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by scoofy 9mo ago
Elections have consequences. The American center has been lulled into thinking that nothing matters. It honestly feels like we are adrift at sea, nobody sensible is in change, and there is little way to get back in control of our destiny. I
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by scoofy 9mo ago
Oh look what happened today: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/climate/trump-epa-greenho... Saying this is our fault for not being "nicer" is an absurdity. This is being done intentionally.
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by scoofy 9mo ago
>My point is about how to accomplish the goal. If we care about climate change, how do we get political agreement? The only way is to find a deal that persuadable liberals and persuadable conservatives can agree on. You can't. Liber
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by scoofy 9mo ago
We can be kind, and do our best, and also call a spade a spade: https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?si=XwOG5FQ8qZ1AUBi5
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by scoofy 9mo ago
>The question is what could we (people who care about climate change) have done differently to get broader political support. Literally nothing. Environmentalists can have done literally nothing different. If an entire party is going to
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by scoofy 9mo ago
> but allowing climate action to become a political issue What the hell are you talking about? What?!? This entire issue was a solved problem with a simple carbon tax (which is a conservative leaning policy ) and then one party decided
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by scoofy 9mo ago
>Our finding is in line with existing results in the literature regarding the US House elections that incumbent candidates gain less from spending, compared to their contender counterparts. This is due to diminishing returns that occur a
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by scoofy 9mo ago
Obviously campaigns need money to operate. The question is whether a random firehose of money will win an election, or if the reason we see that money is because the campaign already has a lot of supporters who want to contribute. The und
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by scoofy 9mo ago
From 1994: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2138764 From 2024: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21582440241279659 Consistent results indicate that, yes, money tends to matter, but it&#x27
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by scoofy 9mo ago
Study after study shows that money doesn't really effect the results of high-information elections. If it really did, Hillary Clinton would have been president twice . It's just that candidates with a ton of support tend to raise
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by scoofy 9mo ago
I just think it's weird that major events regarding the Epstein files always seem to be below the fold because something huge, that just happens to be entirely under executive branch discretion, ends up dominating the headlines.
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by scoofy 9mo ago
I'm building a golf simulator that runs a solver to solve strokes-to-hole from every point of the golf hole to then illustrate the game design aspects golf course architecture mathematically.
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by scoofy 9mo ago
I mean, you're just talking about spending money. Google isn't trying to build data centers for fun. These massive outlays are only there because the folks making them think they will make much more money than they spend.
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by scoofy 9mo ago
So, we're just doing whatever it takes to blame the Democratic Party, huh? Cutting interest rates during a period of time when people were literally locked in their homes waiting for a vaccine to be manufactured? I mean, yea, there wer
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by scoofy 9mo ago
I'm just using Gemini in the browser. I'm not ready to let it touch my code. Here are my last two prompts, for context the project is about golf course architecture: Me, including the architecture_diff.py file: I would like to ad
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by scoofy 9mo ago
I mean, the thesis of the post is odd. I'll grant you that. I work mostly with python (the vast majority is pure python), flask, and htmx, with a bit of vanilla js thrown in. In a sense, I can understand the thesis. On the one hand Fla
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by scoofy 9mo ago
Oh, no doubt that people can be anti-social on the road. My only point is that anti-social behavior on the road is different in kind.
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by scoofy 9mo ago
>> I AM saying "people don't want ride trains that allow 5% of the riders to smoke cigarettes on enclosed train platforms and in enclosed train cars." >Just don't allow that then? >"we can't have go
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by scoofy 9mo ago
I spent Dry January working on a new coding project and since all my nerd friends have been telling me to try to code with LLM's I gave it a shot and signed up to Google Gemini... All I can say is "holy shit, I'm a believer.&
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by scoofy 9mo ago
>Government budgeting isn't zero based. A hypothetical Bart with 2x the government funding in 2019 would have faced cutbacks, but likely has more money today than what we have now! A hypothetical BART with 2x the government funding
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by scoofy 9mo ago
> Cutting services means less ridership means less revenue means cutting services means...etc. That's not true. If you have stations that are revenue positive and stations that are net negative, then cutting ridership at the net-neg
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by scoofy 9mo ago
I mean, sure? I'd prefer to have a system that has a system built in that raises and lowers the level of service in accordance with the number of people using the system rather than having to have random elections that decide whether o
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by scoofy 9mo ago
The vast majority of the anti-social behavior on public transit not relevant in automobiles because (1) you can't turnstile jump the gas tank, (2) an automobile is effectively very expensive set of headphones, and (3) you can inhale wh
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by scoofy 9mo ago
My entire point is mostly not even about the money. It's about the system having to respond as a service to the fact that people don't want to use that service and are willing to pay a huge premium for alternatives like Waymo.
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by scoofy 9mo ago
>Are the trains themselves a fixed cost (they should last 30-40 years)? Yes >Is track maintenance a fixed cost (this has to be done more often than the trains themselves) Yes >Equally, are signalling upgrades (for example) fixed co
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by scoofy 9mo ago
Where does the extra money come from in a deficit period? > BART, Muni, Caltrain, AC Transit — which an independent analysis confirmed face annual deficits of more than $800 million annually starting in fiscal year 2027-28 https:/&
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by scoofy 9mo ago
I’m not advocating that they do. Fixed costs should be fully subsidized. I’m only advocating that revenues are set so that during a median year, each additional rider on average, provides income that is proportional to the level of service
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by scoofy 9mo ago
You can't say that BART "is facing bankruptcy is precisely because it was mostly rider supported and profitable, and not government supported" when it is very obvious that BART would be in a much worse situation if it had
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by scoofy 9mo ago
>The better way to look at it imo is looking at the economic loss as well of congestion/abandoned commutes. To do a ridiculous hypothetical, London would collapse entirely if it didn't have transit. You're making my argume
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by scoofy 9mo ago
You seem to be misunderstanding my point. I am a transit alternatives advocate, and have been my entire adult life. I'm NOT saying "people don't want to ride trains." I AM saying "people don't want ride train

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