As a resident of a high income, high cost, high quality of life state, we’ve been losing population and I may have to join them in a few years. As an engineer, I could afford to live here, but

• my ex can only afford to live here because of my child support payments
• as my kids finish college, their careers are looking lower pay than engineering, so they will be challenged to afford to live here
• as I approach retirement, I need to reduce costs so may need to move to a lower cost of living area

Florida has traditionally been a retirement destination but is no longer cheap, plus is offensively MAGA.

So if we all need a cheaper place to live, where do we look? Hw much do we compromise quality of life?

It’s an accelerator. At some point even the wealthiest must be affected. If humanoid robots become e a practical means of automation, suddenly there will be a lot of desperate people. At some point UBI might be the cheap solution for the wealthy

I’m never sure where the joke ends, but everyone’s aware of dynamic stability right? The stabilizer pushes the tail down so flight is level, but if you lose lift, the tail goes up, the nose down, you gain speed, and lift is restored. If you gain too much speed, the tail is pushed down, nose up, you lose speed and level off.

Military jets have other priorities

Yeah, you got me. I have a decent car that I like but I also like that I can walk a few places. I really miss when I lived downtown, and had the freedom to walk/subway anywhere without having to deal with traffic or parking. Unfortunately jobs in my field are in suburban office parks, and you can’t get there.

My current employers office is only 3.5 miles away. Too far to walk every day, even if there were sidewalks. Too hilly for bicycling with my bad knees. I’d consider an electric bicycle but can’t imagine surviving some of the roads to get there

And I’ll answer as well to keep the train running, even though i wasn’t part of this…

I don’t pay with cash unless specifically asked. I don’t regularly carry cash. If I need to pay cash I get it first that purpose, but usually get a larger amount. I’m a bit more likely to use it if I gave it but don’t refill it when it’s gone, until I’m forced to

You could ask some of those guys how they prefer to be paid. My electrician likes Venmo and my house cleaner prefers Zelle. I can pay them instantly like with a credit card but they’re not hit with the fees

Then there are a few aircraft that can do it like old movies. Perfectly safe to fly with the “window” open, and a hell of a lot of fun

Wages in the uk are low relative to the US, at least in my current company, and train tickets into London for those working in the office are ridiculous

While I completely agree, to be clear, there’s no requirement for overtime pay for salaried workers, and this is widely abused by companies

My brother works in a unionized industry and is the only exception I know: as a salaried employee he is not part of the union but he does get some union-driven benefits …. Not that he’ll ever admit that

While I grew up hearing this advice, I don’t remember anyone taking it literally. Even as a little one I always understood it to mean the same as “walk it off”, also not entirely literal.

What they really meant was the more literal and toxic “don’t just cry like a baby “

I don’t understand why so many of my fellow citizens wouldn’t want this

I guess we sort of have some, in that if you’re on Medicaid or on one of the exchanges, you get subsidized coverage based on your income

But higher income people don’t pay more, plus I imagine that at some point you have enough income that you wouldn’t need health insurance…… and people wonder why our system is so expensive

My college kids do everything through cloud services, so it shouldn’t really matter what their device is.

• One of them has a Mac and is just finishing his first year with no problems, so I would expect a neo to be no different.
• My older kid jumps among an iPad in class, his laptop when necessary, and his gaming rig in his dorm, and has had no issues

On the other hand, my niece has very specific requirements for her major, so there will always be a few specialties

we pay national insurance, a fixed percentage of income

With no limits? One of the many problems with the us system is we don’t do this.

And yet they’re talking about a nanny as a local device temporarily attached to a car and that does not necessarily “phone home”. Not everything is a “slippery slope”

And yes, speed governors were all too common after the 1970s fuel crisis. As far as I know they still are on trucks, like rental moving trucks. This is not a new thing, except to allow a court to mandate it for repeat egregious offenders

My town has been increasingly prioritizing road redesign for safety - my favorite example is a major road lined with strip malls was restriped down to one lane and is now noticeably slower, calmer and safer yet we get through it noticeably faster. The magic of doing it right

To get to a common destination through there used to take me 12-16 minutes. Now I drive slower and it’s consistently 9 minutes or less!

The article even helps with priorities, with special outrage for speeding in school zones. Fine, let’s start there. It ought to be an easy argument that every school zone should prioritize pedestrian safety, and be difficult to speed in. Even if it’s as simple as directing through drivers elsewhere, it’s a win

We already have such Nannies for repeat drunk drivers so how is this different? It even fits with the narrative that we don’t know who is driving- we know the car is being driven dangerously so should prevent that regardless of driver

• https://roadlawguide.com/dui-dwi-laws/ignition-interlock/

Every state is different - while I’m not sure how mine handles multiple speeding tickets, ask me how I know that 30 mph over counts as a major accident on your insurance. At that point, the cost of the ticket is almost irrelevant (approaching a toll both on a highway, when I passed the new speed sign I hadn’t yet slowed enough, the assholes. If they looked at my speed like 50’ later…).

Anyhow I have to expect it’s more “good old boy” corruption, where at each step he gets dismissed or charge reduced

Edit: oh, speed camera infractions. I believe those can’t be criminal since you have the right to face your accuser.

For sure. Few people will go the distance if they could fly. But think of all the connecting cities and towns. Rail can be faster and cheaper for a few hundred miles. Think of the long distance routes more as many segments of a few hundred miles, and a few crazies that go the distance

It’s worse than that, because it doesn’t show service level. The northeast corridor (Boston—>nyc—>dc) have great train frequency (even then they need to run more trains on holidays).

I believe the long distance routes are like one train per day. You’d have to be really dedicated or really desperate to deal with such slow unreliable trains which such low frequency. I do believe they’re there only to preserve track and collect votes rather than be useful. At this rate maybe in another century ….