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semi-crepuscular

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Dan Savage or Charles Mudede
Bring It On or Stomp the Yard
What keeps you up at night?: insomnia
What's your biggest grammatical pet peeve?: I could care less
Punch Buggy or Slug Bug

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Jan 8 semi-crepuscular commented on "There is no real public transportation without dedicated lines.".

for the cost of (inflexible 1800s technology) rail, it seems more cost effective in the long run to invest in
1) centralizing the traffic grid (ie, timing traffic lights, etc) using wireless
2) invest in developing autonomous electric cars that interface with the traffic grid, and can optimize paths to pick up and drop off multiple people and multiple destinations.
Then, as people and businesses move around, the public transportation system can move with them. then people are less constrained by the infrastructure.
Of course, getting anyone in Seattle to agree to THAT in less than 20 yrs would be a miracle.

Jan 8 semi-crepuscular commented on "There is no real public transportation without dedicated lines.".

if Seattle can't complete a bike trail in Ballard, it sure won't be able to put a rail line in.

Nov 27, 2012 semi-crepuscular commented on The Sadness of Safe Swingsets.

yep, modern playground equipment sucks. even my kids know that.

Sep 28, 2012 semi-crepuscular commented on "I Do Not Have the Money to Pay For This!".

I'd rather be in debt than severely sick, or dead. maybe that makes me the one that's agitated and possibly mentally ill.

Jul 17, 2012 semi-crepuscular commented on Lance Armstrong's Fishy Use of His Anti-Cancer Group.

why is the government giving the USADA $9mil?

May 11, 2012 semi-crepuscular commented on Breastfeeding and Time Magazine.

this is an interesting sensation, me agreeing with Charles. a bit disorienting.

May 10, 2012 semi-crepuscular commented on Holding Down and Terrorizing a Crying, Pleading Boy Is Not a "Prank," Mitt.

I don't like Romney. But high school stuff should be forgotten. period. *especially* when it's more than 5-10 years in the past.
There's plenty of more recent evidence to skewer him.

Apr 5, 2012 semi-crepuscular commented on Culture, Nature, and the Horrible Hyena.

no nobility? the shame of the animal kingdom? ha!

all I see is an inability to appreciate the beauty in the necessities of survival. you think you're too far above it, but we're all closer than you care to admit.

Apr 2, 2012 semi-crepuscular commented on Money Without the State.

think larger, Charles. I'd suggest that trade is the root of all human social relations. money is just a reasonably objective (not completely objective, though) representation of value that facilitates trade. (enter plug for free trade here).

Mar 26, 2012 semi-crepuscular commented on The Obamacare Verdict: What Will the Supreme Court Decide?.

@3. its' not so much the individ mandate. the important part of it has to do with the commerce clause. the feds are threatening to withhold medicaid funds if the states don't expand their medicaid coverage. the affordable care act uses the fed's taxing power to try to compel states to engage in commerce, so that the feds can regulate it. that's the more important part. a potential scotus decision could also be that the feds can't use taxing power coercively against states (tangentially related to the individ mandate)