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  89. Notes: 1) Austinites LOVE those bats. They keep the 'skeeters and other buglies under control. 2) Hamilton Pool (or parts thereof) is temporarily closed due to rock falls caused by The Big Freeze. 3) The Texas Capitol Gift Shop is in the underground extension. You can get canned armadillo (spoiler alert: the can contains a little plushie toy) and other oddities there. Worth a browse. 4) When visiting Dallas, get a DART day pass. The light rail serves a lot of attractions, shopping, and dining. Be sure to take a ride on the scenic McKinney Ave vintage trolley line. Los Colinas Urban Center is also kind of cool. They have a free peoplemover that you can board at the DART station, ride to Bell Tower, and grab lunch by the canal. 5) The Schlitterbahn defines its own name as "slippery road" and the death you mentioned was an employee at the South Padre park. AFAIK, nobody's ever died at the original New Braunfels park, which is the best of all the Schlitterbahns and has been voted the best waterpark in the world by several polls. New Braunfels also has a great city park just across the Comal river and you can go tubing at a number of locations on the Guadalupe (the best is "the Loop" because you can take a reasonably short walk back to the entry point and loop around again as many times as you can stand). 6)Fans of HGTV will want to check out The Silos in Waco. Funky shops with weird pricy home goods, restaurants, kiosks, and people-watching abound. Worth a stroll. 7) Texas welcomes all visitors warmly but please remember to go back home after you visit! ;-)
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  299.  @andrewfranklin4429  It's interesting that you completely avoided addressing the point. EVERY so-called "innovative" transit solution proposed over the past 30 to 40 years has been an abysmal failure. Several flavors of urban PRT (most notably Raytheon's PRT2000), the DuoRail concept, cantilevered monobeam, and too many others to list. Each and every one of them promised use of "off-the-shelf" technology, insanely cheap implementation, and even the impossible "profitable operation at no cost to taxpayers." Each failed because there was NO compelling reason to select it over existing transit modes. Like your boy Musk, the developers of these "innovative" transit modes insisted on solving "problems" that simply DO NOT EXIST. In so failing, they distracted from real, proven solutions with actual operational history and predictable costs with their pie-in-the-sky bullshittery. Likewise, Musk's bullshittery WILL cost the taxpayers plenty: street-level disruption during construction, opportunity costs due to distracting the local government from more viable transit modes, surface connections to the "system" of holes in the ground eating up acres of streets and sidewalks, emergency services, etc. You're defending a slick con man whose only goal is to SELL MORE CARS. HIS cars. His tunnels lack adequate ventilation, ensuring that only pure electric cars can operate in them. ALL of his still-existent companies depended on taxpayer handouts to become profitable. SpaceX needed NASA contracts. Tesla needed billions in state and local tax incentives plus a per-vehicle federal tax credit that YOU paid for whether you bought a Tesla or not. I must repeat: Musk has NEVER built one inch of functional transit infrastructure. NEVER. His Boring Company was actually FIRED from multiple transit projects. Why are you defending him? Do you own Tesla stock?
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  535.  @user-RCST  Irony is ironic. You called me "stupid" twice but I fire off a rather clever comeback and you call me "weak" in return while pretending that I started the ad-homs. He could have shot a few jugs or tanks of water to "test payload capacity." He sent up a car because he is a brilliant marketer/self-promoter. I never said the Falcon flew in the sixties, Mr. Strawman. VTVL craft were used by NASA back then. You MIGHT have heard of the lunar module and the LLRV. I've seen a few Thunderf00t videos about magic water scams but I've never even heard of "common skeptic." I don't hate Musk, I just don't view him as particularly innovative considering that everything he's promoted since PayPal has been derived from existing, long-proven technology. My opinion regarding the LVCC tunnel is based on decades of experience with public transportation technology and related issues. The dustbin of history is littered with failed proposals that sound exactly like the promotion of that silly car tunnel. Even if he were to achieve all his stated objectives for it, where are they going to park all those cars and who is going to pay for the garages? How are they dealing with the fact that people will exhale carbon dioxide in unventilated tunnels? What happens when there's a fire? How will they prevent a "violent political activist" from driving a "Tesla of Peace" into the system? I see no sensible answers, just much handwaving on these topics, just like those failed systems I noted that you didn't address. All that being said, I hope his tunnel project for the CTA goes well. I'm just not going to take anything at face value until it's complete because, in the REAL world, promises are cheap but cost overruns are all-too common. Perhaps we should both settle down until trains are running to O'Hare in their shiny new tunnel.
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  682. I'm one of those weirdos who actually likes Detroit - probably because I don't live there. It has a lot of unrealized potential. It also has the Pegasus Taverna (in Greektown), where I've enjoyed their Moussaka every time I've visited the city since 2004. About the transit situation: Like most American cities, Detroit once boasted an extensive streetcar network that was paved over in the mad postwar rush to build suburban tract homes, cars, and highways. Detroit's DPM (Downtown People Mover) was envisioned as part of a larger hub-and-spoke rail transit system in the 1980s. Those familiar with the local politics will not be surprised to learn that the proposed rail lines radiating out from downtown were killed but, somehow, the downtown circulator (the DPM) intended to connect them all and move commuters to and from their ultimate downtown destinations was built anyway. I'm not insinuating that pockets were lined and palms were greased, but I'm not NOT insinuating that pockets were lined and palms were greased. The original 1980s rail plan has come back to life, at least in part. Detriot's Q-Line streetcar was built along Woodward Avenue (with transfer stops at the Amtrak station and the DPM) and was working well enough until the city caught a severe case of 'rona panic and shut it down for a year. It will supposedly reopen this year. There are proposals to extend it and build additional lines but, so far, nothing else has moved forward. I think they should build the next line along Michigan Avenue to Dearborn, but that might make too much sense.
