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Appellate public defender. Poll worker. Peace Corps Tunisia. Low-level zoning chair. Wolverine in Buckeye land. Cyclist. Personal views only. On the payroll of the rain garden interests.
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I’m strongly in the camp that writing is good, and people should write with what they love—keyboard, fountain pen, ball point, roller ball, pencil, or any of the other gazillion choices.
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Fair. Here, maybe I should have said “less-evil” not “non-evil.” Or better yet, “perceived-of-as-less-evil”
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Trump, Elon and other MAGAs love to play the I-meant-the-non-evil-meaning game. Example—Elon’s Nazi salute at Trump’s inauguration. I don’t care if Roman’s did something similar, it’s still a Nazi salute.
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When an expression has both a violent & a non-violent meaning, the listener has no way of knowing which version a speaker intends. If 1k people say “X” & 1% of them mean the violent version, there are 10 people out there who just issued a threat of violence, & listeners can’t know which are the 10.
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“And I hope they end up being right.”
I should have said. Sorry for that.
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Even more cringe than someone arguing in your court trying to butter you up by complimenting your time at Stanford.
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We both support the same goals. Some difference in implementation, but same goals. And I hope he ends up being right.
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Free fares should be on idea on the table. And working it find more money is good, but not always successful.
I hope the math & logistics work out for COTA to make fares free again (as they were during COVID). I just don’t assume in advance that it’s the only valid choice.
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I’ve said that I agree that it’s a good idea to study feasibility—whether fares (& contracts that are paid in lieu of fares for groups of riders) bring in enough money to justify collections. & just because an agency went free fare doesn’t mean that they couldn’t have spent the $ to improve service.
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The validity of your arguments depends on who they are made to. If made to state and federal funders, then yes, more funding is better. If the arguments are to transit agencies who can’t usually whip up more funding, then it’s not a “false choice,” or at least not always a false choice.
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He asks “Where do we go from here?”
Response: “The battle's done and we kind of won, so we sound our victory cheer”
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I’m sending this to a well-connected trans-kids-rights advocate.
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And some just want to blame someone else for their own decisions, demanding “accountability” from others but not from themselves.
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The Ohio Supreme Court in Columbus doesn’t close for Columbus Day. It found that its staff would rather take the day after Thanksgiving off.
(Because it’s still a federal holiday, nothing is due on Columbus Day.)
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Good points. Thank you.
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Casting Murderbot as a conventional leading military man is probably the most questionable call of the series.
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I disagree. He’s earned immediate mocking for this, especially if done with a sense of humor.
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Thank you for offering this service for as long as you did. Best of luck on your next pursuit.
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Did I say too much?
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I want to add a pithy reply, but
I don’t know if I can do it
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Of course, DHS is probably lying, but even if they weren’t lying, they could avoid this by, I don’t know, using marked vehicles, wearing identifiable uniforms, and showing their faces.
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Hope all are safe. My guess is this is the storm that went through here in Ohio yesterday evening. It was intense here, but not super-scary intense like it is where you are.
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(A block truncated this discussion. I think it started here, but maybe not.)
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This is why I'm not angry that they still have fares. I figure they don't charge fares just for kicks. They charge fares because fares allow them to offer better service. I also figure they'll get rid of fares if they don't produce enough benefit to justify imposing the cost on riders.
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Hilariously “absolutist”
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He’s complaining about politicians avoiding “accountability” for their decisions while he’s frantically trying to avoid accountability for his decisions.
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Eek. Glad everyone was ok.
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He mercifully only had about a minute of time life.
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You have a good one.
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Also, yours is “Carried Off by Twister”
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It’s a cause-of-death label. I leave them up because it makes Bluesky more fun for me.
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The reality is that with a truly sincere apology, most judges will forgive most protocol mistakes most of the time. Just not repeatedly for the same lawyer.
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After a state COA argument, a colleague asked me, “Do you realize you called the court you guys?” I had not. And the judges didn’t react in any way that my colleague noticed (it was a court that had a very informal OA style, thankfully).
I took the experience as free warning never to do it again.
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When I first saw these two posts, I thought you were talking about the Honey Lawyer.
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Maybe. But if you sacrifice some service to eliminate fares, you might not hear from people who can no longer get to work and take care of a family because it takes too long to get to and from work or to run needed errands. It’s all about trade-offs.
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I think transit officials are very conscious of the expense of fare collection, and I’ve seen it frequently mentioned by free-fare advocates.
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I don’t know him, so unless his past behavior indicates otherwise, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt as to being horrified first that he wrongfully disrespected the judge.
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His apology and obvious horror at what he said are what turned this into a merely a hugely (and deservedly) embarrassing moment instead of a career-destroying moment.
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The other lawyers in his office are committing collegial malpractice if they don’t put one of these on his desk.
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Now I’m curious what the deleted post advocated. (I’m not asking who wrote it. I respect the decision to delete a post that, after reflection, a person regrets.)
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It depends on that & a lot of things. Transit policy is a show-me-the-spreadsheet issue. Transit officials aren’t perfect. They have biases & make mistakes, but they are generally better informed about the trade-offs than most of their critics. And yes, I’ve been one of those under-informed critics.
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On the flip side, people on the left who argue against free fares don’t hate people who are economically struggling. Many are transportation professionals dedicated to providing the most useful service possible, and they see the charts that show what they can’t do if fares are free.
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That said, the account you’re quoting is being a jerk about it. No, people aren’t “obsessed” with free fares. Free fares make sense, & they’re a valid goal, but for any given system, free fares might not be the the most helpful use of available (or even newly available) transit money.
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I agree that ideally, fares should be free. The question is what to do with the resources transit can get. Free fares might be the best use, but increasing service to turn a 90-minute commute into a 45-minute commute might be more helpful. The key is outreach & listening to the needs of passengers.
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There are some mistakes that a sincere apology can fix, at least mostly fix. This is one of them, at least for a first offense.
The even cringier conversation that we won’t see is him explaining this to his wife.