I promise you there are plenty of people completely unaffiliated with fossil fuels who would gladly stop a green infrastructure project for absolutely insane and spurious reasons.
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I promise you there are plenty of people completely unaffiliated with fossil fuels who would gladly stop a green infrastructure project for absolutely insane and spurious reasons.
"don't want to be called slurs every post... Er... I mean face the fire." These people are addicted to arguing with the dumbest people on the internet. I swear to god.
The many faces of Mr. Frodo (trying to catch a toy)
Where's Jake Tapper? Surely there's a book to sell here.
It's the generational curse of the millennial to constantly have to undo something a boomer did. Found some hardwood!
This crime at Social Security might amount to the biggest data theft in human history. Committed by a government against its own citizens. I don’t think anyone has begun to grasp the sheer scale of corruption and institutional destruction that has occurred in the last few months. Era-defining.
Don't forget apparently grooming minors into having romantic relationships with Ai programs.
“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
If you scrub work iPhone, there's a backup. If you scrub your work iPhone there's a backup. If there's something you want to hide, and you're worried I'll get inside, just remember I have a backup. 🎶 🗣️📢Please stop putting personal shit on your work phones 🗣️📢
I actually stand to benefit financially from this exchange, and I fuckin hate it. It's like when MA gave out all those tax disbursements a few years ago because the state had a trigger occur when tax receipts exceed a certain threshold - I'd rather you fix the commuter rail please and thanks.
One side of his head is heavier than the other since the worm ate part of his brain.
I'm not sure what's going to crash AI first; the hand delivery of information to police/authorities resulting in real world consequences, or when it starts infusing everything with ads to monetize it.
Just got back from Bermuda and the news sounds like I should have stayed 😐
Vacation with the girls💕
I have! But they're all republican and they're complaining about jt
I was served an ad for a dog bed from a random Chinese brand on Amazon and I gotta say, their ad copy is pretty on target for why I should keep my dog secure in my car.
RFK jr: here is a produce box we can leave on your doorstep The squirrels in my neighborhood:
Instead of food stamps/WIC/SNAP/whatever, let's make porch pirating Government HelloFresh a thing.
My main take about the Gavin Newsom hubbub is that you guys are being absolutely unhinged towards people Newsom is actively othering and throwing under the bus when a) he hasn't declared any candidacies and b) were not even starting midterm primaries yet, much less presidential ones.
It is literally a position of the modern GOP that slavery was a useful jobs program that taught slave important life skills and trades. Prager U is teaching this to kids in grade school, using Frederick Douglas's likeness as the messenger.
Do I have something on my face?
I know it's basically tradition to curse the previous homeowner, but jfc I hope the people who previously owned the house always pour their cereal first and then realize they don't have any milk. Everything in our house is like this. lol
You can 100% tell that a bunch of people were thinking that a trip to the zoo or seaworld counts as an educational experience lol
Every day of my life feels like being stuck in the carpet hole 😂
I'm never buying a fixer upper again 🙃
Finally getting our porch rebuilt and my contractor was somewhat worried about our load bearing piece of firewood.
I can save $20 a year by closing my blinds though. Thanks for the helpful tip Ngrid 🙄
National Grid feels like a criminal organization tbh. Nothing about our use has changed in the last year except those smart meters.
Teamsters, it's this good?
My bill this last month was $447. It's up over 150 on avg for the summer months since 2022, and it got worse when they put those new bull shit smart meters in.
Now he's pouting because he's been "canceled" over the fact he's a proud trans transphobe who pals around with JK Rowling, and a bunch of other lgbt+ authors made a statement about it by boycotting the Polari Award - an award that recognizes lgbt+ literature.
This guy once got into an argument with the Auschwitz-Birkenau Holocaust memorial museum because he didn't like the fact that they highlighted inaccuracies in his book. He also, in a book that was supposed to be in the vein of Devil in the White City, plagiarized a dye recipe from legend of Zelda.
Competition across state lines has been legal since the ACA passage. No one does it because insurance rates are based on local factors and it becomes irrelevant. No amount of of cross state line competition is going to make it cheaper for the people who live next to a coal ash dump.
NAIA*, not NCAA
Thank you. I'm ok today; I went home after and cried, said some mean things about myself, but such is life. I got to spend the day today with my best friend and that helps a lot. Thank you for checking in. I appreciate it.
What's next? Someone will refuse to sell him pierogis?
Oh, you're already feeling super anxious about being invited for a girls only night? Sure would be a shame if someone there innocently clocked you and blew up your dysphoria.
