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If not for big oil, we'd be taking trolleys and driving cars powered by steam, etc. Big oil was not a help with public mass transportation, either. Plus, we, the taxpayers, paid for highways and road repairs to aid their cause. Plus, plus, the MIddle East would be a lot different today.
As an aside, I checked with my contact at the NYC DOT (for real), who project managed the Times Square transformation that was pictured in the article you posted, and he has never heard of Andy Cohen, the author.
True and it's a tantalizing idea, too. What could go wrong?
Sorry, pretty much apples and oranges. Sure, driverless buses, driverless cabs, tests in mock towns.
I appreciate the effort but this in no way addresses the situation of big, densely populated cities dealing with driverless cars. With an infinite number of cars being driven into these large city centers for whatever reasons, every day
I mean, like Hong Kong or some such, not Arlington, Texas. Yes, it's possible it could work in cities with a population of about 500,000 in spread out geographic situations, but not a major inner city.
In his dreams
An impressive expression of stupidity. Congrats!
Wtf? Do your handlers know you're on a computer?
You'd have to come off as a lot smarter to be fairly considered an idiot.
CRT is a college level curriculum, if you can post one legit link that shows it being taught in elementary or high school, I apologize. Side bet that you've never read the 1619 Project or actually know what CRT is. I guess Tucker told you it's bad!
You insult all hard working public school teachers and administrators with this nonsense.
It's doubtful they've had some "come to honorable behavior" moment. They are dishonest hacks running a company that provides ordinary products in which the marketplace shows no interest..
If they were the types of people who would give up their salaries as a show of good faith, they would be the types of people who wouldn't have been lying to investors forever.
Ain't gonna happen, might as well ask Kay to cut us all checks for the amounts we've lost investing in this shite company.
In this instance, going against Gridlock Sam is going against expert opinion. I'd bet the writer of the article you posted, who is not a world famous traffic planner, will be proven wrong in time, instead.
You still don't address the issues of people "driving" into a city and what becomes of their cars once there, which was 1 of my 2 points. Taxis are irrelevant in these cases, hanging around or no.
The Andy Cohen who wrote the article you posted is apparently a NYC Council member. While his heart is in the right place, he's hardly an expert.
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2017/05/26/council-member-andy-cohen-knows-broadway-wont-get-safer-if-it-stays-wide-and-fast/
This goes against the consensus opinions I've read, it's the opposite. I'll give you two examples that I've read about. (See anything by Sam Schwartz, aka Gridlock Sam, for more)
Right now if you drive into midtown Manhattan for an afternoon meeting, you're going to pay at least about $40 an hour for parking. But why park, if your driverless car can just keep circling the block until your meeting's over. Or you're done shopping or eating at a restaurant. This will clog the streets unimaginably, but not as bad as when you take the next part into account.
Driverless cars will most likely be equipped with sensors to make the car stop automatically when it detects pedestrians. Imagine, now, people crossing the streets willy nilly, with disregard for the traffic signals and the insane, continuous, stopping of cars that will follow.
The writer seems to be describing a super-Uber world where city dwellers won't need cars because they'll be chauffeured everywhere by robots. But ignores the large population of cars used by workers, commuters, shoppers, visitors, etc., people who need to drive into or around the city.
Yeah, I don't think so. But please, believe whatever you'd like and definitely don't post any links with fact things in them to support your claims..
I guess we're not the first people to go back and forth on this one:
https://www.truthorfiction.com/can-self-driving-cars-be-trapped-by-a-salt-circle/
The photo you posted was of an art project from 2017. I'm not saying the salt circle wouldn't still stop a car, but the technology has changed a bit since then.
Wait, so he just got up one morning and thought, hey, I'll surround a car with salt and see if that effects the auto-driving mechanism?
To me, it's more - or just as - likely the white stuff was photoshopped in and the rest written as a goof.
On the other hand, it was on the internets, so there's that. Plus, it could be a failure of my imagination.
We have a car with one of those lane departure pingers, too. I like it, it helps me re-focus on driving when, maybe, my attention has been diverted elsewhere.
Driverless cars will never be allowed in any larger cities, but I don't see why long haul trucking, for example, can't employ them.