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  762.  @sebastianbardon391  A "mass extinction" occurs when the rate of extinction increases with respect to the rate of speciation. The number of major mass extinctions in the last 440 million years are estimated from as few as five to more than twenty. These differences stem from disagreement as to what constitutes an extinction event as "major", and the data chosen to measure past diversity. Therefore, there is NO "universal agreement" that we are currently experiencing one. I looked up your assertion regarding beaver dams and they benefit ONE SINGLE species of fish -- brown trout. Also noted is that dam REMOVAL benefits a broad variety of fish species. You need to learn to keep reading past only the parts you like. Yes, rats are also a successful species -- because of humans. You think that we AREN'T descended from groups of people who survived population bottlenecks and yet assert that I don't know how evolution works? Thanks for the extended bout of laughter this morning! Your act is almost ready for open-mic night. Whose education system was destroyed, again? You need to learn to read with comprehension. "Silent Spring" wasn't about CO2 emissions, it was about air and water pollution. Emissions thereof HAVE decreased dramatically since the book was published in 1962. Automobiles have become smaller, more fuel-efficient, and cleaner over the decades since, to the point that EVs are now a viable option, including transit buses. That only became possible due to five decades of efforts to reduce pollution, which is a far more difficult task than CO2 reduction, which can be ameliorated by the simple act of just planting trees, which I have done hundreds of times (I volunteered with a huge reforestation project in the 1970s). Greta has done nothing but skip school to shill about issues of which she lacks education for the benefit of political interests that do not have her best interests at heart. You didn't mention anything that you've done to help the environment. I get it, you've done literally nothing to help. You're just a troll picking fights in comment sections, parroting talking points without any understanding of the complexities of global systems. Have a lovely day and thanks for all the laughs!
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  846.  @charliedaniels1  Climate change wasn't always a partisan issue. It became one when Al Gore used it as a scare tactic and made a bunch of catastrophic predictions that failed to come true. Weren't Miami and New York supposed to be inundated a decade ago? In Current Year, AOC and a bunch of other lunatics are using it as a Trojan horse to force social engineering down the throats of an unwilling electorate. If they were serious -- really SERIOUS -- about the climate issue then they'd be working to liberalize existing renewable energy tax credits to apply to more than merely primary residences (second homes, residential rental property, and commercial realty) and they'd be out planting trees instead of fighting to subsidize vaporware promoted by their cronies (Solyndra, Solar Freaking Roads, and other blatant scams that have cost taxpayers billions). As to your question, there aren't any massive solar farms in Texas. There are a bunch of modest ones scattered around. Wind is king here, and for good reason. It would take hundreds or even thousands of solar roofs like mine to generate the same power as a single turbine (depending on the rated capacity of the turbine). Modern turbines are far more durable than the older ones covering the Tehachapi Mountains and other California locations, although the downstream waste issue applies to all renewables. Now, if we make oil ridiculously expensive like the UN wants, where do we get the energy needed to mine the necessary minerals and manufacture all these solar panels, turbines, and batteries, not to mention the critical petrochemically-derived components? This is a textbook example of the incredible short-sightedness of environmental advocates who lack even the slightest clue of how technology works and what it would take to achieve their vision. "A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods, an environmentalist is someone who already owns a house in the woods." - Dennis Miller.
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  1110. Let's not overlook the other underlying issues with high-rise housing projects: It wasn't JUST the concentration of poverty, it was ALSO the massive employment deserts surrounding them, the lack of mixed uses, and the streets with no street-level windows. Rather than look to government to "fix" this issue, let's pursue ACTUAL solutions in the context of public/private partnerships. Eminent domain: No. Just NO. Eminent domain brought us to the most corrupt slum clearance/redevelopment scandals of the 40s and 50s, displaced at least 300,000 people under Moses' rule, and created the hellscape of urban freeways that has devastated our cities. No! NIMBYs: Also known as productive people living and working in functioning neighborhoods who keep the local economy going, pay the taxes that pay the public servants' salaries, and have EVERY right to push back when they hear the most frightening words ever to be uttered outside of a horror film: "We're from the government and we're here to help you." Doing housing right: Take lessons from various HOPE VI projects and focus investment on scattered-site, mixed-use, mixed-income development with a majority of market rate units. Take lessons from Montgomery County MD and other jurisdictions that reward(ed) developers with increased density permitting for inclusion of ADUs above and beyond the basic code requirements. Allow any owner-occupied single-family home to add a garage apartment, casita, or mother-in-law suite regardless of local ordinances or HOA rules. That alone could introduce hundreds of thousands of ADUs while the owner occupancy requirement satisfies the NIMBYs.
