SwingingTheLamp

Again, agree, but a woman candidate getting the most votes is just not good evidence of sexism. Al Gore also didn’t get enough votes.

Choked with cars, I reckon?

Didn’t I just read how Houston no longer has well-defined rush hours; its highways are congested all the time now.

“Useful.” Uh huh.

Wow. ITT: Several people lashing out defensively at a simple definition statement, which was not directed at them, and they say doesn’t even apply to themselves.

Could very well be, but Hillary Clinton’s presidential run doesn’t provide evidence to that effect, since the majority of voters chose her.

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. Women who run for office win at similar rates as men. That doesn’t sound like a sexist electorate to me.

No! Don’t do use dirty like this, posting a still image without an opossum wheel video. 😜

While I agree with using government policy to allow flexible work schedules and more work-from-home, it’s not going to do jack-squat to help with traffic congestion. It’s not that hard to understand once you know why: The insane level of congestion on the M50 suppresses demand for travel on it; anybody who doesn’t need to be on the highway at that time either stays home, or goes at a different time. That means that there are many car trips that aren’t happening under current conditions.

The latent demand means that If flexible scheduling or WFH does free up room on the M50, it becomes attractive to drive on it again for those people who previously stayed away due to congestion. And they will, as long as driving on the M50 provides them some marginal benefit. It won’t be until the congestion reaches a level that caused them to stay off the motorway in the first place that they’ll stay off the motorway again.

So, uh, crazy suggestion, I know, but unless the cars themselves have some business in Dublin, maybe provide a fast, convenient way for people to get in and out of the city? It’d be way more efficient, because gosh do cars take up a lot of space.

There’s no shortage of unlikable cunts in the GQP. I have this pet theory that he was chosen specifically because of his fake name. Short, punchy, strong: Vance. Just like Pence.

Seriously, the fascists are all about projecting an image of strength and power.

America is in North America, too!

Turns out that the movie Don’t Look Up may have been intended to satirize our response to climate change, but the portrayal of the media response is evergreen.

I don’t think that those people waiting in line to go swimming wanted to be grabbed.

Look up “Humbert College LRT Station” on Google Maps, and you can see it for yourself. Unfortunately, the Street View imagery is out-of-date, and shows the station under construction, but the aerial view shows that this door opens onto literally just a 4- or 7-lane highway/stroad a few meters away. No bus stops, and no passenger loading zones. There’s at least a sidewalk.

Despite all the (phony) reverence for the document in the U.S., the Constitutional Convention fucked up, badly. The Founding Fathers disliked political parties, considering them divisive, so they drew up a system that assumes that all office-holders are independent. That system is supposed to leverage the mutually-opposing interests of the representatives to check and balance each other. It simply can’t work if a group of people with aligned interests control multiple branches of government.

They signed their new constitution in 1788, and by 1792, Alexander Hamilton formed the first political party. Whoops.

Open carry of handguns is allowed with a permit, and Minnesota is a “shall issue” state, so it’s easy to get a permit.

Where did I imply it’s bad?

Shouldn’t official government websites be only concerned about the people actually employed at them and decision makers?

based on their collective actions for centuries, don’t deserve it.

Found the war criminal.

The War Prayer, a prose poem by Mark Twain.

IKR? The need for maintenance eventually should be foreseen! If they went to all the trouble to put a pipe through bedrock, why not put 2 pipes, so there’s a backup?