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Yeah; riding the subway I absolutely notice the difference between ANC on and off, with both earbuds and over-ear headphones. Now, in neither case is it a silent bubble like commercials might lead you to believe, but I'm not feeling like I have to turn up my music volume to compete with the outside world.

Rikishi posted...

You mean that unity is collaborative with the US military for a new game right?

No

Could it be the difference between soda at the bar coming through the tap/hose thing vs the bottled/canned Coke you use at home?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/potential-manhattan-congestion-toll-prices-revealed/ar-AA10x0ls

Fifteen years ago, then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced long-term environmental sustainability goals for the city through 2030, as well as an ambitious slate of proposals to meet those goals. The most controversial proposal was introducing vehicle congestion pricing to a portion of Manhattan. Despite being approved by the municipal legislature, the Democratic members of the New York State Assembly refused to vote on the proposal. It seems like the Manhattan congestion toll zone might be nearing fruition, though.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), the citys public transportation body, has released its environmental assessment of the proposed Central Business District (CBD) Tolling Program. The assessment found that truck trips into the zone would be reduced by over half, and air quality would be improved by 20 percent. The zone would stretch from 60th Street, one block north of Central Parks southern boundary, all the way to the islands southern tip while excluding the perimeter highways that circle Manhattan, such as the FDR Drive and West Side Highway. However, it was noted that the zones creation could worsen traffic on Staten Island and in the South Bronx.

The potential toll prices were also revealed by the MTA. The assessment included several pricing proposals starting at a weekday $9 toll for non-commercial vehicles in the Base Plan. The most costly proposal would see drivers paying $23 for entering the congestion zone. The revenue raised by the toll program will largely be used to fund $15 billion of improvements to the citys public transportation infrastructure. The subway system would receive 80 percent of the revenue, with the MTAs two commuter railroads (MetroNorth and Long Island Rail Road) getting 10 percent each.

The revived congestion price project was announced by then-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2019 but faced delays caused by the federal government until President Joe Biden entered office in 2021. The plan seems like a win-win, with the struggling subway system receiving funding from long-needed upgrades and congestion being reduced on Americas busiest city streets.

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https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/Cuomo-claims-state-should-pay-his-legal-fees-in-17367058.php

Can you believe this creep?

Biden being a moderate who caters his stances to suburban white voters is... Not at all out of line with the Democratic Party.

LightHawKnight posted...

Biden is just Democrat in name. Our political system leans so far right that center is basic conservatism

This does not preclude him from being a Democrat.

MarcoRubio posted...

Biden is a republican

Marco Rubio isn't this stupid.

Biden deserves credit for withdrawing from Afghanistan when every other president in recent memory would've kicked the can down the road.

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The IRA does more to reduce emissions than anything passed under Obama. And addresses some of the myriad issues of the ACA.

Don't give Trump credit for pulling out; he would've folded to the pressure just like he had before.

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Biden has gotten more done with 50 votes than Obama with 60

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Because the policies they've passed have been better at addressing the crises we face than the Obama administration's.

Also he pulled out of Afghanistan.

imo

Prismsblade posted...

If Migrants from other countrys can travel accross thousands of miles worth of the most dangerous terrain imaginable for a better life, and with nothing but the clothes on their back. Why can't our citizens?

Our citizens are entitled to minimum wage. The sorts of jobs hiring undocumented immigrants do not want to hire people they have to pay decently.

JTilly posted...

how should we deal with the homeless problem, as a country?

Build more housing.

ICantSing posted...

I really have to imagine most are mental health/drug related, which means the idea of even getting them to stay in some kind of housing would be difficult.

The places with the most homelessness aren't the places with the biggest drug or mental illness problems; they're the places with the highest housing prices.
https://www.sightline.org/2022/03/16/homelessness-is-a-housing-problem/

The graphics above demonstrate that variation in rates of homelessness cannot be explained by variation in rates of individual factors such as poverty and mental illness. In fact, where poverty is higher, homelessness is lower, which is perhaps a counterintuitive result. Similarly, there are not higher rates of people with serious mental illness in locations with high rates of homelessness. Therefore, high rates of homelessness are not the result of more people with certain individual vulnerabilities residing in those locations. Poverty rates in Detroit, for instance, are far higher than in San Francisco, but rates of homelessness in Detroit are but a fraction of those observed in the Bay Area.
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These are the conditionsthe structural factorsthat explain the observed variation. In our data set, housing market conditions explain the most variation in rates of homelessness observed around the country. Cities with higher rents and lower rental-vacancy rates (i.e., tighter housing markets) see higher per capita rates of homelessness. This is where a fuller picture comes into view. Individual risk factors help account for who in a given city might lose their housing at any given point in time, but housing marketsrents and vacancy ratesset the context in which those risk factors are expressed. Without looking at housing markets, you cant explain why Seattle has a much higher rate of homelessness than Chicago, Minneapolis, or Dallas. The fundamental conclusion is that the consequences of individual vulnerabilities are far more severe in locations with less accommodating housing markets.

