Many Texans.

If commuter cars can be replaced then so can commuter trucks.

The problem is mostly that we don’t build rail spurs in industrial areas anymore. If we did, then these cars could detach from trains at a shunting yard, and split up to head to all their different destinations individually. But the only last-mile infrastructure we currently have is roads.

The biggest reason why companies use trucks instead of trains is that you can fill a semi truck and send it off a lot quicker than you can fill a whole train. I think rail cars capable of individual operation would work great in place of semis, because you get all the benefits of the smaller size, but you could also link them up into full trains for efficiency when possible.

Turn on google tracking

Some people should really not be allowed to drive without passing some sort of “basic knowledge about vehicles and what to do when something goes wrong” course.

And yet we hand out drivers’ licenses like candy because the alternative is being trapped at home with no bike or transit infrastructure.

It’s named after the bases but I believe it includes the outfield too.

It’s called a baseball diamond.

“yeah but those places are really expensive to live”

They’re expensive because they’re rare. Supply and demand. If more places became better at walkability, then everywhere already walkable would get cheaper.

It’s more acceptable if the lane is wide enough to overtake and/or they’re running at a decent clip, i.e. 10-15 mph. But jogging is usually more like 5-10 mph.

This guy, however, can screw off: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/163zr06/re_earlier_post_please_dont_run_in_the_bike_lane/

And even in between counties. I cross the county line between a well-funded suburban county and a dirt-poor rural county occasionally and the road quality is night and day.

The government should just pass a law banning capitalism and then we wouldn’t have to worry about strikes at all, but that’s also never going to happen.

That doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea, just that it’s too extreme by the standards of US politics. Unions here often still need basic protections like the right to strike at all in the first place. Check out the rules against teachers striking in Texas, they’d be banned from public sector work and lose their pensions. The only way they could possibly go on strike is with a vast enough majority to force the state government to repeal those rules.

Parks. With pedestrian infrastructure and free public restrooms.

If there’s enough left of me to bury then I didn’t protest against cars hard enough

Maybe it’s so bikes can get through stopped traffic to the bike area in front of the traffic lights.

That’s what it looks like to me. The way it tapers off and then has a big landing pad area in the front.

Ebikes can do most errands in suburbs given the proper infrastructure. The only thing they can’t do is a long daily commute, but if we build transit to major job sites then you only have to ebike to the station.

It’s even more than 90% of the land: 80% of people in the US live in just 3% of the land area. The only infrastructure needed in 97% of America is just train lines stringing small towns to the nearest big cities. We used to have this. The train tracks are mostly still there. We just need to make a deal with railroad companies that we’ll invest in the tracks in return for national passenger trains having total priority on them. Or just eminent domain them, that would work too.

Nobody is saying that we need to have a bike path going across the whole country. Most people don’t leave their home city on a regular basis, and for those who do, we need to build trains, not more cars.

Electrolytes are chemicals that can ionize to carry current. Table salt is one electrolyte, but potassium and magnesium salts are also required by the human body. Nerves work by sending electrical signals, so they need these electrolytes in order for them to carry those signals throughout the body. The problem is, the amount of electrolytes available to nerves depends on the amount present in the bloodstream, and when sweat glands pull water out of the bloodstream, they also take some electrolytes with it. That’s why you need to replenish them after sweating. If you don’t, your nerves won’t work as well and your muscles will have a hard time coordinating. The specific ions you need to organize muscle contraction are sodium, potassium, and magnesium, so if you’re low in any of those, then you risk weakness and cramps. So it’s not quite as simple as just drinking table salt.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolyte)