You must first watch every episode of Xavier: Renegade Angel in order to be truly enlightened. "What doth life?"

Wow I kinda thought the article would go into police departments and unions paying social media management firms to send bad-faith takedown notices for YouTube videos that cast them in a bad light, but uhh yeah some protesters are kinda trying to do the same thing with far less resources.

>the Internet didn’t have to become what it is today.

Part of my last-lecture pep talk to every 300-student CS class I taught.

I feel like we're at a crossroads: Hire huge battalions of union dues-paying forever-rookie police behind an iron curtain and arm them to the teeth, or Operate a modernized, transparent, outcomes-based criminal justice system. It would be interesting to understand why so many politicians and police themselves talk about the latter while quietly implementing the former. What's in it for them?

Extra-long or double-decker buses have crush load capacities around 120 pax. A single Bart trainset can have a crush load capacity of about 2000 pax and can depart every 2 minutes. So you would need a double decker bus departing roughly every 7.2 seconds to match that peak throughput. It just doesn't scale.