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    They’re really annoying since they only do prescriptions. I suppose that’s useful sometimes but so is regular stuff. It seems like such a small part of their business

    For example, one time my toddler was sick and my wife was out of town. I needed some Pedialyte and I forget what over the counter medicine, and it’s not like I could leave the little guy. I pull up in a cloud of stench with him vomiting out both ends, and begged them to let me buy stuff in the drive through. But nope, I had to take that into the store



  • I do know plenty of people who think this way, and I find the post quite plausible. There’s been so much disinformation about unions in the US, for the last couple generations, that people don’t know any better.

    However as an edge case, I do believe it was true for my brother working part time minimum wage. As far as we could tell there were no benefits for the part timers, no extra pay, no protections, no perks, just extra dues to pay. It’s too bad too, this could have been the unions chance to re-educate, show them benefits when someone is starting out so they support unions the rest of their lives. Instead it reinforced his prior attitude and he remains anti-union to this day


  • The problem is everything with buildings is slow. Who can afford to replace functional buildings, and buildings remain useful for decades or more? There’s only so much you can do with infill. The only other option I can think of is to change zoning radically enough that it becomes profitable to bulldoze functional buildings. Of course that has additional environmental costs but over time should be fine

    I’m personally not a fan of higher density buildings by themselves. That’s just a recipe for annoying people enough that you hope they demand better before they give up and move away. Higher density buildings needs to have some thought put into walkability, personal mobility, and transit






  • Massachusetts has a regional transit system, and just used that to mandate transit oriented development for all towns and cities served. It requires they zone higher density housing “as of right” within half a mile of transit. I have high hopes for that, but it will take decades and we’re starting at such a high cost of living.

    However we also have the problem of a stagnant population and very little room for new development. It’s infill and replacement housing so will be even slower




  • True, but not many have sold yet. We still have a chance to get commuters out of trucks before they transition to EVs.

    But do you know what’s even heavier, by many times? Trucks. In the beginning of EV times, one level of misinformation was claiming increased road wear from heavier vehicles. I believe several red states used that to block EVs or to increase taxes well above ICE vehicles. Then people started realizing it was exponential by weight, and road wear is mostly trucks. The difference with EVs is vanishingly small.

    Im not saying it ts the same situation for tire wear, I’m saying it’s important to know. Heck, is. It even the weight? What about all that extra torque in EVs? Alternately, does modern traction control make a noticeable difference. It just seems lazy writing to highlight EVs as a problem here without covering more of the possibilities, one way or another



  • While I love data and crave the dashboards, for everyone else:

    • things work normally, and the “smart” functionality is added
    • my automation is timers
    • everything is voice control

    I’ve given up persuading anyone to use any of the smart functionality, although I’m likely to get the Apple home hub when it comes out.

    I’ve looked into various e-ink projects for dashboards but never had the time to follow through