Flat Pluto Society

What I really want is this Cadillac electric concept vehicle that is like the car of a rich Shadowrun villain who has a sexy, mute personal assistant who is also a cyborg ninja assassin.

Agreed. I like the concept of the design, because I dig a cyberpunk aesthetic and I just appreciate a big, bold swing at something new on principle.

But wow do they ever look like ass in reality.

Schrodinger’s leftist: simultaneously powerful enough to completely tank national elections and so insignificant that their demands can be dismissed out of hand.

Don’t make fun of him for his voice. Make fun of him for thinking that his vocal dysfunction was caused by vaccine injury.

I completely agree with you about the PR problem SEPTA definitely has its issues, but I have never lived in a city where people in the burbs are as fearful of public transit as people in the Philly burbs.

I really like taking SEPTA. Admittedly I almost exclusively take the bus and rarely the train, and the train is pretty obviously where most of the unpleasant experiences happen, but sitting on the 9 or 27 and reading or dozing off is definitely preferable to sitting in traffic on 76 and driving around looking for parking in the city.

A lot.

Yep. I have no doubt that Gates and Bezos and Zuckerberg are genuinely very smart and hard-working people, but there are a LOT of smart and hard-working people with poor parents, and you don’t see a lot of billionaires in that group.