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    Benny, you would have called it Clinton's Ditch.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AdironRider View Post
    How many of you are actually willing to use public transportation post COVID?

    I don’t think a single person here, the relatively affluent, outdoor pursuit loving dentists, is in any shape or form that makes a difference.
    Raises hand.

    I’d consider jobs further away if I could take public transit. I lived in NYC for five years and that is my standard. If I could access a train stop less than a mile from my home and get me to a stop less than a mile from my work, I would be all over it. Even if I had to drive a bit to get to said stop by my house. I hate commuting in a car.

    As for recreation, it would be harder. But always though a Friday night train up to Truckee from SF would be great. Especially if you can get a free shuttle once up there to slopeside or shuttle stop lodging.

    Mammoth has a great transit system that works great once you get to town. Never a need to get in your car. Even post COVId.

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    Don’t tram cars count as public transportation?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AdironRider View Post
    How many of you are actually willing to use public transportation post COVID?

    I don’t think a single person here, the relatively affluent, outdoor pursuit loving dentists, is in any shape or form that makes a difference.
    Me. As I have all my adult life.

    Betcha you'll get into a plane, though, right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AdironRider View Post
    How many of you are actually willing to use public transportation post COVID?

    I don’t think a single person here, the relatively affluent, outdoor pursuit loving dentists, is in any shape or form that makes a difference.
    The dentist traveling I-90 and I-70 in Beemers and Sprinters to ski might like to have the hoi polloi on a train. Or better, to live slope side and commute to work on the train.
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    Public transit never worked for the job i had and it doesnt work up here

    I did fly into YVR, took publice trans everywhere and enjoyed it

    much more euro with LRT to the airport
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    Quote Originally Posted by AdironRider View Post
    How many of you are actually willing to use public transportation post COVID?

    I don’t think a single person here, the relatively affluent, outdoor pursuit loving dentists, is in any shape or form that makes a difference.
    I'm not surprised you didn't pay attention to this: https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...mtlodge-sedrun .

    As far as "matter", I'm with iceman on that one. Everything matters as long as we take it in stride.

    I just reject the idea that rural life universally increases greenhouse gases, that there should be no development outside of urban areas.
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    I had a gig in downtown Chicago long ago. The building was right next to the train station. I was in a nice extended stay about 40 miles west of down town. It was okay. But for the past 14 years I have worked from home. I like this way better. Now with the face to face video I'm forced to bathe and put on decent clothes before I plop down at my workstation.

    Seems like a win for everyone. I wonder if any large company will go back to the way it was
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    Quote Originally Posted by altasnob View Post
    But Europe has much more dense housing than in the US, regardless of whether you compare cities or rural villages. Paris is more dense than NYC. And this is true for old, medieval cities and villages as well as in post-war Germany (so its not just an age thing). Europe also has much stronger urban growth boundaries than in the US (urban growth boundaries apply to both large cities, and small towns). 30 years from now, Teton Valley is not going to look like a dense, medieval French village. It will be a sprawling mess of McMansions on cul-de-sacs dotted with the occasional Costco and Walmart.

    I am a West coast guy, but I understand NE USA is more like Europe, with lots of small, but dense, towns. This is probably the most efficient place in the US to live and it is not surprising it is also the most European-like, and oldest, part of the US. It also has climate similar to Europe compared to the arid West.
    And shitty skiing

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    Passenger car has relatively high passenger miles per gallon. Better than the average bus.
    https://afdc.energy.gov/conserve/mass_transit.html

    Car also rates highly for convenience - it's always departing immediately from close by. (Also a healthier option in the once per century pandemic.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by AdironRider View Post
    How many of you are actually willing to use public transportation post COVID?

    I don’t think a single person here, the relatively affluent, outdoor pursuit loving dentists, is in any shape or form that makes a difference.
    If everyone would get vaxed I would but since it doesn't look like that's gonna happen, No.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gretch6364 View Post
    Can we try to at least salvage one good thing from this pandemic? If so, how about working from home, at least half of the time? As a country, we have talked a lot about global warming and reducing emissions. Not having to heat and keep the lights on in all the office buildings and then reducing how much everyone drives for commuting to work would sure seem to be a boon for the environment...no?

    Instead of our leaders coming out in support of reduced commuting and energy use, they are starting campaigns to encourage workers back to their offices to save the economies of their cities. Surely the left leaning city population and leaders sees the contradiction in this...no?

    https://kdvr.com/news/coronavirus/wo...ually-want-to/

    Biden needs to start a campaign to encourage work from home arrangements as part of his environmental initiatives. It just make too much sense. Also, American's putting the money spent on commuting and work day lunches could be saved or funneled into more durable goods that are better for the environment.

    The skeptic in me thinks it will all go back to how it was before....but this sure seems like a great opportunity for this generation of leaders.
    Most people can’t work from home you moron

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    Quote Originally Posted by LongShortLong View Post
    Passenger car has relatively high passenger miles per gallon. Better than the average bus.
    https://afdc.energy.gov/conserve/mass_transit.html

    Car also rates highly for convenience - it's always departing immediately from close by. (Also a healthier option in the once per century pandemic.)
    yes, that half passenger we always drive with

    cars are only convenient and there if you build everything for cars, which is expensive, wasteful, and not particularly healthy. And if you pretend traffic doesn’t exist.

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    One of the things about cars that the average person probably never considers is how much real estate they consume. In the US the area for parking cars exceeds the housing area per person.

    When I was working in development, the city traffic woman told me that there are an average of 7.5 car trips per day per household. I joked that who hasn't left their car at the bar after last call, but she wasn't amused.

    So cars could be more efficient than the bus, but the majority are unnecessary single person trips to multiple spots of pavement that serve no other purpose.

