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I realize that your video is time-constrained, but a key element of the death of the LOMEX project was Moses' big-picture plan to build THREE elevated expressways across Manhattan, at least one of which would have placed noisy, fume-spewing traffic jams right outside the windows of some of the city's most valuable commercial office buildings. This led to many powerful real estate barons turning against Bob the Builder, their former ally. It wasn't just a "grass roots" freeway revolt. He also pissed off the REAL powers that make New York City the center of the known universe.
As Caro explains, the final nail in shadow emperor Moses' coffin wasn't his behind-the-scenes monkey business, his destruction of poor but functional neighborhoods, his displacement of at least 300,000 (possibly half a million) citizens, his deliberate financial sabotage of the NYC subway system, the financial failures of the 1939 and 1964 world's fairs, his ultimate bankrupting of the entire city, or any of his other famously notorious actions. It was the simple act of removing a beloved tree from Central Park and pissing off a bunch of moms.
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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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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. First, the lie they're sticking with is that it was a loan, not a gift. Second, that is NOT how the federal Estate & Gift tax rules work AT ALL. That annual "limit" is actually the REPORTING THRESHOLD. It was $15,000 for 2018. It's $17,000 for 2023 and expected to be $18,000 for 2024. That amount is also what EACH giver can give to EACH recipient (a married couple filing jointly can give up to $34,000 to each of their children in 2023) without having to report anything to anyone. You CAN give more than the "limit" without paying taxes on it, but you HAVE to file Forms 709 in order to claim a reduction of your Lifetime Exclusion (currently just a wee bit shy of $13,000,000), which effectively defers the gift tax until your death (when your estate is valued). All of that being said, I'll bet you real money that nobody in Biden Inc. has ever filed Forms 709 nor any other government forms regarding the take from their blatant influence peddling. It's all going to be covered as imaginary loans between nonexistent "businesses" and such.
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@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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@bonsa1guy That didn't imply what you said it implied, Mr. Strawman. However, I did re-read the article and your "both parties" assertion was complete and utter bunk. The article is heavily Left-biased and the actors in the story were primarily on the Left. Many of the state-level rule changes in swing states bypassed normal legislative procedure. Was that enough to change the outcome? Not likely, but you absolutely know what was: The MSM's unceasing "Orange Man Bad" narrative, their refusal to cover Biden in any substantive, critical way, and TwitFace's blatant suppression/censorship of negative news regarding their Chosen One, especially the Hunter Laptop and the millions of dollars paid to Biden Inc during his vice-presidency by foreign powers (China, Russia, Ukraine, etc) that are now FINALLY being covered by the Washington Post and New York Times.
Mr. Trump was definitely abrasive and bombastic, but the guy you replaced him with because your delicate little fee-fees got an ouchie failed to accomplish anything in a 47-year political career other than enriching his own family. You simply can no longer pretend that you don't see that. Even the media that foisted him upon us has changed their tune.
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While there can be no denying that the indigenous tribes certainly got a raw deal throughout America's westward expansion (and after), you definitely oversimplified the issue of the DAPL protests. For example, how about the horrific environmental damage that the so-called "environmental activists" did to the tribe's land and private properties adjacent thereto? How about the thousands of tons of manufactured waste and even more tonnage of human excrement they failed to clean up? How about the petrol they burned driving hundreds of miles from their elegant homes on the coasts to a land about which they didn't give a flying fart until it became trendy to do so? How about the blatant disrespect they showed to the tribal council, disobedience they offered to the Native cops, and continuous disruption they inflicted upon the ordinary tribesmen who had work to do and lives to live? Did you solicit the opinions of Native Americans, some of whom think the protesters did far more harm than good? Have YOU given up driving, flying, and owning or using anything made from plastic? Have you given up wearing clothing containing synthetics or color? Have you given up eating anything that was grown with the aid of fertilizer, pesticides, tractors, or electricity? I trust you get the point.
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"This video could change the world." -- It won't. As usual, things are more complicated than that. Zoning, for one, is great for keeping residences and smokestacks separated, but it has resulted in sprawl and, therefore, heavy traffic. Also, our roads are designed for post-apocalyptic scenarios, parking lots are designed for the Saturday before Christmas, and we keep building more roads instead of more OPTIONS. Roundabouts, double-diamonds, and other traffic-calming options are useful to have in our urban design toolkit, but they are merely tools and NOT solutions in and of themselves. If you want to gain any real traction (pun intended -- not sorry) with your local politicians, you'll need to get more citizens involved in the planning process.
