You at least entered the DiGiorno contest, right?
You can’t win if you don’t play. I’ve won just enough contests in my life to be able to say that people actually win this stuff, and it doesn’t hurt to put your name in the hat.

This. Walk-in traffic is much higher than drive-in traffic can be. They should get bridge-loans if needed, for the meantime though.

Yup....my wife and I could probably both commute to and from work on the Indiana Interurban lines, if they still existed. It pisses me off every time I think about them.

“How dare you do something that will help me in the long-term but inconveniences me in the short-term?!?”

Let’s see...how often do street construction projects in a city affect those businesses on those streets? Oh that’s right: all of them.

This happened in cities all over the country. Most street car lines were privately owned. Companies like General Motors started buying up lines and shutting them down so they could push buses. Now a lot of people (including myself) wish the rail lines were still around. 

I came here to say something similar. Trolley and foot traffic is always better for small businesses than cars. When I am driving through town, I’m looking for pedestrians, bikes, other drivers, etc. The last thing I’m looking at is the businesses. But if I’m walking, I see them all!

We had a similar situation in Kansas City a few years ago, when we built our streetcar line right down the middle of a busy downtown street lines with high profile shop and restaurants. In the short term it was not much fun for businesses that were impacted, but in the long run it’s been a huge boon — the streetcar…

Literally no one cries more than fucking small business owners unless its farmers. Cry more newb..itll be fine. 

I bet it will work out great for the people who buy the storefronts that go under this year. I suspect that the rent on those storefronts next to the Streetcar track will go way up.

Not quite the Lifehacker of old... things are running downhill.

*sigh* I can’t believe I clicked for this crap.

No problem!

Watched Black Widow the other weekend and I can confirm, it’s not really worth watching.

ITT: a bunch of people who don’t know how RT works. This means the movie is launching with the lowest pre-release critical reviews vs. total critical reviews of past Marvel movies. WHICH IN TURN MEANS the rating will likely go lower. Because no one cares about this movie and it sounds like it sucks.

Question since I’m curious now. I don’t know much about RT, but I am a very active user on GoodReads and greatly enjoy the experience. I haven’t noticed “review bombing” but it’s very possible I’ve just missed it since I don’t read popular enough books. Do you have any articles/sources for this, or just something you…

I had been cautiously optimistic, but it wasn’t difficult to see what could go wrong. I’ll probably see it eventually, but not until it hits D+.

They can’t cut the offensive material because then the special would be 10 minutes long.

This is just how people are trained to talk - it’s unlikely Ted wrote any of what he said.

Yeah no shit. Flat out telling a marginalized group that he believes something isn’t offensive while having no overlap with said group isn’t a great look. Its like a white person telling a black person something isn’t racist.  If this was race related instead of gender related, Chapelle would be the one fighting with…