I always feel like these induced demand arguments are suggesting that adding more lanes means the same number of people are just choosing to do more driving. Maybe, as you add more lanes you create the infrastructure for a city to grow, and it adds more people which then fill up the new lanes. People aren’t just going out and buying a new car or rolling an existing car out of the driveway that they were previously not using because a new lane is built. These are net new drivers, who would not be in that city if the infrastructure for them hadn’t been built.

Corpos seeking synergies are excramentatitous

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.

Drums, drums in the deep …

Al Palladin

Yeah as soon as I saw Delloite I knew it was shit.

They’re about to get eaten, oh bother

I can hear this picture.

“Ackchyually, there is no Karma on Lemmy, and instead…”

I surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one!

All work and no play…

I heard cigarette taxes are the preferred form of sin tax because typically smokers pay more in taxes than they use in healthcare etc on the way out. Nicotine addicts die fast and are tax efficient, unlike alcohol or gambling addicts.

Crypto and crypto accessories.

Man, I’ve used AirVPN forever. Should I change now?

Remember how they couldn’t get the cyber truck to not rust? Or the bullet proof windows to work? Or how the milage for most Tesla’s was impossible, so people thought their cars were broken, and instead of either confessing or fixing the mileage they created an elaborate scheme to cancel appointment so people couldn’t get their batteries looked at? These are the people you trusted to put a chip in your brain…

“You wouldn’t download a house.”

Fuck you, I would if I could.

A dictatorship is a system of government where the one person gets to help everyone out by making all the tough and boring governmenty decisions. But it’s also a system where the the one person making the decisons can be a really bad person, and therefore can make really bad decisions. So, yeah, swings and roundabouts.

I mean, I didn’t think it needed an /s because does anyone take the term “visionary” seriously anymore?

A visionary snowflake.

Corporate wants you to find the difference…