blarth

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[–] blarth@thelemmy.club -1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It is too distributed in too many places for mass transit. The religious fervor over the fuck cars movement is not going to get people in highly populated, low density areas to walk a mile to catch a bus to catch a train full of homeless people to catch another bus to walk a half mile to their destination, when they could have completed that same journey in the comfort of their own car in 1/4 of the time.

Take Dallas for instance. I’m not going to do the work for you, but feel free to plan a trip from a random house in Allen, TX to a business 5-10+ miles away using both the public transit system and then a car. No one sane with limited time in their day is opting for the public transit option. And this is in a city with a decent passenger rail system.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club -4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The United States is simply too large and distributed for everyone to use public transportation. It will never happen, so get used to it and try to optimize what will be part of our future.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 17 points 1 year ago

What in the actual fuck?

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is my brain making the train stripes red? I don’t know what color they normally are, which I assumed was the mechanism behind the coke can illusion.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 8 points 1 year ago

This is the most Indian shit I have seen this week.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 year ago

Did…did the republicans just Streisand libraries?

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Have a listen to get some insight on how mayor Bass achieved this. Starts around 19:20.

https://youtu.be/yZIOUPePHjc

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 18 points 1 year ago

I love how this captures yuppie and redneck DUI in one image.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, according to the illustrious (and surely credible) Afghanistan International, they did. Sure. And if so, how will they obtain parts to keep them continuously operational?

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There’s a lot of intent hidden between his words. He would, at best, want Ukraine to concede stolen territory to Russia as terms of the cease fire.

NATO exists and operates as it does for good reason. Read up on post-WW2 history.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah. Newsom is a particularly great debater. I think he would give Trump a serious whipping.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago
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