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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Two things that this thread makes me think of: More acutely @Clintonaldo: Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Earthly Existence Strongly recommended. And for those who reject Christianity coming from from a protestant fundamentalist background, this offers a very practical and easy to read understanding of how most non-fundamentalists see Christianity and the role of Christians in ther world. More generally - on religion: If you have time to read this thread this is also worth an hour
  2. Fair! It was in the most Tec-9 condition possible when I got it, see below
  3. Wordle 1,530 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  4. Good. They need to take out the trash at 1600 Pennsylvania
  5. These guys are really good. They somehow made my Tec-9 slightly less shitty. I had not realized they moved from Pond Springs until a couple of weeks ago. That's where I picked up that SP5 Really? Where are they now?
  6. Almost certainly not, but it would be a very attractive option that would absorb additional demand more cost effectively and increase overall productivity. it’s a shame there’s such a leadership vacuum in this state. Once upon a time Texas was a destination for people with big ideas, it was a place that celebrated achievement and big things. We, Texans, literally tamed the western frontier and then immediately turned around and put a man on the moon. But now we’re dominated by these myopic, cheap, fearful old men who live in terror of cities and wind up spending lots of money subsidizing shit that doesn’t work very well like the I-10 expansion while chaining the future to their prejudices.
  7. Do you not understand that the existence of a high speed rail line would not prevent you from driving?
  8. Yeah, you have the order backwards. Also, you seem unaware of the history of both urban and intercity passenger rail in Texas. The cars followed the zoning. But again, that’s fine. The rail didn’t stop because of auto competition. It was taken out of service and new lines were prevented. But, sure we can always just build more roads, because right of way is free, highway construction is cheap and fast, and and once we build them
  9. You roll back regulatory barriers and bureaucratic bloat, and let the market due its thing. Yes. That’s because rail obstruction is designed into the law. Good grief. You realize that the additional option of rail won’t take away your car, right? I’ve been to Europe. They have cars! Asia has cars. Not if you have anything to say about it, right? We aren’t going to make rail easier and cheaper to build because rail is too hard and expensive to build. Come on man. What you don’t seem to understand is that when we used to have trains running regularly between the major Texas cities, they didn’t fail. It’s similar to our public school system right now. They were slowly squeezed to death by economic interests that benefited from their demise. Now look, I have no confidence in the political system to make things better in Texas. But there’s no reason why you should just accept a broken status quo. We don’t have to be dead last at everything.
  10. Guys I’m not a repeat offender here and I wish he didn’t, but the fact is that this president happens to have a pretty enormous real time impact on the Fed and the markets, moreso than any president since 1974. That’s not a deranged statement. Sorry if that makes your nethers feel sandy.
  11. I’m not going to type a short history of the American transit and transportation infrastructure here, but the statement that “our entire national infrastructure was originally designed on roads and air travel” is false. Like that’s just not true. It became more reliant on roads and air from the 1950s-1990s as rail lines were decommissioned and policy barriers to new rail were put in place, even as land use policy changes were made at the federal level to explicitly promote automobile infrastructure and suburbanization. Along with the occasional light criminal conspiracy. As for the California example, it’s a an example of regulatory capture by economic interests opposed to high speed rail supported by unwitting accomplices in the environmentalist movement and the NIMBY-industrial complex.
  12. You should tell the people at Bloomberg, FBN, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Marketwatch, etc.
  13. I’m sorry, but that’s a very silly way to think about infrastructure. What percentage of American road and freeway construction “covers costs”? That’s false. About the strongest thing you could say is that our logistics system is reliant on roads and air travel, but that’s not really a problem because it scales fairly well and rail sits underneath roads and air in most of the stack anyway. Holy strawman!!! Most of which is unnecessary bureaucratic friction supported by incumbent interests.
  14. Come on man. It’s one thing to maintain an indefensible position. It’s another to believe in things that are demonstrably untrue. Do better.
  15. Currently considering: Talarico- it’s not clear he wants it. Joaquin Castro- the political equivalent of “Free Beer Tomorrow” Beto- is Beto Possible Dark Horse- Bill McRaven
  16. It’s absolutely ridiculous that in 2025 we’re still using a real time gross settlement system from 1915 that relies on data entry and manual human verification, and yet somehow that’s not even the worst and least efficient part of the global payment network.
  17. Which would frankly be hilarious and I’m here for it
  18. Wesley Hunt isn’t better, he’s merely less criminal. Besides you’re underestimating that Texas Republican voters are trained to vote with maximum cynicism, and Wesley Hunt is the clear choice there. He’s just as bad as Paxton but skates to a win and you get moral license to perpetuate racism when you for him.
  19. I’ve long enjoyed using the mid-century expression “rich as Hitler,” but I’m told it’s problematic. Nevertheless, I will persist in attempting to lead a comeback.
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