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@sebastianbardon391 Humans are THE penultimate apex predator on Planet Earth. There is no plant nor animal that we cannot turn into food, even the poisonous/venomous ones. That's why we're among the (if not the) most successful species (other than decay bacteria, which always win in the end). Taking prey with a rifle is no different than using knives, bows, spears, clubs, or rocks. It's simply more efficient, quicker, and cleaner. It's also quite natural. We (anatomically modern humans) have been using technology for nearly a quarter of a million years. It's just as natural as beavers building environmentally destructive dams to protect the lodges they also build. That being duly noted, would you rather be torn to shreds by a pack of wolves while still gasping for breath or taken out cleanly in about a second? Neither, of course, but I trust you got the point.
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@clutchgorilla0941 You had to completely and willfully disregard every single thing I said in two posts in order to make yourself look that stupid. Obviously, I play WoW. I've been playing it since 2009. Then and now, if someone hacks your account, steals your gold, and/or deletes your toons, you can ALWAYS get it back! It's an MMORPG, characters are persistent, and Blizzard backs up their data regularly. I've seen accounts get hacked, I've seen entire guilds get hacked, and all it took to restore them was a phone call to Blizz Customer Service. YOU sound like you've never played an MMO before. Try it some time, they're fun! Unless you're the idiot in the video, naturally, in which case you clearly don't have the knack.
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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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@bonsa1guy The TCJA tax rate reductions and increased Standard Deduction applied to literally ALL individual filers. Lower-income taxpayers experienced notable tax savings, especially with regard to the generously increased Child Tax Credit. The so-called "rich" largely ended up paying a bit more due to the loss of many itemized deductions such as the $10,000 SALT limit, Employee Business Expenses, Section 212 deductions for investment and other expenses, and high income phase-outs for the CTC and other tax breaks. Instead of parroting Left-wing MSM talking points, you'd better serve yourself by looking into these things with a critical eye.
Perhaps the most telling fact is that the current Democrat-majority Congress has NOT rolled back the TCJA, which will continue to be in effect through 12/31/2025. So far, they have also neither extended nor liberalized the renewable energy tax credit, which will completely phase out at the end of this year, which supports the contention that they aren't even a little bit serious about the environment and are merely noisily posturing to win votes from climate alarmists. Such an extension/liberalization would be a no-brainer, which is PERFECT for our political elites!
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@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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That's basically going to be the largest and most expensive cities but I, too, am interested in seeing how his list compares to mine. NYC, Boston, DC, Philly, Baltimore, Atlanta, Miami, Buffalo, Chicago, St. Louis, Portland OR, Seattle, San Francisco, Sacramento, central Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, SLC, Dallas, New Orleans, MSP, and Phoenix are all solid semifinalists. Charlotte, Norfolk, Jacksonville, Kansas City, OKC, Detroit, Houston, and Albuquerque deserve mentions, at least. This list is subject to change as new starts and extensions come online over the next several decades. To be fair, my list is based on cities with rail transit systems, most of which have very walkable CBDs.
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@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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Here is my proposed Trams Bill of Rights:
1) The right to clatter enthusiastically along the tracks,
2) The right to embark and disembark passengers at signed stops,
3) The right to charge a reasonable fare,
4) The right to priority at traffic signals,
5) The right to discharge unruly passengers with no refunds,
6) The right to forbid eating, drinking, smoking, vaping, and loud music on the tram,
7) The right to offer bicycle stowage,
8) The right to name a streetcar line "Desire" (but only in New Orleans),
9) The right to effectuate intermodal transfers with buses, ferries, subways, and airports, and - most importantly -
10) The right to clang, clang, clang the bell.
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This thing looks like just another Kickstarter scam. Did we all not see the unacceptable lateral movement as the projectile tore through the Saran Wrap? Did we not all see the projectile tumbling after that? How is this possibly a more viable concept than an electromagnetic launcher, high-altitude launch from a conventional aircraft, or even the silly roller coaster launcher from "When Worlds Collide?" Can they eventually refine this? Maybe, but SHOULD they? I doubt it. I wish them luck but it seems that, like so many other "innovative" transportation technology concepts, this one is going to end in tears and the gnashing of teeth, thrown unceremoniously into the dustbin of history alongside DuoRail, AirTrain, HoverTrain, PRT2000, cantilevered monobeam, and dozens of others you've never heard of because they proved nonviable.
