Sure, it takes years off your life. But they’re the shitty years!! My great aunt lived to 92, which was about 20 years longer than it should have been. between the macular degeneration, osteoporosis and dementia, she ended up talkingto her dead relatives, complaining she couldn’t see them.

Thanks for calling my grandmother famous.

This was a giant international scandal, Ryan Lochte is now universally regarded as a moron, and he lost all his sponsorships worth many millions of dollars. The only reason he wasn’t charged by the Brazilians is he fled the country.

10/10 going to use that in future pieces. Thanks.

For all its faults, people forget how much of a modern fucking marvel the American air travel system is. You can literally eat breakfast on one coast and eat dinner (maybe even lunch) on the other. You can wake up in Miami and go to bed in Seattle. All of this infrastructure, from traffic control to maintenance, to…

I was telling an acquaintance in Britain that I was driving from Colorado to California and it would take me 14 hrs. She was completely flabbergasted and finally sputtered "If I drove fourteen hours,  I'd be in Eastern Europe!" 

Right up there with people who live in New York and Los Angeles who think they understand rural America. Just because you want to think everybody who disagrees with you are idiots doesn’t mean they are.

How many miles between L.A. and Seattle, Einstein?

(I live on the west coast, but just keep trying that strawman buddy).

You’re making it very, very clear, that you have never driven between cities on either coast. What do you think we do? Drive on the beach? Do you have any clue how roads are surveyed?

Air travel is also environmentally friendlier to many forms of transportation when you contemplate that you’re consolidating traffic flows over hub airports, airline load factors are VERY high, and airframe and engine manufacturers have evolved FAR past automotive manufacturers insofar as emissions and pollution…

What I take from this pic is Texas alone could conquer half of Europe.

Serious question here, not trying to start a fight. If the current climate period is almost 12,000 years old and we have only had thermometers since 1638, then how do we know the climate is actually changing? We’ve only been measuring temperature for 380 years.

In small parts of them. I guess if you want to take a high speed rail (200mph) from LA to NY instead of a plane (560mph)we can have a race and I’ll see you there a day later.

High-speed rail is great, too, and no, don’t tell me “air travel is faster.” Getting to an airport, going through security, and sitting at a gate because you got there too early lest you miss the jet entirely, is plain miserable. It is also included in air travel...

It’s not too big, it’s just very expensive to do high speed rail across a country that is thousands of miles wide. Not impossible, just pricey. 

Consider population density maps of the two-yes, the U.S. does have a similar hole in the Western half, but the layout is not nearly as favorable as China’s. We’d still have to connect SLC, Las Vegas, Colorado, Oregon, WA, NorCal, SoCal, Arizona, etc., whereas China sends a single finger out west and covers 90% of…

We do have a large region where people don’t live, but that region is surrounded by population centers on three sides. The entire Western half (and a good portion of the Northern bit) of China, except for like one city, is rural and disconnected from their high speed rail network.  If you’re willing to focus on a few…

Why would we be building anything? That should be on the electric car companies to do. I know I’d be pissed if my government was opening up fuel stations on behalf of Shell and Chevron. This is one of the many issues that her plan seems to ignore outright. To say nothing of the fact that for someone claiming to be for…

Everybody lies.. whats your point?