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Do you want me to send you a picture of my license with my home address? The subway, especially post-covid, is clean.

I live in a new york. Our subway is clean and regular, the bike share docks in my neighborhood are stocked and well-maintained. The busses, though sometimes crowded, run on time.

Public transport works well when your city prioritizes it. I spent my youth living in places that don't and I literally cannot imagine going back.

The amount you pay is set by the people who get it.

The difference is, of course, doctors provide healthcare services and landlords provide middleman-who-makes-housing-more-expensive services.

This is an opinion piece in bloomberg, a pro-business, pro-wealthy publication. Is there any surprise that they dislike rent controls?

I don't see how the distinction matters to the individual consumer. It's interesting as an insight into how the credit scoring system is organized i guess

in spirit perhaps, in practice not so much

They're talking about the upward wealth siphon, not the pandemic.

There are lots of those types of comments. Did you read?

This means very little while the republicans control the senate, I imagine.

I never suggested dismantling all systems of social cohesion and accountability. I said too much of the power that maintains social order is vested in a single place.

The police in america generally have too much responsibility and consume too many of our resources. When you combine that with the privileged status that comes with law enforcement you get a real mess.

The problem is, as in so many cases, fundamentally about power. Until police have less power (that is, less funding, fewer numbers, and a smaller scope of responsibilites), i fear these kinds of abuses are almost unavoidable.

NYC has a similar issue of e-bikes (really electric scooters capable of roughly 45kmph/25mph) in bike lanes.

It's annoying as a cyclist, but it's still much preferable to having to share space with automobiles.

I see these all the time in the more affluent areas of brooklyn. Two wheels, kids on the back.

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Right, because LA is built for cars not people.

Reintroduction and protection of large predators has diffuse benefits and concentrated damages. It affects the average rancher orders of magnitude more (and importantly, more negatively) than it affects the average non-rancher.

So you have a group with common interests who are ready to act as an obstruction to the greater social good because it's going to financially harm them. You _can_ tell them to shove it, but that has political consequences and might backfire and undo your whole conservation effort. Or you can help them out financially while they transition to doing business in this new normal where wolves still get to exist.

You realize that's $24k/yr right

If there were no landlords prices would drop further still!

There's no reason that we couldn't allow workers to be the beneficiaries of automation.

I don't think "this is fine because capitalism privileges capitalists by design" is the rebuttal you think it is.

"The real problem is that lebron james is a hypocrite" ok man

cancel culture, as its commonly understood ("woke" scolds running well-meaning people out of public life) largely doesn't exist. There are a few high profile cases of it happening to actual sexual predators, otherwise it's as ephemeral as Fox News hosts hyping fear over the "knockout game".

This is a larger problem with software archival. I suspect a lot of the media created during the fledgeling decades of the "digital" era will simply vanish.

Some amount of degrowth seems necessary. Would you quality of life suffer badly if you just bought a little bit less stuff?

The very companies that cause that cause the negative externalities hire lobbyists and buy politicians to write the tax code.

> So either there's something wrong with my analysis

its that one

You greatly overestimate how many americans have pension plans and underestimate how rich the richest americans are

I like them b/c my main project requires me to support IE11, which doesn't get the niceties of modern CSS. If it weren't for that, I'd avoid them.

Did you pass through many major cities? In suburban and rural america, you can absolutely leave a bicycle unlocked and expect it to be there when you return.

"Why aren't those employees fairly compensated and protected?"

I think we all know why.