It sounds like they're praising it in Japan and saying "of course it could never work here, Americans are just genetically predisposed to cars".

Which public transport? Tokyo Metro is publicly-owned. Some of the JR branches are still publicly-owned. JR was only privatized in the late 80s as an anti-labor move and to deflect from the unpopularity of closing unprofitable rural lines. But of course the government built most of the network, including the first shinkansen lines.

very funny to see this coming from Reason, a libertarian rag that hates public transit

What solution is AI going to come up with other than "stop burning fossil fuels"? We already know the solution to climate change. Acting like we don't is absurd.

I think a good first step in meeting climate goals would be eating Eric Schmidt.

Excuse the overdramatization, but it feels a lot like Frodo going to the Grey Havens. They did something great and now their reward is to disappear forever and be well taken care of.

Yeah these 5 over 1s really ruin the neighborhood character of my suburban strip mall state highway hell.

Leave them as derelict auto body warehouses tyvm.

Oppressed people support other oppressed people.

It's called solidarity, sweaty.

It's a top down problem. The universities didn't invent it. For years, candidates have campaigned on "lrn2code" so much so that we make fun of it here. They weren't saying that to bring new perspectives or art to the discipline. They were saying it because tech jobs have basically become the only path to the middle class. Small wonder, then that enrollment situations are what they are.

I graduated from UC Berkeley's College of Engineering with a CS degree right as the recession hit. Even then, I could see the demographics of my classmates trending away from your typical nerds who just like being on the computer into guys who were just after a paycheck.

Point being, like everything, this is a systemic issue. Give people one path out and they'll take it. The US economy is basically just giant business conglomerates and tech companies. Myopic capitalism has led us to this.

Healthcare pls

Can you imagine an American grocery store chain letting its cashiers sit down?

Internet communists when there is never any revolution so all their obnoxious internet arguments were for naught.

This shit is so boring.