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Jeb Rach
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Memories of a simpler time.
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Jeb Rach@jebrach.com |
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Just a nerd here on the internet. Loves transit, good urban design, and naps. St. Paul stan. he/him
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Jeb Rach
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Memories of a simpler time.
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Jeb Rach
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I'm pretty sure someone has cursed McLaren to only use terrible tire strategy when it matters.
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Jeb Rach
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At least they're preventing me from reading their trash.
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snipy
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Weird that the felon insurrectionist shouldn’t serve his country by dropping out but I am not a BigBrain NYT person so what do I know.
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Jeb Rach
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LOL as though the $2 fare (that most bus drivers aren't going to kick you off for if you don't pay) is the critical element that's stopping "gangs" from going to Robbinsdale.
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Jeb Rach
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They spent $396 million failing to find a spell checker for their press releases.
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Jeb Rach
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why is there a sprint race at 5am cdt on a saturday. i just want to sleep.
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Jeb Rach
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The only reason I'd watch is if one of their performances determines whether I get a free Arby's Roast Beef Sandwich tomorrow.
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Ashley Fairbanks
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MN was able to address this with the Minnesota Insulin Safety Net Program. Alec Smith was a 26 year old diabetic who died rationing his insulin. His parents and Rep. Mike Howard worked tirelessly to create this program, where insulin users can get a 90 day supply for just $50.
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Jeb Rach
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But realistically, if I could charge at home or at work, I'd get an EV without a second thought. We can figure out road trips, and they're infrequent, but 3-5 minutes a week at a gas station is better than an hour at a DC fast charge spot.
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Jeb Rach
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Yeah, this is why I stuck with an ICE vehicle instead of an EV. Living in a rented apartment with no real charging infrastructure (I do not trust the regular outlet in the garage to handle continuous load like that well) and nowhere else where I am regularly has good charging infrastructure.
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Eric Moran
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Heads up folks in Minnesota (and the surrounding area). Wildfire smoke is coming into the area in the breeze free hours. Please take all precautions since this will impact everyone.
This is in effect until tomorrow afternoon. Details in link below.
www.pca.state.mn.us/news-and-sto...
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Jeb Rach
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Can I use this logic against everyone complaining about the new flag? Their complaints make me feel shamed about liking it, and that violates my freedom of speech!
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Jeb Rach
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Direct with Marriott. $12 isn't worth dealing with sketchy OTAs.
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Jeb Rach
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Woah Norris won!
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Jeb Rach
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I certainly hope so.
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Jeb Rach
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The Pioneer Press celebrates Mother's Day by having people place memoriums for their...dads?
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Jeb Rach
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The idea that a savings amount meant to help cover medical expenses is often recommended as a retirement savings account is absolutely mind-boggling.
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Jeb Rach
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Big government always trying to tell us what to do!
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Jeb Rach
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YES DO IT (but move to the cooler of the twins, Saint Paul.)
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Jeb Rach
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Anybody been to Bullvino's in Saint Paul? If so, how is it? Planning on going next Saturday.
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Louisa
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I just want everyone in the world to have safe, comfortable, long lives and never even have to know what war is.
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Jeb Rach
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Oh no! Hope you feel better soon.
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Jeb Rach
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I use it infrequently enough that a doubling of the price would probably only cut down my usage slightly, if at all. But I only use it ~once a month, if that often.
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Jeb Rach
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Honestly, I'd be perfectly fine with that. The ability to hail a car from my phone and have it arrive within 15 minutes most of the time, with real-time information on when that vehicle will arrive, is still a legitimate improvement over the old taxi dispatching black hole.
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Jeb Rach
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Sometimes. About 85% of it is just wire stories from AP, the Forum, or MPR, but 15% of it is somewhat unique news (almost always east-metro focused.)
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Jeb Rach
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My habit of just going to twitter.com in my browser when I have a couple minutes to doomscroll is so ingrained that, now that I'm trying to get myself off of it (and removed it from my browser autofill) I'm now spending a lot of time on twincities.com - at least I'm getting my news?
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Technology Connections
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My hottest tech take is that what big tech has actually succeeded at more than anything is a complete outsourcing of any and all responsibility for their actions. They've succeeded at building wildly irresponsible tools that get used in wildly irresponsible ways and nobody in power seems to care.
