None of the replies mentioning that owning a car is a big fixed cost?
for a car owner wanting to drive less, the fixed costs, whether u use it a lot or a little, is a strong incentive to drive anyway.

I’m with u on wanting more transit and more folks using transit. Not sure how we flip this

Don’t bother trying to find her, she’s not Cher

I often put it this way: nothing can replace the value of a hug from another human being.

If we want that Big Tent, gotta have that webbing.

Tired: “great man” theory of historical change

Wired: “weird little dude” theory of historical change

I agree with this. You might also express it as, there are no absolutes. Ethics require language, and language can’t encode all the complexity and fuzziness of real world situations and relationships. The map is not the territory

The reason people like me support tolerance isn't because we think that Evangelicals have great points about LGBTQ issues, it's because we recognize that in the end, what matters is that trans people can be trans, even if Evangelicals wish they wouldn't, and vice versa. That's a functional society.

More Marxist indoctrination from, uh… (checks notes) James Madison.

You can’t spell Madison without M-A-O! Think about it!

“Ah yes, Chewbacca”