To (probably) misquote George Carlin “think about how stupid the average person is. Half of them are dumber.”

Also, if you live in Texas, learn some damn Spanish.

They died how they lived...

“cheese”

Taxis and Uber/Lyft etc. are the same industry. The fact that they aren’t regulated as such is a major problem.

He wishes

I’ve got to imagine that that one lay got him blacklisted by DC escort services.

Like so many restraining orders...

Oregon man. You start a state to be a white supremacist utopia and it turns out that shit sticks around.

I’m not American so I’m not super up on the division of powers in your constitution but would individual states be able to set up their own single payer systems?

“Medicare for all” is a catch phrase that most people use to mean single payer. Single payer would be a system like Canada’s where the delivery of health care is still done by private entities but the government runs a single insurance system paid for out of taxes, fees, etc. Universal health care includes single…

Totally forgot he was in that.

How much water to you drink?

Too fucking right. Some pushing and cross checking in front of the net or a hook to prevent a dangerous scoring chance or breakaway are important parts of the game. This kind of shit has no place in the game and needs to be punished more severely. 

Or buy The Food Lab. It’s a seriously great book.

Except when they uncured the debt the major was in demand...

This situation has the worst of both capitalism and government interference in markets. 

It really seems like cities need to do something to level the playing field. Presumably some combination of opening up liberalizing taxis and regulating ride sharing. It is just bizarre that of two sections of the same industry one is pretty much unregulated and the other is essentially a cartel with a huge buy in…

That’s a solid point. This probably isn’t the website to be discussing the better alternatives on given that they would pretty much have to include a huge reduction in the number of private cars regardless of power source and some pretty major changes to how we do cities.

Yep. As long the the republicans control congress Trump can do whatever he wants (including shooting someone in the middle of 5th Avenue). You’re 100% right, the vast majority of republican voters don’t care about good government it’s just tribalism and identity politics to them. They just want to “win”.