Maybe if Sliwa did some crimes, preferably with sexual assault or high finance, republicans would respect him more.

This should be a climate crime and the management responsible forced to pick up trash or some other appropriate punishment

Nigel Farage should be cut

Facts don’t matter. Emotions do. Many decision makers feel that in-person is better, and that’s the end of the discussion.

NYC transit I think caps at $34/week, which I don’t hit because I walk most places.

When I lived in the suburbs I did some math about the cost. I was paying like $300/mo for transit into the city, plus all the other car coats. Moving in meant rent went up some, but I got rid of the car. Big win, in my case.

There’s that bit in Baldur’s gate 2 where some NPCs decide they can take you on, die, and then reload the game.

People don’t think about things. And when they do, they don’t care. They’re tired. And some of them are kind of stupid.

Like, imagine you’d only had two hours of sleep. Imagine that’s your peak cognitive health. That’s the best you ever get. That’s a lot of people. They’re not going to think a lot of deep thoughts.

I hated how the office I used to work in kept the cold air blasting. I had to wear layers in August. And because of how bad the building’s HVAC was, it was still warm on the other side of the office.

I bring this up whenever people suggest working in the office is more productive. Being physically uncomfortable is not good for focus, Jeff.

That’s not what corner case means.

And that’s not what city life is. There’s music, food, art, museums, cinema, theater, street fairs, cultural events. All of that fits in a city, in a few square miles, because cities are dense.

Why do you think city life is just work and home?

Droll? You’re saying New York City, one of the cultural capitals of the world, is droll?

Most people aren’t going spelunking every day. They go to work. They go to the grocery. They go out to eat. They go out for drinks. You shouldn’t need a car for that. You definitely shouldn’t drink and drive.

No one is seriously arguing for getting rid of all cars for all people in all case. The focus is making them no longer the default. People who do need to drive for whatever reason will have a better time because there would be less traffic.

But really this conversation goes the same way it always does. People propose mass transit to solve the day to day for most people most of the time, and some people say it won’t work because of corner cases and “I don’t want to change anything”.

My elderly parents historically have been middle of the road democrats. Hated Reagan, hated bush.

Today my dad said “the radical left takes things too far”. My mother said, “I don’t feel safe in new york city! they’re targeting old white people!”

I don’t know what sludge they’re consuming but it’s not factual.

Have you ridden trains? Like, commuter trains? the NYC subway handles millions of riders per day. The trains have many doors.

I’d be okay with people being ticketed for driving trucks with only 1 passenger and not using them for hauling anything.

Well, we agree on this at least. I live in NYC and most of these huge trucks are a unnecessary menace.

And have you seen the types of people who take trains/busses? No fucking thanks.

That’s kind of a fucked up sentiment, honestly. I live in an area that has a working transit system, so it’s people of all walks of life. Rich assholes ride the train to their high finance job right next to the working class folks. People commute in from NJ and CT because it’s faster, easier, and cheaper than driving.

People who drive when there’s transit available, without a good reason, are assholes. “I don’t want to see poor people” is not a good reason.

Trains, and busses, are a huge tradeoff in time savings.

Also, lol. I can pay $3 to ride the train to midtown in ~40 minutes. Or I could drive, and deal with all the pain points of traffic and parking and take… ~40 minutes. I’ll take the train and read, thanks.

Are you the kind of person who thinks “Where’s the any key?” when the computer says “press any key to continue”? Like, overly literal, inability to parse intent and deep meaning?

poe’s law is real and i can’t tell if this is sincere. It’s so cliche I think it might be a joke, but some people essentially are sad little jokes so maybe it’s real.

There should also be something like “slop’s law” for “any post on the internet might be AI slop, or might be trash hand crafted by a person”

I don’t think an average user is going to know how to interpret the output of mount or findmt

Why don’t these idiots ever suffer any consequences for being so stupid and/or deceptive? Probably because most people are also kind of stupid and dishonest.

This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this, why do so many racists argue that they’re not racist?

I think because they have a simple, shallow, understanding of the world.

They believe racist is bad. But they don’t really know or accept why.

They believe they are a good person. Axiomatically.

Thus, they cannot be racist because racist is bad.

He kept talking about sin

Probably max out all skills by spending time in appropriate settings. If I can learn magic as per, say, mage the awakening, then I’m doing that as well.

Then I’m coming back here and fixing the world with extensive application of five point Mind and Fate magics.