Meta thought it was acceptable to design a chat bot that would sext with 13-17 year olds. What the actual fuck. Forget the larger issues with AI; they intentionally crafted a policy that would make it acceptable to design software THAT WOULD SEXT WITH 13 YEAR OLDS.
I love this lol. "For I have known the chill, and I will not go back" goes so hard 😂
I love this lol
"Everyone deserves rights and dignity, unless there are fewer of you than the people who's rights yours conflict with" Jesus tap dancing christ.
I mean, this is par for the course on narratives about cities and has been for a very long time. Look at the reputation Chicago has, which is widely accepted by people who have never been there and will never go
The US air force, specifically and clearly, offered retirement benefits for individuals with between 15 and 18 years of service as of May 2025. Hegseth clawed it back. They were being forcibly discharged with retirement benefits. I'm not going to discuss further and I'm muting the thread now.
Call it whatever you want. It is, literally, the Temporary Early Retirement Authority policy. It was promised in May, then they took it back. Not gonna keep going back and forth in pedantry over it. Have a great day!
The special consideration is an existing rule that is available to everyone, not just the people affected by the discriminatory policies here. It wasn't some imaginary thing & is a rule that exists for everyone. Additionally, I dont care. It was allowed, now its not. GOP should be attacked over it.
Fun fact: Robert Bork is a primary reason food deserts exist! Dude sucks.
It was retirement. The original process where trans people were going to be forcibly removed allowed to a special consideration where they could claim an early retirement. The Trump administration only recently took an action to deny that consideration so they'd get nothing.
Ah, well, nevertheless, the dog keeps dunking on us while playing basketball.
I thought this was a really good podcast, and this is a good example of digging into policy ideas to make sure that we're achieving goals we want to achieve rather than slapping a mission accomplished sticker on something.
You're not prepared for how stupid this deposition is.
This program that makes lots of errors with basic things I know lots about is really great at helping me with complex subjects I know nothing about. I should use it in court!
Yea, and if you were the president of a union, you also used to spouse solidarity with all labor and not cozy up to the people who want to obliterate your unions.
And also, because Giuliani is a goon with no original thoughts, in 07/08 he wanted to take COMPSTAT and slap it on everything in the federal government. Dept of Education? Agriculture? COMPSTAT. Did it make sense? No, but by god he was going to do it. Guy is and always has been a god damn moron.
Giuliani was also big mad at Bratton, specifically, because he was getting the credit for COMPSTAT/falling NYC crime rates (along with Jack Maple, since they actually designed that system and Giuliani slapped his name on it) which ultimately led to Bratton resigning in 96 as NYPD commissioner.
Giuliani also got into a huge blow out with either Jack Maple or Will Bratton (can't remember which) in Giuliani's office, because they had suggested that as crime goes down, arrests should also be going down and Giuliani demanded that they keep pressure maximally high to maintain arrest rates.
The mRNA tech that leaped forward from the covid vaccines literally did cure a cancer and the GOP are killing everything related to mRNA.
I will never understand why the Democrats convinced anyone to stop calling Republicans and the people who consume their propaganda slop weird.
Peter, they literally made up a hypothetical situation where someone was hypothetically harmed by having to make a hypothetical cake for an imaginary gay couple and won. How on earth are you gonna sit here and say "this won't go anywhere."
They wrote a 1000 page policy guide that had all this stuff explicitly spelled out in it. Idk how it's anything other than just their policy objectives.
There's about 40 people who actually collect and put together the numbers from teams of lower data analysts. By the time the bls chief gets out, the numbers are already input and they report it. Will be interesting to see what happens. And by interesting I mean lol lmao this is terrible
My only comfort is knowing they're miserable in all that kit having to walk in the DC humidity.
A literal billionaire is complaining that there's not enough incentive for billionaires to help their workers without democrats or someone else stepping in to incentive them via policy.
Yup. This is the institutional democratic party clutching to its power as the clintonite era - and hell, even Obama era - is realizing it's losing its grip on things. Funders, tag alongs, the political royalty entrenched into the democrats - they're gonna make a run to try and hold onto things
Nah he's probably right on this one.
Not to keep the one up chain going but I got a call once from a guy who was on his way to the courthouse for his hearing. Wanted an attorney there with him. 😂🫠
We sometimes get "This is a landmark case!" Sir, please pay your child support.
There should also be a very high premium on owning large cars. You don't need a massive truck or suv just to put around the city and get groceries.
No one cares about stats and data. They care about how they feel. 🤷🏻♀️
It really is unacceptable that you would even suggest Democrats start leading from the front rather than accept the GOP framing on everything at the behest of consultant groups who only exist to suck up donor funds.
