Car vs PT is pretty regularly going to be decided in favor of the car. The point of PT is to enable people to not need a car in the first place.

I abandoned my car several years ago, at the benefit of around $300-$400/month (once you add up car payment, insurance, gas, maintenance, parking, etc). Nowadays, it would probably be significantly more. I was able to replace that with a $65/month bus pass. My spouse still has their car, so we use that if needed. It’s been a real lifechanger.

I don’t know that PT is ever going to out-convenience a private car trip, barring things like car-free districts. It doesn’t have to - it just has to be useful enough for daily commuting that you can downsize your private vehicles (and save a bunch of money). If you aren’t looking to do that…welp.

Hey, give the guy a break, cult leaders aren’t known for their grammar.

(Check OP’s username)

Access to reliable healthcare:

America: No

Canada: Yes

Russia: No

A rat done bit my sister Nell.

(with Whitey on the Moon)

Her face and arms began to swell.

(and Whitey’s on the Moon)

I can’t pay no doctor bill.

(but Whitey’s on the Moon)

Ten years from now I’ll be paying still

(while Whitey’s on the Moon)

A rat done bit my sister Nell.

(with Whitey on the Moon)

Her face and arms began to swell.

(and Whitey’s on the Moon)

I can’t pay no doctor bill.

(but Whitey’s on the Moon)

Ten years from now I’ll be paying still.

(while Whitey’s on the Moon)

-“Whitey on the Moon”, Gil Scott-Heron

I used to think this, but here’s the problem: new resources to extract mean absolutely fuck all under the current global paradigm.

There’s enough iron out there to make several tons of it available to every human in existence for whatever they need or want to do. Will that happen? No. It’s not profitable for the owner class to do that. Instead, they will fight amongst themselves until someone has an effective monopoly on asteroid mining, and then limit the supply so they can generate maximal profit (De Beers, anyone?)

We have the capability, right now, to feed everyone on Earth. To clothe everyone. To house everyone. We don’t. Any resources out there that we might find useful will be gated behind the same greedy, psychopathic group of leeches that currently control everything else.

The planet isn’t being destroyed because we had no choice. The planet is being destroyed so a bunch of MBAs could show off a nice graph at the quaterly meeting. It is very much delibrate. Any resource extraction in space will solely be done in that it is more profitable than doing it on Earth, climate be damned. We need to fix that problem before asteroid mining for the good of Earth and humanity is even an option.

The imaginary entity known as ‘the state’ cannot give permission to someone to enter your house.

What they can do is authorize state-sponsored violence to enter anyway.

If vampires are bound by invitation, a warrant would be useless.

Ayyyy Joeyyyy!

That guy is one of the titans of the world. Glad to see him getting more recognition.

“I keep decentralizing things to get rid of the people with their annoying ‘political opinions’, but they keep having them! Clearly I need to block the entire world from my personal view.”

Absolutely unhinged take.

This is a bit, right?

Imagine thinking “Emo music was created to destroy the white race [bad]” instead of “Emo music was created to destroy the white race [good]”.

MN passed a law in 2023 preventing cities from banning native lawns. It said notbong about HOAs, though. Even the state don’t wanna fuck with them, it seems. Link

Too bad.

Really? That’s funny, I seem to remember the DNC canceling the primary last election. Huh. Odd for a party where, “the voters decide who makes up the party”.

MN pretty regularly has electric outages due to storms taking down lines, etc.

They’re fixed within hours. Because our state electric provider is under strict regs as to what they can and cannot do, and the state gov takes grid reliability seriously in a place where it routinely drops below 0 F.

What I’m saying is that you need to drag your state officials out into the street and [REDACTED] until they start acting like an actual government.

Blatantly false. After the Constitution went into effect, a whopping 6% of the population could vote. You had to own a certain amount of property, be male, and not be a Native American or black person. It wasn’t a democracy. It was an apartheid oligarchy, and very intentionally set up that way. The founders didn’t want the masses of people to vote; several of them were quite afraid of it.

The USA only became a democracy in the 1960s with the Civil Rights Act and its guarantee of universal suffrage. America became a democracy in spite of its origins, not because of it.

This is why you make your game easily moddable so people can just do it themselves

All US presidents should be sent to the Hague

“Taint what a horse looks like, it’s what a horse be.”

-Granny Aching, Wintersmith, Sir Terry Pratchett

The first place winner clearly had a deep understanding of the form of a Froggo, illuminating a deeper truth than mere photorealism could.

“Bomb factory destroyed by Flamingo”

Come on, it was right there smh my head