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You deal with reality as it is, not reality as you wish it was. In this case, the glacially slow count has immense implications when it comes to people trusting election results, and opens the door to all types of conspiracy theories and nonsense. A faster count is worth it.

What if we made a special road just for Ubers, and those Ubers seated 1,000 people so each person paid less for a ticket, and we ran those Ubers at predictable times of the day so one could depend on there always being a ride available

"My father was imprisoned and tortured in Cuba; I hate communism. Well, actually it was Batista who tortured my dad" might be the funniest line from the Cruz-Carlson interview

When my wife asks if I’m going to order a 3rd Old Fashioned

What a sad life it must be to think that there should be a market price on pristine wilderness and ecosystems.

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No, this is wrong and Matthew Yglesias and Armand Domalewski are correct. Eliminating fares eliminates an /earmarked source/ of revenue that's used exclusively for bus operations. General funding is less stable: it depends on business cycle, politics, etc.

The great ⁦Mara Gay⁩:

No

Reminder, if Bush privatized social security, in spring 2009 your grandma would have eaten cat food while her house was repossessed b/c she lost 45% of her $

you can just do things even in #SF sf.gov/news-mayor-lur…

i don't see anything in this nicely written and well-reported Esther Mobley piece about how people are going to drink more plonk sfchronicle.com/food/wine/arti…

When NY taxed the rich, the number of millionaires *grew.* Tax flight is a right-wing myth. The only people leaving NYC in droves are working & middle-class New Yorkers who can't afford to live here.

you can just do things

i take the point about how it’s counterproductive to throw labels like “racist” around but push reject on this nytimes.com/2025/06/19/opi… aren’t freedom and liberty and opportunity important values?

You can’t support immigrants without supporting the housing new residents need to live

the free transit debate is not about whether we can have nice things or not. It’s a question of whether NICE THINGS means FREE BUS or MORE BUS

easy: granite countertops suck

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my .02 is that it’s not the job of public transit alone to patch up all the disintegrating threads of society. (tl;fr ride the damn bus)