Tokyo isn’t representative of most of Japan, or even of its own metro area.

“From my perspective, instead of running a 120,000sqft manufacturing facility with 130 employees, in which I make a comfortable 6-figures as an Engineer/Plant Manager”

He put his mouth where his money was.

They were the Donner Party of undersea exploration.

They are structured such that they can turn bad in an instant and it is sick that people are expected to remain on guard against that.

They are created by housing developers as a selling point for weirdos and psychos, and I have seen arguments that it somehow protects their investment until the property is sold but I forget how that works. But they also may create the HOA, then contract all the services with businesses they are affiliated with.

“Skiplagging is kind of a dick move if the connection is delayed while they try to find you”

That is not the visual I associate with that song.

Get out the way, let Casper drive!

show your work

I have met your kids.  Well, kids of people exactly like you.  They hate you.

You can’t be a Democrat in name only when the Democrats have no principles to uphold.  It works for Republicans because they actually have a commitment to evil.

The difference between a bile and an ebike is that while they have roughly the same top speed, an ebike can sustain that speed far longer, and therefore most riders do.

Good drivers can be car brained too. There is no other way. This is how things have to be, every other way of building and using physical infrastructure is inferior (because you only see it from the perspective of a driver and do not consider the possibility of not driving.)

“No. I’d probably have something smaller, that got better gas mileage. But instead, I have to own one car that can do everything- brutal winters, hot summers, 450 mile drives every 2 weeks, commuting around town”

You should visit suburban Japan. There are better models for Suburbia than Japan, but Japan’s model is the most readily adapted to the US, of the ones Have seen that do not suck. Sapporo in particular balances car vs no car very well, even out into its rural extremities, and it is almost entirely single family…

Old fashioned before times conventional wisdom was that transportation should take up no more than ten percent of your income.  The top income quintile started around 140k 2 years ago, so maybe a little higher now.  Allowing for insurance that puts one car within that ten percent, for them. 

America is broken.

Twitter was a mistake.  

The riots happened before the charge.  Clearly riots work.