Try building a highway in California today.

Buses are shit. We use them literally only because they allow one expensive driver to convey many people by road. Everything else about them is terrible.

Now price in the cost of highway and freeway expansion to cover the additional traffic, the cost of ecological remediation, etc etc

So looks like AI is taking over everything, every platform, every product, every service, every job, it's a plague, a virus, a disease of some sort and apparently there is no cure, someone is always pushing it. Is it AI that is pushing AI?

Can't make kde drag and drop behavior sane

The goal is to turn them into cannon fodder after eliminating all of the jobs.

I do use Debian, but it's still a fact that its versions of a lot of software are very, very old. Like, multiple major versions old. There's very good reasons to not want to run it.

I was running Pop!OS for a while and I was pretty happy with it. I switched to Debian in a vain attempt to get support from Steam, but as it turns out, they just do not provide support to Linux users when their client is failing. They came up with another shitty excuse for why they couldn't help me after I switched to Debian (which they claim to support) and had the same problem, which is when I switched to Devuan.

I don't think that this is true at all. It's just not something people want to pay used car money for. I'd love to have something like it (though I'd rather have a cable than have the battery pack on my head, what a shit idea that is) but I'm not fucking rich.

It's good billionaires are going to have something to spit on us from. I'd hate for them to have to use lung power to do it because they're in a mere limousine.

Not really defending California, because their housing policies are broken and that's easy to see. Prop 13 should be considered one of the worst laws in the history of the country.

But housing and transportation are linked, and always have been. That's why cities and villages are built along rivers. That's why, including in California, companies used to build streetcars...then they would build houses along the streetcar lines. And often they would do a rugpull and fail to maintain the streetcar, but that's another story.

Legitimately, investing in transportation, almost directly, is also investing in housing.

"they" did consult with SNCF (the French national train company), and SNCF told them to build a train between LA and SF. I.e. connect the biggest population centers. That's the logic in places like France: You build where you will serve the most people possible, sell the most tickets possible, get the most ridership possible, for the shortest distance, and then you build out from there.

For better or worse, that logic doesn't work in America. The American logic is: LA and SF already have (limited) rail connections, but other cities in CA are completely unconnected by rail. Also, I5 is an infrastructure crisis, because it's completely overloaded and there's no solution, and a train between LA and SF wouldn't do anything to solve the I5 crisis. Also, America has broken land policies, and acquiring land between LA and SF is just impossible. Also, taking tax money from the whole state and spending it on infrastructure only for in the biggest cities, isn't politically popular. In France, it's just understood that cities get more amenities than rural areas, and that's the way it is. But in America, we like to shovel pork projects at our rural areas out of some kind of sentimental obligation to prop them up. So you have to bribe rural areas and secondary cities to get things done.

So, for better worse, the voters of California approved CAHSR only on the condition that it connect the inland cities. There's a legitimate logic to it. It's just American logic and not French logic.

Sony has digital exclusives you cannot buy on physical media. But more importantly, a "Seller" of a "Product" (THEY are the ones calling it a sale) should not be able to fuck you out of it like this later. They should have to make clear that it is a rental at every step, but that would reduce sales. (If it wouldn't, they wouldn't not be doing that.)

There are two kinds of users without internet access, those who never had it, and those who had it and lost it.

There are also two kinds of idiots...

You haven't priced plane tickets in the past month or so, have you?

Considering what the end price tag for this will be at "completion" (if in fact it is ever completed and running)....I can't imagine ticket prices for this train will be very competitive to the airplane ticket for same destination(s).

While this is completely true, we still should want this principle to win even if Leon is a hypocrite whose actions have helped to kill tens of thousands of people and we would like to see him test pilot a leaky rocket.

If we can get our government back then we can use the same principle against him in the future if necessary. If we can't, then we've got bigger problems.