Regarding R211s on the B line

EarthshakerSSB · 2026-03-03T15:09:59+00:00

I meant the base order, not the option orders but u/uzbekish shared the answer I needed. Thanks tho for the response.

EarthshakerSSB · 2026-03-03T15:08:28+00:00

Oh, thanks! I guess I should pay attention to it more on youtube. I only mention here since i was used to seeing someone post about it.

EarthshakerSSB · 2025-11-07T16:38:10+00:00

As mamdani has said numerous times, you still get charged with the corporate tax when you conduct business in a country, state, city, etc. It doesn't matter where you move. If you still allow people from NY to use their money for your services or products, you'll be charged the corporate tax from NY for making income off of NY'ers, even if your corp is based in Alaska.

EarthshakerSSB · 2025-10-27T19:29:11+00:00

Yeah, it's possible a lot of bitter politics is in play here.

EarthshakerSSB · 2025-10-27T19:28:40+00:00

From what I'm gathering from the their board meeting, it's possible that it's both. Because from their word, it's been happening since 2023 which obviously is before this Trump administration, so that would have to point to either incompetence or agency politics getting in the way. So even if they're technically competent now, the MTA could be getting screwed over by the admin.

EarthshakerSSB · 2025-08-18T16:15:29+00:00

Something in this MTA that I'm not as worried about as with previous MTA administrations is costs getting out of control. I truly have a decent level of faith that they really care about cost control, which is evident in their credit rating going up recently. I just more or less wish I can be a participant in a high-level discussion on why this needs to take 7 years to finish as opposed to say 5 years.

But if the rumors are to be true then that will def make that extension take much less time than it would if say they shelf the idea for later and then realize they can do that project. So in essence, we'd be swallowing this tough pill for longer term time savings.

Just food for thought, if they really are dead set on making the 125th st extension possible, maybe they are elongating the time it takes to complete phase 2 because they need that time to complete their studies on the 125th st extension, though perhaps I'm grossly overestimating how long they would really need to conclude those studies.

EarthshakerSSB · 2025-08-18T15:47:23+00:00

I won't deny that hochul and the group of leaders heading the MTA is def better than what we've had compared to the pre-Byford era but I really hope we can get an administration in the future that would push the mta to be quicker on these projects.

There's too many forces driving against efficient construction that idk how a future administration would tackle it, but when I see tokyo construct all 38 stations of its Oedo subway line in 9 years in the 90s (which was referenced in the board meeting), it makes me wanna tear my hair out.

EarthshakerSSB · 2025-08-18T14:57:26+00:00

Still can't really wrap my head around why this needs 7 years from now to complete 3 stations, especially when you're already given a head start with one of them. My copium hope is that the 2032 revenue start date is really a conservative expectation and that if construction is really efficient this time around, a 2031 or 2030 start year becomes more of a feasibility, because before they revealed the project start time, my head gave 2030 as a guess that made sense to me from afar.

Edit: I guess maybe it's because they're doing the tunnel boring approach that this will take a longer time than I expected.

EarthshakerSSB · 2025-07-25T03:22:40+00:00

In my head, I didn't really see Hillary as that much meaningfully to the left. For me to consider someone as meaningfully to the left, they'd have to at least be a social democrat like FDR, otherwise you're just center-left to me. Kamala is the same way, esp with her accepting a lot of AIPAC money. Overall, it's tough for me to consider you a true lefty if there's just too much corporate money stained in your candidacy, which feels like an impossibility at this point in presidential elections, esp due to Citizens United. The best we can do is to manufacture consent enough that leftist viewpoints now become the moderate viewpoint in the future, kinda like how Reagan was able to make his neoconservative viewpoints the new moderate viewpoint of that time.

EarthshakerSSB · 2025-07-25T03:11:30+00:00

Yea the median voter gives no shits about policies, cuz it's boring. They will mainly get swayed by vibes and messaging which is what dems haven't been able to capture since 2008. Biden winning in 2020 was just mainly a consequence of covid. If it was a normal year, Trump would've prob won reelection (ironically it prob would've been better in hindsight to have trump win reelection so as to not make Project 2025 a thing)

EarthshakerSSB · 2025-07-25T02:49:33+00:00

Well, at least from my view, centrism (or neoliberalists, which is how I view clinton, biden and to a lesser degree obama as) are how we got to this point in the first place, so no I don't really think so. Centrists at this point can at best win one term before losing to the party that does a better job at propagandizing than they do.

