The US has one of the best and most comprehensive railways on earth. The problem is that its a freight railway that passenger trains have to work around. In southern california the metrolink regional railways link the entire region, but take second fiddle to freight rail which kneecaps their utility unless you are working 9-5 in downtown LA. The entire network is tailored for that commute because thats the best they could do with the freight rail schedule. We need grade separation between freight and passenger trains before any regional or national network will ever improve, and amtrak and other agencies like metrolink have no money allocated for this.
How are these shared cars not going to be treated like crap like most other shared vehicles, such as scooters? At my old college, drunks flipped a shared smart car onto its roof for sport.
Congresspeople do have access to experts. Their staffers are brilliant. The issue is that ultimately what motivates any politician is moneyed interests, and not collective good.
I’d think the list is shorter of charismatic politicians who hadn’t gone to a top notch law school. Plenty use brains and charm. Even spineless hacks like Mitch McConnel know how to be charismatic around wealthy republicans, and are brilliant, just brilliantly evil.
The staffer is a specialist. Intimate knowledge of highway infrastructure, or technology issues alone do not make a senator. A senator is someone who manages a small cabal of specialist experts who collectively hold more knowledge than any one head could ever fit. The job can’t be done by one person, its a coordinated team effort.
Seriously, this is auto/tech nerd news which is read by a sliver of car buyers. Folks will stroll into the dealership they bought their last GM 15 years ago and say ‘gee maybe ill give electric a shot for these lease terms considering my use lately.’
In the U.S. bike theft is not pursued since it isn’t a felony usually. People don’t spend a lot of time in jail for bike theft even when they do get caught, so not much downside for a very high possibility of an upside.
People who want to steal a bike to feed a fix don’t care about your groupset, they care that you have 20 pounds or so of good scrappable metal. Anything is fair game. Any lock can be cut. Crackheads have battery powered angle grinders too, and they are emboldened because law enforcement doesn’t go after bike theft in the US at least. The best lock is a renters or homeowners insurance policy that can cover your bike when it’s inevitably stolen.
I think the best solution is to assume theft. Even with the GPS position, not much you or law enforcement will do once its in a homeless encampment with 20 other bikes.
Buy a cheap lock to deter walking off with the bike, and buy insurance. I pay $8 a month and if my $1k of bike is stolen, I pay nothing more to get a brand new one.
I’m surprised he’s not using a cheap lock and a cheap insurance policy instead. Chain or no, any bike can be stolen. Why drop money on the kryptonite chain when thieves still can angle grind through it like any other lock?
I had a pretty secure spot too and thieves still took everything out of that apartment. The crime takes 3 seconds, and you only look like a criminal for those three seconds. At all other times you look like any other resident.
Police won’t do anything on this information. You’d follow your radio transmitter to a homeless encampment with 20 more bikes piled up, then comes the question of whether you can talk your way out of that desperate thief not getting a hit of a drug or bottle and giving you your bike back. Good luck.
At the end of the day, its a fun project. Plus tmux can get annoying configuring behavior to feel like something more native in terms of mouse use consistently. Either it works great scrolling up in the shell or it works great scrolling with an editor open, never both.
Be that as it may, it makes no sense to replace a public service with a rent seeking operation. Improve the public service, don’t give up and part it out.
What men are you seeing? Buff shirtless men in 3” inseam shorts and a bulging groin are a staple of every American city in the summer. I see more and more mesh clothing in this heat, although I do live by west hollywood.
Not all. Many in CA had their father pay off their building decades ago and are still enjoying that 1970s property tax rate while collecting the same top of market rent as new construction.
Surely it wouldnt be hard to get this data. Every apartment I’ve lived in ran a credit check and asked for months of paystubs, bank statements, any verification of income at all.