For only $157 billion, at this rate it’ll be cheaper to demolish the airport and rebuild it just to put the station where it should have been all along…

LAX is my go to example of how bullshit transit planning in America is and why sometimes doing nothing is better than doing the wrong thing.

The horseshoe is HELL, and in 1995 they tried to build transit to the airport but budget cuts and other shenanigans led to the Aviation/Imperial station 2.7 miles away and shuttle buses that also got stuck in horseshoe traffic. The station was barely used by airport employees, virtually nothing was accomplished.

Then in 2025 they try again, but bullshit prevails again and they spend $900 million on a station 2.3 miles away, and $3.3 BILLION on a people mover.

I’m sorry there is no reasonable explanation for why the station was’t built in the horseshoe all along.

Not learning from these mistakes São Paulo’s main airport did the exact same thing.

Let’s also not forget many countries that today don’t have a visible black population were also very active in slavery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Argentines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Uruguayans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Chileans

I come from a red state that is waging war on all public education, especially higher education. They have slashed budgets and closed many programs including trades. They did a similar thing to the universities after 2008, it is part of what is forcing tuition to skyrocket.

I think there are still opportunities for people just finishing, but that’s in areas with strong unions which isn’t much of America unfortunately.

Oh I wasn’t trying to throw shade by any means, in my state they are the same license. My point is when I was in college, there was a large cosmetology school across town that was like $1500 to complete your license. It was seen as a cheaper alternative to college, with a decent career path. Now that same program is nearly 10x as much, it’s still cheaper than college but not by much.

But complain about college tuition to most boomers and they will tell women hair school is only $100 and candy bars are a nickel.

Trade school tuition is already skyrocketing. In my home area hair school is $12,000 and a journeyman’s license will set you back $25,000.

Getting education in a trade is cheaper for now but is quickly catching up to a university degree. Once they hit parity will there be an advantage? I guess AI isn’t coming for plumbers anytime soon.

Generations of conservative politicians have sold Americans the idea that government can and should be run like a business. That if it were run like a business it would be sunshine and rainbows with low taxes, and high quality services. Many people do genuinely believe this.

They already get lots of money without admitting their system sucks.

You assume those in charge are interested in helping out the average citizen, they aren’t.

https://www.nknews.org/2025/04/north-korea-has-earned-estimated-20b-from-military-support-for-russia-report/

https://www.nknews.org/2025/07/north-korea-to-receive-2-38m-in-humanitarian-assistance-this-year-un-data/

https://archive.ph/LoXVy

They actually do have weird stuff in them, but it’s because of corporate greed

I watched it Sunday because the premise sounded interesting.

I enjoyed the way it showed the difficulty of making massively consequencial decisions while simultaneously evacuating yourself, trying to listen to advisors over the chaos of themselves evacuating, thinking of your own loved ones, and staving off jingoist pressure. Had some great cast and good writing.

But I left feeling disappointed. The anthology format added absolutely nothing to the story, instead made me bored hearing identical lines over again for the 2nd or 3rd time. Then there were multiple completely superfluous characters and storylines. Maybe some lost original script gave them meaning?

It feels like Netflix hired a good cast and crew, had a good script. Then cut the budget by 2/3 when filming started. So they just asked AI cut to hack the story to a stub, and then edited their footage into 3 angles to triple the run time and call it a feature film.

As an aside, it fuels the liberal fantasy of a working federal government that hasn’t been looted by billionaires.

Anti-transit fascists accidentally create a walkable community

I do not generally like spin off shows but I would pay good money for a Sister Michael origin show

https://www.seriouseats.com/best-food-processor-equipment-review

The Disney College program is like a 3 month orgy. I know quite a few people who did in different parks and they all said the same things. They mostly hire attractive people, they put you in these big dorm buildings. There is nothing to do but go into the parks, which gets old, or shop downtown Disney which no college student can afford for long. So they just start fucking like rabbits.

$/€100 fine that doubles every minute the tram is impeded.

I get what you’re saying and agree with the basic premise, “economies are extremely complicated and it’s hard to ascribe x caused y, when so many other things can go sideways”. It drives me nuts when people think the US president controls oil prices, if they did it would just be perpetually free!

Where I wholeheartedly disagree with your message is because Milei promised quick and easy solutions to Argentina’s economy. He sold the story that 100 years of economic turmoil was due to corruption and gross incompetence. He promised he was not corrupt (which was a lie), and applying some basic economic principals would lead to a roaring economy (which never materialized and never will because economists already know the policies he’s proposing don’t work in the long run).

Yes his austerity measures led to inflation going down which his foreign apologists immediately point to, but the exchange rate skyrocketed offsetting any gains for a typical Argentine (most everything financial in Argentina is measured in USD, even ironically government fees).

If today you go ask typical Argentines “are you better off financially now than 3 years ago” the answer is going to usually be no.

I do! My religious mother said it was certain because her church Facebook group said there was an upcoming blood moon and quoted some ambiguous bible verses. She wanted me to go buy a dozen cheap tents at K-mart’s store closing sale. I refused and she bore witness to me that it was the end of days.

I reminded her about the “prophesies” she spouted to me on inauguration day and she rolled her eyes and asked why I was holding onto the past.

I don’t live in America, and many people here actually do use MAGA or Trumpism to describe the local right wing people and parties because they are largely just copying America…