It was a brilliant book and movie. How have we not "evolved" beyond this, though?
Cruz and Hawley and Stefanik and DeSantis are all also Harvard Law grads, too. Maybe it should rethink its admission standards?
No use letting professional, certified educators decide how to implement education, let's have the politicians and parents run the schools.
I remember reading, Inherit the Wind, maybe in middle school. Freakin' unbelievable that those same arguments are still being played out.
I think one of the goals of the conservative movement in this country, probably going back to the 1960's, is to defund public education. To return it to religious and family control, completely.
That's a big reason why we see continuous attacks on teachers, teachers' unions, and curriculums. The latest iteration is to attack non-existent CRT teaching and sex grooming.
Many of the people leading this charge are still burned up about de-segregation and the teaching of evolution instead of the Bible. They tend to live in places where funding for public schools is below national average and the illiteracy rate is above.
Climate change is fun!
https://riskfactor.com/
And we believe this, why?
Is Adam@adamthealright a well known someone, who has real world credibility and regularly posts fun facts?
It seems like the actual idiot is the one who took the time to buy, transport and lay out a massive amount of salt.
Yes, that would be grand, although he seems to have no shame, like several of his sidekicks. You'd think normal-ish, rational people would be embarrassed by his antics, but I guess that's not the case.
I agree with you about Biden coddling China, this is one of the worse things he's done in that regard:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/09/22/ivankas-trademark-requests-were-fast-tracked-in-china-after-trump-was-elected/?sh=73a7da2a1d60
This incoherent rambling of your s that goes on forever is a dialogue killer. Also, maybe, get an adult relative to help with your grammar and spelling.
And, ff you're so anti-China, stop wearing the MAGA hats that are made there and stop shopping at WalMart, where just about everything is made there.
Trying to imagine him as head of the Judiciary Committee is truly mind boggling.
But will he ever get called out? We've already seen former wrestlers state unequivocally that he knew about the problems and purposefully ignored them.
If you drive the getaway car for the bank robbers, you're guilty, too.
Technically, he wasn't a boy molester so much as an enabler of boy molesting. Does that make him a sleazy, dishonest, moron? 100%.
David Remnick is great, in general, but it's hard to see the point of this article, having been written 6 years ago. It just seems like more of the same, and the same.
Michael Moore is desperate to remain relevant. He had his day, he was important at one time, but it's past. He was never a particularly astute political analyst, his glory was about the environment and business.
Trump has zero chance of being re-elected. These endless articles and speculation about him are just clickbait and fill the need to provide content for the 24/7 news cycle.
Some people are saying that it's boring and we should get on to the next thing. And let the wheels of justice continue grinding.
Or, as the great philosopher (and convicted rapist), Mike Tyson, said, "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth".
But I'm sure it's very cool with you that Grassley just got re-elected at age 89.
We can go back and forth about this forever, I think. My bottom line is that I believe overuse of a word, like Nazi, serves to diminish the impact of the history of the word and what it represents. If every evildoer is a Nazi, then who is a Nazi?
It's sort of like black people using the N word, but in reverse. They are partially de-stigmatizing something painful from the past by its use, and I don't want to see that happen with Nazi. The word, in my opinion, should continue to serve to represent a singular atrocity.
Maybe the people you describe can be called "psychopathic shit heads", I think that pretty well describes them. The KKK weren't Nazis and neither was Idi Amin or Mao, they were crazy, murderous, another word. Stalin was a fascist dictator who killed 3M Ukrainians but he fought the Nazis.
Oh, boo freakin hoo. Obama was treated at least as badly as Trump, as was Clinton, and they accomplished actual stuff. Without everyone they appointed pleading guilty of crimes. Without self dealing tax payer money to enrich themselves. Without their kids making $100M by cutting private deals with murderers.
Without trying to extort some foreign leaders and being played by other foreign leaders and having America lose status around the world. Without trying to overturn elections and causing people to lose faith in our democracy. Without believing Putin over their own intelligence agencies.
Your points, such as they are, are unsupported by reality. But you can think anything you want, dear.
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Sorry, I hadn't previously heard of him. But sure, if someone is a self-proclaimed Nazi, then they are a Nazi. Even though the ADL in this article describes him as a neo-Nazi, which I guess is sort of a term for a wannabe Nazi.