You can't just trust that Democrats are going to do the right thing. It's ok to demand that they actually lead on the issues rather than blithely follow the consultant class that exists to suck up DNC fundraising money. www.semafor.com/article/05/1...
Dems have, and will, continue to do things like this if you don't pressure them. And you're so up in arms, that you're missing the point that the issue here is that the Democrats aren't leading on the issue, not that they won't go to bat for trans people generally. www.them.us/story/81-dem...
So if you'd like to hang your hat on past results predicting future performance, do you. But all the "don't let perfect be the enemy of good" in the general elections is downstream from days like this. The records candidates run on and the profiles they have are built in non-election years.
Yes, I'm sure your CourseRA on online debate is very nice. Anyway, since 5 months ago prominent Dems - including the governor of the largest Dem state and the chief communicator for the party - have been taking positions that the right wingers have legitimate and valid points about trans rights.
All the political calculus where "dont let perfect be the enemy of good" gets considered general elections is downstream from days like these. I would personally prefer that we start ironing out those variables now so we can have a better position later.
I think you, and all the "regular" people out there, need to wrap your heads around the fact that this is the precise time when you should be jockeying to pressure people into positions and working to get people positioned for primaries.
I think you need to wrap your head around the fact that it is entirely acceptable to demand something of the people who represent you, and it's even good to do that, and its even good to have different groups of people focusing on different things as a political movement shapes.
It's not even an election year and people are being unhinged about not falling in line behind every slob that happens to hold a position in the DNC. Can we at least wait until primary season before we start with the soul sucking political calculus, people?
Ok? My entire point was that there are levers that can be pulled to instigate the AG offices to action - and often are required so that the AG can use as filed cases to initiate suit. Hate the Dems. I don't care. People worked to get these avenues of action in place and people need to use them.
"Democrats" have also repeatedly stood up for us and passed things like shield laws, codified rights in state constitutions, etc. So, while levers exist, people should pull them as one possible avenue of action among many.
If you are trans and in a blue state where a hospital has complied with the EOs, you should file a complaint with your AG office to instigate a cause of action - especially if you've been harmed by losing access to care! AG websites will have phone numbers and links that walk you through filing.
If you park like this you're a bad person.
How many more unhinged cranks that are ignorant at best and malicious at worst do we need to take seriously before we actually start leading on the issue and reframing it? Maybe another focus group? Just one more poll man, consultants gotta eat too.
On one hand, yes, but also on the other its just a continuation of the eradication campaign against migrants. The new, hot take (of like the last 5ish years) in the GOP is that the constitution only applies to people deemed to be lawful residents. That's why migrants "don't count for anything"
It's like to be a national Democratic operative you have to get surgically implanted with a "both sides have valid points" brain chip. People are clearly persuaded by just being really confident - researched be damned - so grow a set of balls and lead for once @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
We waste more god damn time in the country relitigating EVERYTHING because we have to treat every single crank on the god damn face of the earth with "a concern" as a novel concept that needs to be personally addressed. Just stop! Lead in the issue for a change and stop accepting the framing as is!
I swear to god the idea that everyone has valid and serious concerns is the thing that has undone America. Pick your subject - housing, transit, climate - you factually cannot take everyone seriously because a lot of people are ignorant at best and malicious at worst.
I can't believe we have so much obesity these days. I'm going to ask my city council to add it as an agenda item after we're done opposing the complete streets initiative. Fuckin bikers constantly getting in the way of my F250.
All Targets and WalMarts must be retrofitted with a Zion Curtain to ensure that people are not tempted to imbibe in the wrong gender.
If you're going to make a complaint about the service you're getting from a business, please, for the love of god, do not have ChatGPT write your complaint. You're just going to be angrier because ChatGPT doesn't know anything, and your complaint isn't going to make sense.
We don't get to talk politics while I get called a slur over and over during a game of phase 10. Sounds like a lovely time.
Had a little cookout for the pup today.
That's someone with a fetish for being yelled at.
Being sick kind of sucks. 0/10 do not recommend
I could make so much more money if I was a worse person. Like jfc
The food quality at airport restaurants is also wildly hit or miss. I know what I'm getting in a lounge, and if the lounge sucks, my membership gives me bar discounts. Really we should demand better of airports lol
The ones you ate as a kid were also objectively more awful. www.iowafarmbureau.com/Article/Its-...
The demographic of people who are online/now running things grew up in the 90s as late teens/young adults or were kids and they miss when they were kids.
Trump has mush for brains at this point and has no idea what's going on with his own administration. Russell Voght is the one running things along with Stephen Miller.
Tom Flood 