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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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@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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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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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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@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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@kennethdeanmiller7324 The most weighted factor in selecting the targets was the MASSIVE military-industrial presence in those regions.
Hiroshima had a major port, enormous IJN presence, an IJA headquarters, and munitions production, storage, and distribution facilities.
Nagasaki wasn't even the primary target of the second bomb. It was hit because Kokura (the primary target, selected due to the large number of factories producing aircraft and other military assets) was obscured by cloud cover. Nagasaki was originally chosen to be the primary target of the third bomb due to its own concentration of factories producing war materiel but, as we all know, the third bomb was never even assembled, much less deployed.
Now, nearly 80 years later, it is long past time for historical revisionists to stop pretending that these targets were anything other than huge concentrations of military-industrial power feeding Imperial Japan's massive war machine and just shut the hell up, already. #FAFO
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As a committed Centrist, I have to ask if all this angry rhetoric also applies to those who laid siege to the courthouse in Portland for more than 150 days, those who invaded the Senate and Supreme Court to protest the nomination of the most boring nominee in America's history, those who set fire to swaths of DC four years ago this very month, and those who destroyed government buildings and hundreds of small businesses in Minneapolis, Kenosha, Rochester, and elsewhere in 2020 alone? A recent Princeton study shows that there were 570 violent demonstrations (aka riots) in 220 locations across America last year. Claiming that ONE particular riot in DC "isn't normal" is charmingly disingenuous. The mainstream and social media pundits have downplayed this repeated violence so vehemently that we've become desensitized and even accustomed to it. THAT is the REAL tragedy, and nobody should dare pretend to be surprised at this stage of the geopolitical game. Should ALL violent thugs be held to the same standard, or is that different "because reasons?" If it is different, what might those reasons be? Can anyone articulate a rational response to my quite valid question? Anyone? The floor is yours.
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The posted speed limit, which is usually determined by each state's Department of Transportation. 65, 70, or 75 mph on most rural Interstate and US highways. 55, 60, or 65 mph through most urban areas. There are exceptions, of course. Speed limits are temporarily lowered through construction zones. There are some Interstates in the western US with limits as high as 80mph and a tollway in central Texas has the highest signed speed limit in the nation at 85mph along its southernmost segment. We have a real hodgepodge of roads here in the USA, with Interstate, US, state, city, and county road networks, but the long-haul big rigs primarily travel along limited-access Interstates, US highways, and state highways ("freeways"). I hope this explanation was helpful.
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@fritoboat13 Yikes! That demonstrates that they didn't teach you MATH. From the O.C. Register: "About one-quarter of what California produces is exported around the world. Here are some more facts and figures about California agriculture. California remained the nation's leading state in cash farm receipts in 2015 and produced 13 percent of the U.S. total." Also, from Slate.com: "California produces a sizable majority of many American fruits, vegetables, and nuts: 99 percent of artichokes, 99 percent of walnuts, 97 percent of kiwis, 97 percent of plums, 95 percent of celery, 95 percent of garlic, 89 percent of cauliflower, 71 percent of spinach, and 69 percent of carrots." Can anyone explain how 13 percent of just America becomes 80 percent of the whole freaking world? Math matters!
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@jasonsadventure I'm no fan of ANY politician, but you have to willfully deny a LOT of reality to think otherwise. Are you seriously saying that, in less than a year, your life has gotten better?
Inflation is at a 40-year high,
We are no longer energy-independent,
Illegal immigration is at its third highest level in 97 years,
The current Administration keeps interfering with state governments over "problems" that simply do not exist in order to pander to less than 1% of the population while shining us on about actual problems that are hurting the 99% of us who aren't obscenely wealthy,
Instead of doing something about the problem, we've been warned to expect food shortages,
Our President cannot even remember what he said the previous day,
Our Vice President didn't receive one single vote in the primaries and has yet to address any issue with which she's been tasked,
Our enemies no longer fear us,
The dollar is being challenged as the world's reserve currency, and
We are closer to seeing mushroom clouds roiling the skies over Europe than we were in 1962, when the Kennedy Administration's bungling had us teetering on the brink of nuclear war.
