The tail tucked across the eyes is just the last straw. I am ded. The cute has killt me.

Prior to this month's medical adventure, Taiyō was an outdoor-only semi-feral cat who had an affectionate mood for about 60s once every 3-4 months. And "affectionate" for him was doing a few headbutts, then remembering he was scared of you and swiping at your hand. His elevator butt went down.

"Man, I wish a US president would take serious action to reduce vehicle miles traveled and greenhouse gas impacts from transportation."

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the monkey's paw curls

So basically you're going to be the successor to Commander Mark?

Paved Paradise is good for people who already like reading wonk-heavy magazines like Slate and Vox. (Which makes sense, since it's by a Slatester.)

The Big Orange Splot YouTube video by Art with Mrs. F

The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Pinkwater is also a good one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhiT...

Also the last time I was there, we went for a walk along the river after dinner (at Level 2, which I think alas has closed) and stumbled over an astronomy club with telescopes set up, looking at Saturn and some other fun sights.

Bend is amazing, I've been there a few times. The nearby Newberry National Volcanic Monument has a ton of amazing things to see, especially if you come prepared to drive out some sketchy dirt roads. Highly recommend the Big Obsidian Flow and the Lava Cast Forest.

Truly, we live in the dumbest timeline.

Very cool science story.

Similar to smoking -- by making the _default_ that you can't have a smoking section in restaurants, we're supporting public health. People still _can_ establish certain types of private membership clubs where smoking is permitted indoors, if they really want that.

Yes I did, you just are being willfully obtuse about it.

As it happens, yes, _I_ can negotiate my schedule. But people shouldn't have to negotiate for what the medical community agrees is best for public health. Some subset who _really_ prefer doing things the other way can ask for that.

New position statement supports permanent standard time An updated position statement from AASM supports the replacement of daylight saving time with permanent standard time.

It's a question of what the default should be. The natural schedule is what is best suited for public health, according to physicians that study the matter.

If some minority of people want to ignore that, that's up to them, but they shouldn't drag everyone else with them.

The US Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time in the ’70s. People Hated It - Washingtonian The sun rose at 8:27 AM on January 7, 1974. Children in the Washington area had left for school in the dark that morning, thanks to a new national experiment during a wrenching energy crisis: most of ...

And before anyone suggests permanent DST, no, it's not _just_ the abrupt clock change that causes harm, read the WaPo piece.

And we _already tried_ year-round DST, and people hated it so much that they immediately repealed it.

But DST forces people broadly to shift their schedules, which sleep experts broadly agree is terrible for our health. It's _literally killing people_, with excess traffic accidents, heart attacks, and strokes, and probably some additional cancer cases at the margin.

If people want to get up earlier in order to get off work earlier, they can negotiate that privately with their employer. (I used to have an employer that let people choose to do 4/10 schedule during the summer, and just take every Friday off.)

Why daylight saving time is worse for your body than standard time Daylight saving time gives us more light at the end of the day to enjoy spring and summer activities, but it can have a negative impact on our health.

This is your semiannual reminder that changing the clock so that noon isn't noon is dumb, and we should stop doing it. @savestandard.bsky.social

Yeah, smoothing the path of rents to protect tenants from big shocks, without driving landlords to condo-ize and discourage construction of new units, is one of the issues that vexes YIMBYs the most. Possibly the single toughest problem.

How is that moving so much, are vehicles just ramming into it and shoving it over?😬

Quite apart from politics, which is how so many blinkered people see this issue, no reporter at your local school committee board or town council meeting means no one is watching when someone’s brother-in-law gets a no-bid contract. The increase in penny ante corruption must be breathtaking.

Saikat Chakrabarti - Wikipedia

Yeah, the org that wrote it up, New Consensus, is headed by Saikat Chakrabarti, who previously worked for AOC, and before that Sanders. Before getting into politics he was one of the first engineers at Stripe.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saikat_...

@adamconover.net So with Raman announcing for Mayor, are we going to get “Adam Ruins City Council”? 👀

Mission for America The Mission for America is a comprehensive nuts and bolts plan to solve the world's biggest problems.

@ositanwanevu.com @adamconover.net So the idea of a “Project 2029”, which you guys were saying in Adam’s show isn’t something Dems have done? Here’s a decent stab at that kind of comprehensive agenda. There definitely are some think tankers with ideas.

www.newconsensus.com/mfa

I can hear that gif.

Bari Weiss resembles Ezra Klein's old remark about Dick Armey. ( prospect.org/2007/06/04/c... )

She's a stupid person’s idea of what a thoughtful person sounds like.

Adama On Police States YouTube video by FSWKU

It would be nice if we lived in a timeline where a silly scifi show from the aughts talking about militarization of domestic law enforcement wasn't so persistently relevant.

This is the set up for Pleistocene Park, right? Scientists try to recreate the wooly rhino from this sample, but the sample is actually contaminated with genes from the wolf, so they get an unholy rhino wolf hybrid, which instead of being an herbivore, thirsts for blood. Action movie ensues.

Allt-Erlaa - Hidden Architecture Perhaps the best-known example of a well-functioning public housing complex in Vienna, the Wohnpark Alt-Erlaa includes 3180 apartments, each with a balcony or loggia. The multifunctional complex also ...

Ehhh. I mean sure the story has complexities, but also they legit built a lot, and kept building for decades. Alt-Erlaa had nothing to do with the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

hiddenarchitecture.net/allt-erlaa/

Library roof deck where you can read a book in the sun and breeze on a nice day? Sounds good to me...

I’m a little worried this shift may come back to bite us, if Dems win back the federal government but states proceed to try to enforce a new kind of Jim Crow regime against various minorities.