I learned the “never pass a law unless you are willing to enforce it with the barrel of a gun” framework from you, and holy shit does that still shape how I think about government.

(Many laws should be enforced, through violence if necessary! But those are the stakes.)

Congrats!! You guys have good thing brewing in SLC

I’ve been a member at daily kos since its founded. I was on the Lamont 2006 campaign. Shame on you.

Your job IS to fight the Republican Party, and get rid of anyone (R or D) that stands in your way.

Go read crashing the gates and get back to me.

Do you know if you will be releasing (have released?) sex-stratified summary statistics?

Funding aside, are there situations where a streetcar is better suited than a bus or light rail?

The MSP example is interesting - it’s a pedestrianized area which hosts a lot of retail/convention center traffic. Buses are less attractive, and a light rail might be too intimidating for pedestrians.

This has happened to people I know in my grad program. I actually don’t think it’s so bad. It’s educational - we learn about the review process - and of course the advisor reviews comments to ensure they agree with his reading of the paper

Anybody know if there’s a good way to change these defaults?

There’s also a group who are super isolationist, and support China/Russia’s efforts to reorient the global order away from rights-based legalism and towards letting countries do what they want in their spheres of influence.

I think that’s a big part of it. But also, Putin/Orban are the only Europeans pushing an anti-gay, anti-pluralism, anti-Muslim, subtlely pro-white agenda.