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TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldOPto Amtrak@lemmy.world•FOIA Request Reveals Why Amtrak Pulled Out of Planned Station at Miami InternationalEnglish1·5 months agoMiami isn’t as red as the rest of the state… they already have a half cent sales tax for the Metromover downtown and that system is not only free to use it’s getting an expansion. A type of SPLOST (Special Penny Local Option Sales Tax) could bring in the monies needed.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldOPto Amtrak@lemmy.world•FOIA Request Reveals Why Amtrak Pulled Out of Planned Station at Miami InternationalEnglish3·5 months agoI get it, that’s obvious, but it’s a public service… and there’s public money available. Tons of tax payer money goes into unprofitable endeavors that still serve a public good and are needed public services (for example: the overwhelming majority of libraries turn no profit, but they are seen as a public good and are funded). An airport-rail connection (especially one enhancing the existing connection of an airport to a metropolitan downtown) is most definitely a public good… why not fight to make it happen? Makes no sense.
The Dade County, the City of Miami, and the Miami International Airport are majority tax payer funded organizations… so is Amtrak. Why not look at the public good this stop would do and fight to get the public monies to make it happen? Just still makes no sense.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldOPto Amtrak@lemmy.world•FOIA Request Reveals Why Amtrak Pulled Out of Planned Station at Miami InternationalEnglish3·5 months agoI guess my biggest question is: why not attempt to secure additional funding? State and local dollars, not to mention the airport authority, could make it possible to fill that gap.
Yeah, Apple was able to fall on their faces with the Lisa but still get to the Macintosh and greatness.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•This time it's really going to happen, I just know it!English2·5 months agoThis is going to be my Year of Linux, finally taking the plunge. Nothing special, just a used laptop running Mint to replace a Chromebook (who’s hardware has finally failed). Gonna try to replace my gaming PC next year once I’ve got more of a handle on the different distros and have played around with them (and more money).
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do I organize a general strike?12·5 months agoIf the USA were to have a general strike, it’s more than likely that the UAW would be the ones calling for it. They’re a very large union of which most Americans are aware and likely have a very high approval amongst average people.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do I organize a general strike?7·5 months agoI’d urge you to organize your workplace and form a union. You can contact organizers at the AFL-CIO (a kind of union of unions in the US) and find which union is right for your workplace. If you don’t work but are still able to do physical or intellectual labor, start getting as involved in your local community as possible… volunteer at food banks, after school programs, nursing homes, etc. The more people you can reach out to and help or with whom you can organize the better. If you cannot do those things due to personal issues (disability, etc), do what you can in encouraging others to take these steps. You have a voice here on the internet (at the very least), educate yourself as best as you can on how folks can help one another and encourage others to take these steps.
A massive action like a general strike isn’t just organized over night by total strangers… it takes communities with common cause and familiarity with one another. Realistically, if anyone is calling a general strike, odds are it’ll be like the United Auto Workers kicking shit off. Maybe the railroad folks or the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, but more than likely the UAW will lead the charge.
You’re on the right track asking “how to” and that’s great! Organizing is a rough road, but it’s vital and worth it… the more people doing it the better in any capacity. United we bargain, divided we beg.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOSEnglish41·6 months agoBro, just admit you only read the headline before coming down to comment.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing?3·8 months agoNo problem! I work in television/live streaming production. Finding and buying “dumb” monitors when we build out new sets and presentation spaces is literally part of my job.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing?43·8 months agoIt is still possible to buy “dumb” TV’s. Tons of businesses need them for display purposes (like at fast food restaurants and corporate expos, etc, etc), but you need to search for commercial displays. Like this one.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Favoirte indepth youtube channels?2·9 months ago“And, of course, this podcast is sponsored by the Claymore Corporation! Remember folks, Claymore Landmines: fuck the person directly in front of you!”
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Favoirte indepth youtube channels?4·9 months agoThe granddaddy of science fiction and futurism channels is Science Fiction and Futurism with Isaac Arthur. The channel has content for days about all kinds of shenanigans humans could be getting up to in space and beyond.
A close second is futurist and science fiction author John Michael Godier. His voice will either weigh your soul down to the core of the earth or you’ll find it grating… there’s really no in-between.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto Amtrak@lemmy.world•Musk Lied to Kill High Speed RailEnglish1·10 months agoJust watch, Brightline West will complete on time and people will bitch about how CAHSR is moving so slowly… as if CAHSR isn’t tied up with other vital projects like the CalTrain modernization/electrification, hundreds upon hundreds of grade separations, almost a dosen stations being built from scratch, infrastructure improvements all throughout the Central Valley, etc, etc, the list goes on for miles. Meanwhile, BWHSR has the task of eating up a mostly flat ROW that’s already cleared and build like three stations max. There’s no comparing them to one another and yet idiots will… same with Texas Central.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto Amtrak@lemmy.world•Musk Lied to Kill High Speed RailEnglish3·10 months agoYep. So too did the Interstate system. There needs to be a federal backed program, with dollar matching at the state and local level just like the interstate highway system.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto Amtrak@lemmy.world•Musk Lied to Kill High Speed RailEnglish3·10 months agoThis is accurate. On the private sector side it’s the same. One of the things driving up costs is that the private sector doesn’t have a company big enough to do this job, so Cali HSR is sub-contractors all the way down. Every private company contacted by the government has to be vetted and then there’s the paper work on contacts and those contacts need to be enforced by yet more people who need yet more contracts.
How China built so much so fast was that the PRC national government founded a handful of big companies (read: state-backed monopolies) to sort everything out and build it. Lots less overhead when one entity basically runs the whole show. China HSR is corporate vertical integration combined with centralized state planning on a scale that is only rivaled by other things the Chinese government has done before or that other nations have done however over longer periods of time (like the US’s Eisenhower Interstate Highway System… asperational national project on an immense scale and it took half a century because it was delegated to fifty states to plan and flesh out).
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.9·1 year agoSame where I’m at. 😞
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is having an Android really a deal-breaker for some people?English3·2 years agoYeah, us Americans never really moved away from SMS. I think probably BlackBerry messenger, back in the day, was probably the closest we came to having a messenger replace standard mobile texting along with Facebook Messenger and Insta DMs are pretty popular but never as used as plain old texting. Lately, I’ve seen Meta running ads stateside for WhatsApp. It’s weird because I’ve never seen them advertise anything before.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is having an Android really a deal-breaker for some people?English13·2 years agoI like Android because I get more of a choice in phones than just the two or three on offer by Apple. I usually go with Samsung but I’ve had Motorola and LG before… just depends who’s got the best device in my price range.
Guess I’m not playing it then. Oh well.