alternate phrasing: boomers stuffed all their money in their bank accounts instead of building a world their kids could afford to live in.

Ok, but give us some credit.

It was only last weekend we had a national holiday to celebrate how we treated the natives.

Indians really going out of their way to prove that yes, they are stupid enough to believe everything modi tells them

The big benefit of light rail is you can make trains longer than buses, and fit more people. So if your system has outgrown buses, then you should move to rail.

But transit systems should always be trying to maximize frequency, because the more frequently a train or bus comes, the more convenient it is for riders. So if a bus fits 30 people and a train fits 90 and you’re trying to make a decision between providing a bus service every 10 minutes or a train service every 30 minutes, the bus service is the better option.

Different modes work best for different passenger demands, and you should use the right one for the number of passengers you’ve got. Overbuilding is expensive, and if you spend too much building out a network and the don’t have enough for operating expenses then you’ve got to reduce service levels.

In Alberta, numbers are really more about how they feel than the actual value

yeah, elon's not going to see the negative consequences of this personally, because he'll just use the "ban" button instead of the "block" button.

so... all those people who argued that trump getting indicted because is no big deal because an indictment is not a conviction, and it's all poltical... they feel the same way about this, right?

he offered to buy twitter for a joke, and he actually did buy twitter because a court forced him to. not because this was some grand plan to accomplish anything - he literally spent months in court arguing that he shouldn't have to buy twitter, and he lost. that's the only reason he owns twitter now.

My guess as to how it went:

• random twitter troll: “haha Elon you’re probably the most blocked person on this site”
• Elon: “not anymore”

In most regions, you're right: you can put a noncompete in a contract, but enforcing it is another matter.

But noncompete clauses are explicitly illegal in California, where Twitter is based.

i'm not saying "don't put money into savings", i'm saying every now and then, people should make a decision that benefits the world as a whole rather than just their personal financial situation.

boomers didn't sacrifice their own spending to build their net worth, they sacrificed *public* spending to do it. and not just public spending, but things that are literally free. like, deciding nobody should ever be allowed to build more housing anywhere ever, because that makes their real estate investment go up.

As long as they’re not killing Ukrainians, then I guess yeah, go do whatever…

I’m not gonna do the math myself, but in terms of total screen size it’s probably pretty close to accurate.

he's going to "surrender to jail" because that's what this step of the process is called. he's not actually going to be locked up

There’s two types of ambassadors: for countries you have tense relationships with, you send the professional diplomats who are really good at negotiating for things without starting wars.

For countries who are friends and you aren’t going to have tough negotiations with them, you send somebody who has good connections to the president. The ambassador gets a cushy job for 4 years that’s basically a reward, and the foreign country gets the message that an ambassadorship there is treated as a reward for the president’s friends, which strengthens the relationship

it's only hypocrisy if you take the most generous possible interpretation of the things the right-wingers say, not what they so obviously mean

it's always been very clear all along that "don't tread on me" doesn't mean the same thing as "don't tread on anybody". they want some people to be firmly tread upon, and others not to be.

websites that will implement this API:

• your employer
• your bank

websites taht won't implement this API:

• anything you can choose to quit without significant other consequences to your life

Here's how we learn the difference between "real" and "true"

he died in 2013. his involvement with reddit ended officially in 2007, but even by his own admission he stopped any involvement with the company when it was acquired by conde nast - he was part of reddit for less than a year.

his death really doesn't have anything to do with reddit's current trajectory

yessss. do it. pleeeeease peel off some republican senate seats