Recovering IT guy, neo-Luddite retired to the Northwoods to hide out from it all…
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Sounds good in your economics, textbook, but I’m pretty sure actual social experiments have shown that these changes don’t just move behavior up and down the supply-demand curve, they shift the curve completely… Once again, apply this logic to road construction, then come back and revisit transit…
If you’re opposed to free buses, you must be in favor of making all streets, roads, and highways charge tolls. GPS tracking makes it so easy…
All the best strongmen held a HUUUUGE military parade, and he wasn’t invited!
Indeed. As does the whole damned country!
Yes, the answer to automobiles destroying our society and environment is not better automobiles: while they’re helpful, what’s really needed is less dependence on the damn things. They bankrupt us!
No, it was boredom with his whining, sniveling self-indulgent movies decades before that even! Who cares about New Yorkers with money having psycho-sexual crises and screwing up each others’ lives???
The fact that it evolved, the fact that it existed, or the fact that it died? Having just read a photo history of the place, I’m suspicious that it worked real well because everybody there was mostly poor and struggling just to make a living. It worked because there were no wealthy elites there…
I believe he’s referring to wearing her $50,000 Rolex…
That used to be called communism, didn’t it???
But the shareholder value!
I didn’t know Warriors had bone spurs???
Whole lot of crosswalks in Miami; sure would be a shame if rainbows started erupting at random, wouldn’t it??
Bald guy just jealous that those old hippies still have hair. Long hair, no less! So much insecurity, so much hate…
Better yet: it’s the north side of the wall, where the sun don’t shine! But that’s OK, science and physics has always been a weak suit for these guys…
Great: so every yahoo in America can go to DC and walk around with an AR-15 across their chest playing Israeli settler…
So he’s going to play ICE Ken to her ICE Barbie? So cute…
It just begged to be photographed…
Traitorous, blasphemous bullshit! Our Constitution was carefully written to specifically prohibit this crap!
They taught us in college economics class that in a consumer society, we all must cast our dollar votes consciously. The public has spoken: our no-dollars voted him right out! Tee hee hee :-)
LOL! But seriously, you really should seek professional help: there are drugs that can soothe your delusional ravings…
Can’t we just outlaw the private equity business model, in it’s entirety? It’s basically an asset-stripping extortion racket…
Jesus says that shit sucks, big time!
Pedant….
It’s pretty obvious that your a “wanna be” fund manager all right!
Congratulations on being so young you haven’t seen any big market downturns where the real players fleece you for 2/3 or so of you retirement savings each time… But be patient; it’s coming again soon, Mr. Seasoned Investment Genius!
And that distinction makes any real difference, how?
Stupid sentence. Dumb thinking. Deletd your account!
He thought about maybe having the concept of a possible plan. Sometime or other.
I haven’t checked Google maps, but it does cross my mind that an Alaskan Air Force Base is about as far away as you can get from where the Epstein files are hiding, without actually leaving the country. No decent golfing up there though…
Much the same experience: after a lifetime of swearing at headwinds and hills, it was such liberation to ride an E-bike…
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We are getting a lot of complicated layer-cake skies lately…
Or maybe just stop spending so much freaking money on the military! How about your earmark that money for something that actually helps people???
We are the extinction event.
Huh, I was not aware of any plans being seriously proposed that would strip you of your automobile as long as you were able to continue paying for it???
I’m not sure what your question is, but you did sort of pose a non-sequitor about being caught on the horns of a dilemma. I agree we are caught on the horns of a dilemma. I do not have a magic wand.
BTW: what device are you posting from? Don’t you think they’re already surveilling you with that? I think you just wanna drive fast all the time…
Nope: I refuse to say no to a perfectly good technological implementation to stop reckless juvenile motor freaks from endangering the public any longer!
Well, everybody talks big until the National Guard with APCs and the masked Incells with the plastic handcuffs show up en masse in your neighborhood…
Server needs to be arrested for sexual assault…
I really do not think the people behind this site understand the degree of self-censorship that people engage in due to a lack of scoping visibility to their remarks…
Well, the fact that people don’t construct their arguments to your exact liking isn’t a very good reason to completely reject their arguments out of hand, now is it??
Duh: ‘perfection’ referred to demanding perfect governing systems. Why are you conflating that with the obviously stupid thing of reading text while driving???
I was not putting forth a plan; I was metely pointing the actual reality we are in. People who are disabled and people living in far rural places are going to be hurt very hard. But doubling down on car-dependency will not help a bit…
Yes: that is our dilemma. We can no longer afford to live in the places that we have built. We will have to cope as best we can but it is not going to be pretty. Building a totally autocentric society was a true Faustian bargain with the devil!
Oh gawd; someone call the Dark Skies Police, like ASAP!
The problem with deciding to fight back for real, is the decision that you’re willing to give them an excuse to go full-blown martial law right across the board… They truly have us in a goddamn nasty double-bind!
Well, if anyone actually is saying that we should abolish cars 100% across the board, they are certainly being unrealistic. But your mother is going to have to realize that living where she does has a huge transportation cost-penalty. She may need to adjust her living arrangements accordingly…
I understand your frustration. But keep in mind that no one is saying that bikes are the 100% mandatory solution for everyone. They are great for a great many use-cases, for a great many people, but some people will still need to use cars. It will be increasingly expensive, but they’ll have to…
Yes: those places will be progressively depopulated as income inequality makes dependence on hours of driving every day, completely infeasible economically… “Rust Belt” was nothing compared to what’s likely coming.
