Rural people, and I get it: I grew up in rural Montana. But America doesn’t run on people like my grandpa driving 6A worth of corn to the grange any more. People like my grandma driving literally 7mi each way to the nearest grocery store isn’t sustain long term
Yeah, I’d love to live in my own mansion on an island and fly my private jet to work. But that’s not realistic if everyone waaaaaaaants to do it
Last I checked, cannabis was still DEA Schedule 1 fully illegal, despite a majority of Americans wanting it.
See also: abortion, campaign finance reform, ranked choice voting, and so on.
American policy isn’t decided by the people, it’s decided by the people in power, and the people in power make money by keeping us tied to inefficient transportation
Hell yeah I BBsaw one at the sauna the other day
A majority of heroin users want heroin too. Roads exist because people want to go places; they preceded cars by a couple thousand years
“But i really waaaaaaaant it” isn’t grounds for policy making
Similarly, I struggle to understand why people think paying for roads to connect houses 5 miles away from each other isn’t astronomically expensive
He knows, and he does. You’re just too busy talking about yourself to consider he might be a person too
Morals? In my capitalism? Surely you jest
Fuck yeah I am, now get out of bed, we’re gonna be on the trail by dawn
Dude, there’s a whole TV channel for BBC and people talk about it all the time IRL
I’m not a teacher, but honestly I think that’s a fine way to do things. If you can create a resource to answer questions from and find answers using it in a timely manner, then the problem is solved. You’ve learned how to answer questions
Several of my coworkers cannot use resources already provided (Google) to find answers to common questions
AGI: “Climate change odds caused by humans. I am deploying a fix for this from Minot”
Actually I understand it just fine. My city alone has a $4.4B road maintenance backlog, and it’s not that big of a city
It’s cheap”er” to maintain roads. It is not cheap. Use Google next time