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Cake day: January 16th, 2024

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  • There wouldn’t be a need for an autonomous car to go on a freeway if we had decent intermodal public transit.

    Just have cars like these patrolling the suburbs and picking people up for light/commuter rail, then a hub where you could get within a block of anywhere with no more than one transfer.

    High Speed rail if you need to get to another urban center from there.

    That’s the dream, at least.

    Nobody wants to use public transit, because it’s starved dry. Nobody wants to invest in public transit, because nobody uses it. Everyone just drives, because everyone has cars. Everyone has cars because public transit is terrible.

    But I do long for the day that this could pick me up and take me to the bus station/commuter rail stop.













  • You have absolutely no idea how ranked choice or primaries work.

    Let’s suppose the Democrat primary has two progressives and one neolib. The progressives get 28% and 32% of the vote…a total of 60% of the vote. The one neolib gets 40%.

    Progressive policies are more popular, but neolib won.

    This is the curse of FPTP.

    Ranked choice would say that those 60% prefer one or the other progressive with the neolib being last. The result is theore popular progressive won, and more importantly, a progressive won.