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6hr ago
Your article is paywalled. Regardless, far more important than dead morons at grade crossings is the fact that Brightline is not making a profit.
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11hr ago
Average occupancies have declined as ridership has fallen faster than agencies have reduced service. In 1991, the average transit motor bus carried 11.0 people; by 2019, buses were no smaller yet they averaged just 8.0 riders. Trolley buses do a little better because they tend to serve mainly dense inner cities, but their average occupancies still dropped from 14.8 in 1991 to 12.8 in 2019.
The differences between cities are much larger than the changes over time. Honolulu, New York, and San Francisco motor buses carry an average of 17 riders. At the other end of the scale, Ft. Worth transit buses carry less than 4 riders, and buses in Columbus, Dallas, Indianapolis, and Salt Lake City average just 5. Honolulu, New York, and San Francisco are denser cities, of course, but the real problem is that transit agencies want to collect tax revenue from as many suburbs as possible and therefore become obligated to serve those suburbs even though most of the residents have two or three cars in every driveway.
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1d ago
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1d ago
A user who wants to put biographical information on his profile page or in his flair can do so in his account settings.
"Nobody" is an exaggeration.
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1d ago
| Question | Yes (%) | Not sure or skipped (%) | No (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Do you think Greenland is territory that is strategically important to US interests? | 33 | 35 | 32 |
| Overall, do you approve of US efforts to acquire Greenland? | 17 | 36 | 47 |
| Do you think it would be a good idea for the US to use military force to take possession of Greenland from Denmark? | 4 | 25 | 71 |
| Do you think it would be a good idea or a bad idea for the US to build additional military bases on Greenland under an existing agreement? | 33 | 37 | 29 |
I don't know whether that supports your claim.
You can do this to some extent through "My Ad Center" in your Google account.
em dash with no spaces is the traditional US standard for serious typography, now adopted by LLMs. en dash with spaces is the British standard.
This is a gross overgeneralization, judging from a few books grabbed from my shelves and websites visited.
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Steve Jackson Games (Austin, 1970s–present): En dash with spaces
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New York Times (present): Em dash with spaces (cringe)
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Sherlock Holmes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993): Em dash without spaces
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Rumpole of the Bailey (London: Penguin, 1983): En dash with spaces
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Reuters (London, present): Hyphen-minus with spaces (cringe)
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Associated Press (New York, present): Em dash with spaces (cringe)
Every publisher does whatever it wants.
a hyphen with spaces became the online standard for dashes in the era when plain ASCII was what the internet ran on
You're forgetting about the double hyphen-minus.
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2d ago
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I think I've seen the setup that you describe on Your Movie Sucks. But most channels, such as Red Letter Media, Gomlet X, and Raocow, do not upload separate Patreon-exclusive or YouTube Member–exclusive ad-free (non-monetized) videos.
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2d ago
I tried to find bills passed by Trump with bipartisan support. I couldn't find a listicle, so AI will have to do.
You can look at the list of all bills signed and click through to the "Actions" tab for each bill. But that isn't necessarily helpful, since most bills are passed unanimously (by "voice vote" or "unanimous consent") in both houses, and it's hard to tell from a cursory glance which bills are actually meaningful.
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2d ago
That's a bit dismissive. Yes, Kiwi Farms technically is a rather low-tier website, but it's my understanding that its admin has had to put in far more effort than usual for a "hobby" website—e. g., placing his own hardware in data centers, and implementing his own software to battle people who DDOS and spam illegal content on his website to try to get it taken offline.
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2d ago
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3d ago
You can diet and exercise to be slim and as toned as necessary, but if you're horse-faced or just don't have that 'current standards of what constitutes attractive' features, it won't help.
This is just my personal opinion and there probably aren't any rigorous surveys on the topic, but I strongly disagree. Skinniness is among the largest components in a woman's attractiveness (though probably rivaled or surpassed by the skin elasticity of youth), and having a big chin or a "horse face" (or, for that matter, large breasts) pales in comparison.
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3d ago
In my browser, a hyphen-minus is 5 pixels, an en dash is 9 pixels, and an em dash is 16 pixels. (These measurements were gathered, not manually, but by using the browser's "inspect element" feature on a span element that includes only the character in question.) Being unable to tell the difference between a hyphen-minus and an em dash sounds like a severe skill issue.
But what is the point of adding all these extra spaces? Isn't an em dash long enough without them?
It's like how the French language adds a random space before a colon, a question mark, or an exclamation mark, but not before a period. I just don't see any reason for it.
(Coincidentally, @ZorbaTHut is currently insisting that adding random vertical spaces to the rules page is a good thing.)
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3d ago
I just gave you two options—either an em dash with no spaces (as I prefer), or an en dash with spaces (as, e. g., Steve Jackson Games prefers). Just don't use an em dash with spaces.
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3d ago
I make a point of using em-dashes whenever they're appropriate
But you're using them wrong.
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Good: "author—well" (em dash with no spaces)
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Okay (preferred by some publishers, though I personally see no need for it): "author – well" (en dash with spaces)
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WTF: "author — well" (em dash with spaces)
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3d ago
Idea for Friday Fun Thread: Share voice recordings to compare English accents
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3d ago
I think the point is that there are several different ways to pronounce this, and Anglophones typically will not differentiate between them.
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netʰ (aspirated)
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net (unaspirated)
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neʔ (glottalized)
But I'm not a linguist, so I probably am wrong.
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3d ago
Even in non-glottalizing dialects of English, aspirated and unaspirated T sounds are differentiated in Mandarin but not in English.
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3d ago
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