At first I didn’t realize you were complaining about the picture layout and thought you were making a clever comment about how part of Italy really is at a more northerly latitude than Chicago.

That didn’t sound right, so I looked it up: Moot is a millennial. 4Chan’s got nothing to do with GenX.

That is a great costume.

25% worse over what time period?

Eh, 41¢/each vs. 33¢/each isn’t that big a difference, and well in keeping with the different cost of living between the PNW and the South.

70% Christian, 3% Atheist, 1% Muslim, 2% Jewish… WTF are the other 24%? Don’t tell me there are that many Buddhist/Hindu/Shinto/etc. folks here! Something’s not adding up.

I find myself wondering how these figures have changed over time. Did we actually get worse, or have we always been this fucking ignorant?

Nominally “Christian” because they like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

I used to dream of a utopia like Star Trek.

Be careful what you wish for.

I am confused both about why immigrants would want to go to the UK in the first place instead of staying in France, and about why French police wouldn’t be perfectly happy to see them go and let the UK deal with them.

Not fewer roads (It’s still important to have good street grid connectivity and small block sizes), but narrower roads and smaller parking lots.

Inflation makes investments rise too. It’s the people without them that are screwed by it.

It’s not even a very big house. It looks maybe 40’ or so wide and somewhat less deep, so I’m guessing it’s maybe 3000 sq. ft. total. I would almost hesitate to even bestow the status of ‘McMansion’ on it.

I’m sure they are. They have to be, unless they’re steel inside instead (which is unlikely), because you can’t make real stacked-stone masonry that skinny and have it be stable.

And that’s my problem with it: it’s fraudulent. Not even in an intentional “flouting the rules to make a modernist point” kind of way either; just out of ignorant and lazy design.

I mean, I own an old SUV myself (a real one, that I got specifically for off-roading and backcountry camping). I’m just not so anti-social as to daily-drive it in the city.

And because of the implication also that nuclear reactors produce extreme waste of building materials (e.g. Greifswald, ran for 26 years, dismantling in operation since 35 years and projected to last till 2040 at least

Ah, yes, the good ol’ “force plants to close way before the end of their design lifetime due to anti-nuclear hysteria, and then use that truncated amortization as an excuse to dishonestly claim they were too expensive” argument. Works every time!

The general public is one thing, but that doesn’t excuse the positions of activist organizations like Greenpeace that should’ve been better-informed.

It depends on the transit service, and how much their IT people suck. I’m pretty sure there have been multiple attempts to make standardized APIs for this sort of thing, but you shouldn’t necessarily expect them to be widely used except maybe in Europe.

Do a web search for “[transit service name] API” and start from there.

Edit: My local transit service apparently publishes a GTFS feed, which may be more widespread than I assumed, but I’m honestly kinda surprised they didn’t try to roll their own or something stupid like that.

That’s because Ace Hardware is franchised. It’s essentially a bunch of small businesses that use the same branding.