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  1113.  @Reach3DPrinters  I'm not the one who started sprinkling salt and ad-homs in this discussion, Mister "Honda sucks compared to Tesla." Let's face reality, here. Musk is an INVESTOR. I'll give him full credit for financial acumen but he has never INVENTED a thing. Take PayPal, for example: "PayPal was originally established by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek in December 1998." Musk BOUGHT it, went public, and then sold it to eBay. He did not invent new battery technology. Such tech has historically experienced average efficiency gains of one to two percent annually. Battery tech is about where it would be anyway without his influence. His Tesla is based upon the original 19th century automobiles (which were battery powered) and the self-driving research of many other companies (Google was testing autonomous cars here in Texas for many years before Tesla hyped it up). ALL of his rocketry tech is based on public-domain NASA research (and some Russian stuff, as you mentioned). The so-far mythical Hyperloop is simply a combination of Alfred Ely Beach's pneumatic subway from 1869 combined with the MagLev developed at the Brookhaven National Lab in the 1960s as imagined by Harry Harrison in his novel "A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!" in 1972. As to my issue with Musk on a personal level, it's mainly the fact that he's made himself exceptionally wealthy by picking the taxpayers' pockets. SpaceX wouldn't even exist without government-funded research and government contracts. He wouldn't have sold half of the Teslas he made without that juicy EV tax credit. I'm all for space exploration and reducing fossil fuel dependency, but his constant overpromising and underdelivering offers more harm than benefit to those causes. My issue on a professional level is that his Hyperloop is a completely unnecessary modal alternative. We already HAVE proven high-speed intercity transportation technologies. We already HAVE several proven urban transit modal options. He could have offered useful incremental improvements to those. He did not. He hyped a shiny coffin in a sewer pipe instead, because he's an investor, promoter, and hypemaster. What have I done lately? Glad you asked. I'm at the finish line of a decade-plus project to convert my stick-built suburban house into a USGBC LEED-certified dwelling unit. I've adapted it to the hot local climate with a number of passive techniques that have worked so well that I was able to downsize my HVAC system a few months ago (out with the 5-ton, in with the 4). I've replaced appliances and lighting with Energy Star certified devices. I've also automated the whole joint for aging-in-place. I've eliminated most sources of VOCs and replaced them with low- and no-VOC items. I've replaced climate-inappropriate ornamental plants with dry-climate trees and shrubs and producing fruit trees. I installed a rainwater capture system two years ago. I installed a 7.5Kw solar array after that and just last week I ordered my first Tesla Powerwall module (4 month lead time on those at the moment). After that's installed I'll build some raised garden beds and a greenhouse watered by a drip irrigation system to grow veggies super-efficiently. I doubt I can reach a LEED platinum rating in a 1980s stick-built house but I can push it close to silver, if not beyond. My monthly electric bills in the hot Texas summers are down from about $225 to around $33 for a 2,400 square foot single-family house (which includes my offices -- I have a 40-foot commute and a full tank of gas lasts me 1 to 3 months). My water bills are about the same. I'll collect another year or two of data before I publish. That's what I've been up to. Yourself?
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  1151. There's a lot of nonsense in this thread. 1) While Texas produces more wind power than any other state and (were it a country) ranks 5th in the world in wind energy production, the state itself doesn't build or own wind farms. Power companies do. 2) Wind might be free but wind turbines are NOT. It takes significant capital investment to build them, maintain them, lease the land under them, and connect them to the grid. 3) Nuclear power plants in the USA have an exemplary safety record, especially since the consolidations. "The China Syndrome" is a poorly-written (but well-acted) FICTIONAL movie. Three Mile Island wasn't the disaster that the fear-porn peddlers make it out to be. NO reactor in the USA was designed by the Soviet Union. Some nuclear wastes can be recycled (look up mixed oxide fuel rods but ignore the links to the game/sim version thereof). 4) There is no "ideal" way to generate electricity. Each mode has its pros and cons. The best solution is a mix of sources, including nuclear, wind, solar, hydro, and geothermal for base loads plus fossil fuels, waste-to-energy, and other smoky modes for peaking. "100% renewable" sounds great if you know nothing about the subject but real-world limitations will smack you in the face. Hydropower opportunities are extremely limited. Solar is highly weather-dependent. Wind is geography-dependent and you need to build 3 times demand to reasonably guarantee capacity. Geothermal is maintenance-heavy and best suited for development to the west of I-25. Tidal is still in its infancy and not yet a serious player. The more you know...
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  1198.  Big Dick Black  That was quite the nonsensical word salad. The Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, and Reconstruction were prosecuted/issued/promulgated by Lincoln, a Republican. The EPA was created by Nixon, a conservative Republican. You're also citing court decisions which are supposed to be non-partisan, not to mention legislation which was famously bipartisan. The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are also known as the "Reconstruction Amendments" and are legacies of Lincoln, who, you may have heard, was a Republican. You might say that he was a liberal for his time, but he certainly does not fit the Current Year definition thereof, with all that crazy talk about "preserving the Union." Ending slavery was not his initial goal. Ending the insurrection was. As long as you brought it up, Roe v Wade is terrible case law, not because of the subject matter but because of the blatant Court overreach and weak supporting arguments for such an interpretation. I'm told by attorney friends that the decision is still contentious as hell in law schools and nearly impossible to defend. I'm not an attorney but that seems like exactly the sort of thing that should be left to the states. Shall we look at more of the "good" that liberals have accomplished? Kennedy was so inept that he brought us to the brink of a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. He also screwed over the Cubans, which impacts the USA to this day. He brought us into Vietnam and LBJ kept that party going for far too long. LBJ also screwed the pooch with his ill-thought "Great Society" plans. He cured NO poverty and, in fact, some of the most frightening housing projects in history were built on his watch. Carter couldn't delegate squat and even scheduled the White House tennis courts himself for a while during a time when our money was on fire and inflation hit record highs. Clinton was good for the economy for a while but dropped the ball (no pun intended). Obamacare was a complete mess and just gave the insurance companies a bonus payday. My rates skyrocketed immediately after it was passed and hundreds of my individual low- and middle-income clients ended up getting stung by a penalty they couldn't afford. California lefties have made it impossible to buy a home in Austin and our lefty Mayor decided that allowing homeless junkies to set up camp on public property was just good policy. Even my liberal friends who grew up here refer to the Cali libs as "locusts." List the ten most distressed cities in America and tell me who's been in charge of them for the past few decades.
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  1250.  @sebastianbardon391  Not "all the scientific community' believes that we're undergoing a mass extinction. That's pure political theatre and you need to grow up and watch less of the MSM's fear porn. Tell the critters whose habitats were disrupted that beavers' actions were positive for them. Explain how reducing river flow helps fish, even though California is increasing river flows "for the fish" and why it's a bad thing when human-built dams do the exact same thing as beaver dams. You're being inconsistent and I can't see a compelling reason to take you seriously, although your mental gymnastics certainly are entertaining. Our species increased from a few thousand survivors at the last bottleneck to 7.5 billion and expanded to occupy all but one continent. I'd call that successful, as would anyone who is not committed to a weird emotionally-driven narrative. By the way, I own over 3,000 books and I've read all of them over the course of 5 decades and was reading and listening intently when "the science" of the 1990s predicted that Miami would be under water by 2010. It was a fund-raising fear tactic then. Why believe them now? Yes, it's a good idea to spew less of anything into the air we breathe, but that doesn't make it a "crisis." We've cut back sharply on emissions since "Silent Spring" was published. We've cleaned up rivers that used to catch FIRE. We've remediated countless contaminated brownfields and restored them to productive use. I've attended dozens of National Brownfields, sustainability, and GreenBuild Conferences, planning charettes, and public transportation Expos/meetings/visioning boards. I've installed solar and rainwater capture systems at my home and retrofitted it extensively to reduce its environmental footprint to that of a small birdhouse. I'll bet dollars to donuts that, just like Greta, you have done none of those things, child.
