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Micro$lop code is peak slop.

I th*nk something broke for you. Usually it only messes with a single letter for us.

Or Spa*n.

Why can’t we use the letter * here?

This discussion got away from the education use case multiple comments ago.

I’m not advocating for more parking. Originally my point was to impress that you cannot just simply rip out parking today for absolutely everyone. Dorm learning and existing public transit options do not work for people with real needs, today who shouldn’t be alienated just because they do not fit into the dorm model. They are an extreme minority of students, so a very limited amount of parking is necessary for them. They often attend night classes as well, when parking lots are typically empty on college campuses. I wouldn’t be surprised if they fit into staff parking spaces in the majority of scenarios since most staff won’t be there for night classes.

Freight rail was overwhelmingly built before cars became prevalent on the household level, and then in the past 40 years or so cars went from a household level to individual ownership en masse for the majority of people of driving age who do not live in areas with extensive public transit.

Other buildouts have been way too modest. Most of the stuff that seems big is just revamping existing lines. The closest thing to a major rail project I know of coming out right now is Brightline West, a passenger line from LA to Vegas.

The car argument is relevant because OK, you take a train from NYC to Seattle or some shit. It goes across thousands of miles. If you were to stop at a station to visit a relative along the way, you could get off the train and still be 3-5+ hours by car travel to that relative who lives in podunkville population 100.

We have an enormous amount of land that has very, very low population density. There are huge swathes that also practically have no to minimal population living there permanently.

Then we have places like Alaska that have absolutely insane supply chain (and thus costs for basic sundries) that really are only servicable by boat, plane or car unless you’re building a stretch of rail through canada.

Much of the nation doesn’t want to fund infrastructure for “city folk” and that’s just around half of the people who vote on a nationwide scale. Even with some of the super liberal areas with tons of uber left leaning wealthy people, the left leaning wealthy people still push back on policies that require changing zoning from single family (wealthy) houses to high density housing despite being on commuter rail lines. Same towns complain that education costs are way too high and that they don’t want to pay taxes for them because they just send their kids to private school anyway.

Wealthy NIMBYs rule policy for public transit, and the republican party also basically follows the philosophy of “fuck you, i’ve got mine” so although the technical solution is mass implementation of public transit, the problem is wealthy assholes controlling the media and politics, stopping any kind of major project from ever getting off the ground.

Robust public transit is for sure the solution in highly dense population areas.

Unfortunately it is rarely implemented in the US. A lot of foreigners have trouble grasping just how big the US is, and just how far you have to travel to get anywhere. A few hours gets you from one side of a country to another in many european and latin american nations. In the US it takes many days to drive from one side to another. Some states take many hours to cross. Robust public transit isn’t feasible in the majority of the US, and there is immense negative reactions to imminent domain.

People are too selfish in this country to consider that public services like transit end up making everything more comfortable, cheaper and better for everyone.

Expecting everyone to use a car from point A to point B means everyone has to pay to insure and maintain their car, then sit in traffic 1-2+ hours a day for their commute to where the jobs are that pay more than minimum wage and cause gridlock for everybody. Plus we all burn extra gas to make sure we accelerate the climate damage even further. It’s the motherfucking american way. oorah support our troops, bless your heart, thoughts and prayers!

So moronic.

Stickiness is a child thing.

Being a child isn’t necessarily tied to biological age, unfortunately.

A lot of campus locations lack good public transit or local retail access for necessities.

When you don’t support any kind of parking you also make it difficult for people who have full time jobs or are continuing education as adults. Single parents also go to school, I know, I was in college as a child(obviously not enrolled.)

You mean they couldn’t just stop paying their workers?

I thought AI was supposed to replace all that FTE overhead that gets in the way of shareholder profits!!!111111oneoneoneoenone

Business morons who don’t understand tech is what this bubble is all about. I can’t believe so many businesses have sunk hundreds of billions of dollars into technology that fundamentally cannot do what they fantasize it to do.

I’m just happy to see you.

Please hands off the smartees I hoard in pants.

He even looks like the stereotype of a Reddit mod.

Unbelievable.

Sure but you can listen to whole albums on stuff like Spotify.

Some bands are truly one hit wonders though…

Do you collect? what do you think it’s worth?

Certainly looks to be corn-fed.

I know a guy who removed his motorcycle’s muffler and rode around for a couple of days. He can’t really hear in his right ear much anymore (because that’s where the pipe was cut off, to the right of the bike.) I did ride for a time, but always wore earplugs even if I wasn’t going on the highway.

I don’t really like large crowds or bars either man. I like 1:1 conversations and interactions. My heavy bar scene and parties only lasted maybe a couple years and I was always a +1.

My wife took me to a wedding where her cousin was getting married and the volume was cranked to 11. I sat through a two hour catholic service before the party which was fine. We got to the party afterwards and I just wanted to go back to the room and sleep. We were traveling, I was sick from what I thought was the food or having some of the local water but it later turned out to be full blown covid… but I was trying to be supportive and there for her because her enormous extended family was just meeting me for the first time.

I was in line for food since we hadn’t eaten, and the speakers were to my right. The noise was so loud you couldn’t hear someone yelling “what” at point blank range. I only stood in that line for a minute before leaving and my wife gave me so much shit for leaving, even though it was after her own father left. I wouldn’t be surprised if some or even most of my tinnitis came from that one party. I’ve never told her about this suspicion though, but I still remember it as I notice my ears ringing, right now. The right is substantially worse than the left.

Anyway, fortunately the tinnitus is extremely mild and I generally don’t notice it. If I start thinking about it, it gets worse and very persistent until I manage to distract myself. It’s always there, pulsating to the beat of my heart, and will not go away until I die or go deaf.

Shit happens.

I have crowdstrike. I have no plans to drop them come renewal time. I had to work overnight to recover some things but I still believe they are one of the best at what they do.

It’s not like this is a common occurrence.

Weird, my friends and I may occasionally talk about the bad stuff, but there’s always something good going on. We can be excited for upcoming things too.

I like being able to have conversations at bars and restaurants. In my bachelor days when I was dating an amazing person she knew all the good bars and restaurants that you could actually have conversations in. We always knew going in to a social thing if it was gonna be a good conversation or just yelling and “what?”

Plus the ear damage from the loud shit is no joke. Tinnitus started for me by mid 30s and I never listen to loud music or do stupid stuff, beyond bars and parties.

There’s no merger or acquisition off the table from us regulations right now.

Just wait until your S90Copilot+ is showing you popup notifications from your Copilot Washer and Copilot Dryer.

Before you know it… copilot.ml

This message brought to you by Pepsi. Did you realize our formula was created by Copilot? That’s why it tastes so great and is the world’s #1 beverage!

Sorry, haven’t you heard the news?

It’s Copointe from the Copilot May Cry+ franchise now. Microsoft rebranded it.

Sega will be renamed to Zune.