HobbitFoot

What's the unpopular opinion?

We don't fully understand JFK's assassin, but it is likely not due to Vietnam as Vietnam wasn't a major issue at the time of Kennedy's death.

Lincoln's assassination could be seen as a defense of slavery and other Southern "rights".

Beyond books, tools that are a store of knowledge that are only used infrequently. For places dependent on cars, that would include an auto engine code reader. For areas with wood frame construction, a stud finder.

Orange juice and some kind of simple food. Right now, it is toast with butter.

Lately? I find it comes and goes.

Yeah, did you get the memo about the new covers? Yeah... If you could use the new covers for the TPS reports, that would be great...

That sounds like too much technology.

Pax Americana has led to the dismantling of empires and the bimodal economic distribution disappearing. It was an improvement over the older world order.

It was a dumb mistake, but it was a dumb mistake that had broader political support than the narrative that "car companies destroyed mass transit" suggests. It is important to recognize how a broad base of support was created in order to fight it in its current interations.

And I completely agree that Musk tunnels are a shit technology and that actual trains need to be built. I just think it requires understanding how politics functions rather than just accepting a corporate bogeyman.

It is a lot more complicated than that.

Most early 20th century mass transit networks were private businesses subject to government regulation. Most of the government regulation focused on controlling fares, so there was a lot of deferred maintenance. This was made worse as some mass transit systems were built to be a loss leader to support selling real estate.

Several mass transit networks went bankrupt due to the combination of fares not covering expenses and reduced demand due to completion with cars. Most American cities weren't equipped to take on subsiding or taking over mass transit, so they let the existing networks die.

Japan was forced to be demilitarized, but the US could have easily let Japan militarize as a US vassal state under the control of an American alliance, but it didn't.

In regards to South Korea, it could choose to open negotiations to merge with North Korea. We even saw a conservative South Korean President impeached; the political implication bring a more pro-North Korean president taking power.

Once per twelve hours would be ok. It isn't enough to take over a feed, yet is enough to provide content.