But at least the mean tweets no longer hurt your delicate little fee-fees.
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@The Memo "Fortunately once again America has a competent qualified honest truthful President" -- Learn to comma, dude. Your "competent" President has, in ONE year, gone from "Build Back Better" to 40-year high inflation, devalued every dollar you have by at least 7%, waged war on the energy industry, destroyed our energy independence, killed off a critical source of tax revenue (severance and fuel taxes), edged us closer to World War Three than any administration since Kennedy's, caused a food shortage, and has NEVER been honest about nor accomplished anything in his nearly 50-year political career. Either you are a Chinese propagandist or you lack sufficient knowledge to not be required to have continuous adult supervision.
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It appears that you can only be "funny" when you attack things that were never said by anyone, EVER. Dan Patrick didn't say that, he simply asked why we can't balance reasonable precautions and some level of economic activity. Also, the President DID start taking action in January. He assembled his task force while the Democrats were still holding their Kangaroo court and trying him for things Joe Biden actually DID. I'm sure you've seen the interview where he admitted to withholding aid in order to interfere with the internal administration of Ukraine. Are you ever going to acknowledge its existence? The President prudently restricted travel from China and you insane media shills hysterically shrieked "racist!" He's been saying (for years) that we need tighter border security and that outsourcing our manufacturing to China was a terrible idea. He's being proven right, so when you try to paint him as crazy, inconsistent, or unaware, you might want to take note of all the paint you've splattered on yourself. As far as the Easter "deadline" is concerned, that was never a deadline, it was a hopeful goal. It's a moot point now, of course. This video aged extremely badly in less than a day!
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@yrreteugarps2835 Considering that I spent many years auditing financial institutions, reviewing their CTRs and SARs, and making the occasional fraud referral to CID, I'm going to lean on my 6 years of highly specialized training rather than take some rando on the internet seriously. Here's a couple of relevant definitions for you, however:
1) A currency transaction report (CTR) reports CASH transactions exceeding $10,000 in one business day, regardless of whether it's in one transaction or several CASH transactions.
2) A suspicious activity report (SAR) must report any CASH transaction where the customer seems to be trying to avoid BSA reporting requirements by not filing CTR or monetary instrument log (MIL)...
3) A MIL must indicate CASH purchases of monetary instruments, such as money orders, cashier's checks, and traveler's checks valued between $3,000 and $10,000.
You may have noticed the common theme of CASH. CASH is physical in this context. You obviously misunderstood something or are stuck on the accounting definition of cash, which is different than the Treasury definition of cash.
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@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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Austin is a tough call. I'm not going to whine about your grading -- it is just an opinion, as you said.
Factors favoring a mediocre grade:
Horrible traffic,
Weak public transit,
Ridiculously infrequent intercity train service,
High real estate prices and skyrocketing property taxes,
Invasion of homeless bums and junkies created by our previous Mayor's insane policies, and
No major league sports teams.
Factors favoring a higher grade:
Better urbanism is gaining traction in many neighborhoods (Downtown, Mueller, and The Domain),
Amazing restaurants,
Excellent entertainment options nearly every day,
Vibrant local music scene and world-class music festivals,
Decent comedy venues and at least one world-class comedy festival,
Many top-tier universities and well-regarded collegiate athletic programs,
Plenty of nearby recreational lakes and state parks,
Good local parks,
Less than a three-hour drive to multiple major league sports venues and other top-tier universities,
It's still Texas -- and the Castle Doctrine applies,
I live here, and
When I get sick of the city, my itty-bitty Hill Country ranch is a mere 90-minute drive from my primary residence and my office.
Your mileage may vary.
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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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@greenwayne122 The climate has been warming for 13,000 years, since the Laurentian ice sheets started retreating. Tell me a few things, please.
1) Why should we "stop" it? These cycles are just how the Earth's environment functions. The Earth is fine. It's been fine for millions of years and will be fine for millions more. Nothing we do will hurt this world. Only ourselves. Calm down.
2) What percentage of the last 100 years' temperature increase is INCONTROVERTIBLY due to human activity (please note that I did NOT ask what percentage of atmospheric CO2 we are responsible for)? Show your math, please.
3) Why, after 13,000 years of warming, is this only NOW, in recent years, a "crisis?"
