They actually ran a bearcat into him to finally end him. Lol.
You donât have to hypothesize. The Second Avenue Subway could be called New Yorkâs Big Dig. In fact, itâs been going on a lot longer than the Big Dig, although not continuously. Somehow in NYC it cost billions of dollars to build a few new miles of subway and a few new stations, while construction costs of modern public transportation in other countries (and similarly dense urban environments) are orders of magnitude less.
This blog has some good coverage of the project
My favorite ironic spot in NYC is the âJohn Muirâ hiking trail in Van Courtlandt park in the Bronx. Which at one point is an eight foot wide fenced in corridor sandwiched between a highway and a golf course.
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I have a hunch that the reason(s) infrastructure is so expensive here isnât because of the overly simplified explanations people like give, but also that it isnât solvable. Like it doesnât matter how much expertise you throw at it or how much authority you grant some project czar or how much corruption you eliminate. I donât think it matters where you are or what youâre building. Over time the line only goes in one direction for costs and difficulty.
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Seems like we are getting less bang for our buck than London or Paris
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He had made it through four years of denials and appeals, and Robert Heard was finally before a Social Security judge who would decide whether he qualified for disability benefits. Two debilitating strokes had left the 47-year-old electrician with halting speech, an enlarged heart and violent tremors.
There was just one final step: A vocational expert hired by the Social Security Administration had to tell the judge if there was any work Heard could still do despite his condition. Heard was stunned as the expert canvassed his computer and announced his findings: He could find work as a nut sorter, a dowel inspector or an egg processor â jobs that virtually no longer exist in the United States.
JFC
Disability is so regional too. In some states it seems like you just have to go âow my kneeâ and youâre on full disability for life. In others, youâre barely able to function and youâre still denied because you could be a ânut sorterâ.
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HNYUP
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And then beyond that it is highly differentiated by the ALJs who hear the cases. Some grant disability at multiples of others. Or should I say some reject disability at multiples of others.
I used to ski jump my cards during the 1980 Winter Olympics. So I had nations scrawled all over my baseball cards.
I have an 86-87 Fleer Michael Jordan card in pretty good shape only because I kept it in the middle of the stack of cards I had wrapped with rubber bands
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Iâm seeing more and more memes like this where I want to know wtf is actually happening. Sometimes you find out in the replies.
Yeah no
Itâs from a British dark comedy sketch show called Jam.
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I even figured that out from the comments, but googling âjam woman laughing shooting a gun out of a windowâ was useless.
Add Christopher Morris to your search.
Itâs like when my son was an extra in a movie called Family. Kind of hard to search for âFamily movieâ and find it.
