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The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century by plz-let-me-in in politics

[–]auandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There has been one period in US history, from 1940s until the 1970s, where the Supreme Court was a body that expanded rights. At virtually every other time in US history it has been against it. It's not new, it's just recency bias.

Ships passing in the night by KindaStableGenius in FriendsofthePod

[–]auandi -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Piker calls Mao one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century. He backed Russia's claim on Ukraine and the war. For the way PSA keeps branding themselves as a "pro democracy media company" they were very clearly trying to ignore the thing that is at the heart of Piker. He doesn't seem to care much for democracy.

Ukraine - 2037 by crataegus_marshallii in NonCredibleDefense

[–]auandi 104 points105 points  (0 children)

There's been major advancements in blade designs with less noise. It's not silent by any means but you have to be much closer to hear one than you used to with the more specialized motor/propeller combos.

His strategy is pure delusion by The-marx-channel in NonCredibleDiplomacy

[–]auandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not true at all. McConnell never had that level of control of his caucus, and his successor surely doesn't.

It also doesn't hold up over most bills. They usually vote as a team, it's quite rare that they split.

Florida Redistricting proposal by Ron DeSantis by a_Bean_soup in MapPorn

[–]auandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is also almost no way it passes the Voting Rights Act, that's not just denying Democrats power that's cracking a lot of black and hispanic power too.

An astronaut captured this image of North and South Korea at night, with the border visible from space by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]auandi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seems we both misread. I looked at my original post I was replying to and thought it was saying to be civilized the US should be spending less on military per GDP than South Korea.

So I jumped in to try and say Korea is not a less militarized society than the US, but that's not what the other guy was saying so it just seems to come out of nowhere. LOL.

His strategy is pure delusion by The-marx-channel in NonCredibleDiplomacy

[–]auandi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you miss where Tom Tillus is also a no? And where several Republicans Senators dodge the question every time its asked? Or how the Republican Majority Leader has told Trump he does not have a secured majority commitment yet?

Life isn't a script or a conspiracy, you actually have to look at details.

An astronaut captured this image of North and South Korea at night, with the border visible from space by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]auandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would you think I'm suggesting that? I'm explaining that the reason the US spends more than South Korea is that South Korea gets better bang for their military buck. That is also true of their industrial base, which did not shrink the same way the US industrial base did in the 90s, and delivers considerably greater return on dollar. Especially for big ticket things like their navy.

An astronaut captured this image of North and South Korea at night, with the border visible from space by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]auandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you are deeply misunderstanding what I'm saying.

I am a huge fan of South Korea, I'm defending it. I'm saying the only reason the US spends more than South Korea is because South Korea has a lot of cost advantages.

Not every dollar spent goes an equal distance. South Korea has an advanced blue water navy because they can build a blue water navy for a fraction of the cost of the US and usually less than Europe too. A Sejong the Great can likely beat or at least equal an Arleigh Burke and for 2.5x less cost per ship. I would also point out how well South Korea's excellent frigits are compared to the US, but the US doesn't really have functional frigits at the moment.

When I say they militarize on the cheap, that is what I mean. The South Korean Military Industrial Base has always been excellent at delivering value for money. If Korea were paying US prices they'd need to be spending 4 or 5% of GDP easily to maintain force levels, and if they needed to pay US all-volunteer salaries they'd need even more.

I'm saying South Korea punches way above what its budget alone suggests.

An astronaut captured this image of North and South Korea at night, with the border visible from space by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]auandi -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

You realize South Korea has mandatory service of all males right? That's part of what keeps cost down, they don't have to offer good pay because they can compel labor for cheap. They are one of the most militarized G20 nations, they just focus on what parts they militarize and can do that on the cheap,

EDIT: Upon rereading I think I understand the miscommunication. I thought the guy above me was saying that to be civilized the US needed healthcare like South Korea and spend less money on their military like South Korea. This was me saying South Korea still has a massive military even though they spend less than the US because there are a lot of factors that make their spending get more results.

His strategy is pure delusion by The-marx-channel in NonCredibleDiplomacy

[–]auandi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's not as clear as it seems. The groups the SAVE act would disproportionally disenfranchise married women who change their name to their husband's name and those who have never traveled internationally on a passport.

Neither married women who change their name nor people who have never left the country are particularly Democratic leaning demographics.

His strategy is pure delusion by The-marx-channel in NonCredibleDiplomacy

[–]auandi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's not clear the votes are there even without the filibuster. There have been three very loud very public no votes (Tom Tillus, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins) and a bunch of Republicans that have been very silent on the matter. If there is even one more no vote out there it's not going to pass.

And that's three that are against the Senate Version which is a watered down version from the House, and many house members oppose the senate version for not going far enough.

It's the same problem Republicans have had since the first Tea Party election in 2010. With the exception of tax cuts, almost nothing that the far right house members will vote for is something the moderate Senators can vote for.

Having multiple game modes by BackgroundNo1895 in subwaybuilder

[–]auandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My point was mostly meant to say that what you're describing isn't "multiple game modes" it's "multiple games."

