yeah same with me, except it’s just me and my wife. i think i just got service back.

might just be an inaccurate headline, I don’t think we know the exact order of things or when Verizon identified the issue.

I have no service at all, can’t get any kind of outgoing or incoming whatsoever. SOS only.

my wife and I both have iPhones. I have no service at all, hers seems to be fine.

exact same phones yeah.

It’s weird, my service has been dead, but my wife’s is just fine. So it doesn’t seem to be a geographical issue.

I legitimately don’t understand your question. If you’re asking if the cost to improve safety may be too great in some cases, yes that is true in some cases. But you haven’t made that case in this specific instance yet.

so by your logic since nothing is as bad as [choose any cause of death], we should just… give up on improving safety?

I was giving them the chance to clarify their point, because they didn’t say anything beyond “nothing is safe” as a justification for poo-pooing an attempt to improve safety. Hence the question, which they have so far declined to answer themselves.

The point ContrarianTrail was making is that there is some risk in nearly everything. People have died as a result of garden tools, cars, house pets, shaving, buckets, toothpicks, baseball, etc. Here’s a list.

Yes, we all know “nothing is safe”. it’s a trivial point to make, and if that’s the only part of the situation you mention (as the person above did) you’re either not thinking very hard or are being deliberately misleading.

I prefer pull cords on my blinds, and I find the new regulations annoying. But I guess some federal agency decided they aren’t so useful that it’s worth the risk to children. And it would be selfish to be all upset about it if it saves some child’s life.

Exactly, it’s not that hard to understand. Pull-cord blinds cause deaths, and other reasonable alternatives do not. Framing the discussion to “100%” and dismissing accidents/deaths as anecdotes, to me, seems deliberately misleading. Yet you accuse me of being inflammatory by asking a follow up question. okay.

I think you’re reading into a tv interview way too much.

contextualize how?

aubrey plaza was on the daily show talking about it, so i assume they were doing the usual TV talk show tour.

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Are you saying we should not have safety regulations just because we can’t make everything 100% safe?

probably because their cost is sunk in the real estate already and no one wants to buy it.

I don’t watch many sports now but watched these movies a ton as a kid:

the rookie - baseball

the air up there - basketball

caddyshack - golf

kingpin - bowling (the big Lebowski is my favorite movie of all time, but I don’t really consider it a “bowling” movie)

the wizard - competitive gaming

cool runnings - bobsledding

the big green - soccer

on the other hand i’ve seen lots of businesses use mcaffee.

i thought the same thing at first but i read the article and actually learned something about her. pretty cool lady who was politically active in her youth and still is.

still you’d think employees at “Truth” social would be the kool aid drinkers all-in on everything trump.

The US was not a '‘very spread out’ place before WW2

no kidding, the population was also like a third of what it is now.

in fact cities like San Francisco were world leaders in mass transit, and trains were the axis of transportation of both people and goods (even existing suburbs were connected to trains, in whatever shape and size they come). The us cities spent and spend an enormous amount of money and debt to pay for all the road infrastructure,

yeah, mass transit within cities is a great idea and should be used as much as possible. I am not shitting on the general idea of mass transit. what I’m saying is, in the context of a practical daily commute, mass transit only works to a point, and a LOT of people live beyond that point.

Most people do not work remote all the time, even flexible / hybrid workers need to transport themselves some trips per week.

again, I’m not saying mass transit should never be used. what is the cost:benefit for the infrastructure to cover out to the suburbs? how much time is added to very long trips, and are people willing to deal with that?