In essence, we will be using the Iranian barrels against Tehran to keep the price down as we continue Operation Epic Fury. This temporary, short-term authorization is strictly limited to oil that is already in transit and does not allow new purchases or production. Further, Iran will have difficulty accessing any revenue generated and the United States will continue to maintain maximum pressure on Iran and its ability to access the international financial system. So far, the Trump Administration has been working to bring around 440 million additional barrels of oil to the global market, undercutting Iran’s ability to leverage its disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump’s pro-energy agenda has driven U.S. oil and gas production to record levels, strengthening energy security and lowering fuel costs. Any short-term disruption now will ultimately translate into longer-term economic gains for Americans – because there is no prosperity without security.
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