Some platforms have multiple train lines, plus when they have to be rerouted due to a sick passenger/signal problem/police investigation/person on the tracks/whim of the conductor

They won’t be adding any platform barriers unless the entire system is overhauled. The trains are different lengths so doors on various trains stop at different locations on the platform.

Unfortunately? As opposed to that mess sliding down the entire length of the train instead of being stopped at the door?

I orient myself to the road traffic. Even streets go east. Wanna go west on 22nd? Walk against traffic.

They tell you which side of the street the exit is on. Not which direction you’ll be facing. You can come up the N exit but be facing S if the stairs are aimed in that direction. You need to know I’m the N exit, that’s the S exit across the street, so if I want to go East I need to turn left.

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“Hosts Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper can still drink, though.” Oh thank god, I need another drunk Andy rant

You have said in various comments to various people that it is thrown away, that you would have invested it in your community. If you don’t mean by that that it was a waste then you should reconsider your language because that is what you are communicating. It’s the fun thing about humanity where we understand more than the literal words.

“Space exploration is a waste of money.” “No it’s not and here’s why.” “This is what’s wrong with society.” I think you’re missing a few steps in that proof, bud

The community which could be flattened by an asteroid. Go invest your own money in the community. Go vote for politicians who don’t spend your taxpayer money on giving tanks to the police officers. There is a lot of wasted money in this world. This mission was not an example of it.

Well then you wouldn’t be part of the “money is wasted in space” crowd, so why did you get defensive enough about that to lash out with the weak Karen line?

And they should get rid of all the tech they only have because of money spent in space, which spun off patents they benefit from on a daily basis

It’s not a Karen vibe, it’s a fact — it isn’t money thrown away, it’s invested. I understand what you’re saying, it’s a lot of money. But you’re being flippant about the fact that there are 50,000 asteroids large enough to wipe out a city that could strike earth. Within the last year or two we missed one because of the angle it was coming at us with the sun at its back, and if we hadn’t been lucky with the trajectory we would have been a species in mourning. This isn’t throwing money away. It is developing a necessary defense, and along the way in these kinds of innovations NASA develops tech that is used for things like the phone you are probably reading this on, which you throw away money on monthly.

Edit to add a link with more info. The 50,000 number comes from the fact that we’ve identified under 30,000 near-Earth asteroids over 460 feet, and estimate we’ve only identified about 40% of them. And that’s only over 460 feet. The one that caused all that damage in Russia a few years ago was less than 15% that size and caused $33,000,000 in damage — only one tenth the cost of NASA’s mission

The moment it happened I wondered only half-jokingly if this was the Shot Heard Around The Universe, the moment when extraterrestrials say “we’ll those earthlings have finally entered the universal race. Let’s go, girls.”