4) Why do you choose to side with the wealthy elites who tell you "Give us more money and we will change the weather?" Have they EVER advocated for anything that didn't directly benefit themselves? Stop listening to what they SAY and watch what they DO. The politicians who whine the loudest about climate change (Gore, Obama, & Biden) own huge beachfront and island estates that don't have a single square inch of solar panels on their roofs (heck, MY roof generates more clean PV power than all of theirs combined). They travel in private jets, motor yachts, town cars, and limos. They want US to stop using fossil fuels so THEY can keep living the high life. Pay attention and wake the hell up!
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@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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@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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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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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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An excellent summary of an intricately nuanced and complex subject, but: 1) The shift to cars was VERY bipartisan, politically speaking. 2) You can't really discuss the evolution of the American highway without discussing the pernicious influence of Robert Moses (who taught the world how to get away with looting public transit budgets to fund highways and punching massive freeways through viable communities while displacing hundreds of thousands of residents, among too many other abuses of power to list here). 3) If you're going to talk about crappy rail systems, WMATA's Metrorail is NOT the best image to use, being one of our most high-tech, safe, and successful systems. 4) it wasn't just GM who killed the streetcars (although the National City Lines case emphasized their "conspiracy" with Firestone and Standard Oil), it was ALL the car makers, tire makers, and oil companies pushing rail transit out of the picture. Even though they were fined some symbolic pocket change re the conspiracy charges, there was no law forbidding their takeover of the streetcar companies (it turns out that all these entities, including the streetcar companies, had numerous politicians of every party in their pockets, it's just that the auto-tire-oil pockets were much deeper).
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@joedavis4150 I did not say that you were wrong, just that the date is a moving target. Of course oil & gas extraction won't last indefinitely. We absolutely should be building more renewable sources and nuclear power plants. We should be increasing investment in more and better public transit, too. I attended the APTA Expo last week and, while rail wasn't as prominent as it's been at past Expos, most of the buses on display were electric, hybrid-electric, and CNG. Autonomous vehicles were the distracting "golly-gee-whiz" tech at this year's Expo (in past years, the distractions have included the Bombardier monorail, TransRapid MagLev, self-driving buses that never entered production, and DMU commuter rail trainsets that failed to widely catch on), but a lot of solid fuel-efficient and time-saving products were also being showcased.
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It is, of course, NOT impossible. It IS, however, exceptionally impractical and utterly unnecessary. We HAVE many existing, proven transit technologies that already do what the loop of hype proposes to do, without the extra challenges. I've noticed that the biggest fans of the hyped-loop are those who are not familiar with transit technologies, while the biggest critics are transit experts/mavens/pundits. Just build a damn MagLev based on the TransRapid design! China did. It works -- RIGHT NOW! You can go ride it. If you don't need that much muscle, build a damn monorail based on the 5/8-scale ALWEG design that Bombardier built for the Vegas casinos. It works -- RIGHT NOW! You can go ride it. Can you go ride a Hyperloop? No, you cannot. There are plenty of "studies" but, for SOME reason, nobody has built a true working prototype yet. Until someone does, this is pure vaporware, like virtually every PRT system proposal since Morgantown, DuoRail, and every cantilevered monobeam system you've never heard of.
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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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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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@hotdogstandman First, nobody ever claimed it was financially successful. It was built with private funding, not public, so it didn't cost YOU anything. The taxi and shuttle companies interfered and ensured that it wouldn't succeed financially. It was, however, technologically successful, being the first non-APM transit line in the US with screened platforms, full automation, AND full grade separation. It was built in record time, too.
I'll tell you what, I'll keep my transportation money in in my own city and my convention business in Orlando.
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I did watch the entire video, but you completely skipped the part that explains WHY so many people uncritically accept the "lab-engineered" hypothesis. That is because, for the duration of the pandemic, the CDC, mainstream media, and CCP apologists changed their narrative so often that they were either just completely WRONG about everything (the charitable version) or were blatantly LYING to us about everything (the uncharitable version). It is NOT unreasonable to believe that the highest-paid (in 2021) federal employee in the United States was lying like a filthy rat bastard the entire time in order to cover his tiny garden gnome ass and protect his disproportionately huge taxpayer-funded rice bowl. "One and done," "You can't catch it or spread it if you're vaxxed," "six feet," and, of course, that all-time classic meme "deadly enough to plow through four vaccines but your cloth Elmo mask will stop it in its tracks" were all shown to be wrong (or lies). Not to mention all of the fuckery surrounding excess fatality stats and California closing THE PACIFIC OCEAN but still having worse results than most states and entire countries that didn't close anything. Yesterday I saw a driver wearing a mask ALONE IN HIS CAR. That isn't science - it's self-inflicted mental illness!