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  1958. "Under-appreciated???" Only by talentless hack critics like Lardass Eatbert! When first released, the film was widely praised for its accuracy and special effects, as well as its decision to use Japanese cast and crew and the resulting balanced perspective of the events portrayed. The filmmakers were lauded for their choice to not just make another lame propaganda piece (unlike "The Green Berets"). I was living in Hawaii (Wheeler Field on Oahu) when they were filming there. Most of the Hickam exteriors and practical effects were actually shot at Wheeler, using the then-deactivated airstrip that was active during WWII and was shot up during the attack.  Many interiors were filmed at the Wheeler Officers' Club, which had remained virtually unchanged since the war. The major inaccuracy that got a rise out of audiences in Hawaii was the scene where the Japanese planes flew through Kolekole Pass (pronounced as "coal ee coal ee" without pauses -- your Hawaiian is atrocious), which drew gales of laughter from the audience because the clearly visible gigantic white steel cross at the pass was built after the war (EDIT: I see you caught that one, too). It's gone, now, because a bunch of stupid nuisance lawsuits from "concerned" citizen busybody groups were costing the Army too much money. I'm sure those jerkholes won't stop their nonsense until all religious symbols are removed from the graves of war heroes at Arlington National Cemetery. Screw actual history that doesn't agree with an extreme political narrative, right?
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  2179.  @jakerushia8555  What a truly peculiar reply. I did NOT call you out on a grammar issue. I called you out for conflating an intercity passenger rail system with an urban rail transit system. They ARE two completely different modes, even though both run on standard gauge track. If you want to make it about grammar, here we go! My post contains no errors in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, nor otherwise. It was grammatically perfect and logically correct. In your case, however, I cringed so hard that it registered on the seismometers at the local University. You failed to capitalize the word "English." There are TWO "Ms" in the word "slamming." NOW you've been slammed for substandard grammar. Are you happy? Back to the ACTUAL point I made: Intercity passenger rail service in America dates back to 1830, when the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad instituted it on their freight lines. Freight and passenger service continued to expand across the continent throughout the 19th Century as more railroads were founded, reaching a peak of roughly 300,000 route miles. Passenger service was a loss leader. The railroads made most of their profit from freight service, land sales, mining, and timber. Boston's first subway was built in 1897. During the 1920s, highway networks began to expand throughout the United States. This growth accelerated with the New Deal programs in the 1930s. After the Second World War, war production shifted to automobile production and residential construction. The war had roughed up the privately owned railroads and the promised government compensation never materialized. Instead, we used our money to rebuild European and Japanese railroads and focused on highway projects at home. The deterioration of the railroads combined with the availability of non-tolled highways delivered the death blow to passenger railroads in America. By 1971, our Class I railroads could no longer justify taking losses on passenger service so Amtrak was created by the federal government to take over that function, running passenger trains on the same routes that had been used by freight trains for decades (in many cases, more than a century). Today, out of the roughly 24,000 miles of track used by Amtrak, only about 800 miles is owned by Amtrak itself. The rest is owned by the railroads who built it and continue to maintain it. You're welcome.
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  2304. The title's a bit click-baity as these technologies all actually WORK but it's still a fairly decent analysis of the downsides of various generation sources. You completely left out the greatest advantage: NO FUEL COST and, of course, no insane fuel price fluctuations. I don't know how y'all do it in the U.K. but here in the States we generally don't build wind farms on virgin lands. They're mostly on farms and ranches which have previously been cleared and many of these locations are already dotted with oil & gas wellheads. Bird and bat kill figures might be grossly overstated: They do have EYES after all and bats have freaking SONAR! How many flying critters are killed by pollution? Also, it is completely absurd to build solar arrays on the ground. Have you people run out of rooftops? We have over 70 million residential and commercial buildings in the USA, all boasting roofs. There is NO valid reason to build solar arrays anywhere else. In the USA, roughly 20% of our generation is nuclear which, coincidentally, is roughly equivalent to our base load requirement. Another point: not all batteries are electrochemical. Pumped storage is a thing that exists. During periods of excess power production, water is pumped from the primary reservoir uphill into a secondary reservoir. During periods of high demand, that water is allowed to flow back downhill through turbines. While it's true that most locations suitable for hydropower have long been harnessed, there remain a number of opportunities to be exploited. I favor a robust mix of generation sources, including, hydro, wind, solar, geothermal, nuclear, waste-to-energy conversion, as well as a few modernized (cleaner) fossil fuel plants for peaking. Incidentally, my household solar array is being installed next week (7.5Kw using SunPower panels with built-in microinverters, mostly on a south-facing roof with a few on a west-facing roof). My region gets 300 days of sunshine annually so solar is EXTREMELY effective here and boasts a ridiculously short payback period.
