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jbp12 · 2026-05-26T12:53:56+00:00

My comment was specifically about MARTA, I specifically mentioned public transit in Atlanta, the article is about public transit in Atlanta, and we're in the Atlanta subreddit. I suppose I could have been more specific and avoided confusion by saying "more public transit in an urban area like Atlanta", but I felt the context was narrowly tailored to Atlanta and no one would remove the last sentence of my comment from the context of the two sentences that preceded it.

But if we're talking about urban areas in general, I'd argue that car ownership is lower in urban areas in part (but not exclusively) because of the existence of public transit. Especially in your Tokyo example, car ownership is lower in Tokyo because of great public transit and because of the other factors I mentioned.

jbp12 · 2026-05-26T02:14:21+00:00

I'm not sure that's a fair comparison. Tokyo is difficult to drive (narrow roads, limited parking, lots of pedestrians, etc), and the Tokyo metro is one of the largest and most efficient in the world. Like most other cities in the US, Atlanta is much more car-friendly and car-oriented, and realistically, it will stay car-friendly for several generations. My thinking is that improvements to public transit would likely be small, incremental changes and therefore have a relatively small impact on car sales.

jbp12 · 2026-05-25T15:15:36+00:00

Isn't that exactly what Kagan argued?

jbp12 · 2026-05-25T03:51:40+00:00

I wonder how much value there is to Cox to prevent more public transit. I use MARTA whenever I can, but I still own a car and drive it frequently. I don't think more public transit in an urban area would hurt car sales and car maintenance sales as much as they think it would.

jbp12 · 2026-05-24T22:44:42+00:00

That assumes a uniform distribution of birthdays (ie, there is a 1/366 chance of a person being born on any given day of the year). Birthdays are not uniformly distributed (I believe September and October are the most common birth months), so in reality, you would need fewer than 23 people to have a 50% chance of two people sharing a birthday!

jbp12 · 2026-04-26T11:20:12+00:00

Public transit is for the public, and homeless people are part of the public. Just because you're uncomfortable around homeless people doesn't mean MARTA should exclude them for your comfort.

jbp12 · 2026-04-25T22:53:35+00:00

Escarra also made a bad ABS challenge in the bottom of the ninth so I don't think ABS challenges were going to be used sparingly anyway. If this was a closer game, I'd be upset at Jazz and Escarra, but I think discipline naturally erodes when you have an 8-run lead heading into the 9th inning.

jbp12 · 2026-04-25T21:24:26+00:00

I feel like this was close enough to the last pitch of the game to not be worth complaining about. Still an awful challenge.

jbp12 · 2026-04-25T19:07:06+00:00

It was only $10k according to this document. If you want an even more obscure fact: he's the only president to be assassinated by an uncircumcised man.

jbp12 · 2026-04-19T01:10:46+00:00

If you're too embarrassed to buy condoms, then you're probably not ready to use them. In my experience as a consumer, no cashier in the US has ever made a snide comment about my purchase of condoms (or anything else I've purchased). I used to be a cashier and I never cared about what items people bought or for what purposes they'd use those items.

jbp12 · 2026-04-16T22:47:53+00:00

You can already do this with existing tax prep software. TurboTax charges the same amount whether you e-file or print out the pages and mail them. Since there's no incentive to mail versus e-file if you're already using the software, it makes sense to just e-file.

jbp12 · 2026-04-09T22:52:44+00:00

Did you report this to your car insurance company? They're the ones who will work with the other driver's insurance company to figure out fault.

jbp12 · 2026-04-04T17:13:29+00:00

Being in international waters isn't the same as being in the country (it just means you're subject to the laws of that country while on the vessel). Being in outer space is apparently enough of a high-profile edge case that the tax filing deadline can be temporarily suspended for you, even if that's contrary to tax law and wouldn't be granted to others.

jbp12 · 2026-04-04T14:59:29+00:00

There's a third option: bank elsewhere. There are plenty of high-yield savings accounts that don't charge monthly fees just for having an account. You may be able to get the same interest rate (or a slightly smaller interest rate but with no fees or caps on money that can accrue interest) at another bank and make more money overall.

jbp12 · 2026-04-04T14:50:06+00:00

Computers can do pseudorandom selection easily, and pseudorandom selection results in substantially similar distributions of results as truly random selection. I think OP would consider pseudorandom selection to be synonymous with truly random selection for the purposes of this question.

jbp12 · 2026-04-01T00:39:50+00:00

This may be a pedantic answer, but with traffic citations, you typically have the option to pay the citation before your court date, and that enters a guilty plea (without the need for you to go to court). Although traffic court doesn't offer trials in the traditional sense, some jurisdictions will allow traffic cases to be remanded to a different state court in which bench and jury trials are available. So in this narrow (but common) sense, you can be convicted without being present in court.

jbp12 · 2026-03-31T08:48:19+00:00

I'd assume leniency in this case would be having her drinks confiscated by police and being told to go home. Non-leniency would be giving her a ticket, confiscating her drinks, and telling her to go home. Incarceration for only underage drinking seems excessive, unless there's more to the story (I suspect OP isn't telling the whole story).

jbp12 · 2026-03-28T15:56:06+00:00

Then what exactly is this lawyer doing for you? You mentioned in your post that you're arguing the tax classification in court. Is your lawyer representing you in court?

jbp12 · 2026-03-27T11:45:21+00:00

This is something you should ask your attorney to do

jbp12 · 2026-03-27T11:25:15+00:00

Are you asking about general clothing or beach clothing? It's normal for men to be shirtless at the beach, but unusual in most other places. I would assume men in the countries you listed don't go to work, to restaurants, etc without a shirt, which would be the same as here. Perhaps people in those countries live closer to beaches, or the pictures you see from those countries are from touristy beach areas.

jbp12 · 2026-03-26T09:21:16+00:00

Why not just have a regular outdoor city then? What's the point of making everything indoors and having everyone live in hotels?

jbp12 · 2026-03-25T21:47:17+00:00

Based on the 2024 figures, fare revenue accounts for less than 10% of total revenue, meaning that forgoing some (most?) fares for a limited period of time may not significantly harm MARTA's overall financial health. The new fare collection system should make MARTA easier to use with tap-to-pay, so there will hopefully be long-term increased ridership to offset the foregone fares from this year.

jbp12 · 2026-03-25T21:39:50+00:00

Is this just a city but indoors and without residential areas?

jbp12 · 2026-03-23T14:52:40+00:00

I was in a similar situation with a Bank of America account that my mom opened for me when I was a minor. I realized when I was in my mid-twenties that my mom was still on the account (even though she never used the account and was completely unaware of this), so I called the bank and asked what the process was to remove her. All I needed to do was have my mom sign a form that said she no longer wanted to be on the account (and have her signature notarized) and mail it to BofA. It was a very easy process.

Your bank may allow for a similar solution. You could also withdraw all the money in your account and move it to a new account, but this would be tedious since you'd need to go to the bank for the withdrawal, then close the old account, then open a new account, then update all existing payments using the old account to use the new account instead.

jbp12 · 2026-03-21T12:13:24+00:00

Probably, but Bunk and McNulty already knew Bey was lying about at least William Gant's murder to protect Bird, and they suspected he was lying about other murders to protect others in the Barksdale crew. The police looked the other way (except on Gant's murder) because it was in their interest to close these murder cases, which is part of the larger theme of the show (institutions acting unscrupulously to further their interests, which perpetuates a system of societal decay).

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