EldritchFeminity

I heard a city planner talk about why adding a new lane doesn't help, and the term they use is "induced demand."

Basically, people are going to take the route that they consider the most convenient, and that usually comes down to time and effort. Traffic hurts both by taking more time and being more stressful to deal with. When you add a new lane to a road, people think that the traffic will be easier there, so they take that route instead of their normal one. So you're just adding more cars to the traffic that match or exceed the throughput of your new lane, basically putting you back at square one but a few billion dollars more poor.

You've essentially added a single lane one-way road to help ease traffic across the entire city.

It's more that guns were hard to get until the British and Americans forced Japan to open its borders. They were generally imported through the Spanish/Portuguese, or the Dutch after they established trade relations. Even after they started making their own matchlocks, I believe they were only produced in small batches due to the high percentage of impurities in Japan's iron deposits.

Also, social media is a major contributor to the isolation epidemic going on, as is the economic situation and the work culture of countries like the US.

So what I'm saying is, you're probably right on all accounts.

I saw a great video once that went into how the economic situation is largely responsible for the cultural shift from "adult" as a thing you are to "adulting" - a thing you do. That from Millenials onwards, generations don't feel economically secure enough to partake in traditional cultural norms of middle-class adulthood. Things like buying a house and popping out 2.5 kids.

They were using the bike locks to claim that the protesters had ties to terrorist organizations, because "it's not the kind of thing a normal student has."

Despite the fact that the exact model of bike lock was part of a deal on bike locks advertised by the CU campus security on Facebook not 6 weeks ago.

I think the big issue is that the Republican definition for it is closer to: when minorities have it too good by not being murdered often enough.

1 year customer service. 2 if you make an annual salary over a certain threshold.

Either destroy the world or fix it, and at this point, I don't care which.

My brain somehow read the title as "Tesla was the Elon Musk of his era," and I got so mad for a split second that I think I may have an aneurysm to deal with in 5 years.

"Conservatism consists of one policy, to wit: There are those that the law protects but does not bind, and those that the law binds but does not protect."

To put it into perspective, one of the leading causes of death in the US is preventable diseases. Many Americans can't afford to see a doctor to get stuff checked out, nor do they get sick days or could afford to take the time off if they do, so they just keep working and hope it goes away.

Their advice basically boils down to "just have a senior level position in a well-paying field, and you'll be fine." As a programmer, you might be screwed right now with the massive layoffs currently ripping through the tech sector.

I'll have to see if I can find it again, but I swear I got the hours and jobs from the Census Bureau website in 2020 or so.

With the rise of the gig economy and businesses refusing to schedule people enough hours to be considered full-time employees so they can avoid giving them benefits, I'd be surprised if it was as low as 8 million.

I'm getting all kinds of competing numbers even from just the Census Bureau itself, but they all seem to be around the 8% mark - one article saying that it was 7.8% in 2018 and has been on the rise in the past 20 years but notes that these numbers diverge from another census data measurement which put it at 6.3% and falling, while another from a year or two earlier says that based on recently released data from 2013, 8.3% of workers (13 million) had 2+ jobs in 2013.

Either way, it's a far cry from the average worker. Maybe I'm misremembering it and the stat was about households or something.

It's like the saying "'I don't get into politics' means that your rights aren't at risk every 4 years." If you haven't experienced it or stepped outside your general socioeconomic class and seen how others live, you wouldn't know. It's just this nebulous concept that there are some people who have it bad, but nop context as to how things actually are.

This is why Republicans hate college, as that's where most people meet people with different life experiences for the first time, and why the death of third places has been really awful. It used to be that the wealthy lawyer would be drinking with his buddy the coal miner who he first met at that bar.

Personally, I tend to use my mouth to inhale other things.