:)

This will not be the case, and I don't understand why anyone would want this to be the case. I don't understand why anyone would be okay with this. Forget about climate change, coal chokes people, it fucks up lungs

Christy Gnome

US DOT's new "Freedom to Drive Initiative" focuses on addressing congestion by:
—"Building new roadway capacity"
—"Recover[ing] roadway capacity from other purposes [e.g., biking & transit] to support driving"

[There is no evidence that either of these strategies work to address congestion.]

I do think with LLMs automating slop making it increasingly difficult to differentiate bot-generated vs. human-generated text, we should institute my system of "5 cents per post." Not that expensive but also not that cheap. Make you think twice before posting.

Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper endorses CA gubernatorial candidate Matt Mahan

Adolf Hitlers: We Agree!

Every Matt Mahan endorsement is like this.

I genuinely think that MAGA is sliding fairly quickly into solipsism--they don't believe that it's possible for them to cause real consequences for the military or anyone else, and they view existence as a zero-sum political game which they win by destroying things that code as liberal.

Loving your wife and being a present father is libcoded at this point. The right increasingly valorize men indulging in all their self-destructive, base impulses at all times. It’s the ideology of people in the throes of addiction.

a button offers the option of having MS Copilot "Summarize this email" when the email consists of a single letter of the alphabet

I have received an email from a famously terse colleague with the single letter "k" in the body indicating their assent to a question I posed, and outlook has added this enticing offer to my read options

35% with over two years to go and no plan to change course

If he meant any of this he'd just retire from commentary because that's the only rational response to getting it this wrong, but instead he's just gonna endorse Vance next year because of under-the-hood articles about how he opposed the war

Never understood how Mr Robot was ever highly acclaimed. This has to be some of the cringiest dialogue of all time

> configuration settings for a simple timer app

Ahh yes, the KDE way

Kind of wild but it seems like Iran is the first major (person/institution/country) with the power to draw blood that Trump has picked a fight with that doesn’t have the incentive to be like “eh let’s kind of humor him and wait it out until he’s gone.”

- Janelle Bynum

CNN put together a montage of Trump saying as far back as March 9 that his war against Iran "is going to be finished pretty quickly," then him saying that same thing over and over for the past six weeks

Hell yeah she is

'A clear step change': European EV sales jump by over 50 per cent in March Over 224,000 battery EVs registered last month, as businesses and consumers respond to soaring oil prices

It's already destroyed a lot of fossil fuel supply, but the Iran War is shaping up to deliver the biggest destruction of fossil fuel demand in history. www.businessgreen.com/news/4528540...

Here's wishing every single hospital administrator who complied in advance a very wakes up in a cold anxious sweat every day until they a) reverse course and b) apologize.

Meanwhile, Metro wants cut $5M from Metrolink operations, which will lead to service cuts that put more cars onto these freeways. Priorities...

if you're under Porter you gotta drop (thanks Yee)

$1,700 is roughly the FIT burden of a household of three filing joint making 65k, to put that into tax perspective.

LA's proposed SB 79 standards have dropped...

For 1/2 mile from a T2 transit stop, they allow 10 units with 2 FAR, with max height of 2 stories.

It's physically impossible to fit 2 FAR in 2 stories.
In fact, with setbacks, it's impossible to fit 2 FAR in 3 stories!

There is an ability for cities to propose “local alternative plans” iirc but they really can only move units around and full upzoning a couple years

The fact that Karen Bass dropped her “climate plan” for Los Angeles days before she reaffirmed her commitment to killing local transit oriented development is a sick joke.

one fascinating dynamic that seems to drive both the UK/US new right is this idea that contemporary society needs to emulate Bukele's authoritarianism against crime when crime rates are, on the whole, much lower than they were in the 20th century

blexas and blississpi would probably destroy the GOP's fighting spirit

a picture is, it turns out, worth a lot more than a thousand words