“poldren” thats nice, yeah. People around here seem to be just done, rampant corruption, almost all the city money goes into the pcoket of the councilmembers or thier business partners. New mayor at least has got some infrastructure projects done, even if it seems half the money was embezzlemed. Compromise is good but also hard…sheriffs have been trying to crack down on atvs because quite alot of people here go around in atvs harassing pedestrians and homeless in the area. And no one feels safe being outside, some shootings every week or so

I’ll look it those speed pedelec, maybe something like that in the states. Need to also really organize some group thats not just trying to lobby for more weed gardens, maybe get some change.

I think I have to seriously consider an ebike.

as for the busses theyve have been in a downward spiral the last 20 years. Shitty routes mean less riders, less riders mean less busses which means longer routes which means less riders. Regularly most of these big 40 something passenger busses they run have 1 passengers. Only people that take them are old, disabled, people that have no other choice.

For shits and gigles after they changed the route I used to take (was 40 min for that 14 miles 2 busses) I took the bus from where id need to commute. 3 busses, 14 miles. It took over 3 hours and the most egregious part was the longest leg which was the 3.5 miles on the local bus that went from my local grocery to my hosue that took a mind numbing 87 minutes. It makes me laugh how SLOW that bus ride was, now they canceled that one so you have to walk the 3~ miles but really you actually save time.

yeah, he outlines the problems really clearly and how it can be solved. I was just talking about it with some people yesterday, with the current Californa contentions about removing minimum parking requirements for affordable housing.

Alot of people are protesting turning ugly lots into affordable housing…ugh. Literally the reasons we can’t have nice things. “Parking in multistory garages instead of a giant 500 car lot so there affordable housing is unacceptable, its inconvenient and it will bring in undesirable” - basically Menlo

Friend of mine lives outside LA, they used a motel 6 into temporary housing for unhoused, no problem. They went to make it housing units for said homeless, locals got pissed, fought toooth and nail, said itd bring in undeasaribles, increase crime etc etc.

Officials were confused bcs the people they where complaining about had been living there for 3 years already jus they where converting it from “motel 6” to basically an apartment building. smh.

Mixed use buildings and affordable housing without needing cars is such a dream 15-20 minutes cycle would be nice, shame its so uncommon and so disliked by some people no one gets it. To my closest store its a 10 minute drive / ~hour walk (before they canceled the bus route it was also a bit over an hour but 2 hours back) city has a quarter mile / 0.4km of bike lane and alot of streets dont have sidewalks

40k people, smh (ofc its partly because of the extensive blatant corruption here but ah)

Hmm, I haven’t fully looked into e-bikes. Maybe 60 minutes isn’t unachavaible. another problem is alot of the route doesn’t have sidewalks, let alone bike lanes…at least its paved.

= ( Everytime I see a fuck cars or pro bicycle post I get sad, sitting in my U.S. urban city. I want to ride a bike to work, I want to use public transport but 70 minutes one way by bike is a bit too long and its still half as long as taking the bus woukd take. and no I will never shut up my gripping that a 14 mile drive should not take 2.5 hours by bus. (For context my commute is 20-30 minutes by car)

Early childhood development and history, and no, while the whole point of my degrees is how to teach children, I cannot teach how to teach children to children.

I mean, isreal is pretty great, no? They fatten themselves on a genocide every country except 2 are agianst and get funded billions to continue it. Trump is trying to emulate just a fraction of thier power.

iirc, they tried, and when the us intervened they put sanctions on the U.S. …yeah, the U.S. didn’t take economic sanctions for thier war crimes very well and uh, committed more war crimes.

If they all just died there would be peace, duh /sarcasm/

yeah, some people craze over all natural and I tell them some natural ingredients just to see them pause, like beaver bits make vanilla taste better so is a natural addictive. idc, it taste good, but some people question thier vanilla.

Niether solution is good but I feel id rather have confidence a drug is safe, even if I had to wait, rather then un-sure but quickly. I understand terminally ill wants quick, but isn’t there already a system to get unproven medication, just you accept risk?

The removal of bezels on phones, the camera cutouts sometimes have issues and its all together worse, just for a technically larger screen, and Apps, so many apps are just packaged web browsers, but with more access to private information and such.

its funny, reading how its a jet they’ve been wanting to offload, there is a decent chance it literally doesn’t have anything nefarious. It might not have been worth the effort to retrofit it, or its threat being more then enough. Of course it could, and that possibility means we ahve to treat as such, but if it has anythingit would be something sophisticated that would elude search right? Flattering trump and pushing $0.5bn+ expense in america? Worth it enough for them.

Lack of education and critical thinking. Which people thought was because of the lack of available access to information. Yup, turns out even with access to knowledge people still wont bother to educate themselves.

Now they are blaming educators because they are voluntarily ignorant, we lead the horse to water but we cant make them drink…doesn’t help when they want to call educators racists for trying to encourage a postive self image or dare I utter the taboo phrase, social awareness…

as others have said, try synthesizing your ideas. You have a good core argument, but its a little rambly, with some things that feel more buzz word then argument.

Try leading with your thesis, in this case “The democrats are controlled opposition that work with the Republicans to keep the working class down” and then follow up with your supporting comments and evidence. Alot of people wont read everything and just by the first half will judge what you say.

yeah #anybytes, try synthesizing your point.

yeah, which is why where you get your degree sometimes matters but with all the standization, strictly speaking a AAEE-T from a shitty school counts just as much as any other school, even if the quality isn’t there.

Most of the grade was on the tests, I think 70% then like 30% on the “Lab” portion…which was basically attedance and if you turned something in, he didn’t check for accuracy. One of the worst professor at this college.

I had professor usi g worksheets watermarked by another professor at a college in another state, y’all think anything came of it? He also gave us all the answers to the tests in the form of self graded quizes and let us take them into tests.

HS diplomas became a joke, degrees are becoming a joke…

You would think its hostage negotiations, boogieman sticking up companies to add A.I. or enshitify, so avoiding it is a perilous task and “big win”.

Literally, just not changing anything is now considered good.