The Transients?
The Transients?
Their strength of conviction is admirable.
My value for X is 1.
The key is public transit that doesn’t suck. For the last 100 years the car and oil/gas industries have spent billions of dollars undermining public transit.
Dedicated transit lanes, subways, light rail, protected bike lanes all make cars less appealing to those that want to use them.
It’s called “Induced Demand”.
As a road widening project is completed, traffic is alleviated for a short amount of time. Then as time passes word spreads, or more people move to the city, or kids get older and get their driver’s licences. More and more people know this widened road is the fastest route, so more people take it, thus undoing the improvement. Then the cycle starts again - either with the same road being widened again, or another one a block over, on and on until the world is covered in asphalt.
The solution is to make alternative transit more appealing than cars. Bikes and public transit already have significant financial benefits, but lack infrastructure to make it more viable in North America. Busses get stuck in traffic, bikes are forced to share lane space with cars or sidewalks with pedestrians.
He actually appeared again in a later episode in a couple TNG novelizations.
He managed to adapt and fit in to Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism, but eventually was called on to use his 1900s business prowess in negotiations becoming Earth’s Ambassador to Ferenginar, and then eventually was named the Secretary of Commerce for at least two different Earth Presidents.
*edit, I lied. I’m sorry for misleading you all, you gave me your trust and I squandered it.
Good ideas all around. Thanks for suggesting them. Shut it all down before we all burn to death or drown.
Cops aren’t workers.
They are management.
Wipe out your debt with this one weird trick!
Everyone knows the Orange Cat Edition is full of bugs and weird behavior. You won’t trick me salesman!
Really thick acrylic paints, layered and contoured to make a painting that can be appreciated by touch.
Nah, they’d move on and live a full life after you’re gone. They’d probably even add new songs to their repertoire.
And the media conglomerates they own.
Shhhh that completely undermines their point.
Inb4 Hurr durr if you don’t like it leave
Je bent niet van suiker. Je smelt niet in de regen.
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My job requires phone calls (which people asked for!) it is frustrating how many unanswered voicemails I leave every day.
And it’ll be a cold day in hell when I give out my cellphone number to a customer.
It’ll be interesting to see who they got to compose the music, and if they try to imitate Mick Gordon’s style or go a different direction.