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  2436.  @TheTroyc1982  Yes we do - in part because of nations like China threatening Taiwan and their ally/client state North Korea threatening South Korea. Would you prefer that nations like China, North Korea, and Russia have NO check on their ambitions? Before you point out the obvious, I'll do it for you. Yes, the US government is "less than efficient" with military spending (intentional understatement). Yes, we could probably do just as well with more intelligent project management. Yes, we could probably safely divert a fair portion of our military spending to civil works projects. No, now is NOT the time for that due to the current Administration's policies making us look ridiculously weak and ineffectual in the geopolitical sphere. Due to their short-sighted pandering to climate alarmists, they have also completely DESTROYED our two best revenue sources for funding construction of public transit projects: severance and end-user fuel taxes. Increasing those revenue streams is politically off the table indefinitely. Also, their destruction of our economic growth means that the fuel and literally EVERYTHING else it takes to construct ANYTHING is growing more costly by the day. Their desire to pretend to be "doing something" for the environment and climate change has revealed that they do not know anything about these issues and they simply do not truly care. They don't even BELIEVE in climate change. Look at all the expensive beachfront properties owned by the loudest climate alarmists in politics: Al Gore, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. That $40 billion that we sent to Ukraine to repay Burisma's investment in Biden Inc could have built about 800 miles of modern streetcar lines. They don't care about transit. They don't care about climate change. They don't care about YOU!
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  2509.  @BogieRel  "What-aboutism" is a TERRIBLE misspelling of "calling out hypocrisy." You might need to enroll in Remedial English. I admit that I got my Lefty hypocrites mixed up, which is ridiculously easy to do because there are so very, VERY many of them. Granholm was the hypocrite who cackled like Cruella DeVille last fall when asked a serious question about ramping up energy production, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that she actively hates our guts. Democratic Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow was the hypocrite who recently said, "On the issue of gas prices I went by every gas station in my electric vehicle and it didn't matter how high it was." She conveniently omitted the fact that she would have had to stop for charging more frequently than she would have had to stop for gas. The charging process takes up to a half hour per 60mi of range (vs 5 minutes to add 425 mi of range to a typical ICE-powered vehicle), and chargers are neither free nor cheap. Even SuperChargers take time -- and cost much more to use. This is what is technically known as a "lie of omission" and that's before we even consider the environmental and social harm caused by Third World children mining lithium and cobalt (Insert the "I'm digging as fast as I can, Greta!" meme here) and the currently unresolved downstream waste issue from the ridiculously toxic components in huge EV batteries. They also NEVER address the fact that replacing cars with different cars does NOTHING to solve the unsustainability of postwar urban and suburban design and the horrific nature of freeway-centric hellscapes creating ever more costly sprawl that will drain our cities' treasuries for decades to come. Let's also not forget that roads are still built using petroleum-powered heavy equipment as there are no viable alternatives on the market and that most roads are still surfaced with heavy petrochemicals because of low cost and ease of maintenance. EVs are NOT sustainable. There are dozens of excellent videos here on YT explaining why that is so, most of which were created by SANE Leftists who advocate for transit, greener practices, and sustainable communities. Our current Administration is completely clueless about all of these issues. All they've done is pander to a microscopic minority of climate alarmists by telling YOU to get by with less while they, themselves, own multimillion-dollar beachfront estates (Gore, Obama, Biden), have sketchy ties to foreign fossil fuel companies in China and Ukraine (Biden Inc), and have connections to EV manufacturers while making policies to force EVs on everyone else (Granholm, Pelosi). Not ONE of them has done anything "positive" unless you mean positive growth in their investment portfolios.
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  2512. It's Grand Central TERMINAL. Just sayin'. Also, this Texas HSR proposal is hauntingly reminiscent of the abject failure of the 1993 Texas HSR bids. I followed that duel between competing companies at the time (it was basically French TGV vs German ICE technology) and predicted failure when the company that claimed "no taxpayer money required" was awarded the bid. The more honest company lost and the winner never built a dang thing. Let's also not forget the 6-track rail corridor that was promised in the Trans-Texas Corridor proposal. The Texas 130 tollway has existed for roughly 15 years and not one single inch of railroad track has been installed along its right of way. I predict this plan will also fizzle for several reasons (I'd love to be wrong about that, but it already looks a little shaky): First and foremost, the line is all new-terrain construction. Why not expand or closely parallel existing rail routes? They're already fairly flat and straight between the triangle cities. Just acquire land adjacent to existing track. They'd attract fewer lawsuits AND be able to transport construction supplies by rail. Portions of those routes are already grade-separated. The company could save some loot by not having to elevate the entire thing (fences are cheaper). Second, too many of the station locations are rubbish. Dallas seems okay, but if they're going to build an elevated station anyway, it might as well be closer to Union Station, which serves several light and commuter rail lines, as well as Amtrak. Also, just ONE station for the entire Metroplex? Really? Stupid! The line should enter Dallas from the southeast (from Houston), continue northwest to DFW Airport and then curve southwest through Fort Worth before continuing south along I-35W toward Austin. The Houston station's location could hardly be worse. Who's going to choose to travel 180 miles in 45 minutes only to hop on a BUS when they get to their destination? Buses do NOT attract riders-by-choice. Trains do! Again, if they're going to elevate it anyway, they could put it closer to the UH downtown campus and light rail station on Main. There's a parking lot between that location and the Amtrak station that might be an ideal location for it. Don't get me started on the unabashed stupidity of the Brazos Valley station! They intend it to serve Bryan/College Station AND Huntsville. Those cities are FIFTY MILES APART. Pick one! I would choose College Station. Amtrak used to serve it on their Dallas-Houston route before they discontinued it. There is some land and surface parking across Wellborn Road from the main campus with room for an elevated station and parking structures, plus the population of B/CS (primarily a college town) is much greater than that of Huntsville (primarily a prison town). Austin's Amtrak station is ALREADY on the edge of a 24-hour neighborhood. Skyscrapers, including the hideous "Jenga building," have sprouted like weeds after a summer rain all over the western side of downtown. Whole Foods' flagship store is within walking distance. The redeveloped Seaholm power plant, thousands of apartments, restaurants, and offices are within spittin' distance. There are properties adjacent to the tracks that could be redeveloped without demolishing the YMCA or parklands. Alternatively, replace the YMCA property with a mixed-use high-rise that contains the station and a brand-new YMCA facility, as well as shops and offices. Third, there are too many missing stations. Granted, there's not much between Houston and San Antonio but a West Houston station near Katy and the I-10/Grand Parkway interchange would make sense and pick up a lot of business from local commuters (Katy Freeway is a 24/7 crack-addled nightmare). The eastern leg could benefit from stations at Corsicana and Conroe/The Woodlands. The most egregious gap in the plan is along the western leg (I-35 corridor). Waco, Temple/Belton, San Marcos, and New Braunfels are all cities that exist. The plan completely fails to address serving these population centers. At least the 1993 proposals had a station planned for Waco! Fourth, they don't need government funding nor guarantees to build this thing. They need that to build it RIGHT. This plan is sloppy and fails to serve our citizens' needs. By failing to plan properly, they have planned to fail spectacularly. I don't WANT to come back in a few years to say "I told you so," but I WILL. ;-) Thank you for your attention to this issue.
