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High speed rail is like having a jet plane go by, given the intent to run at, say 150 to 200 miles per hour, and has its own troublesome neighbor issues.

All corridors are troublesome.

Businesses generally are allowed to depreciate automobiles over five years, and you might guess it is because they get a fairly high amount of use.

And built into the IRS rate is probably an expectation of significant repairs.

That changes the capital costs.

Most people are paying 4.00 to 5.00 dollars a gallon these days.

At a generous $4.00 a gallon, and as you indicate, .04 gallons per mile, gas alone is lately above 0.16 cents a mile. At $5, that would be 0.20 cents.

Generously (on the thrifty side) estimating, at minimum, capital, insurance and maintenance doubles cost of gasoline alone.

From the article.

> Subsequent first-person accounts came from Wallace’s friends...

>...They also produced a fairly consistent picture of a selfish friend, a manipulative—and likely abusive—boyfriend, and a jealous and self-mythologizing writer. Even were we to desire to do so, there is no way to read Wallace today without knowing these things about him.

> It’s worth noting, though, that for attentive readers of Wallace’s fiction, little of the news about his personal life could come as a surprise. Wallace’s great subject was the morass of selfishness, self-rationalization, and intellectualized narcissism into which his cohort of educated, relatively privileged Americans would sink—and were sinking—unless they could find something to love more than they loved themselves. A difference between Wallace and many of his contemporaries—one that sometimes opened him to charges of hypocrisy and self-delusion, not to mention cringeworthy sentimentalism—was his commitment to doing more than merely cataloguing the traps of modern alienation. This did not mean that he claimed to have escaped those traps himself. It did mean, as reflected by his attraction to conversion narratives like Fogle’s, that he hoped he could spring his readers free.

The IRS allows business travelers 58.5 cents a mile.

That is closer to your total cost of use of your automobile.

IRS 2022 Business milage rates:

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-issues-standard-mileage-rat...

The sense is that the Northeast corridor has too many curves and roadbed issues to be able to go faster.

There would have to be constructed a new corridor, not in the same path as existing railroad rights of way, for not a small amount of money, and going through expensive real estate.

The political will for that is not in existence, so far.

This is the strong argument against high speed rail in the USA.

We don't even have anything close to regional rail, and highspeed rail would consume all public capital that would be used to improve regional rail systems.

Speaking at a local level of a library board, school board, planning board, and working with a conservation commission, or a health commision, or municipal council on aging or even public works and roads department...

...funding and implementing operations of a municipal school system, making a community space for learning and meeting (libraries), and other outcomes that go with education, or revising zoning, reviewing proposals for building and housing development, protecting wetlands and land (conservation commission), or guiding proper installation of septic systems, placemment of wells, inspection of food production, or for elders providing community resources from meals on wheels, to social workers, and another kind of community space and service (council on aging), or maintaining roads and streets (and in winter causing them to be plowed for snow)...

...your views on capability and actual work of government are nihilist compared to what they actually do accomplish towards making municipalities personally growthful (educationally), safe, and acceptable even vibrant locales to live in.

Yes.

Utilities may have been buried 20, 30, 40 or 50 years ago or more. Without regard to future access, changes or modifications.

Distiction: Winter tires are made of a softer rubber compound, to be more flexible in winter termperatures. These softer winter tires wear very rapidly in summer temperatures, and experience a drive may have if they fail to change out their winter tires to the summer seasonal tires.

Try searching on youtube and "Lake Mead". There are probably a dozen weekly items, with updates and explorations of the lake.

The North American Black Locust tree, a continental native tree, of the legume family, is considered invasive within North America, in New York and Connecticut and Massachusetts and the rest of New England, mid-west prairie areas, and the west of the continent.

Its original range, before European arrival, is believed to be in Appalachian Mountains, Pennsylvania to Georgia, and the Ozarks.

  It has been used as a pioneer species to restore treeless land in other continents, including Europe, Asia and Africa and Australia. Spain has used them to restart forest in desertified areas, for example.

- Black Locust (Robinia_pseudoacacia) -- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinia_pseudoacacia

- Black Locust -- New York PRISM https://www.wnyprism.org/invasive_species/black-locust/

- Black Locust -- Massachusetts Audubon Society https://www.massaudubon.org/learn/nature-wildlife/invasive-p...

