Its so wild to see some professional grade equipment in a lab with home made tables and a tarp floor. It just looks so out of place.

So many people have never experienced decent mobility outside of a car that they can't comprehend it.

And every airplane seat

They knew Bernie might actually improve the lives of Americans and our rich overlords shudder at the thought of that.

The benefits of such a high frequency really makes transit so much more user friendly. In my area we only have buses, and risking waiting a full hour or more if you miss your bus cause it was a tad early sucks a lot and isn't even trying to compete with the convenience of a car.

A hole in the conductor seat that drops waste directly onto the rails

I think a big factor in this is a reduction in affordable "third places". A place that isnt home, isn't work, but is part of your community and free or very cheap to exist in and socialize. It can be a cafe, a library, or a games store that hosts events.

Part of our problem is even if these places exist, they are getting harder to access and afford as they are only really accesible by car. When the cafe is only a pleasant 5 minute walk, you'd find yourself there more often than 15 minutes in traffic and having to spend money just to get there. The prices are also increasing due to the real estate/land value crisis, maintaince taxes for all the roads and parking lots, and monopoly competition.

"It's just a think tank bro" "its just a few people who want this" "trump won't let them push it through"

The housing crisis has been decades in the making and the biggest things influencing it are suburban developements and car centric planning. If we could build dense cities like we were 100 years ago, we coild fit more people in less space, which saves a massive amoint of money in infrastructure and shortens peoples commutes.

But its a forced dream that you will own your own acre of land with a 7 bedroom house and 3 car garage. Your municipality can change this dream. Your municipality can start building denser again, they don't have to keep expanding outwards into the farm fields every year to build new mcmansions that no one can afford.

Truly being safety conscious would be doing things like traffic calming, removing through routes from side streets, lower speed limits and other solutions that don't revovle reatriction of children. This does a little bit to improve safety but mostly shifts blame to parents and kids by making it illegal to play in the street, which might be the only outdoor space some kids have access to.

Cars and car infrastructure are bankrupting cities, destroying our climate, and paving over our land. EVs don't really solve most of this problem. We need to stop prioritizing metal boxes over people.

Also building differently. Mixed use buildings and wall to wall buildings are more effecient to heat because they have less surface area exposed to the outdoors and often house multiple families per building. This type of building can be very difficult to build now but was the norm 100 years ago.

Part of the problem is their commute is also probably a farther distance due to suburban sprawl and housing prices pushing people farther from their work places.

My home town used to put lights all over their waterfront, with cool moving light shows and stuff, it was something i really enjoyed as a kid and got us out and walking by the water in winter. I haven't seen them do it to the same scale as when i was a kid for many years. It used to be dozens of displays, now there are just a few trees that get lights. I wonder if people not wanting to leave their cars influenced it. Soon the santa parade will be stationary and we can all just drive past it at this rate.

I think both denfitionally and opportunistic child molesters should be treated the same, probably with some kind of sentencing and therapy/rehabilitation. Regardless if it is fetish or not, just the fact they'd touch a kid makes their actions wrong. I also fear if we seperate them too much, normal pedophiles might be able to avoid sentencing/treatment by arguing they were oppourtunistic and vice versa, depending which group is set to face harsher punishments.

Plus, the opportunistic ones may still have some kind of rape/molestation fantasies, which could be treated through similar processes as treating pedophiles.

I just don't see the value in making hard lines between the two groups when the actions they do are the same and carry the same harm, just the motives are different.

Is there really a watchdog though? Ontario just put alcohol in gas stations and several of my friends have been buying after the legal hours.

Your rail problem could be fixed if they were willing to invest in modernizing the system.

I could see that being enough to live off if you already paid off a mortgage or have low rent from being there a long time, or have a partner working as well.

So you can buy any time of day at the gas station but not a train station where it highly unlikely you are the one driving the train?

Meanwhile here in north America, you can usually buy alcohol any time at gas stations....