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weedramatic.bsky.social@weedramatic.bsky.social |
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MARTA stan in Atlanta . Chronicler of the fractal harms of car culture.
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especially for crossing mid block, the contribution needs context. Almost certainly the drivers hitting them are disproportionately likely to be speeding. And the remedy is to build more crossings, which is unlike the others.
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you're right also would have been right posting it 10-15 years ago, let's see what the country does this time
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I don't have the data, I'm not sure what's ideal. A straightforward check on these results could be, e.g., a map of insurance costs for houses between $400k and $600k. That should still demonstrate interstate differences. But some readers might not be quantitatively literate enough even for that.
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Not explained, as reflected by you not having an explanation to share for why they didn't consider better metrics. My first post explained why it's not a good metric. $60k homes are much cheaper than the national average, we should expect e.g. window replacement to be a greater cost as % of price.
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their choice to use it instead of premiums is mentioned, but there are other possibilities. How is my post addressed?
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"The EU regulations permit a system that can use a cascaded acoustic warning, a cascaded vibrating warning, an accelerator pedal with haptic feedback, or a speed control function in which the speed of the vehicle will be gradually reduced"
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Stop being such a welfare case on public roads, and pay for track time for your hobby. Also learn to read, you can still speed up temporarily under any of the four systems described in the link.
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amusing that a Mr Watts is adamantly against EVs, but frustrating that the NYT sends a sympathetic reporter to their hometown to report on federal welfare for climate denying Republicans (the bus is fine)
A Brand-New Electric Bus, No Charge. (That Was One Problem.) www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/c...
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76 year old Monica Pearson, who has worked in Atlanta news for 50 years and per wiki lives in a great central neighborhood close to MARTA stations, won't stop driving. More carbrain propaganda from the AJC.
www.ajc.com/things-to-do...
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have to keep working to pay for so many cars and car infrastructure
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yes building codes are a part of the story, covered in more depth
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not enough baseball enthusiasts out there, throwing balls at drivers
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this is not a good metric, home insurance claims are not all proportional to home value "That was 3.5 percent of the average home value of about $60,000 — more than six times the national average."
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rare great NYT opinion, elevators as a link to all of our problems
"With around one million of them, the United States is tied for total installed devices with Italy and Spain."
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/o...
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American car culture is a death cult.
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and, it's one thing to have preferences in the abstract, it's another to expect government welfare while ignoring environmental harms to make a lifestyle choice affordable
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thinking about congestion pricing again, and about how democratic hacks on here are denying it's a center right party / pretending it rewards the groups that consistently vote Dem. No Republicans to blame! Unified democratic failure from congress to city hall, and most of all the governor.
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she absolutely can be worse. he picked her because he didn't want a politically powerful campaigner to threaten him I'm not saying he's doing the right thing by hanging on and not supporting her elevation years ago. I'd prefer her in the oval office. But we're burdened with past mistakes.
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okay so you mean at best Biden will not extend Trump's tax cuts? Supporting the pre-trump tax code and income share is center right, globally speaking. The GOP is far right, definitely vote against them. But Dems should look abroad for better policies.
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yes the gop is far worse No, Democratic policy on labor law and tweaks to prescription drug prices do not make it left wing compared to foreign parties
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what's your timeframe for "about to"
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universal healthcare
military spending as % of gdp
death penalty
www.axios.com/2019/06/19/j...
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clyburn could begin to be credible if he apologized and resigned before weighing in on the next election
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he was on the dark side
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win or lose, tens of millions of Americans are going to vote for Trump in November and nobody has found a more coherent motivation than @adamserwer.bsky.social 's The Cruelty is the Point
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also a strong argument for compressing incomes with much higher taxes at the high end
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another tragic killing in the area
www.11alive.com/article/traf...
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why is all you can eat dining in America typically mostly meat, which is an expensive ingredient, rather than vegetarian dishes? especially the ones that can be cooked in bulk
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#bancars
General Motors to pay nearly $146 million for excess car emissions
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Yes vote for Biden because Trump is even worse. That's not the point. Hacks like you are pretending that more people voting for Dems specifically in the general election will influence Biden to be better. That's not how it works.
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voters didn't pick Biden over them though
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this is why he was my last choice in 2020 and what had me tearing my hair out and screaming endlessly for the last 4 years, but the cake is baked on that
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I too want everyone to vote for democrats in the general. It's just obvious that influence does not work the way they describe, there's a lot more upside in the primary, and even more upside if you're a billionaire donor.
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@dgasser.bsky.social wrote this out, realized he was transparently being a hack by implying only the Blue Dogs prioritize the donor class, and blocked me before he could be corrected. Why log on? Is Biden handing out cookies to people who are nice to him?
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Then Biden's base already opposes it!!! The whole premise of the people I was disagreeing with is that they think people opposed to the war in Gaza should vote more often for Democrats. You're showing how incoherent they are.
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"cross" is bearing a lot of weight. eg IRA used a lot of money to shift jobs from China to red districts, instead of creating urban jobs accessible to more of the Democratic base. Maybe that's due to the constraints of Republicans in Congress, but that still harmfully suggests voting GOP.
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you couldn't even parse my straightforward post, but your unrelated post is just vapid punching left. Do you have some sort of breakdown of how people opposed to genocide vote in dem primaries versus how they behave in general elections?
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with the caveat that democratic politicians seem more interested in winning the groups that show up for Republicans than serving their own voters, bizarrely implying that these voters should go to the polls for trump (don't do that, but more to the point go vote against dem incumbents)
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hmm anything else to learn there? "Have your child do the work of comparing insurance rates. This also has the effect of tempering their desire for a more expensive car."
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hey Michelle Singletary, I got a tip for helping teenagers save money with regard to buying a car. don't.
these kids brains haven't even fully matured, why should they have to be responsible for thousands of pounds of metal just to go about their daily lives
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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yeah congestion pricing probably wouldn't have stopped this. Otoh Hochul shutting down the modest congestion pricing plan is a pretty strong signal she'd oppose policies that could reduce vehicular violence like this.
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Ban private motor vehicles from cities.
www.nytimes.com/2024...
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This is my political ideology:
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the times has its own(er's) axe to grind regarding Biden, but overall I think this is motivated by people who think Biden will lose and want to look clever by explaining it in advance. I think they'll, accordingly, be even more shrill about Harris leading the ticket.
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Tried? That's one official act of the President.
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you see how making up wins on railroads isn't helping? You can just say "best labor president ever" and move on, or talk about other unions, without digging in on the most obvious loser issue to highlight
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Oh I also referred to it earlier here, bsky.app/profile/weed...
Do you maybe have some intuitive sense that the IBEW isn't the union at most risk of harmful labor practices from railroads?
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Yes that's what I was referring to here,
bsky.app/profile/weed...
. It's one union. You said unions plural, and in context strongly implied all of them.
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when? which unions? What did he fix, exactly? why is even sick leave still unsettled? Or is it just vibes for you?
Hard problems to describe. A vote from union members with a legal ability to strike would have clarified things.
www.kmbc.com/article/team...
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lol what a corn cob reply, you've probably been coasting off of somebody summarizing the IBEW press release for you
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