Cities in America WERE built for public transit until after WW2. Then white flight and cheap credit (for white people) created suburbs, and suburbanites then insisted that urban cores change to accommodate the just created commute traffic and parking issues. Car-centric development happened in our grandparents’…

Seems like a good place to start if you need to raise revenues then. Perhaps start with just the top quintile.

Do you feel this same way about fares for public transit (buses, trains, subways)? If not, why do you think it’s fair to charge public transit users for use of that public infrastructure, but not fair to charge car drivers for use of the roads?

Have we considered perhaps simply raising this revenue through a different tax? Or perhaps even using road tolls?

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Sure, but you’re asking your kid to just trust that you won’t, and not to lie about it if you do. I think the goal/hope is that they do trust you, and that you don’t betray that trust. But if that’s the case you also probably have better options for disciplining them then taking their stuff.

The point of parenting is to raise healthy adults who can live on their own and know how to set and respect boundaries. Part of that is giving them greater control over their environment over time, including letting them develop a sense of ownership over “their” stuff. The parent may technically own everything the kid…

Because taking a device means a confrontation and just cutting the internet creates plausible deniability. You can criticize this approach but sometimes even good parents decide certain certain fights just aren’t worth it. Hard to say whether this guy was a good parent or just lazy and reckless.

Incentivizing frivolous, dead-end lawsuits is the point. They want tech companies to overreact and drastically limit what and who is allowed to post on their platforms. This is also the point of the GOP’s “cancel culture” and “conservative censorship” boogeymen. They want to be able to leverage whatever they can…

You can just look at the release dates to answer this question. Halo came well before Mass Effect. But also “forerunner alien species” and “galaxy-wide threat connected to what killed that species” are not exactly unique tropes in SciFi, (nor in fantasy, what with its ancient fallen empires). So I wouldn’t say either…

As others have said it works remarkably well as long as either 1) both the host and client are wired or 2) you have a really good wireless router and strong signal. I’ve used it both ways. When everything is wired it’s pretty seamless with low latency and almost no hiccups. Wireless works almost perfectly; When…

I’m one of those people that really does prefer going to a theater to see a movie and defends theaters as the best places to see something. But I’m not hardcore about it; the reality is that a movie might be better viewed in a theater but its still the same product at home.

I think Disney was hoping the pandemic was abating by the time Encanto came out. Same reason Turning Red was originally going to be a theatrical release. Encanto didn’t perform because the plague was still hanging around and it didn’t have the Marvel continuity juice to justify needing to see it right NOW. Your kids…

I think there’s two arguments going on here: one about whether an explanation is appropriate, and the other about whether the story (as told in the graphic novel) delivers. I tend to agree with you that given the themes—that time is a thief and mortality is inevitable and the only thing allowing us to ignore both of…

FWIW the show didn’t do itself any favors. Like, even tickling the idea of purgatory at the end was very obviously playing with fire. given how popular that theory was. That they went with a purgatory-adjacent ending but tried to switch it up stunk of desperation more than subversion, suggesting it was all a hasty…

Honestly nobody should be allowed to work into their 70s. Low impact professions where people can work until they die are facing a real crisis because there are way too many old people at the top who are not making way for young people to move up. Doctors and lawyers working into their 70s and 80s means even well…

Gen Xers and Millennials aren’t that far apart in terms of lifestyle, but there’s an appreciable difference between us in terms of wealth. According to the numbers Gen Xers were able to start building wealth a lot younger than millennials, getting a start during the alte 90s and early 200s boom years. Millennials on…

Interesting. I had an induction stovetop in my last home and never experienced this. And in the reviews I’ve watched where they try to capture the supposed sound it just comes out sounding either like the low hum I was used to or electromagnetic interference in the mic. Was this a common experience/was it common…

I’ve never heard of an electric coil range under a glass surface. That seems quite silly, but I suppose I’ll eat crow on that one. Mea culpa.

Electric heating is already competing with natural gas furnaces. I have no idea where you’re getting the idea that electric heating will “never, ever be cheaper.” I mean, at minimum once we start using up the easily obtained natural gas, gas prices will soar. That may not happen in your lifetime but that’s hardly a…