is anything currently underway to fix the chicago connection?

the maintenance part is what’s confusing to me. in my area there are multiple neighborhood roads that were ripped up for utility replacements, and they’re ““repaired““ incredibly poorly/unevenly to the point they feel like some off road course designed for 4x4s and jeeps.

why?

what ended up happening with this?

coal vs solar/wind/etc is sort of an intra-electricity thing as opposed to an oil vs electricity thing imo

my understanding is that solar is still eating coal's market share despite it all, and besides coal isn't really a gasoline/diesel replacement anyway

how many countries' leaders are thinking 'holy shit our economy implodes every time oil prices spike, we've gotta transition away from this' vs how many are thinking 'hmm this hiccup is annoying, we need a bigger reserve' is the big question to me

do flights really have such low margin that this cost increase makes them unprofitable?

I mean, wouldn't that take apply to any illegal drug?

yeah idk about full national hud code but a scenario where we get 4 story single stair and people go 'mission accomplished' is not ideal.

seems like it's the norm in various parts of western europe and japan and apparently hasn't done that?

isn't that what the gates are for? as a physical barrier that seems much more effective than a horn

well if you're unwilling to empower technical bureaucracy, then that's what you get: a lawsuit-based bureaucracy

same problem as building codes: not enough trust/desire to have state/federal gov't write a clear, harmonized set of codes, so the icc and various individual states/cities fill the void

couldn't it be the other way around, and default to quiet zone unless there was a problem?

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

why would the local government agree to this?

i don't think fighting those activists and trying to turn them into chuck schumer is going to work though. if you want more moderate staffers or candidates just go find them and win

my take is basically just, alright man we get it, you think candidates need to do normal straight talk. so go ahead and do that and win with it

you can debate and pundit endlessly and uselessly over turning the vocabulary dial too far one way or another, the actual results are what matter

can you park at the big mall?

Jake Mangum spots kid in the crowd, tosses the ball, and her brother catches it and gives it to her. Dudes rock.

if it is true that nobody is listening they have a huge problem with big implications that they'd probably rather not face!

where on earth do smr reactors actually exist today?

there's a difference between an apr-1400 that's already proven in multiple countries and an experimental design that currently exists nowhere.

for the US, the 1400 is like a renault car- foreign, but exists and works in other countries. those other reactors are closer to hydrogen cars than that

it's really lame how 'nuclear' in the US and generally europe seems to actually just mean 'westinghouse ap-1000 reactors'

its like if you were trying to decide if a car could fit in your garage, but defined 'car' solely as a hummer, and then you went welp guess a car won't fit there.

korean apr-1400 reaction actually seem to get built close to on time/on budget but they’re apparently banned in the US and europe due to some weird lawsuit settlement, so our only real options are the same ap-1000s that have seen giant cost overruns

proposal: health-code-certified cat. they give em a little badge and everything.

cozy picture.

read broad swift like dunder mifflin lol

it may not be the usa but i'm starting to think some country is eventually just going to change their currency somehow to reset nominal prices to pre covid levels

highways seemingly not being considered polluters is bizarre to me, even today you'll see brand new homes being built right next to them.

particularly baffling when there's a warehouse or something there but farther from the highway, like couldn't we have at least switched those

well if it's illegal, and the law is not being enforced to actually stop said turbines, seems rational to oppose other data centers on that basis even if the other companies were more law abiding