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by ericmay 6mo ago
The OP is missing that you do the same thing you just do it in a car in a congested highway with your road rage, spend a lot of money, and all of that to avoid the impression of a subway ride that would never happen in an American city exce
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by ericmay 6mo ago
This is like that phrase “nobody goes there anymore it’s too popular”. The surface parking lots would be replaced with things people want to go downtown for in the first place, never mind additional residences which mean more customers for
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by ericmay 6mo ago
You do though, because you need a higher level of density to make transit make sense, and you need more interesting places for people to live and walk to. When you have easy and convenient parking, particularly these surface lots in downtow
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by ericmay 6mo ago
Not in this case. Traffic and the movement of people are a bit like water. Path of least resistance. Make parking more difficult and folks will take transit, or live closer to work. Both options are better for local economies and save every
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by ericmay 6mo ago
Simpler solution but they’re a strictly worse version of your car and they still depend on highway widening projects. In other words, more of the same. To change the culture in the US we will have to make category changes. Cars and busses a
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by ericmay 6mo ago
I really applaud the work McKenzie Scott is doing. A lot of billionaires play the "aw shucks if only someone would tax me" - nothing is stopping them from just donating to the government if they really thought that. We have a hous
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by ericmay 6mo ago
It's more likely both are true. We can afford to do more for the people, but at the same time we are over-spending. Streamlining some of these functions would be nice. One area we are vastly over-spending is highway and roadway const
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by ericmay 6mo ago
Yes, I do love the rail system in Japan. Went a few years ago, going back next year most likely. I've also driven in Japan (Osaka). I just meant, in general, a low-hanging fruit we could tackle is making surface parking lots a thing of
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by ericmay 6mo ago
The main low-hanging fruit is just removing surface parking lots in American downtowns and stopping the development and expansion of highways through the same. If you did nothing else that would have a significant positive impact. For almos
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by ericmay 6mo ago
Champagne has an interesting tie to the UK as well. Agree with you about Douro Valley. Separately the oldest port I’ve had was something like a 1928 Seppeltsfield (don’t recall the exact year). The nose was incredible and at that age, not v
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by ericmay 6mo ago
> not many people are taking credit for the war with Iran - so I take that as a sign of failure. Certainly an interesting point to think about, but I don't think it passes the smell test if for nothing else but that we've done
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by ericmay 6mo ago
> People literally started a war and fought it for 4 years, killing more americans than basically anything else we could categorize as a single event, entirely to preserve their right to hold other americans as slaves, and you think peop
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by ericmay 6mo ago
> Says who, clearly the US is trying to have that say but failing at it. In what way has the US failed? People keep saying the US failed but I’m still confused as to what failure has occurred. > Turns out you can. Well the rest of the
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by ericmay 6mo ago
It’s not a hard thing, but you still have to have the capability to track objects and design a rocket with the capability to hit that object. These aren’t capabilities Iran has. Certainly not anymore.
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by ericmay 6mo ago
> Regardless of who won the 2024 we would have gotten the war with Iran That’s because of the geopolitical and geostrategic necessity. Can’t have another North Korea and definitely can’t have one sitting on top of 20% of the world’s oil
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by ericmay 6mo ago
I'm saying I don't think Iran has the capability and the difference in capabilities between America and China on one hand, and Iran on the other is so different that I'm perplexed as to why they would even be mentioned in the
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by ericmay 6mo ago
Launching LEO satellites is a different capability than shooting down LEO satellites.
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by ericmay 6mo ago
Are you suggesting for a fact that Iran as the guidance and targeting systems to identify specific LEO objects, and fire missiles at those targets with accuracy?
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by ericmay 6mo ago
I’m aligned with your critique, and especially aligned with a focus on local efforts. The more local the better has generally been a good guiding principle for democracies. > Politics is run by cynical operatives skilled in mass manipula
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by ericmay 6mo ago
> This is some hardcore false equivalence. Well I didn’t say they were equally stupid, I just said all of those cultural trends were stupid. People can do what they want, but if you’re going to have a conversation about the collapse of a
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by ericmay 6mo ago
I don’t hate anyone really, I’m suggesting those activities are stupid and unserious. If you’re going to talk about the collapse of a country, the culture of that country is going to be key.
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by ericmay 6mo ago
I don’t think Iran has the capability to shoot down LEO satellites. Kind of weird to loop them in with China here other than China helping Iran.
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by ericmay 7mo ago
> Besides that I’m really unsure why you think that more military power would have helped. More troops on the ground means more resources to help keep the peace. I think that's just something we can take at face value to prove more
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by ericmay 7mo ago
When was the last free Iranian election? Or did they vote their crazy people into office too? :)
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by ericmay 7mo ago
Iran fired 2,500 ballistic missiles at the United Arab Emirates alone, intentionally targeting civilians. We could pose it as a simple question and examine what the answers would be: Do western powers bomb civilians intentionally? US -&
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by ericmay 7mo ago
First - there's no "kind". I don't align with MAGA or any of those guys. Most should be in jail. Second - that's not the point I was making. I have a lot of respect for the military members that served alongside us
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by ericmay 7mo ago
> Yet the US has been an accomplice to that, by intentionally destabilizing the country and then arming its population. And then murdering children. So we've reached the point where the Iranian government giving an order to IRGC tro
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by ericmay 7mo ago
30,000+ Iranian civilians (probably some children too) murdered by the Iranian regime - we can speak to their justice first when the IRGC and their cronies answer for their malicious and violent crimes against the world. Unlike the Iranian
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by ericmay 7mo ago
Then whose ships are left? The US doesn’t have any. If you think Iran will just sell oil to China and India (gentle reminder Iran is with Russia against Ukraine) and somehow the Gulf States and Europe won’t get theirs, the US will just blow
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by ericmay 7mo ago
Great to see the US is asserting its control over the Straight of Hormuz. Just like Iran "asserted control" by threats with missiles, we now assert control in the same fashion with our navy. Crazy! :)

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