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@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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@anita miller Perhaps you'd support it as well if you were capable of basic math. The TCJA benefitted lower-income taxpayers far more than it benefitted higher-income taxpayers, many of whom LOST their ability to itemize Section 212 deductions for investment expenses, employee business expenses, and other tax breaks.
The Democrats, on the other hand, pushed for expansion of the Renewable Energy Tax Credit, EV and charger credits, and other breaks that can ONLY benefit higher-income homeowners. Do you assert that those of modest income can plop down $60,000 for a photovoltaic installation and battery bank on a whim to take advantage of an $18,000 nonrefundable tax credit? For 2023, you can search your sofa cushions for $55,000 in loose change, buy an EV, and claim a tax credit for as much as $7,500, but NOT if your taxable income is more than $150,000 ($300,000 if married filing jointly). I'm sure that ALL the rainbow-haired hysterical toddlers will be lining up in droves to take advantage of this incredible savings opportunity!
Learn to math, lady. 🤣
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@williamr1088 Regarding the drivers, we agree. Regarding the cars, however, we do not. Do you really think that the average contemporary 4-banger could sustain 186mph for several hours at a time without it becoming a problem? Consider what a few panic stops would do to one's brakes, or what a swerve would do to the tires, steering, or alignment. How about a simple pothole impact at that speed? Also, the vast majority of the country has these things called animals that often get in the way, especially at night. Could a Honda Civic survive a 186-mph impact with an armadillo, much less a deer?
It's fine. I don't have to convince you that this idea is insane. YOU would have to convince lawmakers, multiple state DOTs, and the federal DOT that it ISN'T completely insane. Considering that the highest posted limit in the USA is currently 85mph, which is quite rare, I don't see that happening.
If you're in that much of a hurry, buy a plane ticket.
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Quite interesting! Since you're including significant nonresidential builds, you should consider a follow-up video and discuss places like Crystal City in Arlington VA, the extensive pedestrian tunnel network beneath the streets of downtown Houston TX, and SubTropolis in Kansas City MO. There are far more modest examples scattered throughout the USA that are also interesting (Dallas, Los Angeles, and OKC spring to mind). More historically, the electrified narrow-gauge freight rail tunnel network beneath Chicago connected a startling number of buildings to post offices, freight rail yards, and coal ash dumps, keeping a great deal of freight, mail, and waste disposal traffic off of the downtown streets. Seattle and Atlanta also possess interesting (and/or sinister) "underground histories."
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"Save" might be stretching it, but they certainly add value to a neighborhood! My favorite "variety show" of paths would have to be the string of New Urbanist communities along 30A in south Walton County, Florida, which include short boardwalk style paths providing shortcuts within a community (Rosemary Beach), concrete paths extending residential blocks (Alys Beach), paths connecting adjacent villages (Seaside and its neighbors), paths bridging water features to connect divided sections of a neighborhood (Watercolor), paths/dunewalks connecting to the beaches (ALL of the 30A communities), and the paved 19-mile Timpoochee Trail that parallels 30A and connects EVERY community for bicyclists with very little interaction with motor vehicles. There are also numerous hike-and-bike paths in the nearby state park, forest, and wildlife reserve. These paths are so popular that many resorts and other businesses make serious coin by renting out bicycles.
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@leveljoe Correct. They were covered in ice AND snow, like a lasagna. Layer of ice, then a layer of snow, then another layer of ice, then more snow. Finally, a light glazing of ice to top it off. When the nastiness was at its thickest, my 7.5KW array produced an epic 1.5 KWH. Yesterday, the first day of The Great Melt, it ground out more than 15KWH, about a third of which was exported to the grid. Today should be even better, as most of the crap on the panels melted off and filled my rainwater harvesting barrels, which I normally use for landscaping but am now using to flush my toilets since most of the city has no water service and two of my toilets were on the verge of being declared toxic waste Superfund sites.