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  2531. Nice city, nice video! A few thoughts: 1) "Mile-High City" is pure Chamber of Commerce propaganda. Most of Colorado Springs is at a higher elevation than most of Denver. The mile-high marker is halfway (it's actually at the 13th step) up the western steps at the state Capitol. They had to build an 18-story (equivalent) building on top of a prominent hill to get up to "one mile." It's a beautiful building, but that's just silly! 2) For the first decade of this century, Denver was the king of redevelopment. Former airports, air force bases, amusement parks, warehouse/industrial districts, and so on have been converted into mixed-use neighborhoods, arts districts, lofts, and so on. This segues neatly into 3) Great walkable neighborhoods you missed, such as: Highlands' Garden Village, which was the former Elitch Gardens amusement park (the developer preserved the old theater and carousel sites). Stapleton, which was the former international airport and is now a huge New Urban neighborhood with shops, restaurants, housing, and a rail transit station. Lowry, which used to be Lowry Air Force Base and is now a huge New Urban neighborhood with shops, restaurants, several college campuses, and the Wings Over the Rockies aviation museum. 4) RTD is worth a shout-out for their extensive rail transit lines, and the free MallRide serving the 16th Street Mall. 5) The 16th Street Mall is a downtown retail district with many dining options and is a fairly safe and generally pleasant place for people-watching. 6) Several sports venues are easily accessible by rail. Leave your car and your worries at home. I've been a frequent visitor to Denver since the early 80s and it remains one of my favorite cities to visit. I highly (no pun) recommend it!
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  2580. Thank you for an excellent explanation. About those bans on gasoline-powered vehicles... When California's Governor did that, you realize that he also accidentally (I hope) banned hybrid-electric vehicles because most politicians are law school and Poli Sci graduates (in other words, idiots). As ironically hilarious as that is in and of itself, the bigger picture reveals that CA politicians are even dumber than you think. The Gov ordered the ban (starting in 2035) before EVs were ready for prime time, AFTER they tore down their nuclear and other power plants, AFTER Texas left them in the dust in wind energy generation, and AFTER they spent billions on HSR but BEFORE said HSR has earned a single penny at the farebox (they're going to erase a significant source of revenue from fuel taxes and pick the pockets of their citizens instead, prompting even more of them to take their wealth and tax revenue to states with sane, moderate policies). They've been suffering from brownouts and rolling blackouts since the turn of the century but have done NOTHING to bring more capacity online. The ban is an empty virtue-posturing gesture that panders to a microscopic minority of climate alarmists and is yet another example of that once-great state shooting itself in the proverbial foot. The big auto manufacturers have been quietly dialing back EV production because the economics just don't work without massive governmental intervention, which translates to: Each and every taxpayer who does NOT own an EV is subsidizing those who buy them. They've been robbing the poor to help the wealthy buy Teslas and other overpriced EVs. THAT is what you voted for!
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  2829. 2) Whatsapp is infested with crypto and other scammers. 4) Don't shop for bread and dairy products at national grocery chains. Local and regional grocers have better, fresher items. Alternatively, sample some of the offerings at Whole Foods and Sprouts. Also check out local farmer's markets. 8) Depends on your bank. My bank (a very large national bank) has no-fee online bill pay. It automatically pays by EFT or will issue a check by mail, depending on the recipient's ability to accept electronic transfers. The difference is both immaterial and invisible to you as the payer. 9) The problem isn't not believing in facts (for most people), it's the politically-biased reporting by the media, who present an agenda-distorted interpretation of science. They often simply do not know what they are talking about, engage in clickbaiting fear-mongering, and completely disregard nuance. Take anthropogenic climate change, for example. It's inarguably true that human activity influences climate, but the experts (tm) cannot seem to agree to what extent. Is it 3%? Is it 13%? Is it 30%? There are politicians who seized on this issue in order to gather power and treasure and many of their predictions turned out to be grossly exaggerated. Twenty years ago, a certain former Vice President confidently predicted that some coastal cities would be partially underwater by now. Not only did that not happen, but certain of his successors claiming similar things bought coastal and island real estate. Are you REALLY surprised that many people doubt their claims? REALLY? Currently, we have some noisy pop politicians promoting "green legislation" that is merely a Trojan horse for bizarre social engineering experiments. If they were truly serious about the environment, they'd be fighting to liberalize and expand renewable energy tax credits or out planting trees instead of developing their social media careers. We don't need to invest millions in their cronies' companies that promote "new carbon capture technology." You already have perfectly functional carbon capture devices growing in your yard! Just. Plant. Some. Trees. 10) Depends on the grocer, season, and the region. Most foods are very inexpensive here in Texas, especially at HEB, because much of our food is grown or raised in-state and HEB has several house brands that are far less costly than their national brand equivalents. Buying fruits and vegetables in the Rust Belt in winter is going to be more expensive because of transportation cost. 11) It depends. I have 5 sinks in my home. All have single-handle mixer taps, as do all 6 sinks in my rental property, and both showers in each house. Older homes (especially those built before 1990) with contractor-grade fixtures will have two-knobbed faucets. 12) Agreed. Paper straws are the embodiment of pure evil, however, and their designers should be consigned to the deepest depths of Hades. 13) Our weird attitudes about alcohol are historically the fault of women. 🤣 Look into the history of the temperance movement and Prohibition. I was born and raised here, and I cannot get used to the fact that we allowed our leaders to permit many of the world's most extensive public rail transit systems to be paved over, which forced us all into cars, whether we wanted to drive or not. Yes, I like having a car, but that does NOT mean I want to use it EVERY single time I need to go somewhere!
