Maybe I’m just a reactionary Luddite refusing to embrace the glorious clanker future but I think Walmart should be prosecuted for fraud.

We have replaced every car trip under 5 miles with biking. I’ve lost a hundred pounds and now bike on a regular bike for fun. I’ve done somewhere around 3,000 total lifetime miles on my e-bikes, miles traveled not in a car, not burning gas, not making more traffic.

The Coke Zero people are so needlessly smug. I don’t drink Diet Coke because I want Coca Cola with zero calories. I drink Diet Coke because there is something wrong with me; something deeply broken inside of me; something that will never truly be healed.

you will never convince me this guy is real and not a running gag from the British version of the Onion

Some of ya’ll don’t remember Kevin Pitsnoggle and it shows

Films more likely to star an actor called Chris or a talking animal than a woman over 60, study finds

I guess the hot take part is I think any family looking for a good neighborhood to raise kids that looks at test scores but not how long they'll spend in the car is doing it wrong

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This is a good time to remember that everything Trump says is meaningless.

You come to me, on the day of my son's wedding, which I am not attending

Drivers: "We shouldn't be enforcing traffic laws! We should be doing other things to reduce driver violence!" "You mean like slow streets?" "No." "You mean like bike lanes?" "No." "You mean like transit and walkable neighborhoods?" "No." "You mean like charging for parking?" "Hell no."

Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund

Harsh: "riders found guilty of violating the proposed ordinance, penalties could include the aforementioned up to $500 fine, imprisonment of no more than 15 days, or both" BTW - A $500 fine is $200 more than the fine for a 3rd offense for failing to stop for a school bus patch.com/new-york/lon...

Yeah I’m pretty pro-panopticon for anything involving cars. Speed governors, automated license plate readers, ignition interlocks for people with more than one DUI. Sorry, your rights to privacy ended when you began operating a multi ton piece of heavy machinery around me!

My Ocean Pacific t-shirt should not be construed to suggest that I live within a day's drive of any ocean, let alone the Pacific.

Eat shit and, for the monsters who did this to six innocent people, expect hard times.

Baseline view that the Strait of Hormuz soon opens: 🤡🤡🤡

this feels like the soccer version of whinging about the Tush-Push

‘Company Town’ is definitely a strong transatlantic divide- Brits think of Bourneville or Port Sunlight and Americans imagine a silicosis and pellagra ridden Appalachian hellhole where the Pinkertons lynch trade unionists and evict their widows.

Again the lead prosecutor on this case when it was presented to the grand jury currently works for Dick Durbin as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats.

"‪It would emit more CO2 than the entire nation of Jamaica."

and her teammates.....aren't? alright.

remember when Google offered unlimited digital storage to colleges and universities and then when adoption reached the right levels rescinded that promise, capped everything, and started pricing those services without the subsidies? idk man just something I think about a lot

people don’t want to visit a country where they might get locked up indefinitely in a crowded dirty detention system with inadequate food and no access to an attorney just because they aren’t from here? That’s weird.

ahhhhh… the rain finally got here

as a gardener I really hate the holding pattern of waiting for a big rainstorm that’s just one day away for an entire week

yeah, because double zero is still zero

These RCT results (via Swayable) get at the big problem. The right wing immigration ads Dems ran both built public support for the ICE nightmare we are living now, AND were politically disastrous, showing clear backfire on candidate choice questions. They made voters want to vote for Trump.

We all agree that you got narced and that Raffi would never search his name, right? RIGHT?! RAFFI DOES NOT NAME SEARCH! RIGHT??? 😭

Donald Trump actually looks pretty good for 250 years old.

tl;dr: Royce Lamberth, an 82-year-old Reagan appointee born and raised in Texas, is holding firm and protecting trans people in prison.

This is what happens when you convince yourself X is real life.

Republican voters in Kentucky who presumably spent much of 2024 banging on about Epstein just ejected from Congress their own Republican congressman, who helped get the Epstein files out, in order to please the close friend of Epstein, Donald Trump.

Empty (deadhead) Waymo miles down (but still high), most rides NOT shared & HIGH overall growth. Amplifies concerns about induced demand. Even if one is agnostic about AVs v. human operated EVs, more collective attention & resources needed for modes that fully support liveability & sustainability.

RFK Jr and Musk killed funding to programs that had the best chance of doing this

is a ballroom infrastructure?

Why is Jeffries cooking lately?

In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.

It looks faster to bike than that and that distance should be reasonably doable for a lot of people.

A wild but totally accepted part of car culture is the normalization of giant parking lots next to bars and breweries

this afternoon while walking home from work a huge pickup (crew cab, lifted) pulled in front of me in the crosswalk. I could see the young woman driving it watching scrolling videos while she “waited” (it was less than 10 seconds) for a car to pass on the cross street. 1/2

while bluesky was down i read four books, cleaned my garage and baked a soufflé. thank god it’s back

Very hot contender for worst headline of the week award, what with at least 350 suspected cases and 91 deaths among other (likely predominantly African) humans.

“Conditions inside of ICE detention have always been egregious and deplorable. All of these things are just being exacerbated, and part of that is because the number of people in detention has risen so rapidly over the last few months.” https://bit.ly/43h2gZI

CAISO nighttime gas usage is dropping to a couple percent. We're almost all renewable + some imports all day. California energy knowers, is the duck curve disappearing here?? We also just got daytime TOU rates that promote 10 am - 2 pm usage. 🔌💡

Oh. I didn’t have to do four years crawling through dirty basements and attics to find records that no one believed existed? NOW, you tell me. ONLY 30 YEARS LATE! #Blackademics

Written by the health "reporter" at the NYT who is constantly questioning every minute detail of youth gender care, seen here writing with praise about conservatives abusing testosterone.

unfurling a "white replacement" banner should get you permabanned from MLB stadiums

Bolts should do a big feature about NYT's theft and plagiarism. This should really be a huge scandal.