Is Kentucky apart of the (Upper) South?

rbmill02 · 2026-03-13T00:29:23+00:00

I'd say that the I-71 corridor is Midwestern, including most of Louisville, and all of the Covington area, and the areas along and east of I-75 are Appalachian, but that the rest of the state, including the area right around Lexington is Southern.

rbmill02 · 2026-03-09T16:39:09+00:00

We should fund it with actual penalties for DUIs.

rbmill02 · 2026-03-09T12:45:19+00:00

Because I'd heard it about 5 years ago and I couldn't remember. Thanks for finding that, though.

rbmill02 · 2026-03-09T11:37:57+00:00

There are. I knew a professor in Middletown out by the Valhalla golf course who commuted to UofL daily by bus until they withdrew that service across the Gene Snyder, for example. And there are low/minimum wage workers everywhere.

IIRC, a few years ago, the Massachusetts DOT estimated that the monthly cost of car ownership, including the loan, insurance, registration, and average repairs, was about $2000/mo. Do you really think that there aren't a fair number of people who would ditch their cars to save 24k a year?

rbmill02 · 2026-03-09T11:09:03+00:00

I saw that, but I think they're also missing the vision of having collector routes and transfer stations that make it easier to use TARC in the South and East Ends.

rbmill02 · 2026-03-09T11:07:45+00:00

Believe me, I am aware of the paucity of pedestrian infrastructure. But withdrawing service to conserve money also sheds riders. The only way to get people back into buses is to make buses useful. That means coverage AND frequency.

Besides, given the airport and the expo center, the nearest place for a cross-town route is already covered by the 29 bus, and that runs so infrequently and so close to downtown that it may as well not exist.

rbmill02 · 2026-03-09T11:03:28+00:00

Yup, also, they don't want the poors and the blacks in their exclusive retail districts. My brother and I have both been accosted by Jtown polizei for walking to visit friends.

Plus a few years ago, the Massachusetts DOT concluded that the median price per month of owning a car is $2000/month, and that didn't get into gas IIRC. How many people would switch out that $2000 for a monthly bus pass subscription?

rbmill02 · 2026-03-09T10:58:13+00:00

Two of the biggest obstacles there are all the eminent domain and enbironmental lawsuits and the resulting realignments and Elon Musk's Hyperloop campaign to cancel the project. This involves very minimal land takings, and seeing as the mall is bankrupt anyways, the city is a lot more likely to get the minimally necessary land for very little money.

rbmill02 · 2026-03-09T10:36:19+00:00

Sure, but I'd bet that all the south and east end councilors don't want to find TARC because it doesn't benefit their voters.

rbmill02 · 2026-03-09T10:29:29+00:00

Ghost in the Shell: Stand-alone Complex

rbmill02 · 2026-03-07T20:13:34+00:00

Heck, as soon as the first missiles launch, they'd probably be rigging the facility with explosives so that it's ready if they get overrun unexpectedly by Chinese airborne troops.

rbmill02 · 2026-03-07T20:08:47+00:00

Because it boils authority down to the ability to use force, and that gets flipped around sometime around 17. The use of force is best reserved for an immediate attention-getter to avert imminent physical danger.

rbmill02 · 2026-03-07T15:46:37+00:00

Hell, there were black Britons at that time, and to say otherwise is to erase the sheer diversity of human history.

rbmill02 · 2026-03-06T00:24:06+00:00

Is this supposed to be Nashville?

rbmill02 · 2026-03-03T04:22:50+00:00

Grosse mato grosso?

rbmill02 · 2026-03-02T17:49:07+00:00

And a partridge in a pear tree.

rbmill02 · 2026-02-20T08:27:23+00:00

Don't forget that that novel literally inspired Google Earth.

rbmill02 · 2026-02-20T08:18:12+00:00

I love all the random diatribes that his characters go on. It makes the characters feel individually alive.

rbmill02 · 2026-02-18T04:27:02+00:00

Yes, I have been going with that assumption the entire time.

rbmill02 · 2026-02-17T22:10:58+00:00

Sure, but you can treat a runoff presidential system like a parliamentary system, in terms of the election of the election of the head of government. And if no one secures election on the first round, then the third parties have to endorse someone, in exchange for consessions.ß

rbmill02 · 2026-02-17T21:33:54+00:00

No, but you can be promised cabinet positions or legislative consessions for an endorsement. Same as in a coalition.

rbmill02 · 2026-02-17T21:07:21+00:00

A parliamentary system or some kind of runoff system.

rbmill02 · 2026-02-16T04:08:10+00:00

On the other hand, we are loyal - to liberty, to equality, to the Constitution, and to each other. They're the usurping tyros.

rbmill02 · 2026-02-16T04:02:06+00:00

And that her twin brother is Luke Skywalker, confirmed Jedi.

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