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Transit Planner. Follower of Politics, Hockey (Sens), and Baseball (Jays). Amateur Cartographer. Transit Aficionado.
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Agreed. Would be interesting to see if anyone has a list of potential modifications from theatrical release to VHS release.
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I grew up with the VHS versions of the original trilogy. I definitely noticed a lot of differences between those and the Special Edition versions, but were there any changes between the original theatrical release and the VHS version?
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That would be the easiest implementation, yup.
Being unable to do a line change would be an interesting additional disincentive. I like that!
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3-on-3 OT desperately needs a half-court rule. If you bring it into the offensive zone, you shouldn’t be allowed to bring it back over the red line into your own half.
Painful to watch.
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Why replace? Park & Rides play a crucial role, particularly in suburban areas where local transit isn’t an attractive option for a lot of people.
If done right, the P&R capacity can be integrated into the developments.
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IMO here are the biggest things holding BART back:
1) Lack of fare integration makes transfers from local transit more difficult/costly.
2) Shortage of Transbay capacity limits frequencies on the branches, since it’s dictated by the Tube’s capacity.
3) High cost of suburban extensions.
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The only major honourable mention is 2000-2005:
The Grinch
Elf
Love Actually (kinda meh for me, but still quite popular)
The Polar Express
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If you widen it out slightly to a 6-year period, you get Die Hard in there too (1988).
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Not necessarily the smallest, but Las Vegas. Pretty much everywhere worth going is already arranged in a straight line.
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Knowing about something and being able to do something about it are two very different things.
Even if the data says a pitcher is likely to throw a certain pitch in a specific situation, if you can't hit it, does it really matter that you know it's coming?
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We tried to play nice with Trump the first time around, and still got slapped with tariffs. We're not going to make that mistake again.
If Trump goes through with these tariffs, our economy is going to suffer regardless of whether we respond. So might as well make that pain reciprocal.
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A lot of factors at play. Frequency of trains, length of trains, spacing of interlockings, placement and length of sidings and passing tracks, whether there are switcher movements, whether certain trains (passenger or freight) need to be on a particular track or switch tracks at a certain point, etc
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Transit City was a fundamentally flawed plan. With no Relief Line, all of the LRT lines would have just made crowding on the existing downtown-bound subway network worse.
And the “in-median at-grade LRT unless we absolutely can’t” design philosophy led to sub-optimal configurations in many places.
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Archival footage of Merrick Garland preparing to approve the charges against Trump:
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One more highway will fix it bro, I swear. I just need one more highway.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced...
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I think at first that will probably be the case (what’s the old saying, “never let a good crisis go to waste”?), but once the full impact of the tariffs hits the economy and it veers towards recession and people tighten their spending, companies will be forced to drop it due to slumping sales.
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For too many, an unachievable ideal is better than an achievable good.
And to make matters worse, those who do attempt to implement the achievable good are seen as “sell-outs”.
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MAGA world is seeing the same purity test phenomenon, but their media ecosystem actually rewards purity (i.e. cruelty and boorishness) WITH power.
On the left there’s almost this negative feedback loop, where the more power you have, the less pure you’re seen as being. It’s self-defeating.
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This is one of the biggest issues with “the left” today.
Many of those with influence, particularly in the social media realm, are more concerned with scoring points in a purity one-up competition than actually trying to affect change through gaining real power.
You’re one of the few exceptions!
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One thing this team (& teams from the past few seasons) have been seemingly unable to do is get loser points. Yes, losses suck, but if you can scrape out a loser point every now & then, it adds up in the standings.
At a minimum, they need to start turning 3-2 losses into 3-2 OT losses. Or just win.
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If it’s a washroom at a transit station, give the option to pay with your transit card.
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In Ontario there’s a $5K rebate on it, so that cuts that difference down. But yes, there is still a higher upfront cost.
My commute used to be ~55km RT. My Ioniq was getting well over 2000km on a single tank. Now that I’m doing ~5K RT, I haven’t filled up in 4 months, and I still have 3/4 of a tank
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If I were starting from scratch today with our vehicle purchases, my Ioniq would probably be the full EV version, since it’s almost exclusively for city driving.
The road trip car (Sorento in our case) would be the PHEV. While charging infrastructure is getting better, it’s still not great.
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I bought a Hyundai Ioniq PHEV in 2018, and we recently just upgraded our family car to a Sorento PHEV.
Around town trips are entirely EV, with road trips being mostly gas.
I’ve found that if you know you’ll be tight for range, EV mode is best for city driving, while HEV is best for highway.
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If intermediate population centres are the goal, then it should probably go PIT-COL-IND-CHI. Yes it’s a bit longer of a route, but I think the higher intermediate ridership potential would justify it.
Also, there should be a branch at Harrisburg to BAL & WSH, and a branch at IND to STL.
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And even if they are good enough for the 5-on-5 squad, they should be allowed to play on both teams. It’s not like Olympic athletes competing in multiple events is rare (though it is rarer for team sports).
Just need to make sure the 3-on-3 and 5-on-5 schedules don’t conflict.
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It’d be a great showcase of young talent.
Let’s face it, 🇨🇦 & 🇺🇸’s teams are so stacked that realistically, you aren’t making it at that age. Even Crosby wasn’t on the 2006 🇨🇦 team.
With smaller rosters, it’d also give countries with smaller talent pools (🇩🇪🇸🇰🇨🇭🇩🇰) an opportunity to truly compete.
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200% jet fuel tax on any plane that holds more than 4 people that isn’t publicly selling seats.
Target the private jet market, without placing too much of a burden on small or commercial aviation.
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My most niche costume ever was when I went as Jeff from Today’s Special.
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I’m more interested in knowing what she’s planning on doing with the money raised on GoFundMe (or whatever grifter site she was using) for what was supposed to be her legal defense.
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Smart decision (but was a stupid decision to begin with). Fining or suspending a player because of the colour of tape on their stick would have been absolutely terrible optics for the league, more so than it already has been.