More evidence that if you want to fuck someone up, hit them with a car.

A friend got a $30/month gym membership that has unlimited guest passes, so they bring friends. The machines are fun. I think there’s classes too, but guests can’t do those so I haven’t.

It’s $100/month in my building in NYC. Cable internet, maybe 300mb/s down. But I get packet loss upwards of 20% sometimes.

I don’t see why not, but I didn’t try that specific genre.

The Brooklyn public library has a form where you can write about whatever you want, and a real human librarian will recommend books for you based on it. It was pretty good when I used it.

I imagine other libraries have similar.

“it wasn’t perfect on the first try so we’re going to just give up” idiocy.

Microsoft needs to be dismantled.

I’ve lived here for most of my adult life and never felt like I needed a car.

Having one is a huge pain. Parking. Insurance. Gas. Maintenance. Getting home when you’re drunk.

It’s easier to just get on the train.

I’d like if transit was cheaper and more reliable outside the city. Visiting family in the suburbs via transit is slower and more expensive.

People have foolish reasons for voting the way they do

“I would be disappointed if it comes in at 225 House seats,” Carville told host Bill Kristol. “I would rather the Republicans keep the House by five than the Democrats to win by five, because, if that happens, they’re hostage to the DSA.”

This person is a shithead.

That seems like a clear case of murder. Plus whatever it is when you endanger a lot of other people by firing a gun in a crowded area, and firing a gun at a driver who might die and crash.

Throw the book at him. Make an example.

But he’s a cop so he’ll probably get the minimum, if a jury even convicts.

Require an audit trail and third party review.

I mean, we’d need oversight and there seems to be no political will to police the police, so maybe that’s moor

“common sense” is an extremely weak appeal. Many things that are today are considered unacceptable were considered “common sense” by many people for many years. Racism, patriarchy, absolute monarchy…

Statistically meaningless. Emotionally soothing.

I use the walking and transit functionality of Google maps extensively. Being able to account for “the G is not running but there’s a free shuttle bus” is really nice.

I would be lost (pun intended) without the map on my phone, but maybe an alternative could have taken off.

Huh. I read that choice as meaning “I am excited about heading into the future with AI, but I’m concerned it might end badly”, but on rereading the actual question I see that’s a weird answer for it.

I mean, jail is one option, but the hungry wolves are right there.

I was considering a short trip to visit family outside the city, here in the NYC region. By train it’s like $70 for two of us. By car it’s $10 in tolls (per Google maps), plus fuel/wear and externalized costs.

That’s ass fucking backwards. I’d much rather take the train. I don’t want to spend 5-7x to take the train.

At least within the city it’s pretty sensible.

These big cars should be illegal. Or at least require a special license. Hate seeing them here in the city taking up a ton of space.

It’s not trivial to leave. Finding work is hard. Housing is hard, especially if you’re not physically there to look at places. Getting permanent status is difficult. For many people in the US, they only speak English. Maybe Spanish. So that’s limiting.