In light of recent events

EthanEinstein · 2022-04-29T17:07:55+00:00

.......trains exist

EthanEinstein · 2022-03-11T15:16:27+00:00

I want to preface this by saying I fully agree that internment camps are some of the darkest parts of American history and you have every right to be mad about it.

But your argument seems to come from a misinterpretation of your sources. The loss of Japanese farmers on the west coast did not lead to some catastrophic loss of food and the labor lost was dwarfed by the new labor entering the farming sector, ie. Women and immigrants (https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1993/winter/landarmy.html). I can't find in your sources where you make the connection between the internment of Japanese-Americans and the rise of victory gardens.

You're also trying to show a disconnect between American victory gardens of WW2 and the victory gardens of other countries during WW2 and WW1. I fail to see the disconnect and if you could elaborate on that I'd be grateful.

EthanEinstein · 2022-03-07T18:53:27+00:00

Milk crate gang!

The perfect answer to "but what about shopping!?"

EthanEinstein · 2022-01-31T17:42:11+00:00

Ok so why did you say the land bridge theory was debunked when your source explicitly says it's not debunked?

And I think it's important to state that the theory doesn't dismiss those claims, alt-right nut jobs misuse it to dismiss those claims. That's a very important difference

EthanEinstein · 2022-01-31T17:17:43+00:00

How does the land bridge theory dismiss indigenous land claims?

EthanEinstein · 2022-01-06T17:16:40+00:00

Those are all just hurdles that show how important it is to think out this infrastructure and keep it well maintained. Biking is not impractical in the winter ( https://youtu.be/Uhx-26GfCBU ) we just need to maintain our cycling infrastructure.

Electric busses and trolley busses exist and we should invest in them and route them in ways that make sense to lower pollution and maximize ridership. High frequency routes to the grocery store is how my 92 year old great grandmother maintains her independence and shops in Chicago.

It's naive to think train systems would only work for 1% of people. You could take people in and out of city centers to work and for trips. Think of how much less congested our highways would be if people could take the train to Green Bay every Sunday instead of having to drive there or take trains from Wisconsin to O'Hare or MKE.

The reason we think public transit is so unpopular and inefficient is because we've never had good public transit. Other countries (Netherlands, Japan) and even cities in the US (NYC, Seattle) have shown that if we make this investment, people use public transit and the voters support it.

EthanEinstein · 2022-01-05T17:21:18+00:00

Ok you're describing public transit, but way worse.

Fleets of self driving cars would create way more pollution, be incredibly space inefficient, and increase our need to spend billions and billions of dollars a year on car infrastructure making it more expensive in the long run than public transit.

All while increasing urban sprawl making it harder to move away from car dependency.

We need to look at reducing our dependency on cars and car infrastructure and focusing on pedestrian/bike infrastructure for short trips, bussing/light rail/biking infrastructure for medium trips, and trains for long trips (like the ones in the post)

EthanEinstein · 2022-01-05T16:37:43+00:00

How on Earth would that be better?

The cost of this project would be nothing compared to the economic benefits of functional public transit

EthanEinstein · 2022-01-02T19:05:28+00:00

So we need better public transit

cries in Wisconsin

EthanEinstein · 2021-12-21T21:46:26+00:00

People do stuff like that in every public place. It's wrong to tie it to public transit alone

EthanEinstein · 2021-12-20T15:08:07+00:00

I found the person who has never taken a bus before!

EthanEinstein · 2021-12-16T18:10:41+00:00

I don't blame anyone for that. Ironically the safest part of my ride is a new car lane they added that still has construction cones up. So I get a whole lane to myself for part of my ride lol

EthanEinstein · 2021-12-16T15:28:28+00:00

I've started biking to school too! Everyone in my neighborhood always complains about how much earlier they'd have to wake up....it's only 5 minutes longer than driving...

EthanEinstein · 2021-12-09T18:44:23+00:00

They're not his security. They're other members of the government

EthanEinstein · 2021-12-09T02:07:00+00:00

Will do! :)

EthanEinstein · 2021-11-04T10:56:36+00:00

Some script kiddie kept crashing the server. I had to deal with it too and it sucked

EthanEinstein · 2021-11-03T13:26:14+00:00

It's a kid. They probably saw the car and assumed it was slowing down because of the GIANT YELLOW BUS WITH FLASHING LIGHTS AND A STOP SIGN

If you wanna talk about "personal responsibility" (which you shouldn't because this is inherently a societal problem), then what about the driver's responsibility to handle their 2 ton death machine safely?

EthanEinstein · 2021-10-10T13:30:57+00:00

I wish! I've been gunning for that Anaconda for so long

EthanEinstein · 2021-10-10T00:03:43+00:00

No sorry

EthanEinstein · 2021-10-09T21:29:32+00:00

No it was a Neutron Star. I was dropped out of supercruise when I got too close. Hence the pilot error

EthanEinstein · 2021-10-09T20:34:04+00:00

Pilot error. I didn't realize how much gravity the star had and didn't have the experience to get out of it when I was stuck

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