Same up here in Boston. You take 93 or 95, but when you’re on 93 or 95 south of town it’s THE Southeast Expressway. You’d take 90 to get to New York, but 90 is THE Pike.

I think might disagree on your last point—the T will probably never pay for itself with fares, and it’s a choice some cities make whether that matters or not. I happen to think its utility outweighs its need to be self-sustaining. The roads don’t pay for themselves either with tolls; they’re heavily subsidized.…

I’d be okay with some ability to modulate the amounts going to road vs rail (and in limited cases, coasts). In a city like mine (Boston) we have limited need for new highway projects. Plenty of roads to straighten and bridges to fix, but what we really need is about 90% of the take going to our mass transit system.…

What I loved about reading these as a kid is that after a while I knew the expedition was going to lose some of those supplies, and by setting it up when they leave in the beginning you knew exactly how screwed they would be. Something always got washed down a river or they had to abandon some things to make a quicker…

Grabbed a tie and a pair of socks for $11, good looking out!

Grabbed a tie and a pair of socks for $11, good looking out!

Yes, let the states conduct a grand experiment! Maybe a state only wants to guarantee a quality education to white kids. What a worthwhile, victimless experiment! Maybe in some, only men can own property. Maybe in others, they’ll slash all but nominal taxes because nothing bad could happen! And if you don’t like the…

Giri you gotta write more music reviews, this is just high quality writing.

I think I got the point and missed the point at the same time:

That wheelbase is very wacky to me. The front doesn’t seem to be of particular concern because only the driver is up there but isn’t there a lot of weight in the back, even if the fuel cells are in a skateboard configuration? (I don’t even know if hydrogen works the same as electric battery packs).

lol so the same people who are opposed to having trains anywhere near them are going to be fine with an elevated tube shading their property at all times? That’s why people love highway overpasses right?

This is a literal, actual pipe dream. Maybe “tech startup” has become synonymous with “let’s fuck around with impractical ideas and waste resources instead of offering improvements that actually help people” but it doesn’t have to be.

This is impossibly stupid and why we need to stop idolizing these tech billionaires. How smart can they be if they’ve forgotten that trains exist?

I like what almost looks to be a +/- symbol next to the bow tie. “It’s a Chevy, more or less.”

I don’t think automakers will much care whom they’re selling to one way or another. It’s probably easier for them to sell 10,000 copies of the same thing in a bulk order to Uber than it is to maintain an extensive dealer network and the pretense of catering to individual drivers.

It’s almost as if Toyota puts more cars on the road than anyone else.

How is this better in any way than trains?

First I thought: “These asshole racist moms have nothing better to do than to fight on the internet.”

I won’t blame the cops for the death of Heather Heyer, but I absolutely do blame them for being in close proximity to the beating of Deandre Harris and doing fuck all.

That one tool is also directly correlated to grossly outsize violent death statistics in the places where it is widely available, but by all means let’s keep pretending the two are the same. These guys.

Isn’t this agreeing with me? I don’t mean literally 6'10", I mean that the physical constraint of being able to get a ball over the rim is greater than being able to hit a home run.