Only if we let them design the system that way. It is not required to do location-based speed-fencing that way!
Greetings from Occupied Ametica… And you ain’t seen nothing yet!
Yes!
You forgot the part where he’s just plain stupid: a walking poster child for Dunning-Kruger syndrome…
It’s a continuum, not a dichotomy, you bozo…
And you do not seem to understand that I’m not talking DGI Mavics! My bad: I tried to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person…
You do not seem to understand the difference between “navigation systems“ and “AI seek and destroy systems”…
Well, if I had appointed an alcoholic sociopath to a US attorney position, I keep it secret too…
Well, I agree with you about less than competent machines. But I assumed you were sensible enough to pull over before you actually read my text…
So,living in a citywhere they operate gives you a deeper understanding of the technology they are based on???
Wealth-induced sociopathy. Fortunately, there is a known cure: bringing back Eisenhower-era 92% marginal tax rates does wonders to reestablish peoples humanity!
Yes: the downfall of America can pretty well be summarized by “Adult ODD” (Oppositional-Defiant Disorder)…
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No, you too would enter into a disassociative fugue state if you had to spend that many hours a week in Donald’s company…
And if I randomly texted you during your drive, at any given moment, would you actually know what the speed limit is? Arguing for perfection is merely a smoke screen to stop progress… Ungoverned cars are like allowing live tigers and lions to roam our streets!
Toys: they require massive, fine-scale mapping of every route they’re allowed to use and require central supervision at all times. These are not true self-driving cars. They are not truly autonomous. As you so aptly put it, they are glorified amusement park rides…
Please stop putting words in my mouth or I will have to block your account!
Once again, just because bikes are superior to cars doesn’t mean that cars are ot sometimes necessary and useful. They just need to be kept in their place, very firmly! Some people are just so addicted to strawman arguments!
OK, fine. I do back him: bikes are better than cars. Cars are an immense drag on the economy, a huge danger to the human population of our cities, and are destroying our climate. Cars are useful and sometimes necessary supplement to bikes. Cars do not own our country.
No, I think you underestimate how badly they work: www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/way...
And are you saying that like it’s a bad thing???
Depends on your definition of “drone”. Chinese missiles are highly autonomous and intelligent, and will easily take out an aircraft carrier. So you’re actually willing to bet 2000 American lives on your belief in hyper-advanced technology provided by war-profiteering defense contractors???
Dissipating thunderstorm a few dozen miles to the west just before sunset made for some interesting cloud peeping. Looked like things that the James Webb telescope would’ve sucked out of deep space…
I’m way less concerned about police recruits’ educational levels than whether they can pass the “I am not sociopath“ test. If we ever start using it…
Typical strawman bullshit response: nobody said we should never use automobiles. We’re just saying you shouldn’t rely on them exclusively, constantly, and in ways that constantly endanger other… 15 yard penalty for putting words in someone else’s mouth!
They are Automobiles, not Art Objects. You need to get over scratches for God sake. If she’s that creeped about scratches, she needs to keep it in the garage and out of public spaces…
Ok, Asshole: Grow up and go elsewhere with your effing shit…
Just because they are driving around, does not mean they’re safe: these are faux-self-driving cars.
Lol! No, my car does NOT have GPS. It lets my phone take care of those duties, if needed. The state gazateer on the passenger seat usually has it covered though. I think the fucking off needs to be done by someone else…
They know they’ll be able to afford food, no matter what; they don’t care whether you can get food at all…
But it’s the years of mainlining testosterone that concern me more…
Raw-dogging America, 2025 edition…
What a bizarre rhetorical jiu-jitsu you tried to pull there! Cutting state pension and healthcare is not a solution to the needs of an aging and sick population. If anything, it’s an anti-solution. Tax the rich! Medicare for all!
Yes, “traumatizing federal workers” is clearly in one of the unpublished appendices of Project 2025…
Most, but not all, of the Canadian smoke has left my county, at least for a few days…
And the more that people need to do it, the more places it will become illegal to live in a car…
In some ways, this will be a self-healing problem, although the solution might not be optimal. As the Oligarchs continue to suck all of the value out of the economy, no one can afford giant SUVs. People will walk, jitney services will thrive, snowmobile suits on bicycles will be common…
Still waiting for facts. You do have facts, right?!?
Right: so you are saying they both suck, just in different ways…
If you are referring to today’s “self driving vehicles” you’re making a serious mistake: none of those would pass a realistic, federally-mandated driving test!
Uhm, technology. Like the couple hundred micro -processors already living in your car…
Private for-profit apps have no real incentive to be highly accurate. Until we put strong laws in place penalizing inaccuracy…
See, you were thinking sociologically, not meteorologically…
Surely, you did not expect to get by without a serious roasting for posting something this silly, did you?
Get tour head out of those video games and join the real world. You might learn something.
Some/many state laws explicitly state that Ebikes are not considered “motorized vehicles“. It was a piss/poor choice of language, when it should’ve said “no internal combustion engine driven vehicles”. I guess signs must cost by the letter…
Classic Friedman: lame-assed light/weight insights, too little and WAY too late. Why does this man still have a column after all these years and all this cluelessness???
Excessive acceleration.