- Rethinking Black Locust -- by Maureen Sundberg April 15, 2019 Ecological Lanscape Alliance https://www.ecolandscaping.org/04/landscape-challenges/invas...

A Panamax container ship, not the largest, can burn 10 metric tonnes an hour of bunker oil, more or less.[2]

Very Low Sulfer Fuel Oil (VLSFO) is running, depending on where the ship is loading up, 850 to 1150 USD a tonne.(July 7 2022)[1]

In round numbers, say, USD 1,000 a tonne, USD 10,000 an hour, USD 250,000 a day, and for a 20 day trip, USD 5,000,000.

[1] https://shipandbunker.com/prices

[2] https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-many-gallons-of-fuel-d...

A fishing community / island in Maine I know of, forced a thief and their family off the island by completely withdrawing all assistance.

You cannot live on an island in Maine without community

Disolving tablets and consuming in liquid form is an alternative.

Angry at himself for failing to publically point out and engage in discussion about the cruelty and terrorizing that was conducted, and well-understood by other science practitioners, and also the much of the audience present.

It takes politics to change politicians.

This is a many year process: to bring into public office people who care, willing to change laws, or city ordinances, and department values and priorities (street / public works) and budget money for the new priorities, and to flex the electoral muscle by the organizing (an increasingly important and larger number) of voters to pay attention.

Like it or not that is the game you are in. If you are not playing to change the game, you are doomed to play by the same rules you complain about.

The handicapped / wheelchair access to sidewalks, now visible nation wide in the US, started with zero curb cuts everywhere in the 1960s, and wheelchair non-accessbility to many essential services, such as grocery stores, post offices, other public buildings, including schools, court houses, social services, and municipal governmental offices. Hospitals had figured this out, mostly, but not entirely, by that time.

The unpersuasive argument is "you (second-to-publish-person) copied my stupendous idea to get your derivative result".

Many of the counted steps are required state wide, and not in the ambit of the municipality. State licensing processes for various Barbers, and so on.

This is the state legislature's doing.

Others are standard nationwide, and not going away:

Setting up a corporation, or LLC for example. Or filing for a "doing business as" d/b/a name.

I am unsympathetic to counting these as a step.

I cannot get worked up about building permits. Here is why:

This is a national regime, and most states operate under the "International Building Code", and similar Electrical and other codes, and the requirements there, for commercial structures are often based on factual risks and deaths from lack of proper construction.

That means every building needs to be up to code when renovated in various categories: electrical, plumbing, heating/ventilation, smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, fire code compliance, structurally, and more recently for energy code (typically insulation and heating/cooling related). These are essential for safety and health, and for economic well being in the long run. Yes these take capital. That can be 5 to 10 permits and inspections there, and those requirements are not going away, nationwide.

There can be other municipal department participation for curb cuts, street access, sidewalk access and so on. Deal with it.

Zoning is a municipal level, and that requires City Council and Planning Board participation, and not in control of the administrators operating the regulations. This is political level of regulation, and requires political effort to modify, typicall not in the ambit of administrators.

Other "steps" in which all fees and taxes to a municipality need to be up to date are simply good practice.

- No action if you are overdue on your real estate taxes, or have outstanding orders for compliance with health or building codes.

That is mere enforcement of existing municipal regulations. Get up to date on all of your obligations.

There is a lot of pruning that occurs, evolutionarily speaking, and a lot of what was thought to be "useless" genome has been discovered to be conserved over generations, and that there is use for that part of the genome.

The term for this process is contract of adhesion, in which one party has all of the power.

An Overview of Adhesion Contracts and Clauses

Trembly Law Firm

https://tremblylaw.com/overview-adhesion-contracts-clauses/

Repeal not likely. Citizens of that state fought for this law for a decade

Beyond.

Or farther away from the sun than the Earth and Moon.

Behind implies in the shadows of Earth.

Attempts to save money in manufacturing undermine solved or perfected approaches.

Insulated Root celler equivalent location for the battery.

Perhaps not efficiency. Accomplishment. With limited budgets.

I'll take shipbuilding, tank manufacture, aircraft construction, and logistics for World War Two, from a prior activity of about nil, as an example of accomplishment.

Page numbers on the first citation?

Potential consequences are what?

Except except coerced sex.

> 4-500 centuries.

that would be 500 years

Where can I learn more about frequencies and towers, by vendor,in my region?