Thread by @jbarro

this is noise-shaped air

https://twitter.com/CM_JulieWon/status/1482475736606953472

"we need to heal together" this doesn't mean anything

the leftist version of "thoughts and prayers"

Also lolsob at the idea that a conflict mediator is useful in the context of a literally insane criminal pushing a woman to her death on the subway tracks.

The nutty underlying idea behind leftist rhetoric on crime -- and you see it in the blather about "community-based" alternatives to police -- is that if we had some sort of humanistic, anticapitalist societal structure, antisocial behavior would stop.

But it turns out, a lot of people do bad things and need to be deterred or restrained from doing them. This is not a problem that arises from or can be eliminated through changes to the social order.

It should be possible install platform-edge barriers (and make trains driverless!) once lines are equipped with communications-based train control. Paris did this with Line 1 of the metro. But we suck at both operations and capital improvement, so.

https://twitter.com/fatmanatee/status/1483124371938025473

We already have CBTC on some of the system, like the L and 7 lines. But the MTA says it's too expensive to install platform-edge barriers -- and it probably is, given the insane prices the MTA pays for everything. nypost.com/2021/02/10/mta…