promethea.incorporated

ozymandias271:

speakertoyesterday:

jadagul:

alexyar:

@nonternary reblogged your post and added: “jadagul: alexyar: @jadagul replied to your post:I can’t believe…”

#sure there’s the T#but has any of you ever needed to go anywhere the T goes

yes?!!! the T is perfect and I will hear nothing against it

wait nonternary, do you live in Pittsburgh?

I mean, I guess if you have a house in the suburbs then maybe, but T’s destination are in the exact opposite direction of where the actual city is

See, this is it exactly!

“Cities with good public transit” are cities where the trains connect the places the people who are talking want to go. That is, a train line that connects the suburbs where (those) people live to the city where they work.

Like, the Bay Area has a reputation for really good public transit. And this is totally undeserved. It’s spread out and comprises multiple totally distinct systems that don’t even connect up.

Unless you only want to see the airport, the SF city center, and possibly Berkeley. If those are your destinations it’s great. So it has a good reputation.

See also how cities are often judged by how easy it is to take the train from the airport into the business or academic areas. Despite the fact that even if you’re trying to hook up to the airport, on a per-trip basis it’s way more useful to connect the airport to the places where the workers live than to the places where the business travelers live. Or stay.

What? The Bay does not have a good transit reputation. Planners look at and maximize trip share, and here the Bay falls short because of Silicon Valley commuting being a mess. Downtown SF is a jobs center, but it isn’t the only one in the Bay Area.

I am SO ENTHUSIASTIC about Bay Area transit because I CAN LEAVE MY HOUSE

IF I WISH TO GO SEE A FRIEND, I CAN TAKE PUBLIC TRANSIT AND WIND UP NEAR WHERE MY FRIEND IS

as someone who spent the first twenty-three years of my life in Florida and Assend of Hell, Michigan, this is A M A Z I N G

I’m from Europe and the transit in the Bay Area is ~almost adequate~!

It’s like “you tried to code your program and it doesn’t catch fire and panic the kernel on every run, now make it actually do the thing it was supposed to do”. It’s like babby’s first mass transit in Cities Skylines. It’s like “I can’t think of any European city that would be relevant enough that anyone would know where it is and have worse mass transit but that doesn’t mean it’s the worst in the world, it’s just worse than any of the actually not-shitty ones”.

It’s like “I have no fucking clue why your local trains use diesel engines that sound like helicopters and can’t accelerate worth shit, but at least you have trains and that’s good by American standards”. It’s like “your metropolitan area of 8 million has almost as many light rail lines as a town of a quarter million in Europe, that’s not utterly horrible”. It’s like “your trams from the 1890s’ Europe are not horribly disgraced by giving dramatically worse service than they gave in the 1890s”.

(via ozymandias271)

5 days ago · tagged #sometimes i need a euro pride tag · 57 notes · source: alexyar · .permalink

ozymandias271:

I mean, you can also find me saying “OPEN BORDERS NOW”, like, there is a difference between the policy I advocate on Tumblr and the policy I would support were I to become dictator

were I to become dictator, I would support selecting one state to be the test case for gender-neutral bathrooms and publicly funded hormones. I am not actually sure how you could do anything other than a gradual rollout of socially sanctioned gender-neutral pronouns

If we only had a country with publicly funded hormones (after obscene and inhumane gatekeeping tho, and where informed consent is actually ILLEGAL), and a language which is in fact incapable of ever having gendered pronouns, so we could see whether it has collapsed into a post-apocalyptic hellscape or not. If only there was such a place.

2 months ago · tagged #sometimes i need a euro pride tag · 14 notes · source: ozymandias271 · .permalink

sinesalvatorem:

Me: Is there anything you believe the US government does well?

@theunitofcaring: *looks at the roof and contemplates for about half a minute*

Me: …The longer the pause, the more libertarian the person.

How does it count if one can immediately think of a list but it’s really really short? Like, if someone asked me about Finland I’d be like:

1. Giving each new baby a cardboard box full of stuff. Stuff is taken out of the box and given to the baby, the box is filled with sleeping baby.
2. Holding cops responsible for their firearm use. They may be absolute barbarians with their batons and “projectile launchers” (have I mentioned finnish cops use weapons that are too dangerous for US cops?) but they don’t shoot people with gun-guns.
3. Being really really soft on crime.
4. Giving all children free school lunches.
5. (crickets chirping)

2 months ago · tagged #sometimes i need a euro pride tag #bitching about the country of birth · 180 notes · source: sinesalvatorem · .permalink