Keep telling yourself that.

Naderites voted against their own self interest and put vanity before pragmatism. A vote for Nader or any third party this one round isn’t a real vote. It does nothing to advance a liberal ideology. Nothing.

Doesn’t change the electoral math: Voting for a third party in the presidential election is a vanity vote in this country. It means nothing, changes nothing, does nothing to advance your platform, and provides indirect support to an opposing platform. It is literally stupid.

Good catch. Typo. Gawker does not play nice with my phone. “stating” is the word I was going for.

Your counterargument has as much validity as me starting that I don’t believe you exist.

Shouldn’t have gotten to that point. Naderites made the difference. If they were acting rationally based on the understanding that one of the two will, without fail, be President and no other is an option and that one more closely mirrors their values, even if imperfectly, then they should realized that casting a…

And I agree with that. But it did and the choice was eventually boiled own to three choices: Support Gore. Support Bush, directly. Engage in supreme vanity, vote third party and support your least desired option indirectly with no chance of your vanity candidate getting elected.

Sure, but it doesn’t forgive stupidity. Choosing to starve because you are vegan and are forced to choose between chicken or beef is just stupid, as is the choice of otherwise liberal people to take actions that have zero chance of success but that lead *predictably* to an illiberal government for the next four to…

No. It was Ralph Nader supporters and their “There is no difference between Bush and Gore!!” whining that pushed the election to Bush.

Gimmicky shit, like the 3d touch stuff

...and what exactly is your experience estimating engineering costs and feasibility in large projects again?

Well, we will leave it there. Your idea will not work for a vast multitude of reasons, and would a an expensive white elephant requiring engineering challenges that are no would want to take on... unless you stand to directly profit from it. It is not just fanciful, it is a bad idea and for all the experience you…

Living in a place does not mean that you understand regional economics, geography, or transportation.

Please don’t propose regional solutions for a region you don’t understand.

And yet, we had a 52ft draft boat in Seattle just a few months back. Personally, I have zero interest in threatening the future viability of our ports to accommodate future generations of ships for this schlock.

Speaking of more reasons this is stupid, the *current* benchmark for the draft of container ships is 52 feet. The Benjamin Franklin, which visited Seattle recently, has that. Our ports service these ships, and in the future deeper drafts are likely.

Well, let’s math, shall we?

Man, if only there was some online resource we could turn to that could tell us what boats are running. Oh wait.

Awww, is someone is getting frustrated because his widdle fantasy sky tube magnet train isn’t realistic?

I am going to remind you of this comment in 50 years. Hyoerloop is nothing but a rehash of 1960s TRAIN OF THE FUTURE bs. You can pick up old copies of modern mechanix and see the same stuff.