@vinnie_bitcoins@bigotry_watch@EYakoby Somehow I'm more OK with my tax money going to food to feed me than I am with my tax money going to bomb Palestinian children
Musing on the purpose of transit:
It would make a great deal of sense to tax cars and gas to subsidize transit. While I may be paying for someone else to take the bus, I benefit from them not taking a whole car of road space to move one person.
@poetickate Some parts of it (after just a cursory view) just look wrong, and there is little chance anything like this would be developed on anything but stolen art.
@MichaelEMcNeil@DJSnM One problem with this is that the gravitational constant is tiny (6.6743×10^−11 m^3 kg^−1 s^−2), so to do a reasonable amount of work you have to have something very heavy (expensive to launch) and very close (complex and/or risky) for a long time.
@JennaWilliamsUT We should also raise per-pupil spending so people don't conclude the schools suck and send their kids to private religious schools that want vouchers