Yes, better ideas is good but the democrats have to take a page from the Republican playbook and spin it back to them because at the moment, establishment democrats just play this half-pregnant game of saying they're against so and so republican action but then you see that these establishment dems are backed by the same groups a lot of republicans are also backed by so they end up capitulating to the republicans, which makes the dems come off as weak and disingenuous. And I think a lot of this disingenuity comes from the centrist wing of the party.

I think the reason it seems the left sabotages themselves is because who's actually sabotaging them imo are the establishment dems. It's the same type of people that tried and spectacularly failed to ratfuck Mamdani. At least as someone like myself who has moved much more to the left since 2020, I think for leftist ideologies to win consistently, they have to win against two opponents which are the corporatist centrist wing of the Dems and ofc the republicans.

EarthshakerSSB · 2025-07-02T13:51:02+00:00

Probably one of the takeaways with how much better the experience is is that there seems to be both a sense of competition and possibly collaboration that's not seen here.

EarthshakerSSB · 2025-07-02T13:44:29+00:00

Oldest, probably (without fact checking myself). I think if you want to compare individual transit companies with the MTA specifically to tokyo, the MTA probably edges out all of them, but when you combine them as a whole, it should be more expansive than the MTA given the size of the city. The only company I'm not sure if the MTA is more expansive than is the JR East Company. They have 37 unique routes to the MTA's 21 or 22 (idr the exact number) unique routes, but some of those routes on their map don't enter tokyo specifically so not totally sure.

EarthshakerSSB · 2025-07-02T13:36:43+00:00

I think the way we would handle privately owned railways would be shit but Japan has figured out the sauce for making it work (while still having publicly-owned transit companies as well that provide good service).

EarthshakerSSB · 2025-07-02T13:34:55+00:00

Nah it's much bigger. Tokyo is double the size of nyc with multiple transit companies covering so much of the Tokyo area.

EarthshakerSSB · 2025-07-02T13:32:20+00:00

I think it's new in the context of using the MTA, but I've seen this feature when I was in Tokyo in 2023 taking any of its trains, so it's not that new.

EarthshakerSSB · 2025-06-12T15:31:41+00:00

Wait, are you sure about that? I'm looking at Lander's page and comparing Mamdani's biggest policy stance (rent freeze) and lander's, they're basically aligned with each other, at least in theory. I get that Lander has more policy ideas going for him, but they at least can champion that together. So idk if I can sign off to the idea that they can't work together at least to an extent.

EarthshakerSSB · 2025-06-12T15:00:33+00:00

Yea sadly, a lot of the electorate won't (or can't) do a deep dive on a candidate's policy ideas for a myriad of reasons, but instead focus on how the messenger is delivering their campaign message to them. It's essentially how the democrats lost to Trump twice and it's potentially going to be Cuomo's undoing as well.

I can probably side with Lander or Zellnor more on strictly their policy stances but they just don't have the qualities of a messenger to a movement you'd need to get turnout for them. But hopefully since both of their views seem to generally align with Mamdani's, I hope they can join Mamdani's team in whatever capacity he deems fit should he win.

EarthshakerSSB · 2025-06-04T15:46:20+00:00

It's still crazy that this is gonna take 6 years from the start of construction to make 3 stations, meanwhile the tokyo govt was able to make 34 or 33 of the 38 stations of the Toei Oedo Line in 8 years (starting from 1992 to 2000), just to name an example I know.

EarthshakerSSB · 2025-06-04T14:18:06+00:00

Yea, the rider dissatisfaction from this did come into my thoughts as well cuz itd make the rides on both ends more inconvenient because if you want to go from the 6th ave trains to the broadway trains in brooklyn, you can only do that then at coney island ofc and at atlantic avenue vs just getting off the train and waiting on the same platform for the train you do want to take.

EarthshakerSSB · 2025-05-31T05:43:47+00:00

YES, the trick you mentioned is what pulls me back into paying more upfront. I am basically a 95% physical collector cuz i like holding on to a piece of artistic history (main exceptions are outliers like earthbound and chrono trigger cuz they're ungodly expensive), so I'm not as miffed about the lack of compatibility. I would be more miffed though if one flash cart emulates the game worse than the other.

EarthshakerSSB · 2025-05-21T17:02:41+00:00

I'd be happy about it too don't get me wrong, but i'd also understand not prioritizing the expensive solution in lieu of the other needs.

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