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"if it's such a great project why isn't the private sector financing it?" Why is this question valid for a train but never ever used for a road or a bridge?

@corpusmane @JeffreyLuscombe I take trains a lot and they are a lot nicer than airplanes.

Because we think about what the experience would actually be like (horrible), not like a kid "woooahhhhh fast trainnn wwowww" "Ohmyyyy efficient fuel usage yessss" Imagine yourself and murderous criminals packed like sardines into a stinky fucking can whipping from Sidewalk Shit Center to Rape Street.

Why do Conservatives hate this so much? Anyone?

@dmiller4thewin @thatkeaton There are plenty of criminal justice reforms. I think everyone can get behind. For example, when a case is totally dismissed, that should clear criminal records at the federal level. Right now it does not, until someone pays a lot of money to lawyers to have the records fixed.

@dmiller4thewin @thatkeaton I agree some reforms were poorly chosen, esp for repeat offenders. Crime impacts quality of life for regular people and hurts cities, and that needs to be weighed as well.

@claud334 @thatkeaton Don't be fooled, Democrats support wars as well, such as Ukraine war. As a whole, their criticism of the Iran war has been muted as well. Would love to see a war powers resolution act offered in the house, but so far nothing. There are a handful of R's that would support.

@dmiller4thewin @thatkeaton Basically no one is pro-crime. People just disagree about the best approach. If by “mutilation of teenagers” you mean trans surgery, it’s such a tiny number of people impacted that it’s not even on my top 100 concerns in the voting booth.

@claud334 @thatkeaton Democrat party of 80's and 90's was still anticrime and reasonable on immigration. Claimed to want to improve wages of non-government workers, and did not support the mutilation of teenagers (a phrase I never thought I would use.) Just giving you my honest perspective.

@dmiller4thewin @thatkeaton It’s literally many of the same people in office as it was 20-30 years ago. A strong anti-war Presidential candidate is probably too much to hope for, though I’d with like out too. The best we will get is just someone who isn’t totally pro-war or a scammer/liar like Trump.

@claud334 @thatkeaton Yeah, that Democrat party does not exist anymore (and I was a Democrat back in the 1980's). But if D's put up a strong antiwar candidate that is also reasonable on immigration (does not flood us like Biden) I will consider.

@dmiller4thewin @thatkeaton Pretty much all Republicans in Congress want war. Simply being in their party basically guaranteed to go to war eventually.

@thatkeaton We disappointed Trump voters could only go by his words and deeds during his first administration. Seemed to indicate he didn't want overseas wars. Yes, we were fooled, but really don't think it was obvious. We are sorry (even though domestic agenda has been pretty good tbh).

‘We can’t invest in America because we’re fighting wars’ is literally the opposite of what he ran on. Biggest scam in modern political history, hands down.

@MaddyStrong3 @Dragoon581898 @IMAO_ You don’t think that when a candidate is made fun of it impacts who votes for them? You think people only vote on policy or what?

@claud334 @Dragoon581898 @IMAO_ Not one person has voted based on a photo of the opposing candidate eating a cinnamon roll. In the event that happens, we have counter measures such as mail-in ballots & voter fraud. There is nothing to worry about here so cast that burden from your shoulders & laugh at the tweet

Everyone assumes this picture of Buttigieg is him eating a chicken wing, and that's because he's biting in a way to engage his "rip-the-flesh-from-the-bone" front teeth, so we fill in "chicken wing" to make it make sense. But what he is actually eating is a small piece of a cinnamon roll, and our brains just can't comprehend biting into a small piece of dough that way. It's like an alien took over a human body and is unfamiliar with the subtleties of how it works.

@MaddyStrong3 @mordeythanshade @IMAO_ I do some local advocacy around walkability in my neighborhood, like pressing local officials to put in more crosswalks.

@mordeythanshade @claud334 @IMAO_ What's a walkability advocate

@MaddyStrong3 @deff_jobbs @IMAO_ Not all five year olds are petty. Some are. In any case, it’s the kind of pettiness that people should grow out of when they get to six and realize these elected officials actually affect our lives.