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@brettany_renee_blatchley No, I don't. And neither do you. Bring the receipts -- please cite any law or proposed law that makes BEING trans "illegal." If you are an adult, which I assume you are since you have a real, meaningful job, then there is NO law or proposed law that prevents you from getting hormone treatments or elective surgery. Your latter assertion is simply the result of MSM fear-mongering. That "wave of trans genocide" they yammered on about last year was based on 13 (THIRTEEN) victims, most of whom were sex workers, out of a population of 330,000,000 people. That is a murder rate of .00000003939, making trans people statistically SAFER than ANY other demographic in the country. If you refuse to believe in math, then - as you just pointed out - it is legal for you to carry a firearm for self-defense.
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@pastorjerrykliner3162 Okay, then, let's dissect your claims.
1) If you're a real pastor, there's a better than even chance that you elected to OPT OUT of Social Security using Form 4361 to claim the so-called "ministry services exemption." If so, you'd have NEVER PAID IN A CENT on your ministry earnings and, therefore, are not even entitled to Social Security benefits based on those earnings. You can't "lose" what you never earned in the first place!
2) Retirement planners, CFPs, and Ch. FPs ALWAYS consider Social Security benefits in their retirement planning strategies. Most will correctly advise you to not rely SOLELY on Social Security, but to invest in other retirement vehicles and view Social Security benefits as "bonus money" or a "fun fund" or whatever floats your boat, flies your plane, or wrecks your age-inappropriate sports car.
3) No LEGITIMATE financial planner would EVER say what you claimed yours said unless, most likely, they were trying to scare you into investing in a product that grants them a commission. That would border on an ethical violation that might cost them their certification. Ergo, you are not quoting a properly certified specialist.
4) You called me a "lib" as an insult and then accused me of "resorting to an ad hominem." Not only are you irony-impaired, but you're a hypocrite and your name should be Ron, because you're definitely "more Ron" than most. Was that better? You're welcome.
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@pastorjerrykliner3162 You call me a "lib" as an insult in the same sentence that you accuse me of employing an ad hominem argument. You are critically irony-impaired. Okay, then. Here's my argument:
1) If you're actually a pastor, then there's a better than even chance that you've opted OUT of Social Security using the so-called "ministry exemption." Therefore, you've NEVER PAID any Social Security tax on your ministry earnings, which means you CAN'T receive any benefits based on those earnings anyway, so your story is BUNK.
2) CFPs, Ch. FPs, retirement advisors, and registered representatives ALWAYS account for Social Security benefits in their planning. REAL experts would NEVER say what you claimed, so your story is BUNK.
3) However, a sketchy faker certainly would in order to scare you into buying some lame financial product on which they'd receive a commission. A legitimate planner would never risk their professional certification by saying and doing such a thing, so your story is BUNK.
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@cliffordschaffer5289 Your assumptions are that:
1) There's something for the Navy to know that isn't mundane,
2) The pilots actually reported something unusual,
3) The military would tell you exactly what their radars detected if, indeed, there was anything to detect in the first place,
4)That pilots are rigidly sane people who never buy into conspiracy theories or other nonsense and would never EVER pull silly pranks due to excruciating boredom,
5) WHICH picture clearly showed one WHAT?
6) What thing got how close to a fleet without being identified?
The simplest explanation is usually the correct one. You clearly WANT this nonsense to be real, as have so many others, yet not a single piece of credible evidence has ever been produced. News channels constantly make mistakes because they suck at their jobs or even intentionally mislead to generate clicks/subscriptions/ad revenue yet this is the ONE time they get it right?
Dude, I'm a certificated instrument-rated pilot and if you even merely suspected the wacky shit many commercial pilots believe, you'd never set foot on an airliner again. Yet we're supposed to uncritically accept everything they say? Pass.
Again, extraordinary claims require extraordinary EVIDENCE. The burden of proof is on YOU, not me.
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About 6 years ago, my LDL was so far off the rails that my doctor nearly had a heart attack. I got it under control with a modest dosage of meds, by cutting fast food and fried food completely out of my diet, dramatically reducing my intake of red meat and dairy (now I just "cheat" once a month or so) and enjoying the unparalleled excitement of oatmeal every morning. I do eat some vegan stuff, like fake meatball ("featball") marinara, fake burgers ("furgers"), and fake cheese ("feese"), but I can eat turkey, chicken, and fish and do so frequently. As long as they aren't deep-fried, white meats have very little LDL impact. Safety tip: not only is pork red meat, but it is also the WORST for your health of all red meat. No wings? No gills? No way!
