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My problem with this discussion though is that in California they must determine speed limits for cars based on the 85th percentile of the speed actually driven. So in order to enforce speed limits in Los Angeles, they had to measure the 85th%, and roads in some community roads went up to 45...

I forget the brand, but one of the popular companies on here had a video clip on how they take back any bike, no questions asked (within narrow circumstances), and how consumers need to be aware of this scheme to do exactly what you argue. Can't remember the name of the company, though.

For anyone who wants to actually spend time reading the full picture and not rely on wikipedia, this GAO report highlights all the failures and how many of their recommendations over the last year have been ignored. https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-265

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/17/crash-landing-of-operation-warp-speed-459892

Great. Funny how conservatives attack wikipedia until they find it useful. Funny how conservatives and so-called libertarians push the free market until they don't. I'm sorry you can't tell the difference between "the program promotes" versus "OWS successfully did the following..."...

That's pure comedic gold. The US Federal Government had no role in vaccine other than promising 2 billion dollars. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/09/no-pfizers-apparent-vaccine-success-is-not-function-trumps-operation-warp-speed/...

Yup, I assumed. It's the same macho bullshit. Any person with even a meager understand of what freedom is wouldn't be trying to say this is about freedom. I adopted a department to send care packages of baked goods. The nurse-coordinators in my department were moved to work the floors...

Again- we haven't even gotten enough doses so it doesn't really matter. The fast tracking was simply because a few years ago a scientist learned a way to replicate a vaccine using a protein. The feds didn't fast track s*it- and it wasn't even done in the US. But Trump sure took credit for...

I work in a hospital and from around March to about September one of my duties was tracing possible employee infection. At some point it just got pointless and stopped. One of the most remarkable cases was a mom in/around May, and her entire family having COVID (including their 9 month old)...

Why are you claiming the "truth will set you free", citing "as of Sunday..." but then link to an article that is 25 days old? As of Jan 29, the state received 4.8 million doses and has "given out" 3.3 million, 68% of the vaccine...

the feral hogs were first introduced by the explorers. They'd leave enough hogs behind as they explored for them to breed, and when they came back a year later they had a reliable food source to hunt. Indians hated them...

I was reading about using sheep to graze grasslands instead of paying people to use machines, and one interesting tidbit is sheep don't eat flowers, just grass.

I misread the article, I thought it said wolves were prevalent... https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/environment/ct-coyotes-chicago-20200109-n5tubflfqjg5jb5fm246xhniuy-story.html

Peter Jackson was on Stephen Colbert's late show not too long ago and they had a funny interview segment (Colbert is a major expert on Lord of the Rings, can speak Elvish, and even submitted letters as a kid noting mistakes in the books. Jackson talked about the massive army scenes. Basically...

Americans rely heavily on mercenaries now. Someone in the tech world said this very company just 4 years ago had trouble just picking up and moving box. And then in 4 short years they can do this.

That's like saying I owe something to hydrogen because it makes water. I'm not sure how what you wrote applies to what I wrote other than you deflecting.

This is a complicated problem and it is not as simple as you want to make it. Check this out: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/are-europes-cities-better/ Don't forget that most of the rural life that you promote is heavily subsidized by the urban areas- transportation, energy, water, food...

Per capita maybe. But if you look deeper, you'll find this is not absolutely true. https://science.time.com/2013/07/23/in-town-versus-country-it-turns-out-that-cities-are-the-safest-places-to-live/ Is just one.

I get in a lot of discussions in places like Nextdoor where people say that the poor and working class need cars in cities. But the poor do not own cars and they shouldn't be forced to drive a car just to get to a job. Not only that, but if a person is car poor, because all their money goes to...

In urban places there may be less people willing to get on a bus and an ebike is a good alternative (ie me).