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Jeb Rach
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I think the essential part of a system being easy to use is, first and foremost, having a system that's frequent and fast enough to be a reasonable alternative. Otherwise it becomes putting lipstick on a pig.
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Jeb Rach
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At the same time, most cities simply don't have good enough transit for people on vacation to reasonably use. Even Las Vegas doesn't have a direct bus from the airport to most of the Strip! And the bus that goes on the Strip is often way over capacity and barely goes faster than a brisk walk.
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Jeb Rach
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A lot of transit systems do allow pets in carriers (with service animals allowed to be outside of carriers,) but yeah, there's always going to be limitations like that.
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Jeb Rach
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In my experience most of those systems started that way because they were designed before ubiquitous cheap cellular connectivity, so they couldn't rely on vehicles being able to reliably phone home. And there's often not enough money to modernize the fare system either.
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Jeb Rach
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As a transit and technology geek I find that very fascinating and cool, but from a UX level that's terrible. Most systems that still use the card as "source of truth" (rather than checking into a central database for each tap) just feed the reload data to the buses each night in the garage.
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Jeb Rach
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The one thing that I find a lot of systems don't do well, especially on the bus side, is making it abundantly clear where exactly the bus stop is to get on, and the right reassurances at the bus stop to know you're at the right spot. Many systems even have stop numbers - use them!
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Jeb Rach
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I think CityMapper does a pretty good job with it (at least when I used it in London,) though even that IMO doesn't quite go simple enough for someone who's literally never used a transit system before. It also doesn't handle payments as far as I can tell.
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Jeb Rach
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Fully agree. Ideally the user experience should be on the level of Uber/Lyft, where you can just go into an app, punch in your destination, get the clear info you need to do the trip, and pay your fare right there in the app - at least as an initial introduction to the system.
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Jeb Rach
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The only way to change that is to properly price car trips, especially in urban areas, to account for their full cost (including space used in the city.) It also involves making transit more accessible and more convenient (at least in most of the US, where it's pretty terrible in general.)
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Jeb Rach
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Yeah - at the end of the day, there's a lot of places where having a car is basically necessary, and once you've paid for all the overhead of a car the gas for an extra trip isn't that much, and a car will almost always be faster than transit in the US.
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Jeb Rach
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(Well, at least a lot of the pain points for payment. There's a lot of other pain points that making transit free wouldn't solve, like having frequent, reliable service, clear wayfinding, accurate, easy-to-understand trip planning, etc.)
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Jeb Rach
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I think it becomes the opposite - it becomes a "we give it away for free to the poors" rather than "a service that should be worth the cost of admission." Also a lot of the pain points for the average traveler could be mitigated by systems just clearly accepting contactless cards.
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Jeb Rach
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Good to see progress on ridding the world of the abomination that is Speedway.
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Jeb Rach
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That makes this all even worse. Like it seems they have the money now (and the local public school probably has less) and they're still pulling this shit? Ridiculous. If you're comfortable saying, which school is it?
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Jeb Rach
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One of the highlights of being an adult is being able to just buy the food you want. Like yes, I do want to buy the Kraft spirals mac and cheese instead of the off brand and eat them at 10:30 PM.
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Jeb Rach
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Somehow Verstappen would still win in a landslide, though.
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Jeb Rach
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See here's the thing, I'm actually a CIA agent and it's your lucky day - I only need $69,420 for you to become one too!
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Jeb Rach
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I remember a year or two ago they changed the Empire Builder's standard schedule to be about an hour later in both directions. I don't think they've ever really changed it outside of that one shift, though.
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Jeb Rach
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So what does voting "uncommitted" mean, in a practical sense, in the presidential primary? Looking over my ballot and noticed that was an option.
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Jeb Rach
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We'd love to host you with @streets.mn! I'm the co-chair of the events committee - if you're interested the easiest way to connect would be via email - events ]at[ streets.mn
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Jeb Rach
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Should've Been A Cowboy was the peak of Toby Keith's career.
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Jeb Rach
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Considering I'm stuck with whatever output our apartment's window AC unit (with no timer) can do, and it's impossible for it to keep up if I turn it off/keep it significantly higher while I'm at work... 😐
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