They absolutely do. They have a lot of data on how squares wager as opposed to advantage, pure skilled players, and yes even cheats do

Black jack is statistically the only game that has possible positive EV over a long time frame with near-perfect statistical play (aka basic knowledge of rules and play)... Unless the black jack pay is 6/5 and the offshoot plays are limited (some games do not allow play off a split).

Infinite hand bj its pretty easy to figure out who is cheating based on wager structure, along with noticing a lack of side bets.

I mean that's the Lenninist Utopian ideal. it didn't end... great

This breaks down with high rises but yes

What killed this project initially was the inadequate intake for the trains at the terminals, massive new ROW needs, ctrail not having control over trackage, and the soil conditions under the sound. It was never a serious proposition.

You can set your watch to the fires on the Orange Line.

> transit in Mass is hyper focused on Boston to the detriment of anyone in the west or out towards the Cape.

And what we forget that transit outside the 128 loop is also, to put kindly, absolute dogshit

I was about to make my own top level post but you pretty much summed up what were going to be my main points. It's shiny it's new it's "bold" plan but $105bn is A LOT of money and despite what we think out of NYS commuting into NYC is far more niche and will likely be until Midtown gets wildly rezoned which likely won't happen, we've pretty much seen the daily workforce maximum population of Mid Town and the Financial District/Battery just before the pandemic and that's about 2.5-3.5million people influx from out of Manhattan.

For much less money the FRA and state's could:

• Fix the old swing bridges.
• Ensure that the new Avelia Trainsets are the correct width that can handle the 6-8degree lean and not strike other trains.
• Fix all the fouled ballasts
• Rip out and replace the already out of date Positrak systems in CT, RI, and MA and get them certified quickly
• Improving the existing Freight lines to upgrade and double track where feasible
• Bribe the board of the MBTA so they quit, fuck off, and never touch transit systems again
• Electrification of Hartford Line, Waterbury Line, and Boston/Worchester/Springfield, Providence/the Falls
• On that point, more regional rail east west in RI, CT, and MA
• Increase regional rail frequency
• Light Rail in the regional centres and inner ring suburbs
• Capital and operational upgrades to the bus system (gimme that sweet sweet signal prioritisation)

Only like, two, of those are "sexy" and none help with the LI issue but it would be a far better use than a high speed vaporware solution. And while a HSR project through central New England would be great, it just shows you how out of touch the people in charge are that they don't understand (or think that flashy and new is the way to get the feds to notice) how the people actually use the rail network in New England and that's as a regional people mover, not just a commuter service.

CT really needs to give municipalities an option for independent revenue stream that doesn't rely solely on property tax. Just spitballing but if the state knocks the sales tax back to 6% and redistribute the other .35% back to the towns directly based on gross receipts (services would be where the business is domiciled) that'd relieve the utter pressure in a big way for towns to not give up all the services they provide in house.

The state and many municipalities have set overtime maximums for road workers that plow and have to pay even more above that cap so they want to save those hours for truly catastrophic weather events. That's why the 2-10inch snow storms are treated lightly but above that it's rapid and constant.

What exactly are you trying to say here? Just not clear

The race card only works on racists lmao

Oh cool I had no idea! Google failed me again today

I think candlewood is in New Fairfield.

Which honestly is better than wholesale tract development. Makes us even more unique

>Tons of Canadian geese on the lawn and they had strict noise requirements within the neighborhood.

Geese are going to geese, not really much the venue can do as it's touchy to harass migratory birds.

I'm shocked about the noise limits. When I went to a wedding in September we were going wild until about 2am on a Thursday.

Their apps are absolutely amazing, beautiful scenery, very well organized. The main course was typical mass sit down fare, edible and decent but not really review and certainly a bit of a let down with how good the apps were, honestly.

>It’s not immoral to zone areas for freestanding homes where people want freestanding homes. Especially low density areas that are more rural. Where in the world is that seen as an outrage? Gimme a break.

Ehh it is, and rural areas are among the most in need of affordable housing and apartments. Besides woke communities of only free standing homes is such a new concept.

Besides, there's a whole host of awful history on how free standing large homes became the norm and it wasn't great reasons tbh. It was an active attempt to social engineer communities to make a very small subsect of people feel "safe" as opposed to dealing with those of lesser means and frankly black people. That's the history and it's clear and it's very very immoral.

Oh there's certainly underused industrial land that can be used, however the number of parcels that would be a good fit for a change to residential is far less than what you may think. From groundwater, soil, and asbestos pollution all the way to just being islands far from transit and commerce.

> Why force multi family and apartments in SFH neighborhoods when there’s so many other options?

Because the issue is simply that big. That's the truth. There's really no way around it. It's also an odd framing of the issue, because exclusionary zoning was designed to force that type of housing stock out. It was immoral then, it's immoral now. It was known to be bad for the economy when those regulations were written, and it is the single biggest issue now.

And the infrastructure issue is pretty much garbage. How is allowing a few more units per area going to put any real pressures on the system? It just won't.

The problem is too big at this point, to be completely honest. The reverence of large lot sfh development has put enormous pressure on the housing stock to the point where CT's economy is in pretty significant danger of stalling. If towns sprinkled in house-scaled multi family units or even split lots to make room for more "starter houses" like we used to build and rezoned solely SFH areas to have local retail and apartments (you know, the pre-1970s style development in CT) then there wouldn't be as much pressure of 8-30g. The number one go to move of PNZ boards was to do nothing, and the supporters of the large lot sfh lifestyle is "do more of nothing and with less government oversight." It boggles the mind to give more power to the people that couldn't manage a little responsibility... all because they have erroneous assumptions on how land value economics work? No thanks.

The "oh well we can concentrate everything we need to do in a small area" isn't going to work, and that's the pill large lot sfh fans are going to have to swallow.

>We need more development in dense and TOD areas, but I’ve seen this law be more of a boon for greedy developers encroaching on single family neighborhoods. There’s gotta be a better way.

The better way was for town pnz boards not to stifle growth and smaller units for 3 decades, and have been warned through that whole time. They went the greedy way themselves and now want to change the rules so they can fuck up our economy further.

Because you have your facts wrong

>Why do we need to build more units if the population is supposedly dropping?

It's dropping in the places that are already having population decline, increasing where the majority of residents already are.

Exurb/Semi-rural. And if we're considering the urban inner ring municipalities I absolutely agree

I think he thinks that the top minds in the General Assembly should be working left and right for teleportation technology, because besides mass transit that'd be the only other solution.