His point about emblazoning your name on your possessions being a lower-class trait really helped me understand Trump’s appeal

Is the hard costs/density relationship just stuff like redundant staircases plus uniquely permissive rules on light wood frame construction for SFH?

Hard to believe Houston rents are almost as high tbh

Somehow I'd assumed that the NJT and SEPTA stock was only 12 kV/25 Hz. Shows how much I know!

Is standardization of NEC electrification at 25 kV/60 Hz anywhere in the agenda, or is the expense of replacing or retrofitting all the commuter rolling stock not worth the performance benefits?

Ubuntu es la distro más fácil de utilizar, y también hay Lubuntu, una versión más ligera para dispositivos con batería que utilizo yo mismo

The helmets thing, I think, is more that they see obsessive image-consciousness as part of what the public pays them for, same reason that fire trucks get washed way more than remotely necessary

There's a lot of wind generation in West Texas, but most places don't have an enormous, mostly flat wasteland nevertheless within 1000 km or so of several large cities

Isn’t freight traffic (the automobile shuttles and so forth) another issue? I know this is why Seikan only runs at 160 km/h most of the time

Phase-out of gas stoves in favor of induction has to be part of it, right?

Lots of older apartment buildings in some cities, and suburban apartment complexes generally have lots of low-executive-function residents who do things like leave cooking unattended—most fire captains could give you a list of the more notorious ones in their districts

Siting decisions for schools in new-build subdivisions also require some measure of developer cooperation, and suburban developers would rather keep anything that generates traffic and requires a huge parking lot confined along arterial roads rather than in SFR neighborhoods proper