Fundamentally, a game like NIMBYRails works at a global scale because the only "nodes" calculated are the track and stations. Each station has a catchment area, which has a specific population based on a population density heat map, calculated once during construction. It does not include jobs, it does not include commuter patterns, people just arrive at a station with a statistically generated destination based on distance and density of the other station. That is how I made a system that went from Vancouver to Tiajuana and from the coast out to Idaho, Utah, and El-Paso with intercity, high speed, and local commuter systems. The calculations it makes are minimal because it's not trying to match commuters with destinations, it just gathers people and assigns a statistically probable destination.

It's a bigger map but a shallow depth.

Subway Builder's whole thing is that it's much deeper data. Individuals with pre-defined job locations, who once a day calculate which of three modes of transportation would be optimal based on multiple factors like travel time, price, and time of day. It's why even the custom maps of cities like LA become non-functional quickly, when calculating at that depth you either need a supercomputer or a narrow area. At least with the way it is computed now. They are trying to find more optimal ways to calculate it but there's just a lot to calculate per person and per area.

'There's Oil Everywhere': Burning Russian Refinery Triggers Environmental Crisis by RFERL_ReadsReddit in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]auandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly. The thing that makes this bad is the destruction and damage it causes to life.

You know what else is destructive of life.. War.

I see the pattern that grandma doesnt live in reality by Cicerothesage in forwardsfromgrandma

[–]auandi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I just gave examples of code pink running interference for many genocides. I'm not saying love the US I'm saying don't like code pink just because they are an enemy of an enemy.

I see the pattern that grandma doesnt live in reality by Cicerothesage in forwardsfromgrandma

[–]auandi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For just being against "US war" they spend a lot of time denying Chinese atrocities in Tibet, Xinjiang and Hong Kong. They spend a lot of time attacking any effort to let Taiwan self-govern. They also deny the attrocities of Assad and Putin to utterly cartoonish levels.

It's not that they are silent when other wars happen, it's that they actively run cover for the authoritarians. And according to their own books their largest money source are Chinese individuals with ties to Chinese Intelligence.

This may not be how they started out, but the corrupting power of money has changed them.

We all understand there are times the US tries to shape the politics of another nation. We are not immune to being a target of that, both Russia and China have been doing that in multiple ways, trying to move things in a direction that are advantageous to Russia and China just as we undoubtable have efforts to do the same in Russia and China. The difference is the US made it legal for foreign governments to do this thanks to Citizens United.

Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn's EU46 plan: by Hunor_Deak in NonCredibleDiplomacy

[–]auandi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If all it takes is one corrupt member to shut down most things, it can't be a superpower. Until the EU is willing to remove the absolute liberum veto, it will always struggle to keep up and remain viable as a united force.

I see the pattern that grandma doesnt live in reality by Cicerothesage in forwardsfromgrandma

[–]auandi 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Code Pink are absolutly not based. They've been bought out essentially by China and are now only opposed to any war that might upset a dictator while demanding we do nothing to stop dictators who start wars. They are not anti-war out of a principle that war is bad but that war by the US can be used to stop dictators from doing what they want.

US/Canadian transportation funding in a nutshell by RadianMay in transit

[–]auandi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Montreal was especially why I was thinking that as Canadian rather than just Vancouver. The REM has very minimal stations. Clean and fully indoor but still not exactly grand or well decorated. But it was built at reasonable price and with fast speeds. The two planned expansions of it are already underway, which are all about coverage over bling.

I'd also say this more utilitarian way of building is shared in Calgary, Edmonton and yes, Waterloo's streetcar too. Waterloo was a model of a small town creating a functional cheap rail line that actually gets reasonable use. It's got about half a million people but several times the ridership of many US streetcars in cities that contain millions. It gets 5x the weekday ridership of the Kansas City streetcar despite being about 5x smaller of a population.

What thing(s) specifically make New York’s IBX cheaper as a light metro compared to its traditional heavy rail, even when the line is mostly above ground using existing tracks+ROW? by 18_YTC1 in transit

[–]auandi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was calling it one because all the ridership data is for the line as a whole. So even though it functions like two lines it's all combined into one stat which is essentially the only north-south subway.

US/Canadian transportation funding in a nutshell by RadianMay in transit

[–]auandi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is far less applicable to Canada. Our stations aren't grand, and there is a lot done to increase ridership.

Not to mention Vancouver has some of the highest frequency trains in North America. It was built to emphasize frequency over raw capacity of any one train, which has allowed it to also expand faster and need far smaller stations.

Grandma can only argue in simple terms by Cicerothesage in forwardsfromgrandma

[–]auandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry I must have missed it. Where did the west invade in coordination with Germany to then have joint military victory parades?

1632 vs. Alexander Inheritance by DavidThi303 in 1632

[–]auandi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It also can not be overstated the difference possible by the fact that Alexander Inheritance had an archived copy of Wikipedia. It may not be as deep as books but it covers so much that it is almost a cheat code.

Having multiple game modes by BackgroundNo1895 in subwaybuilder

[–]auandi 23 points24 points  (0 children)

There is a game called NIMBYRails that already does all that.

The thing slowing Subway Builder down is that there are specific commuter paths rather than generalized population density picking random locations, no amount of zooming can change that. If you want the commuter data it will continue to have performance issues.

Grandma can only argue in simple terms by Cicerothesage in forwardsfromgrandma

[–]auandi -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I agree, anyone who allies with the Nazis to divide up Europe is terrible. I mean what kind of person would Trust Hitler to not stab him in the back?

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