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Some random thoughts:
The Line is merely a wasteful vanity project that will never be fully realized.
The true value of Arcosanti is in some of the construction techniques that have been developed or improved there, such as siltcasting. It, too, will never be fully realized. It's tough to finance the construction of a city of 7,000 residents by selling windbells and switchplates, and it's especially difficult when you refuse to allow people to buy their homes!
Arcosanti does model many decent concepts for compact self-sufficient city design, though. We should never build a large-scale "city in a building." It's not human-compatible.
Arcosanti is widely praised in certain circles for being a carless city but, ironically, the ONLY way you can get there is (wait for it) BY ROAD. Once you get there, it would be excruciatingly difficult to move into your apartment due to the lack of streets.
I like Arcosanti, even though there's very little for a visitor to actually DO there. I've even done my part to help out. I've bought windbells, switchplates, art, and a few meals there. It's still going to take 120 years to finish the joint at this rate!
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@KyaraExMachina Please explain how they're going to pack up their 22,000 developed acres and relocate dozens of hotels, a hundred-ish amusement park rides, lakes, beaches, waterparks, shopping centers, an enormous zoo, a massive sports complex, and golf courses. They couldn't even keep some of their most popular ride-throughs open without external corporate sponsors (RIP, Horizons). Decades ago, they peeled off 5,000 acres to build a New Town. It isn't part of the RCID and is doing quite well as part of its host county. They'll adapt. They're too damned cheap and greedy not to.
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@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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@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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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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Well, I'm not the kind to kiss and tell,
But I've been seen with Farrah.
I've never been with anything less than a nine, so fine.
I've been on fire with Sally Field,
Gone fast with a girl named Bo,
But somehow they just don't end up as mine.
It's a death defyin' life I lead,
I take my chances.
I die for a livin' in the movies and TV.
But the hardest thing I ever do
Is watch my leadin' ladies
Kiss some other guy while I'm bandagin' my knee.
I might fall from a tall building,
I might roll a brand new car.
'Cause I'm the unknown stuntman that made Redford such a star.
I've never spent much time in school
But I taught ladies plenty.
It's true I hire my body out for pay, Hey Hey.
I've gotten burned over Cheryl Tiegs,
Blown up for Raquel Welch.
But when I wind up in the hay it's only hay, Hey Hey.
I might jump an open drawbridge,
Or Tarzan from a vine.
'Cause I'm the unknown stuntman that makes Eastwood look so fine.
source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/thefallguylyrics.html
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@savlosavage The Dem agenda is "successful???" Sure, if you define "success" as an 800% surge in the murder rate in Portland, proposing spending bills that equal Obama's entire budget during his 8 years in office in merely 5 months, chaos at the southern border, a mass exodus from unlivable California to affordable conservative states, inability to hire workers due to competition from the dole, divisive rhetoric, skyrocketing prices for housing, building materials, energy, and food, rapid devaluation of the dollar, and teetering on the razor's edge of hyperinflation. Your definition of "success" is deeply flawed. May you reap what you've sown with your emotion-driven vote. The problem is, you're taking the rest of us down the toilet with you.
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Shout out to Monorail Coral noted and approved. 👍
In 2007-2008, I upgraded my entire home's lighting. New fixtures, Insteon smart switches/lamp modules, and dimmable CFLs for every lamp and fixture. The frequently-dimmed and often-switched units in ceiling fixtures began experiencing a startling failure rate after half a decade and I've since replaced those with LEDs, but over half of my original CFLs are still working quite well, even the 8 spotlights in cans in my office and reception room. Oddly, I had a worse failure rate with the ballasts in my T12 fixtures and eventually replaced the ballasts and changed out the T12 fluorescent tubes with T8 LED tubes. Sure, the CFLs were more expensive than incandescent bulbs, but when one factors in the PITA factor of replacing bulbs in ceiling fixtures (find the ladder, remove the fragile glass cover, avoid falling off the ladder, struggle to not drop the fragile glass cover, etc) then the price/performance ratio is COMPELLING! I have been -- and continue to be -- highly satisfied with my CFL lighting investment.
FYI, Lowes accepts CFLs for recycling.
Nice retrospective. Keep 'em coming! 😊
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@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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