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quaawaa said:
Jason has a new show on Nebula:
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He has NOT aged well. Certainly the "gym of life" hasn't helped in that regard (I personally suggest alcohol/substance abuse, but who am I to judge?). But appearance aside, he's never come across as a happy person, wavering between smug douchebag and bitter asshole. So either he's found a genuine newfound love of what he's doing (doubtful) or this is some sort of temporary high that will quickly wear off and he's right back to himself again, possibly as early as the second episode.
 
BulkForceFive said:
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but really, not surprising at all considering how many 'cyclists' are actually riding 80lb battery mopeds that they don't actually have to pedal.
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And how many transit enthusiasts harp on and on about how they can use public transport being drunk and/or actively drinking.
 
I stopped by a highway store to get some food the other day (One of those which are only accessible through the highway and have no other routes to get there), got surprised to see that literally everyone present there was white, like genuinely 0 niggers or arabs. I now support the ridiculous means you need to go through to get a drivers license here. It's to keep the nigs out of cars.
 
California plans to spend enough money on its nonexistent high speed rail to pay for every flight between SF and LA for the next 70 years:
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Sadly OP forgot to check ticket prices:
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The urbanist tried to counter this by saying that the train will stop numerous times along the route so it's unfair to only use endpoint flights:
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Of course, if the train actually stopped at all those places, it'd no longer be "high speed" and I doubt the numbers would change much if you added every flight between the cities on the route. The train will be way too expensive and inconvenient to replace driving, which is what most people in the Central Valley would do if they had to go to a neighboring city.

Transit lovers have no idea how expensive HSR is. Normal Japanese people don't commute on the Shinkansen because it's way too expensive to use everyday. I blame JR for giving tourists an unlimited use pass so they don't realize how much the train actually costs.
 
quaawaa said:
California plans to spend enough money on its nonexistent high speed rail to pay for every flight between SF and LA for the next 70 years:
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Sadly OP forgot to check ticket prices:
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The urbanist tried to counter this by saying that the train will stop numerous times along the route so it's unfair to only use endpoint flights:
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Of course, if the train actually stopped at all those places, it'd no longer be "high speed" and I doubt the numbers would change much if you added every flight between the cities on the route. The train will be way too expensive and inconvenient to replace driving, which is what most people in the Central Valley would do if they had to go to a neighboring city.

Transit lovers have no idea how expensive HSR is. Normal Japanese people don't commute on the Shinkansen because it's way too expensive to use everyday. I blame JR for giving tourists an unlimited use pass so they don't realize how much the train actually costs.
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CAHSR would be fine if it weren’t for the constant going over budget, delays and endless regulations and red tape that make California look retardedly incompetent. Oh, and the ticket prices leaked and it’ll cost over $100 for a one way ticket to and from Vegas once the line is complete sometime mid century,
 
Turns out that snowplows can't go through bike racks:

CitiBike stations in NYC still caked in mountains of snow, ice, making majority of them unusable​

By Nicole Rosenthal and Georgett Roberts
Published Feb. 4, 2026, 4:51 p.m. ET

CitiBike is on ice.

Big Apple ridership has plummeted for the Lyft-owned bike-sharing service after deadly Winter Storm Fern dumped over a foot of snow on the city – with the majority of stations still unusable due to snow buildup more than a week later, The Post has learned.

“Most of the snow wasn’t cleaned up,” fumed cyclist Emily Oberlin, who bikes daily from Grand Central Station to her nonprofit job in Hell’s Kitchen.

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Big Apple ridership has plummeted for the Lyft-owned bike-sharing service after deadly Winter Storm Fern pummeled the city with more than a foot of snow over a week ago. Robert Miller for NY Post

Oberlin, 36, said she had to search multiple “inaccessible” trash- or snow-covered docking stations before finding a spot to park an e-bike.

Only about 500 of CitiBike’s 2,200 active stations across the boroughs – or just 22% – have been cleaned by the company as of Tuesday, a rep said.

The snow has become an icy obstacle even at docking stations that are available, with sites covered in sheets of dangerous ice and several feet of snow that make it more difficult for cyclists to return their ride.

“Docks in FiDi have so much snow packed in them that the bikes don’t fit,” one X user wrote Tuesday. “We’re spending extra minutes on the end of the trip trying to shove the bike in and end the ride. Fix this.”

“20 minutes to dock this bike,” another wrote in a Sunday night post, accompanied by a photo of a CitiBike shoved into a snow-covered mess.

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Oberlin had to search multiple “inaccessible” trash- or snow-covered docking stations before finding a spot to park an e-bike. Robert Miller for NY Post

One docking station at West 45th Street & Eighth Avenue on Wednesday was almost completely submerged in residential recycling, as Sanitation Department pickup remains delayed due to the snowfall that walloped Gotham more than 10 days prior.

