That’s true, but I think people would be less upset if they were actually running it, you know? Like I fell off like legit six or seven years ago when there was a promised Heavy Update 2, and I came back a few months ago to find that that was still MIA. And that kind of inaction is kind of why fans find themselves making these kinds of projects in the first place. So this does still feel hypocritical, even if they are entirely within their rights to do it.

sentences that sound made up but have actual meaning

They’ve put a lot of work into locking people into an ecosystem. To pick one example, if you’ve got a Logic project you want someone to be able to edit, even if you manage to migrate it with all of the required stuff, they’re still going to need a Mac to open it.

To borrow a phrase from Steve Hofstetter, I’ve never flown a helicopter, but if I saw one in a tree, I could still be like “dude fucked up.”

that is also how it’s always been explained to me

where i come from it’s a carpet

or just particularly thick pubes

Bond Name’s the james

I love coming just in the nick of time

“remove our 2A rights” is a weird way to phrase “regulating gun availability to make it harder for people who intend to use them to kill people to get them.” you know the text of the second amendment includes the phrase “well-regulated,” almost as if they did not intend for gun availability to be the lawless wasteland that it currently effectively is.

…All of them? That’s literally how all of them work.

My car is a bicycle. Specifically it is a 2017 Masi CX Comp.

Why own a Ford when I have my Chevrolegs?

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when shagging for my country, no sacrifice is too great

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that’s the joke

They claim to be on track to make another profit year in 2024.

I’d give better odds to me becoming the king of Thailand in 2024.

He used to be a right wing billionaire who loved spreading his propaganda. He still is, but he used to be, too.

ok then

What you’ve been failing to consider, which I think I may have been taking as read to my detriment, is that the way our cities are organized plays a big role in determining which mode of shipping is more effective. The denser of a center you have, the more businesses you have concentrated in one place, the more you need capacity and the less you need flexibility. That inverts as things get more spread out and stuff needs to get to more different places. When you have a city organized around its rail infrastructure rather than a sprawling car-dependent mess, that rail infrastructure absolutely kills at supplying the place, significantly reducing the severity of the last-mile problem.

I will also note that even the most anti-car places still rightfully allow for delivery vehicles, and neither I nor I think any other person who doesn’t like cars would begrudge that. I personally just think that pretty much any shipping done by big rig when it could be done by rail is a missed opportunity.

Here are a few additional links for you to consider:

Trucking is heavily subsidized

The interstates are increasingly a metaphorical financial albatross around our collective neck

The places that are connected by and organized around rail are invariably the most economically productive areas of any city

Saying dense urbanism with plentiful public housing is a “communist fantasy” is literally too dumb to dignify with a response.

Meet me in Vienna and I’ll buy you a beer.

All of those are phenomenal arguments for heavily reinvesting in our freight rail.