Maybe you should stop voting to fund Trump's government and confirming his nominees, you feckless coward.

We have the dumbest fucking Congresspeople

I felt the same way in Chicago. People were generally aware of "increased enforcement" and "clashes with protesters," but they didn't seem to really understand the scope.

It turns out the plot in Office Space (and/or Superman 3) could have been resolved by just saying "if you design software that commits the crime for you it's not a crime!"

Oh, you're saying I shouldn't install packages from random online repositories? Buddy, I don't know what a "repository" is but I need Ubuntu to recognize my generic gamepad.

Thanks, I have not been following the work in LA

That doesn't mean we shouldn't try! As the paper notes, these are primarily questions of political will, and solving these problems now will support decades of growth for our city, so my questions are not intended to new critical of your work and vision!

There's no question we can solve the engineering problems. But red and blue line tunnels were built under very different economic circumstances. Has any dense metropolis successfully completed a comparable tunnel in the modern era? IIRC, projects have stalled in both Rome and London (I think?).

The white paper helped me finally understand the crosstowner maps, thanks!

I've read a bit about recent tunneling debacles (e.g. Bertha in Seattle) that make me wary. Given Chi's built environment and geology, how much confidence can we have that new tunnels are feasible?

I was vaguely aware that prices were bad, but I just checked Microcenter, and the RAM I purchased in Feb. 2025 for $83 is now $390!

This is so true. I drive slowly, stop fully at stop signs, etc. But sometimes I still find myself tempted to make aggressive moves because when your vehicle CAN theoretically go faster, you perceive everything else on the road as impeding your progress.

The Ring, but it's a cursed doorbell video?

I really need to work through my abolitionist reading list, but I do not believe the abolitionist solution to other forms of violence is to foreclose the possibility that the wrongdoer might have to make changes in their life!

I am sensitive to the fact that fines and license revocations may ultimately be enforced through state violence (like all laws), but to label an automated traffic ticket "carceral" in this context seems to stretch the definition beyond the point of usefulness, IMO.

Every "anti-car" activist agrees that infrastructure change is the long-term solution. And IME most agree that automated cameras have downsides we should take seriously. But cameras are certainly a better solution than either enforcement by cops or non-enforcement, which is what we get instead.