I'm actually not opposed to mass transit.

The ability to travel via Bullet Train from Houston to Dallas appeals to me.

mass transit it is great, its just expensive when areas are spread out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdwz6nU-4I8&t=0s

New Myles Power vid.

That's Miles Prower, tyvm.

Ultimately, if there is a road subsidy paid for by fuel, then anyone who operates something with lower impact than cars (motorcyclists, bus operators, etc.) should be sent the equivalent subsidy to what they replace.

That's how I think non-municipal mass transit subsidy should work

probably municipal as well, but for many munis, that ship has long since sailed

'Climate Change' is a bogeyman set up for anything inconvenient, from Hurricanes to Snowstorms on, to make those who oppose it 'complicit' in their occurrence. It's a social means of controlling the actions of a population.

The biggest problem with cars is inconvenience

while, of course, convenience is the greatest strength of cars

I'm not opposed to advances in technology. I'm not opposed to cleaner emissions and higher efficiency.

bullet trains in the U.S. just don't make sense

I'm not particularly excited to drive a car that gets 15 miles to the gallon or some such shit.

except perhaps in texas, and along existing, cleared rail corridors

~~I'd disagree, and say they do in Texas.~~ You're daaaamn right.

climate change alarmists are the worst

heheh :- )

they take a study saying "this bad stuff will happen over the next 100 years or so" and say "in the next 10 years all this shit will happen!"

@Grenade123 The end result is that the majority of people are sure that _something_ is going wrong at _some rate_, but completely confused as to how much.

yep

and somehow preppers are still laughed at

Al Gore is the probable granddaddy of modern climate change denial

Al Gore has a piss tape

(though he doesn't know he's the father)

http://n4mb3rs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/2012_movie.jpg

Man, now I'm kicking myself for not including provisions to let me keep my giant investigative graph database and explorer tool; I bet it'll be way more expensive to license it back from my client.

That was a solid ~~month~~ three months of work which they probably would not have minded me having a transferable license to.

xorgy, are you a developer?

Ja

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALlCRmH9Zw0

Jillian has been on panel discussions with Deirdre and Deirdre is also on the advisory board for EFF. I think Tim and Jillian would get along famously, and perhaps together they could have a talk with Deirdre to ask her "what the hell?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r08UGtgHxSw

Reading back a bit. I think most people are okay accepting that man has had some impact on climate. What they aren't sure about is how much of an impact, because that's what everyone seems to be hyperbolic about...them polar bears are still there and the coasts aren't under water like they were suppose to be 10 years ago or some shit. Another thing is the cost to stop it, prevent it, and fix it. If it requires killing 90% of the world's population (or some other cost), then it's really kind of important to be certain of the rate (the cost shouldn't be worse than the impact).

I said this the other day, but I'd back an environmental plan that fits my principles and makes the air less shit. I've got no issue with that. My problem is when it becomes ideological and works against my core values

Its already known that were well above the sustainable population of the earth in terms of food

I think all of India, China or Africa would have to die off to bring us back to a sustainable population amount

its fine, either we make more food, or there is massive die off

this is how nature works