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    Cars are only more efficient than the bus in the US because so many buses are empty. Because they don't come often enough. Because it's hard to justify a bus every 10 minutes when nobody rides the bus. The trick is getting enough people to ride the bus to justify increasing service which will get more people to ride the bus etc. I don't think it will ever happen.
    In Europe, DC and NYC we've always used public transportation and wish it was more practical here.
    Flying to Europe from SFO we take train to east bay, Bart to the airport (I think it requires a transfer, don't remember). Time is comparable to driving and a lot less nerve wracking. And cheaper than parking near the airport.

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    I see hydraulic turtles.

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    OMG! There is life after covid!

    Some fully vaxxed friends stopped by this evening and we had the most wonderful time visiting sans masks like there had never been a pandemic. Sigh.
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    Quote Originally Posted by huckbucket View Post
    I get it, but I wouldn't have posted it if there wasn't some merit to the piece. The author did a really nice job. Closest to a smoking gun that I've seen.
    Got around to reading that. That author is vulnerable to "attacking the source," though I agree the argument is well laid out. Gotta go rewatch the recent furin TWiV now. Also I see the MSM has picked up the story, WSJ in particular.

    True or not, it's primed for an endless dumpster fire of conspiracy theories. Last few paragraphs particularly dumped speculative gasoline on said fire.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LongShortLong View Post
    Got around to reading that. That author is vulnerable to "attacking the source," though I agree the argument is well laid out.
    But be sure to see mofro's take on it as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LongShortLong View Post
    Got around to reading that. That author is vulnerable to "attacking the source," though I agree the argument is well laid out. Gotta go rewatch the recent furin TWiV now. Also I see the MSM has picked up the story, WSJ in particular.

    True or not, it's primed for an endless dumpster fire of conspiracy theories. Last few paragraphs particularly dumped speculative gasoline on said fire.
    Given that a tiny, tiny fraction of the people who will read that article are actually capable of understanding it and evaluating it, the only way most of us can judge it is by considering the credentials and agenda of the author.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mofro261 View Post
    As a mad scientist who has waffled between making vaccines to improve humanity and dreaming up the Sar-bola like viruses to wipe out humanity, I'm a little jealous if someone else beat me to it on the latter one. But if Sars2 was lab derived, why use a poor furin cleavage site like RRAR with only one previous occurance in the database, over other more well established sites for furin? Codon optimized but not amino acid optimized seems like poor planning if it was by plan.
    This seems like a very apt criticism of an intentionally-designed Sar-bola, but not really a rejection of the hypothesis that a bunch of "possible" mutations might have been synthesized and one of them got past the level 2 PPE. After all, if you're trying to predict, why not all of the above? They could have just gotten unlucky on the one example and not the others, right?

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    Question for lab guys like Mofro et al. Let's say I got my lair finished (laser tables have been backed up, but I have contacts in shipping). And I'm leaning toward a bio threat instead of a dirty bomb (lasts too long) or hiring a bunch of hackers (rising labor costs). If I hired you to make a pandemic virus that no one would suspect, would you recommend optimizing the furry cleavage site for humans or would something like the SARS2 be good enough and not raise suspicion?

    Asking for a friend.

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    Can one of you smart dentists explain Texas to me? I just read since March 10th, when all restrictions were lifted, both active infections and hospitalizations have fallen y nearly half..... Is that due to vax rates or what?

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    I'm not the one to answer your question, but why invest in a personal bioterror lab when you could go to work for the DOD and make good money?

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    Quote Originally Posted by old goat View Post
    Cars are only more efficient than the bus in the US because so many buses are empty. Because they don't come often enough. Because it's hard to justify a bus every 10 minutes when nobody rides the bus. The trick is getting enough people to ride the bus to justify increasing service which will get more people to ride the bus etc. I don't think it will ever happen.
    Yup, and it's not just too few buses on existing routes. Existing routes often don't get people close enough to their destination to make transit worthwhile. When I couldn't drive due to knee injury a few yrs ago I tried mapping out a transit route from home to work. The best option would take 2:15hrs including 1 local bus to a transit hub, an express bus, then 2 more local buses. I was still 1.5mi from work which wasn't bad except it was a busy road with no sidewalk : (. I could normally drive to work in 15-20min depending on traffic. If transit only gets you 80% of the way there or takes significantly longer people won't do it. It's the same problem mentioned above - adequate routes don't exist so people don't take the bus. How can you justify more routes when existing ones aren't highly used?

    I don't think we'll ever get to the point where transit is efficient for everyone. But we can make it better for a lot of people with better route planning and adding frequent service between major transit hubs and employment centers. Getting as many people off the road in rush hour will make the biggest difference. Personally I'd like to see funds from major projects like new train lines be spent on upgrading bus service instead. Train lines take years or decades to design, fund and build and once constructed they can't adapt as population changes in a region. Buses are relatively cheap and you can put them on the road once delivered. And it's easy to change routes as needed.

    That or make parking expensive so that the math changes on what is the most economical way to commute. If I had to work downtown I'd find a way to use transit for sure. Parking is $20/day or more most places downtown.

    Quote Originally Posted by altasnob View Post
    The Honolulu rail project is a major boondogle, and that is in one of the most dense urban areas in America. I am not against transit (the opposite, for it). But it is a pipe dream to think we can somehow build transit through the spread out, rural, Western USA.
    Oh, they will build it. California hi-speed rail is justified as an alternative to flying from LA to SF. But look at all the stops planned in between and tell me this isn't going to enable massive urban sprawl in the Central valley for people commuting by rail to the Bay Area or LA. Too much money to be made on real estate development along the rail corridor.

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