Yeah, I grew up in Fahren-wasteland, but have lived in Celsi-heaven for 7 years. I embraced it, and now when someone says "40 FUCKING DEGREES!!" I know exactly what they're talking about. It's hot. You probably don't have an air con. It's misery.

I just had a seizure ~~reading~~ trying to read this "article". what do I even click to escape??

"If you sing at the table you'll cry before you go to bed." I thought it was super common until I said it to my kid and my partner thought I was crazy.

"We will continue to charge you penalties until you can afford to pay us back"

Well actually you can't die either, that's illegal. Let me know if you find any other options and I'll make sure they get illegal'd as well!

Favourite part of the whole article:

A spokesperson for Truth Social said, “It’s hard to believe that Reuters, once a respected news service, has fallen so low as to publish such a manipulative, false, defamatory and transparently stupid article as this one purely out of political spite.”

"You never saw what you thought you saw. And even if you did, it was entirely justified and your interpretation was extreme."

Fortunately, there's good news: https://nypost.com/2024/05/18/us-news/rudy-giuliani-served-with-arizona-fake-electors-indictment-during-80th-birthday-bash-in-palm-beach/

I left the first time for Trump... but moved to the UK just in time for Brexit. Should've picked Taiwan I guess

"...Americans are planning to flee in droves, and then will realise they don't have a passport, don't know any foreign languages, and don't know how to get around without a car and will ultimately just stay put."

Just commenting to also get a name in that history book.

"Oh yeah. We knew it was coming. We were just waiting to see which one would finally cause it."

The struggle here is that you're talking about money earned after the fact and not including game theory. It would be a tough experiment to conduct, but say you spent $150 million to save $104. What if you didn't spend that $150M? Would you have an extra $40k in the bank? Or would the $104M in losses actually end up more like $1.2B because, slowly, everyone realised there was no reason to pay a fare?

I don't know what the case is here, but I imagine some economists have determined that $150M is enough to balance between actually getting people to ride the subway (increasing fare will eventually drive down revenue) and a substantial enough threat to prevent jumpers (no cops in the way means tons more jumpers).

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