I don’t recall the name of the effect, but there’s a characteristic curve that shows up on the graph of public support for these kinds of changes. The hysterical outrage peaks at the time of implementation, but falls off as time goes on. If it has visible benefits, and it lasts, a lot of people will claim that they supported it all along, by November 2026.
Skeptical hippo is skeptical. If people are going on a freakin’ cruise, staying at a Manhattan hotel, or attending a convention, I very much doubt another $9 is going to be a deciding factor.
ETA: Out of curiosity, I consulted Google Maps about driving to Manhattan. It helpfully alerts me that my route would pass through a congestion zone, but does not calculate that price for me, nor add it to the $54.28 of other tolls that I would have to pay along the way.
Eh. Money’s perfectly fungible, except for restrictions the government puts on itself through the budget process. Theoretically, they could have simply decided to pay for the MTA with existing funds, and tie the future of street maintenance to the implementation of the congestion toll. Instead, they tied the MTA funding increase to the implementation of a congestion toll, for political reasons.
How is it a tax, other than as an attempt to drum up opposition from the poorly-informed? This charge is very clearly a user-fee, as in, you have a choice of whether to pay it or not, and the amount you pay is directly tied to what you use. It’s even implemented through the EZ Pass system, like any other road toll!
A tax, on the other hand, is compulsory, and levied on people whether they drive in lower Manhattan or not. The reason that New Jersey had standing to file its ridiculous lawsuit in first place is that some of the affected roadway is U.S. highway. If that’s sufficient, then I want a say, because I’m forced to help pay for that highway, too, and I’ve never even been to lower Manhattan, so how’s that fair?
Yes, it was incredibly, transparently dumb, but that was her stated reasoning.
Wasn’t Gov. Hochul’s rationale for pausing it that it would keep Jerseyites from driving in to have lunch?
Perhaps my memory is bad, but as far as I can recall, they jettisoned all ideology after the Tea Party (funded by Libertarian billionaires) fizzled. So, pretty much about the time Obama took office. It’s mostly racism and tribal identity now.
A very thoughtful reply, and I’ll bet you’re probably correct. The thing that gave me pause, though, was that explosions on cargo ships usually occur because of explosive cargo. The engines use bunker fuel, a heavy oil which is almost tar-like. It doesn’t vaporize at ambient temperatures. The engine room fires that I have heard of don’t tend to cause a ship to sink. I’m no expert, though, and I suppose there are other things aboard that could cause explosions, like batteries for emergency power?
A scooter exploded in Moscow last week, and now a cargo ship carrying military equipment exploded this week? Huh.
Another huge, important, but subtle distinction to make here is that the trial is not to decide whether you did the thing. It’s not always a mystery who perpetrated an alleged crime. Even if you pull out a gun and shoot somebody on the 50-yard-line at the Super Bowl, and 300 million people see it, they can’t just take you off to prison for murder. They have to give you a trial to determine whether you violated the law.
There’s a thing called an affirmative defense, as in, “yes, I did the thing, but it wasn’t a crime, because…” If you can, say, convince a jury that you’re a time traveler, the ref was going to make a bad call in the 4th quarter that cost your team the Super Bowl win, and that justified shooting him, well, then it wasn’t a crime. That’s what a jury is ultimately charged with deciding.
This is not to say that Magione’s attorney plans to present an affirmative defense, just that there are a number of good reasons to plead not guilty, even if it’s 100% certain you did the thing.
(Edit: Typo.)
I feel like there’s a lot of information missing here. VLANs operate at OSI layer 2, and Immich connects to its ML server via IP in layer 3. It could talk to a remote server in Ecuador over the Internet, so the layer 2 configuration is irrelevant.
What you have is an issue of routing IP packets between subnets. You just need to set up a rule on your router to allow the Immich server on the Internet-facing IP subnet to connect to the correct port(s) for the ML server on the private subnet. Or maybe use the router’s port-forwarding feature. Lacking further information about the setup, I have to be vague here. In any case, it’s conceptually the same as punching a hole in the firewall to let IP packets from an Immich server in Ecuador get to the ML server on your private subnet, except that the server is not in Ecuador.
Depose means to abruptly remove from power. If that means removing him from a position of power and influence to a jail cell, it still applies.
“Your genocide is bad, and you should feel bad!”
Curious how Israel is a Jewish state and criticism of it is antisemitic, or it’s a multi-ethnic state with Arab citizens too, depending on what the criticism happens to be.
Hardly. Both sides can say the the prosecution was politically-motivated, but that’s where the similarity ends. One side has a long history of just saying things that sound good to them, and when called on it, falling silent and disengaging from discussion. The other side has evidence, or at least a strong argument that they are able to articulate. It’s not objective justice to ignore that.
What? The DEA is needlessly cruel, while also corrupt and ineffective. The new administration might increase its funding.
The cruelty is the point.
At best, “support our troops” was a version of that dumbass magical thinking that, in earlier times, held that the U.S. lost in Vietnam because Americans didn’t clap for Tinkerbell, err, I mean, support the war. Mostly, it was a thought-terminating cliché.
Yeah, as you rightly point out, it was never about the soldiers themselves.
Why would they want to be the target of a bukkake circlejerk?
Think of it like chemotherapy, when you have to invest poison in order to get better.
Yes, you are correct, I did mean to imply the use of something provided by the government in the definition of a user fee charged by the government. That’s what makes the tax on the sale of a sandwich a tax; the government is a third party, not otherwise involved in the transaction.
I have to say that I reckon the congestion toll as quite specific. One does not need to pay it to enter lower Manhattan. It is immediately spatially and temporally connected with driving on certain city-provided streets, just like the other $54.28 in tolls that I found I’d have to pay to other governments to drive to NYC on their roads. In any case, tax or user fee, I think it’s more justified and fair than the taxes used to construct those streets.