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by keeganjw 7y ago
If only the US had trains this nice... One can dream. This really looks spectacular.
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by keeganjw 7y ago
The F-35? Being wasteful? They wouldn't dare...
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by keeganjw 7y ago
Haha same. Disappointing.
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by keeganjw 7y ago
It still boggles my mind that so many of the languages of India are related to European languages. Hindi and English share a common linguistic ancestor. Yet languages that are much physically closer together like English and Finnish or Hind
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by keeganjw 7y ago
Wow, dang, that looks good!
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by keeganjw 7y ago
I dreamed of opening up a vegetarian canteen style restaurant. A place that serves cheap, nutritious, and delicious food and where people from all classes and walks of life could sit down for a meal. I've thinking about making a vegeta
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by keeganjw 7y ago
Good on them for bringing attention to how much space is wasted for parking in cities! A clever way to raise awareness.
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by keeganjw 7y ago
Watches are a weird market in that a $30 one from Walmart keeps better time than pretty much any watch from a luxury brand costing $5000 or more. $500 is way more than the average person will spend on a watch but once you get into the watch
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by keeganjw 7y ago
I live in rural Vermont.
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by keeganjw 7y ago
Is AM radio a general audience thing? I don't know many people that listen to it and the ones that do are all older. I know a whole lot of people that listen to podcasts. Maybe it's more of a difference among generations? I can&#x
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by keeganjw 7y ago
You can choose to eat whatever you like but meat absolutely isn't essential. It seems like a lot of people frame the debate as if the only two options are eating meat with every meal or being vegan when there is so much room in betwee
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by keeganjw 8y ago
This how you know things are broken when someone who's been here a decade, paying their way and contributing, gets tossed out as soon as the wind blows a different direction. We're just shooting ourselves in the foot and missing o
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The Horror of Hudson Yards Is How It Was Financed(citylab.com)
169 points by keeganjw 8y ago|82 comments
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by keeganjw 8y ago
Tax prep lobbyist make a lot of campaign contributions and somehow that bribery is 100% legal. Also, there is not a small number of Republicans who think taxes should be hard and confusing to make people hate taxes. They think it would them
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by keeganjw 8y ago
With the addition of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel potentially coming in 2028, it would be much more attractive for people in all the Nordic countries to take an overnight train into central Europe and vice versa. It looks like construction will b
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by keeganjw 8y ago
Houses in the country side are super abundant because so many young people moved to cities. But this article talks about housing Tokyo, where demand has been very strong over the last 20 years. They kept prices low by letting developers bui
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by keeganjw 8y ago
Anyone have a version of this not blocked by the paywall? Thanks.
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by keeganjw 8y ago
Was it the norm then to capitalize every noun in English like German still does today?
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by keeganjw 8y ago
The New York Times did a great video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_9RLbRZJr0 It's crazy that this is allowed to continue.
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by keeganjw 8y ago
People in big prosperous states should absolutely pay for infrastructure in other states and they already do. States like California, Texas, and New York pay far more in federal taxes than they receive back in funding. They pay for roads in
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by keeganjw 8y ago
If someone other than Warren gets elected, it could very well get put on the back burner. But this is defintely what Warren believes. When she was a professor at Harvard or the head of the CFPB, cracking down on very large, very powerful co
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by keeganjw 8y ago
Stockholm's core is definitely denser but the population is still there in Portland if the routes were built right. And you're right, Oregon and Portland already do have high taxes. They couldn't fund this themselves. No city
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by keeganjw 8y ago
Why are DOTs still trying to widen highways? There examples after examples that show this doesn't speed up travel times and traffic will suck just as much as before they widened the highway. If we were smart, we'd put that money i
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The Cheaper, Greener Future of France's High-Speed Trains(citylab.com)
4 points by keeganjw 8y ago|0 comments
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Nine International Transit Systems with Lessons for New York(nytimes.com)
1 points by keeganjw 8y ago|0 comments
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How the Green New Deal Could Retrofit Suburbs(citylab.com)
3 points by keeganjw 8y ago|0 comments
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by keeganjw 8y ago
Plus Vermont
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by keeganjw 8y ago
This world is wonderful.
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Train ferry(en.wikipedia.org)
73 points by keeganjw 8y ago|54 comments
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Long Life Vehicle(postalmuseum.si.edu)
247 points by keeganjw 8y ago|196 comments

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