Question: where are they going to go?

MorbidFaithless posted...

I did not keep up with the woman in the wheelchair date topic, did that not work out or could you ask her? Too last minute?

We had two really nice dates, but she "wasn't feeling a romantic connection."

Anyways, I went. Got 34/50 points

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Tell him that; he's the one who said his efforts on that front were about diverting legislative efforts away from rail.

My roommates aren't gonna be up for going out, but I'm not feeling like lazing around here.

But also I tend to get really self-conscious when on my own at bars.

CM_Ponch posted...

So he was willing to let millions suffer just because he didn't like public transportation?

TendoDRM posted...

I don't understand why billionaires like him would be against public transportation anyway.

He runs a car company, and opposes public transit for the reasons those companies always have.

Can't help but be reminded of this:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/8/3/AAWHm8AADjHr.jpg

I've put in so many damn runs, and it never works out in the end, but I still have a good time.

Yang has staked his political career and nascent third party now on the idea that partisan division has gotten out of hand. He's not going to acknowledge that some divisions are worth drawing.

Republicans have stated their rationale for voting against the bill: it's not about DEI, but about inflation fears.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-gop-leadership-tells-members-vote-no-chips-act (this site seems like hot garbage, but I've got no reason to doubt the Scalise quote)

House Republican leaders are urging their members to vote against a bipartisan Senate measure that would give tens of billions of dollars to the U.S. makers of semi-conductor computer chips, which they calling a "corporate welfare bill."
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"At a time when Democrats reckless spending policies have led to historically high inflation, the government should not be injecting hundreds of billions of dollars in additional subsidies into the economy," House Minority Whip Steve Scalise said in in the letter Wednesday night to conference members.

(Also it's because they're mad Manchin waited until after it passed the Senate to support the reconciliation bill)
https://fortune.com/2022/07/28/chips-bill-act-2022-senate-house-vote-results-joe-manchin/

Senate Republicans had tied the fate of the Chips Act to the spending package, which could only pass through the Senates reconciliation process with just Democratic votes.On July 1, McConnell said there would be no Republican votes for any Senate effort towards chips or other innovation-related measures so long as Democrats are pursuing a partisan reconciliation bill. Republicans relented after Manchin said on July 15 that he did not support fellow Democrats effort to increase taxes or pass new climate measures as part of the budget package.

Manchins change of heart on Wednesday appears to have angered Republican leaders who felt like they got the raw end of the deal. Late on Wednesday, House Republican leadership urged their members to vote against the Chips Act in retaliation to Manchins announcement, according to a memo seen by The Hill.

https://twitter.com/andrewcuomo/status/1556990308424028163

Cuomo Yang
being stupid

WingsOfGood posted...

you out till 1am riding up the beach yelling excitably?

It's 10:50 PM in Florida

It's very good

You can just say their protest is stupid (true) without suggesting that protesting at 10 PM on a weeknight makes you a layabout (weird, not true).

I'm not sure being out on a Monday evening is evidence of not working.

https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1556798010721452033

If they insist

https://twitter.com/ItsMattJordan/status/1553238665270263808

Relient_K posted...

I'm NYC? How is that enough to even pretend to get by?

I got by on less last year

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Gross.

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It's $17 an hour, office administration type stuff

WingsOfGood posted...

curious, you participate in capitalism?

/s

Not happily

Gross

https://www.axios.com/2022/08/08/trump-toilet-photos-maggie-haberman

The article itself is important and all, it's just funny to me to phrase it this way

Crazyman93 posted...

Unfortunately the biggest slashes, like cutting pay, would hurt the members of Congress

Congressional pay is by no means a big chunk of the federal budget.

Yeah, it's story heavy

It's very similar to past Yakuza games if you've played those.

I'm concerned

DespondentDeity posted...

Im a Republican (registered due to closed primaries)

Why

Seems decent, imo

averagejoel posted...

there are like 10 anti-Trump republicans in the US and they all have NYT Opinion columns

Once you realize this, it should be pretty self-explanatory why this crowd isn't crazy isn't crazy about democracy

Chet_Hanks posted...

He is the only person in America that both can win an election and will absolutely save the country itself from falling apart.

My man couldn't even restore sanity.