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  3075. A few things: 1) How much CO2 did Nye release into the atmosphere with that silly Mentos trick? Not the greatest spokesman for emission reduction, there! 2) It's interesting how you brought up AOC's press release but left out the fact that 3/4 of it had NOTHING to do with climate change. What does Universal Health Care and guaranteed income for those "unwilling to work" have to do with greenhouse gas reduction? Most of those talking points seem to be inspired by "The Communist Manifesto" instead of "An Inconvenient Truth." 3) Incremental change is the approach that will work best without causing widespread economic disruption. 4) While I believe that we in the USA can and should be making greater efforts to increase renewable generation, how do we get the most egregious polluters (China and India) to join the party? 5) AOC acts like this is the first time anyone's attempted to address these issues when, in actuality, smarter people than her have developed workable solutions over the last several decades. The "new" technology that she says we need to develop ALREADY EXISTS. She and her co-sponsors completely ignore the efforts of the USGBC and their LEED standards, the EPA's Brownfields program, The CNU and its charter, APTA's efforts to expand public transportation, local efforts such as NYC's "Greening Gotham," Oregon's LUTRAQ, and many other programs that have been underway since she was in elementary school. If she was serious about the climate change issue then, instead of trying to legislate socialism/communism, she'd be making real efforts to further extend and broaden the solar tax credit and incentivize the aforementioned programs with additional funding and/or tax credits. Instead, she is so deeply engaged in shameless self-promotion on late-night talk shows that she has neither the time nor desire to grasp the nuance of these issues. Due to her endless string of gaffes and failure to discern the concerns of the average citizen, she has become so widely disliked that she's doing far more harm to than good for the environmental cause that she pretends to espouse. I've been studying these issues since the 1990s and can say, with utter certainty, that she is absolutely clueless about REAL solutions. She's clearly up to something sinister but, if you want to believe that a mediocre waitress who snuck into Congress through the back door knows more about this topic than people who've devoted half their lives to addressing the problem, you go right ahead.
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  3115.  @Growmap  Two things: First, you completely ignored the CONTEXT of my comment. That context was water & wastewater utilities and reclamation of previously treated water. In that context, water used for landscaping cannot be reclaimed, processed, and repurposed so it is, therefore, irretrievably lost to the water utility. Second, do you seriously believe that water sprayed thinly on a lawn in 100-degree heat is going to make it to the water table? You're delusional. That water is going to rapidly evaporate, re-entering the hydrological cycle the hard way and taking months or even years to return as rain. When it does, it could fall literally anywhere on Earth. The aquifer that supplies my region's drinking water is nowhere near most of its recharge zones, and it takes a serious amount of rain falling over many days (or even weeks) to recharge it. If your water comes from a lake, then the situation is even worse because of evaporation of the lake's water. Some regions are even more screwed. The Ogallala Aquifer, for example, underlies 8 states and provides drinking water to nearly 2 million people. It also provides agricultural water to nearly 30% of all irrigated land in the US. This is a problem because that aquifer is full of what's often termed "fossil water" because its geology was formed millions of years ago, and the water does NOT replenish quickly enough to keep up with demand. If fully depleted, the Ogallala Aquifer will take OVER SIX THOUSAND YEARS to replenish naturally via rainfall. ~The More You Know~
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  3425. Thoughts: 1) Most of these failures have little or nothing to do with modal selection and everything to do with political shenanigans and/or poor financing decisions. 2) The ODU maglev could and should have been repurposed as a simple conventional peoplemover as soon as they stubbed their institutional toe. 3) There was ALREADY a heavy rail transit line connecting Philadelphia and Camden! No aerial tram was needed. 4) The original plan for the Las Colinas peoplemover was quite clever and forward-looking. They simply built it too soon, LONG before the development was built up enough to support it. If you look at the original site plan with the three-loop APT serving a dense cluster of high-rises, it was quite suitable for the vertically dense "second downtown" that Las Colinas Urban Center was supposed to become. Instead of "too little, too late" it was "too much, too soon." 5) Fun fact: The Empire State Building was constructed with a dirigible/zeppelin mooring mast, but the designers failed to account for the high winds above NYC's concrete canyons, so it was never used as intended. 6) Another fun fact: Beech's subway was excavated in secret to avoid the attention of "Boss" Tweed. Ultimately, it didn't help. 7) The most egregious failure of CAHSR was to build the first segment in the least populated area -- a region that ALREADY HAD multiple daily trains serving the Central Valley between Bakersfield and Sacramento. They should have started at each end (two of the most populous regions on the continent) and worked toward the relatively empty middle. I suspect California's legendary political corruption played a hand in this idiotic decision.
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  4180. ​ @chrisv9186  "The gun laws of California are some of the most restrictive in the United States. A five-year Firearm Safety Certificate, obtained by paying a $25 fee, submission of applicant data to the state, and passing a written test proctored by a DOJ Certified Instructor, is required for the sale, delivery, loan, or transfer of any firearm. Handguns sold by dealers must be "California legal" by being listed on the state's Roster of Handguns Certified for Sale. This roster, which requires handgun manufacturers to pay a fee and submit specific models for safety testing, has become progressively more stringent over time and is currently the subject of a federal civil rights lawsuit on the basis that it is a de facto ban on new handgun models. Private sales of firearms must be done through a licensed dealer. All firearm sales are recorded by the state, and have a ten-day waiting period. Unlike most other states, California has no provision in its state constitution that explicitly guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms. The California Supreme Court has maintained that most of California's restrictive gun laws are constitutional, because the state's constitution does not explicitly guarantee private citizens the right to purchase, possess, or carry firearms. However, U.S. Supreme Court decisions of Heller and McDonald established that the Second Amendment applies to all states within the Union, and many of California's gun laws are now being challenged in the federal courts. Additionally, California law heavily restricts the sale and possession of other items regarded as dangerous weapons, including but not limited to: certain knives, swords, clubs, explosives, fireworks, bows and arrows, slingshots, spears, and nunchucks." - from Wikipedia.
