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yeah, not saying an app should replace a person or machine, just that it offers a faster and easier alternative for lots of people most of the time.

agree, all of this is true. but a big benefit to the company (in this case, the railroad) is the cost advantage to developing and maintaining an app versus buying and servicing hundreds of ticket machines in various locations. and honestly, most train riders would prefer to just buy tickets...

NYC boroughs are also for the most part relatively flat, which makes it easier. Sometimes you can get long gradual inclines as opposed to steep hills. I recall the first time going over the 59th St/Queensboro Bridge being a bit of a killer, a long incline until you reach the middle. @jenks...

lots of trains here are now encouraging people to bypass the machines by selling tickets via phone app. Machines replace humans, apps replace machines. Once we all get the Bill Gates chip implanted, we'll be able to skip the app and buy a ticket just by thinking about it, since our brains...

years ago a friend and I used to meet early (like 7-8:00 am) on a Sunday in midtown and ride all over the five boroughs, there's so little traffic that you can cover lots of ground quickly and with little trouble. we'd ride up to city island in the bronx, or out to the depths of Brooklyn or...

Joe Blow! https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/04/us/politics/white-house-cocaine-white-substance.html

Been listening to "Big Fun", it always had a special place: my older brother was into music and buying records before I was, so this was emanating out of his room when I was a teenager. Kind of written off by critics at the time as a lesser 70s electric Miles album, but I think the 2001 2cd...

How do you feel about 4th of July, Shaka? Conflicted about celebrating? Although you've declared your own independence from England, so maybe you're right there with us.

Does that make Judas and Pontius Pilate the original ad blockers?

Everything should be free and provided by benevolent, altruistic nonprofit organizations that also maintain high levels of innovation, Tea.

the only way a “free service” for users can exist is to be ad supported. If you use ad blockers, what do you expect? there’s no such thing as a free lunch, versh.

JFC.

On behalf of America, I'd like to apologize for my nerd compatriot.

the ones that still have cashiers intentionally make the customer experience as unappealing as possible, in hopes people won't use them anymore. they have no incentive to make the line move faster.

you sound like you know what you're talking about (certainly more than me), so I'll take your word for it. however, it baffles me that any sane human would read 1,000 tweets in a day. do people actually do that?

doesn't help that musk fired 70% of the staff. even if they were overstaffed with slackers, I doubt that made up almost three-quarters of their employees.

what does it mean, mixed? and "kill batch"?

Things haven't changed much since the days of Albini's "The Problem with Music" 30 years ago. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music

Twitter definitely sucks, not defending it, but Musk says the limiting is to discourage companies that do extreme levels of data scrapping. the limit is 10,000 posts per day for verified users, 1,000/day for unverified, and 800/day for new unverified. if that's the actual reason (which I...

the new catchphrase.