So operation Condor for Western Europe?

Edit: nope, Operation Condor actually happened, Gladio apparently didn’t leave the planning stage.

Your assumption that busses exist so they can be improved is quite telling. Huge swaths of the population, even living in million inhabitants+ cities, simply are not served by any form of mass transit.

The reason public transit works so well in Germany (where I did live for a bit) and Holland (visited and read about) is not because taking a car is more expensive. It’s because mass transit works well, it’s there when you need it, gets you to your destination in reasonable time and comfort, and is easy to use.

The very urban fabric in the USA is car oriented. Every little bodega has to have a dozen parking spaces built by law. Supermarkets have 3 to 4 times their store area wasted in parking lots. Everything is far apart because of this, so walking is impractical. With everyone driving to places, you need wide, fast roads, which makes biking places very unsafe. Every once in a while I see a white painted bike attached to a memorial in a light post, commemorating a life lost. And I live in the suburbs.

It’s not an insurmountable problem, the Netherlands did that in the 70s. But any solution that proposes a simple fix is doomed to failure. This has to be a concerted, intense effort to work.

They are just not related. The crazies on the street are not disappearing if people all decide to use transit. How is that a chicken and egg problem?

That’s wrong on so many levels I can’t even begin to unpack it.

That’s because mass transit is, with very few exceptions, absolutely ass in the USA. People only use it as the absolute last resort. That skews the table a lot against any public transit.

Mondegreen is a mondegreen, got it.

Still better. You’ll have to promise to share with 180 partners from the get go just to be close to the same level as them. And then do some chicanery.

I would cunk Philomena so hard…

Still a better deal than what all big tech firms offer.

The point is that there are people that don’t. And that tells something very interesting about labor relations.

You’ve technically not broken any rule, but it still feels like a bad fit for this community. The last thing I expected from a TIL article was a reminder of how worse my fucked up upbringing could have been.

Why on earth would you share this?

GrapheneOS is your savior. I should donate, their work is only getting harder.