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  4396.  @379-y6y  Your source is clearly the Sept 2021 statement by Wisconsin State Sen. Melissa Agard, (D-Madison), noted expert in NOTHING, and the debunk by PolitiFact. The September 17th article by PolitiFact, not exactly known for being pro-2A, shredded her original assertion for several reasons, such as using absolute numbers instead of per-capita numbers. Of COURSE the USA (with 331 million residents) is going to show up higher on THAT list than far more violent nations with merely 40 million residents. Allow me to quote PolitiFact: "Agard is off by most measures. In terms of raw numbers, the most recent data shows the US ranks second to Brazil. When the population of countries are factored in, the US falls to 32nd. The US does come out on top when only high-income developed nations with 10 million or more people are considered." People have to jump through a lot of hoops to make the USA look bad. Do you not wonder why they do that? If you factor in gun ownership rates, the USA starts looking even more safe than the media wants you to believe. Sure, we have a problem. It isn't a gun problem, it's a CRIMINAL problem! Isn't it just a little odd that the cities with the most draconian gun control laws are those with the most shootings? Yet you want more of what clearly isn't working? Make that make sense. Student loans? NOT my problem. I majored in a PRODUCTIVE field of study and didn't take out massive "party-til-you-drop" loans. The pinheads who did SIGNED CONTRACTS and need to stop whining and live up to the deal they willingly made. All of our problems can be solved by one thing: Accountability. We're done here.
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  4410. Your comment about Moses being a classist is spot-on. Caro even notes this throughout his book and offers evidence to back it up. Moses designed the parks and parkways for people with cars in a time when only the upper-middle and upper classes had cars. He largely based his early park and parkway designs on European drive-through parks that catered to the wealthy. Since the majority of his road and bridge projects were tolled, naturally he only gave a crap about people who could afford to pay tolls. An interesting point is that there are "inexplicable" curves in the parkways that only exist to avoid some of Long Island's wealthiest citizens' properties, which has added decades of wasted commuting time and fuel to their cost. "The Power Broker" is a compelling read and Caro DOES provide sources and references for most of his assertions. I believe his assertion of racist road design was based on opinions offered by disgruntled former underlings but Moses did more than enough shady things during his tenure as New York's "shadow emperor" that including such was really unnecessary. It should also be noted that he built the Long Island Expressway to accommodate trucks and buses. Ultimately, his "parkways" were widened to the point where much of the greenery was paved over and traveling on them was no longer like driving through a park. Love him or hate him, Moses is too complex to reduce to a sound bite. Ironically, he was never elected to any office but was first granted power by Democrat Al Smith. Today's Dems really need to be more careful when they point fingers. They point them at mirrors a LOT!
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  4494. Since you didn't mention it, I guess I will. The Texas 130 tollway was built as an alternate route bypassing Austin to the east. The southern segments are famous for having the fastest posted speed limit in the USA (85mph). Most of the tollway has been open for barely 15 years and they're ALREADY widening it. Part of the rationale for building it was allegedly to relieve congestion on I-35. I knew that was BS when then-Governor Perry first proposed his Trans-Texas Corridor plan, which was a poorly-disguised scam to allow private companies to get rich by building underutilized toll roads all over the state without using much taxpayer money. The original plan proposed corridors containing toll roads, rail lines, and utility infrastructure that would connect Texas' major cities and then connect to NOTHING at the state's borders. Texas 130 is the only part of the plan that exists today. He lied like a rug and we fell for that crap. Live and learn. If congestion relief had truly been the goal, the answer was and remains obvious: Make 130 a "free" road and initiate tolling on I-35. Yeah, you aren't "supposed" to do that on an Interstate built with public funds. So what? Robert Moses did it more than half a century ago. Numerous toll roads are, today, part of the Interstate Highway System. Tolled express lanes are being added to Interstates all around the country. Even right here in Austin, the It-Will-Never-Ever-Be-An-Expressway-We-Promise-Cross-Our-Hearts-And-Swear-To-Die Mopac Expressway (Democrats lie like rugs, too) has tolled express lanes right where the UP rail corridor SHOULD have been expanded to double tracks and a commuter rail line overlaid. It's clearly possible to legislate such changes. Vote better, people!
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  4682.  @jasonharris2587  I'm going to have to correct you on that one. "The old Disney monorail" to which you refer was the FORMER Bally's/MGM shuttle that used two refurbished Mark V trains, iirc. The old rolling stock was taken out of service well before the NEW monorail line was opened in July 2004 deploying NEW Bombardier Mark VII rolling stock. There has been NO Disney-sourced equipment on that line since its construction. It also does NOT run "up and down The Strip," but along Paradise Road, Sands Ave, Koval Lane, Krueger Drive, and the alley behind Harrah's and The Flamingo, then zigzags over to Audrie Street before terminating next to the MGM parking garage because the taxi and shuttle companies successfully fought to prevent it from connecting to the airport -- as has often been the case, regretfully, in far too many US cities. Private transportation companies have historically tended to be the very worst obstacles to effective public transportation in America, as evidenced by the many examples of airlines fighting (and killing) high speed intercity rail proposals (Southwest Airlines played a major role in stalling the 1993 Texas HSR plan until it died). Of course, everyone knows about the National City Lines court case and the auto-tire-oil industry conspiracy to demolish many of our streetcar and interurban networks in order to replace clean electric trains with stinky smoke-spewing buses. That paved-over infrastructure would be worth trillions of dollars today, so it's a good thing the court imposed that $5,000 fine on NCL. That sure taught them a lesson!
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