@claud334 @deff_jobbs @IMAO_ You just said it was funny in isolation. Also I don't think 5-year-olds are petty as a rule. And it's terrible that you think they're trivial. I suppose you don't advocate for them even though most of them can walk?

@MaddyStrong3 @mordeythanshade @IMAO_ Lol that is what I do as a volunteer. I’m a retired data scientist

@claud334 @mordeythanshade @IMAO_ I have no idea what that is but you get paid?

@Dragoon581898 @IMAO_ Sure it’s funny in isolation but that’s kind of beside the point. Problem is it ends up actually impacting how low information people vote, bc all they remember is some silly photo.

@claud334 @IMAO_ It’s always important to employ humor where one can. I found it funny. Not everyone enjoys the same humor. Too bad for that.

@TrumpVindicated @catechumen_13 @IMAO_ Only ones suffering are incels and orange pedos

@claud334 @catechumen_13 @IMAO_ I'll pray for him. Her? However it identifies, they're suffering.

@catechumen_13 @IMAO_ I’m married and we are about to celebrate 20th anniversary.

@claud334 @IMAO_ You sound single.

@deff_jobbs @IMAO_ Nope he is pretty making fun of how someone eats. That’s as trivial and petty as a five year old.

@claud334 @IMAO_ The substance of your reply is measurably less than that of Frank's post.

@mordeythanshade @IMAO_ Idiotic. I’m a volunteer to help public transit. If you can’t see that as a good thing, you are very sad.

@claud334 @IMAO_ You don't need to announce in your bio that you're a bureaucratic commissar, this post is evidence enough.

@endingwithali Totally agree. I worked in SF tech for a decade and grew up in Boca. I currently live in Miami (for a few more months, honestly can’t wait to leave).

i've been saying this for years - miami will never be the next tech hub. south florida actually used to be a major tech hub. the first personal computer was invented about an hour and a half north of miami. i bet most people didnt know that IBM used to have a huge campus in boca raton where major innovation happened in the 80s. it used to be alluded to as silicon beach! the reality is that miami is a city where international people come to park their money. there's a saying - miami is 90% occupied by 10% full. thats because so many of the major communities and apartment buildings are literally just investment properties. everyone in miami wants to be 23. partying until the early morning and vapid displays of wealth are the biggest qualifiers. miami is extremely fake - rented luxury, posturing, and leased cars are used to social climb. as a reminder, money doesnt buy taste. but in miami, fake luxury buys clout. if you just rent the right car, purchase the right fakes, you can come off as extremely successful in miami even if you're living in a rented unit with no furniture (this is a thing people literally do). miami isnt the home for any major industry. the largest industry in miami is hospitality - parties, clubbing, etc. many of the locals work in the hospitality industry. every other industry is so completely dwarfed by this, its impossible to find like minded people interested in tech that arent grifters. speaking of locals, if you're not a miami native or into going out and partying its extremely difficult to make friends in the space. this is a lived first hand experience of mine. sorry, i dont feel like leaving to go to space at 2 am to get home at 7 am. i'm sleepy. if you're not into partying, there isn't much else to do. beyond the major grifters, miami is not an intellectual hub in the way that SF or nyc is - there isnt a great technical university or any major industry that relies on technology to succeed. the largest school in miami is UM - but their engineering program isnt a top engineering program or producing engineers at the rate that a school like NYU, columba, stanford or ucberkely are. many of the start up founders i met in miami were either building something completely unfeesable (i met someone trying to put health records on a public block chain.....) or were calling their small business a start up when in reality their TAM was about $5m max. the VC funds i met in miami were extremely disjointed from the actually of how vc works in the rest of the world - they were playing the NYC vc game when they should really be playing the SF vc game. They need to invest in moonshots and delusion, to get more people to see miami as an aspiration. instead many of the vcs were expecting unrealistic ARR for miami based companies. - a former miami+sf resident, south florida native, and current nyc resident.