Regardless, we should take him at his word and be very wary, also, of the "Jews will not replace us" crowd, whatever terms are used to describe them.
There was a video circulating a couple of days before Halloween this year of a guy in full Nazi uniform going into a famous bar in Soho, Fanelli's, (which I used to frequent, back in the day.) Troubling times, indeed.
So, when Trump, or another one of your guys, is photographed with someone, you're fine with them falling back on the excuse that they don't know everyone they're photographed with at an event. Which is legit.
But when Maxine Waters is, then she must be complicit in some shit, amirite?
Your insinuation is maximally lame.
(it's hard to understand whether you actually believe this sort of crap or if you're just trying to rile up the libs - I would understand if it's the latter, riling people up. But if you really do believe it, you might want to stay out of anything consequential in your life that requires critical thinking)
They are terrible people, all of them, but not Nazis, in my opinion. Like I wrote, I believe Nazi is a word with historic specificity. Were the KKK Nazis, too? Were American pioneers who brutally murdered Indians, Nazis?
What you guys are proposing is like what American conservatives do by labeling anyone they hate and disagree with as a Communist or Socialist.
Stephen Miller is one for the ages. He's a Sonderkommando, maybe, but no Himmler. Yet. (there are unflattering photographs of everyone).
Not all fascists are Nazis. Not all white supremacists are Nazis, etc. Terrible, evil people, sure, but not Nazis. I don't think, for example, you would call Strom Thurmond a Nazi, or Putin one, either. Stalin was a fascist who fought the Nazis.
https://medium.com/@arthurtruth0716/joseph-stalin-the-fascist-dictator-who-betrayed-communism-9d2c81b93c49
Nazi isn't a generic term applicable to these sorts, it has historical specificity.
The danger, in my opinion, is that if we just start calling unpleasant people Nazis, the word loses its power in the same way that calling any murderous dictatorial leader a Hitler does.
I've never heard Pol Pot described as a Nazi or a Hitler.
We come at this from different perspectives, I get that, never mind.
Please don't degrade the memory of the real Nazis by calling people you don't like, Nazis.
Nazis are not like red ants at your picnic. They do genocide and make people work as slave laborers.
I was always pissed at Seinfeld for his Soup Nazi episode, he and Larry David should have known better.
It's kind of like the people who think it's cool to wear a Mao pin. It's not.
No such thing as an actual free market and I'm not sure you want there to be one.
Stock market will find a newer, much lower, bottom when these idiots default on government debt.
He's a nasty piece of work, deserves a lot of credit for the ultra negative tone that's been permeating government since, well, him.
I worked with him one time, post his career in Congress. I forget which wife he was on, then, but he was affable enough, much larger in size than I had realized.
Who was it who said that he's a dumb person's idea of a smart man?
I'm going to count on it because your investments in stuff like VERB (nice 6 month chart, by the way) indicates a firm grip on all things financial.
You and the other penny stock clown, Conix, would be better served going to Vegas and losing your money there, in one fell swoop.
That was some genius forecasting, by the way, seeing inflation coming last year, especially as the full effects of Trump's tariffs kicked in and the Kushner pals in the Middle East slowed oil production.
Why it's going to get worse, you leave without explanation, but I'm sure we all believe you are correct, because, hey, you and everyone else on the planet said it was coming last year.
Maybe cite one other time in the history of mankind that inflation hasn't been transitory, it's as if you don't know the meaning of the world.
They can impeach Biden all they'd like, but with the D's controlling the Senate it will just be a waste of time.
The big worry, for me, right now, one of them, is the process of raising the debt ceiling. The conservative R's seem so stupid that they don't know it's for money already spent and claim it means they need to cut the budget.
Meanwhile, if the debt ceiling isn't raised, the US economy goes into default and it will not be a pretty sight.
Yeah, except Thomas and HIS harridan are on the same side, whereas Conway and Kellyanne supposedly are not. Basically, not to stereotype or anything, but all of them are lying pieces of shit.
Follow the money, these are people without core ethical values.
He and his harridan wife are just doing the updated version of Carville and Matalin - it's all about the Benjamins.