RE: Convertibles “You are not a race car driver and you can’t feel a difference”.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...true.  My (33) year old Miata just flipped one of it’s headlights up at you (person writing the quote above).

General rule in Hollywood: if they usually play creeps, they’re probably extremely nice. (E.g., Christopher Walken, Steve Buscemi, Willem Dafoe.) If they’re usually playing charming and nice (and they’re not Tom Hanks or Paul Rudd), there’s a good chance they’re creeps. Grant is a prime example of the latter. (See…

I am conflicted because

Look at the voters DeSantis is courting via his bullshit fascist policies in Florida, and ask yourself whether the people whose votes he wants care at all about international law, jus cogens, multilateralism, or even human rights.

except for the small little detail that it was approved by the majority of voters and still maintains majority support. It’s the special interests that are holding it up ...and the greedy.   Sort of a hard YEAH!

tax everyone, like all other taxes, you know, like the, ahem, gas tax.

Yeah, because nothing would make America look better internationally than a presidential candidate who takes pride in having personally violated the Geneva Conventions.

Learning he’s short and obviously self conscious about it goes a long way to explaining why he’s also a fascist prick.

But what if travelling by train is easier, safer, more economical and more environmentally friendly than flying?

Trump is just a allusion to how our national ethos is about greed, and greed, both personal and political is what is really destroying our ability to have public works like this. We used to be able to build massive infrastructure, highways and dams and parks and now because a divided electorate is playing tribal…

Yes, true but because we are stupid. High speed rail along major corridors would be amazing. Have you ridden trains? It’s fantastic, none of the rigamarole of flying with the ability to walk about and stretch your legs at any time. Europe does it. Asia does it. Works great. And I say this as an airline pilot!

“Pay no attention to my boots, I tortured prisoners like a real man”.

DeSantis is a sick fuck in so many ways. However, given the dynamics of the GOP primary, I wouldn’t be surprised if this benefits him in the short term.

Or the Spanish, or Koreans, or Japanese.  Pretty much any advanced country except the UK, US and Canada

Meanwhile SNCF are running double deck 200mph trains to every city in France a dozen times a day. What do they know?

It’s a lot of money, but California brings in $250 billion in taxes every year. We need to push this through and do an honest appraisal of what went wrong (and what went right) when it’s done. Doing new things is hard and many mistakes will be made, but we have to start somewhere and presumably we’ll get better at it…

As far as i am aware, French engineering companies were in fact hired!
But then the americans decided to deviate from the french engineering plans and things got bad.
I might be confusing the californian clusterfuck for another one in the USA, but there is at least one case in which the French railway engineers had a…

If you want a good topic for an article, how about, why is infrastructure so expensive in this country? It’s not just California High-Speed Rail, and it’s not just California.

This is the kind of thing where climate change considerations need to take precedence and it should be, um, railroaded through. Impose those carbon taxes on those ICE cars and aircraft.

I was impressed in Korea when they in just a few years extended a rail line by 30 some odd miles—through valleys and mountains (i.e.…