Infrastructure is politics

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Great to see Ford CEO Jim Farley acknowledging this: “We are just in love with these monster vehicles ... We have to start to get back in love with smaller vehicles. It’s super important for our society and for EV adoption.” 👏👏👏 electrek.co/2024/07/01/f...

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man i wish I'd bought stock in liquor companies because the amount of law professors who just took up daydrinking went up 900%

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You know how sometimes in war there’s the one side who has rules and thinks they know how war is fought but then they’re shocked, SHOCKED, when the other side runs out of the bushes and like, stabs their horses and shit? And that side wins? Yeah I think about that phenomenon a lot these days.

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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won

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Sorry to all my lawyer friends who spent a bunch of time learning how law works in the US. I had friends who were Flash developers and things turned out alright for them after they pivoted to C# or whatever. Hopefully there's an equivalent for our national legal system

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Much like the Hillary vs Trump debates, I think the media is focused too heavily on theatrical "performance" and not as heavily on what the actual effect on undecided voters is, and Trump was a disaster there despite (or because of) his ability to shout

Same poll

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I think that Biden needs to get weirder. I want him to take a way too close photo of him smiling and reply to Rand Paul with "I think it's time we did something about you :)"

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God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

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On January 7, 2021, the average 30-year mortgage rate was 2.65%, per FRED Rates have now been ~7% for the last 21 months

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Chris Geidner

First decision is Grants Pass. Gorsuch has the 6-3 opinion finding that the Eighth Amendment does not bar "generally applicable" laws banning public camping. Sotomayor writes the dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

www.supremecourt.gov

"We value your feedback!" Yeah fine, pay me Oh, you didn't mean it like that huh

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earlyworm

There are 3 BFDs in this one Quiet New Deal: 1. A massive investment in America’s infrastructure and manufacturing capacity focusing on clean energy to drive down the price and accelerate the transition from fossil fuels.

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You can tell who did and who did not moderate IRC/phpBB/whatever back in the day, because all of us who did learned the true shape of online group culture: your culture is the shittiest person you don't ban

yeah, it is entirely possible to have a Normal Functional Discord!

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In the morning, we have the first of three days in a row of Supreme Court decisions. Thirteen decisions remain — cases involving abortion, Trump immunity, Jan 6 charges, Chevron, social media, homelessness, and more. I'll be at the Court, so subscribe to Law Dork now to keep up. www.lawdork.com

Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substackwww.lawdork.com The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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Phil Lewis

Weird how that keeps happening. After this many trials if UBI was a drug it would already be marketed.

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Huge EV news after the close *VOLKSWAGEN PLANS TO MAKE A $5 BILLION INVESTMENT INTO RIVIAN *RIVIAN AND VOLKSWAGEN PLAN JV FOR NEXT-GEN ELECTRIC VEHICLES

Hey #kalamazoo you and me when?

Has Your City Passed the ‘Bikeability Tipping Point’? A whopping 183 U.S. cities have built enough bike-friendly streets that their residents just want more of them. Is yours one of them — and if not, will it do what it takes to get there? usa.streetsblog.org/2024/06/25/h...

Has Your City Passed the 'Bikeability Tipping Point'? — Streetsblog USAusa.streetsblog.org More U.S. cities have built enough bike-friendly streets that their residents just want more of them. Is yours one of them?

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Josh Fruhlinger

there should be a feature of DNS where any web crawler that doesn't respect robots.txt is immediately cut off from all network traffic forever

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Oh my gods! @wolvendamien.bsky.social has been trying to warn people about these sorts of biases built into A.I. LLM shit FOR YEARS!

“UW researchers found that ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials — such as the ‘Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Award’ — lower than the same resumes without those honors and credentials.”

ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability — but it can improvewww.washington.edu UW researchers found that ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials — such as the “Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Award” — lower than the same...

Big BOY

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cait

He went so hard.

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As soon as today, SCOTUS may allow cities to criminalize homelessness. A recent Justice Department investigation of Phoenix's pattern of biased law enforcement against unhoused people previews the likely reaction, writes Hassan Kanu:

SCOTUS Rules on Homelessness as DOJ Reveals a War on the Poorprospect.org The Supreme Court’s coming decision on homelessness will exacerbate a new, growing problem.

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Rs: We gotta put biblical rules in schools Me: Holy shit! Like a debt jubilee every 7 years? Rs: Haha, no, not that one Me: like "you shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt"? Rs: Hahaha not that one either Me: so, uh, which rules exactly? Rs: Oh, you know the ones

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A fun project would be for a group of people to quietly go around recording church sermons where preachers/pastors/whatever talk about politics — and then file to remove their tax-exempt statuses all at once.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana becomes the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in public school classrooms.

Tax the churches. All of 'em.

also we just had one of the justices caught on tape talking about how we "can't compromise" on efforts to "return our country to a place of godliness" so, you know, separation of church and state was a nice idea for a while

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The Abandonment of Walkable Cities and the Rise of Urban Sprawl: Why Walkable Cities Should Be The Model For Future Development - Michigan Review www.michiganreview.com/the-abandonm...

The Abandonment of Walkable Cities and the Rise of Urban Sprawl: Why Walkable Cities Should Be The Model For Future Development - Michigan Reviewwww.michiganreview.com The United States has an abundance of unique and vibrant cities, including the iconic skylines of Chicago and New York City. As large chunks of the population have moved towards urban centers, many U....

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Let's give some credit given to Biden for doing what we've all asked him to do: hit Trump with "convicted felon," "sexual assault," and "fraud." This is the way.

Biden campaign slams Trump as ‘convicted criminal’ in first ad seizing on former president’s legal woes | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com The Biden campaign is rolling out a new ad in battleground states framing the election as a choice between a “convicted criminal” and a president “fighting for your family” in its latest effort to sei...

Is anybody else watching the swimming US Olympic trials on teevee, and thinking about how weird it must be for the 20,000(?) spectators jammed elbow-to-elbow inside the 70,000 capacity venue? Like, it's probably fine for the swimmers but I bet it feels empty as hell in there.