bluGill

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Scooter, as it can easially get on a bus with you. bike and transit is a poor mix and this doesn't sound like a bikeable trip.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Exactly. Either you can tear it down before the storm hits (good weather prediction needed) then rebuild it fast afterwards; or you build it to withstand storms. I guess there is the just scrap it after every storm - but then you need to rebuild it fast and cheap which this wasn't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Both are invalid - sure it needs to be fast - which is why they should practice this. Temporary means they plan to pick it up after practice. They should do yearly drills in different parts of the world (obviously with permission of the host country) just to prove they can.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

The US military should know this. They should be able to build piers like this while under active fire. This is one of the things we need for a world war style invasion (think WWII d-day)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

They had all of Bidens presidency. They should have a plan in place already. If they can show the court the plan is reasonable and they have been working on it for a while and are making progress then fine I'll wait. But they need to show they were seriously trying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

A scooter is great if you are taking transit for all long trips, but your walk from your front door to the transit stop is a little too long (or the walk from the transit stop to where you are going it too long.). A ebike is great if you are not taking transit it all, but I wouldn't want to get them on transit (I have a very low opinion on those front of bus bike racks - they might be full when you want them). Those are very different trip modes. The scooter is for trips where you could walk but it is bit far, while the ebike is for trips you wouldn't walk at all. Those are two different things and so we cannot give a correct answer.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

Sounds like every other party.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Don't forget to account for the rent if you don't finance a house.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The other thing missing is you need to live somewhere now. You also have other considerations - if you are starting a family you typically will need to have a place for the family to live and that forces you to buy now. This is why most deflation arguments fail - people need to live, so they will buy food, and shelter (including clothing). People will replace their broken down car. People will buy toys if they can afford it.

Even if you can buy the house for $200k next year, you don't know that the price will go down - I've seen prices go down and then go back up more than once in my life. Maybe you get unlucky, but maybe you bought the bottom, you have no idea what inflation/deflation will do in 5 years and only educated guesses for next year.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Apple II sold for $1298 in 1977. You can buy a mac mini for $599 today. Deflation is real in some markets and we are just fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

People have no options because everyone collectively hasn't created them. Sure a few people vote for transit, bike lanes and the like, but not many. (and the poor are not better than anyone else at this) . There are options - you can move closer to work, get a different job that is closer to where you live, get a bike, carpool, ride transit.... Those all bad options for most people but they exist and so they choose them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why are you blaming the minimum wage worker? It is everybody with a car which is the vast majority of the adult population. Poor, middle class, rich - all of them care about gas prices and scream when they go up.

 

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TEST(some test name)

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@ernest I'm trying to reply to a federated toot and the add comment button changes to "sending" for a while then comes back without posting anything.

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Anything more I can do? this problem has happened before but I can't figure out when/why

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