hexis

typically there is a floor, at least de facto.

I'm 13936 and I felt like I was SO LATE to the party when I signed up.

Could have just invited Ken Paxton if all he wanted to do was inform voters.

I wonder why they require it?

It is, many states in the US are abnormal in this way.

We had the Wayback Machine for years before those two projects. What am I missing?

A secret, second, thing.

Yes, the federal government of the United States has always attached conditions to federal funding.

Seems pretty awful that the manager let him work on software upgrades for two years without telling him that work would not lead to the promotion he was clearly planning on.

This is one of the top things pushing me to an EV, so I can charge at home and be done with gas stations. As EVs get more market share, these intrusive ads will only get worse.

Albert Ellis wrote a book, "Is Objectivism a Religion" as far back as 1968. Murray Rothbard wrote "Mozart Was a Red", a play satirizing Rand's circle, in the early 60's. Ayn Rand was calling her own circle of friends, in "jest", "The Collective" in the 50's. The dynamics were there from almost the beginning.

Yes, but my point is what weight would the desired outcome have? Why not just observe the actual outcome and judge it directly?

Why would the desired outcome be a more true test than the actual outcome?

I appreciate your political commitments and I understand how that makes this topic unproductive for us to discuss.

And yet it moves.

And yet, public disorder is increasing. Sure, it is better than the 90s, but that can hardly be the standard. Those days were awful, we can and should do much better than that.

Cars are dangerous. When crime began to decline after the early 90s, American cities had a renaissance with huge numbers of people moving to them. Now, with the rampant public disorder, we are back to suburbs dramatically outgrowing the center cities.

Vibes and observations are very different. I am judging by my direct experience.

I have never had a car try to run me down, but I have had multiple vagrants chase me and my family through the streets.

The results have been that much of that housing ends up with the same problems homeless shelters do.

But, of course, you have a problem with the direction of causation in that case. Streets with many people on it are safe, but did the people make it safe, or did the safety bring the people?

Unreasonable standard for reaching conclusions, I suspect if you thought about it, you would agree.

There is a big difference between confirmation and confirmation bias.

I am glad you are enjoying it, but Columbia, SC has an extremely high murder rate, even for the US which in general has terribly high murder rates.

I would not ask normal people to start walking in dangerous neighborhoods in order to increase foot traffic and make it safer, those first folks are at great risk of just getting hurt.

I would, however, try to keep any safe area with good foot traffic that way, or even increase foot traffic.

I think in the US we've done a great job educating a subset of the population about how dangerous cars are. In the wealthy, walkable neighborhood I live in, everyone is very sensitive to the dangers of cars. Cycling and walking are common, with many kids being involved too.

That said, this understanding is very unevenly distributed, in large part because our neighborhood also gets more police attention and is generally very safe.

I agree, this is also clear when looking at how often traffic laws are broken with no police reaction.

Crime is down since the 90s and up since 2018.

I get my information about dangerous public spaces with my eyes, ears, and memory that it used to be safer very recently.

No, you are not reading me correctly.