The news comes as CitiBike hiked its rates last month for the fifth year in a row, demanding 9% higher membership rates since 2025. The company blamed tariffs and rising operating costs from insurance to field staffing for the sudden price jump.

“It’s not really making sense with the prices are going up,” CitiBike user Mayo Martinez told The Post, “so I would say that’s really what’s pulling people away.

“You’re not getting the service [you pay for],” Martinez, 28, added. “You are raising up the prices, but you are not really doing much for the customers.”

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Only about 500 of CitiBike’s 2,925 active stations across the boroughs – or just 17 percent – have been cleaned by the company as of Tuesday, a rep said. Robert Miller for NY Post

CitiBike, which touted record ridership last year, reported an average of 68,391 rides per day in January 2025 (on par with last month’s daily average of 69,040 rides per day) – but only logged 125,000 rides in total since Jan. 25th’s monster snowfall.

“The snowstorm [and cold temperatures] have impacted our ridership,” a Lyft rep told The Post, noting the service closed for just under 24 hours during the storm’s peak from Jan. 25 to 26.

“We’re continuing active snow removal operations and working to clear additional stations as conditions allow,” the rep added.

“Our priority is ensuring safe access for riders throughout the city.”
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Europeans should pay for American public transportation. They are the ones whining and bragging about how sick their rails are. Germany already pays for bike paths in Peru, why not buy me a big ol bus route instead of bitching.
 
Joshua Connor Tomar said:
Europeans should pay for American public transportation. They are the ones whining and bragging about how sick their rails are.
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What ? No one likes them here in France. They are ugly, they smell, you can't escape the animals using them. They are so used here because we needed something to allow mass transportation inside of cities built thousands of years ago, when having more than 15 guys in an alley seemed strange. Our cities are naturally harder to use with vehicle than yours.
 
The Carbrain may be able to afford to spend $80,000 a year after tax on transportation but the Bikebrain can play on his Nintendo Switch while commuting:
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ICE is both Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and Internal Combustion Engine. Coincidence?:
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"I hate how they call us commies!"
"But we are commies and communism is good?!?":
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Oh no:
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Fatties mad:
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Doesn't seem to be working for Jason 🤣:
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quaawaa said:
Doesn't seem to be working for Jason 🤣:
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I just wish they could be honest with cities. Food, especially ethnic food, is often the cope used, so why not just admit that a large part of the "city experience" is eating, and the resulting weight gain? I mean, whenever I visit a city buying interesting food or trying new (or at least) rare places is the goal. There is literally no downside to urbanists just dropping this.

:agree: People like me will find you less dishonest
:agree: Still get to flex about your chopped cheese (or other trendy slop food with extra rodent droppings)
:agree: No downvotes from the fatties on your own subreddit complaining about you
 
JeanRob1 said:
What ? No one likes them here in France. They are ugly, they smell, you can't escape the animals using them. They are so used here because we needed something to allow mass transportation inside of cities built thousands of years ago, when having more than 15 guys in an alley seemed strange. Our cities are naturally harder to use with vehicle than yours.
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Too bad frenchy gimme my train money so I can give it to black people
 
quaawaa said:
The Carbrain may be able to afford to spend $80,000 a year after tax on transportation but the Bikebrain can play on his Nintendo Switch while commuting:
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What the fuck is the joke? I fucking hate how retarded the virgin vs chad meme has become. It used to be a satirical meme both poking fun at overly self conscious autists and retards who think being an inconsiderate asshole makes them manly and it was actually funny.

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Of course this shit is too complicated for the average redditor, so every meme has to be turned into "thing i like good, thing i dont like bad"
 
FPTMIU said:
Of course this shit is too complicated for the average redditor, so every meme has to be turned into "thing i like good, thing i dont like bad"
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The thing I don't like about it is it's been done before. They always hinge it on ridiculous strawmen (usually the fact that it's a brand-new >$80k truck you pay monthly on), and if the "cars make you poor" argument is true, then why aren't they rich?

Even in Manhattan, where car ownership is low, anyone with real money still has a car.
 
quaawaa said:
California plans to spend enough money on its nonexistent high speed rail to pay for every flight between SF and LA for the next 70 years:
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I've always said they could take that money and improve the state's airports and even public transit to the airports and have enough left over for some electric planes or sustainable aviation fuel research.
 
DavidS877 said:
I've always said they could take that money and improve the state's airports and even public transit to the airports and have enough left over for some electric planes or sustainable aviation fuel research.
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Yeah, OR, they could continue to embezzle tax money to pet projects and big donors' initiatives and do nothing at all.
 
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