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New comment by one_level_deep2 in "Amtrak Explorer"

one_level_deep2 — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 01:56:53 +0000

New York has yet to be run into the ground, so I think it would be ok.

Your talking point about NYC being some sort of hellscape is at least 30 years out of date.

New comment by one_level_deep2 in "Amtrak Explorer"

one_level_deep2 — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 01:54:23 +0000

Odd that the specific example you chose is better in NYC than Miami. The news orgs constantly harping on urban crime rarely mention Miami, for some reason. Maybe because Miami has a Republican Governor, state legislature, and mayor while NYC has a Democrat in each of those roles?

New comment by one_level_deep2 in "‘Less than half’ fresh produce sold globally makes any profit"

one_level_deep2 — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 15:50:29 +0000

Sounds like it’s not very widespread at all. How many magazine editors are there in the US?

Maybe don’t call others “stupid” when your entire post is creating fictional villains.

New comment by one_level_deep2 in "The U.S. housing market vs. the Canadian housing market"

one_level_deep2 — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 19:24:18 +0000

That is very rare, you should consider yourself lucky. I work for a 100,000+ person software company and my [health + dental + HSA] is over $10k to cover my family of 4.

New comment by one_level_deep2 in "Germany Will Force 80% of Gas Stations to Install EV Charging, Too"

one_level_deep2 — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 18:32:50 +0000

I think this person was referring to the process of transferring that stored energy into thermal energy which drives pistons to generate mechanical energy and move the car.

New comment by one_level_deep2 in "The U.S. housing market vs. the Canadian housing market"

one_level_deep2 — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 18:11:40 +0000

For the Californian, you also need to factor in the $10-15k in health insurance costs. That cuts pretty deeply into the $21k surplus.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/184955/us-national-healt...

New comment by one_level_deep2 in "Chicago’s parking meter disaster"

one_level_deep2 — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 20:29:48 +0000

None of those prove “effectively insolvent” and most are false, anyways.

Chicago population grew according to 2020 census. Then the Census Bureau acknowledged that was undercounted. Any "news" on this is likely using the admittedly bad calculations to push a narrative. [1]

Taxes aren’t particularly high for a city. There is no city income tax and property taxes aren’t in the top 10. [2]

The pensions are absolutely an issue, but huge progress has been made in the past 5 years and they are making actuarial payments as of now. They got a bond rating upgrade recently and are solidly investment grade.

"On October 21, 2022, Fitch Ratings upgraded the City of Chicago's general obligation bonds from BBB- to BBB. This was Fitch's first upgrade of Chicago general obligation bonds in 25 years due to the City's improved financial condition, rather than a change in the rating agency's methodology." [3]

[1] https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/illinois-undercounted-...

[2] https://learn.roofstock.com/blog/cities-with-highest-propert...

[3] https://www.civicfed.org/civic-federation/blog/chicagos-rece....

New comment by one_level_deep2 in "The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes"

one_level_deep2 — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 20:21:14 +0000

Isn’t this just dependent on the political views the person brings to the movie?

Recent history has shown us that any narrative can be termed “political” if it helps one side drive a narrative.

Just look at the faux outrage over induction ovens and banning beers. Completely fabricated nonsense used to drive a narrative. This is the true trope.

New comment by one_level_deep2 in "Texas just got closer to blackouts than it has since 2021. What happened?"

one_level_deep2 — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 14:45:38 +0000

That would require admitting that the free market can't solve the problem, and likely makes it worse.

New comment by one_level_deep2 in "Chicago’s parking meter disaster"

one_level_deep2 — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 14:38:50 +0000

Please explain how Chicago is "effectively insolvent."

New comment by one_level_deep2 in "Australian MPs to lobby US to drop Julian Assange prosecution"

one_level_deep2 — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:17:38 +0000

He was an agent of the information he preferred to leak because he had an agenda. It has been well documented.

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...

[2] https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks...

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/10/politics/comey-republicans-ha...

New comment by one_level_deep2 in "Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’"

one_level_deep2 — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 19:24:37 +0000

It is also pretty common in parts of the US. They probably don't know about that either. I know people who go morel hunting every spring in the midwest (Iowa and Illinois, specifically).

https://www.thegreatmorel.com/regional-morels-midwest-region....

New comment by one_level_deep2 in "America’s Surprising Regional Divide on Life Expectancy"

one_level_deep2 — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 17:03:04 +0000

Those same conservatives happily supported the Southern Strategy which is what this sentence references. One political party made this a basis for their platform for decades. These are the results of that strategy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#:~:text=In%2....