# Every minute I am late for work stuck in traffic is a minute that I am not at my desk making money for the shareholders of my company.

I would argue white collar work is not linear in time in the same way blue collar work is, so you cant automatically associate 1-hour delays with lost productivity.

1960 would be the greatest generation that built the infrastructure. Let see what came next, yes the baby boomers, the selfish generation. They sat on their hands, ran up the debt, bankrupted social security, left medicare unfunded, rose to be a generation of worthless CEOs that did nothing but shuffle numbers.
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I feel like you’re in the position of a climate scientist telling people that shit will get bad soon, but no one wants to listen because carbon mitigation will cost money now and you can’t literally see ocean acidification happening in front of your eyes. We’re a stupid, shortsighted species.

I work in IT infrastructure, where we deal with the same exact math and costs, just on shorter time spans and lower dollar amounts. So where you talk thirty to fifty years and a million dollars, I talk 3 to 5 years and $10,000.

Every minute I am late for work stuck in traffic is a minute that I am not at my desk making money for the shareholders of my company.

So I read the article and while I agree that we are not using the infrastructure efficiently, you tell anyone who commutes to work in a major city that there is too much infrastructure and they’ll have hours of time to talk to you as they sit in traffic, or are stuck on overcrowded trains. Also, if you tear down a…

I appreciate your maths and analysis, but if I’m going to be entirely honest I could be an hour late to work and I’d still get the exact same amount of work done that day than I would have otherwise.

Its funny, the last President wanted to do that as well, but Congress wouldn’t pass those bills. Politicians are all talk when it comes these bills because of the tax hikes that accompany them.

I agree, if the worker can get his, more power to him. But a system that lets that happen in the first place is obviously broken. $90k/yr to take tickets and then a pension that’s the same amount every year? That’s insane, and it’s no wonder virtually every pension system in America ends up collapsing.

Remember there was a presidential candidate who talked about putting people to work on a $1T infrastructure project? Wonder what happened to him...

Worker collecting what was promised isn’t news.

As a civil engineer, this day reckoning when all the infrastructure begins to enter failure mode that the MTA lifer speaks of, is no joke. IT WILL HAPPEN. And soon. Check of the grades from the American Society of Civil Engineers Annual Infrastructure Report Card: https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/. It’s a…

Glad to see you’re going out of your way to make sure we blame the workers.

For my part (maybe it’s because I’m paying attention more, now), right after I had the thought of “awesome, look how many Amazons have darker faces”, I realized I couldn’t find one Asian face. Once I noticed that I couldn’t stop noticing.

(there’s a jokey play off of Clark Kent’s glasses-as-disguise here).

I think it’s more along the lines of “how many times do we have to see Bruce’s parent’s get murder/Uncle Ben get shot”

Frau Blücher!

I saw it at a preview last night, and despite some strange plot holes and rushed story lines, it was visually stunning. The way the director and cinematographers captured the female warriors’ bodies was beautiful. There could have been one less gratuitous slow motion fight scene, but I’ll let it slide.

Not to be one of those “But they’re good movies!” whiny nerds :-) But there are some solid superhero movies that transcend the genre. The Christopher Nolan Batman movies are legit great, especially The Dark Knight (you should watch the first one, but you don’t have watch the third one, which is okay but not nearly as…

I needed to see a woman kicking ass and fighting for justice, but more importantly, I needed to see her achieve it by herself, on her own merits, by being the hero because it’s the right thing to do.