I’m sorry WHAT? What is WRONG with blue cities and states?!?!?!

Oh shit oh fuck

In fact, once you get to a certain age, you're consuming more EMS services than the average taxpayer

Looks about right.

surgeon general standing in front of a huge table with a detailed miniature hospital on it, using a big stick to move little surgeons around

Looking forward to the Fox News segment that explains how this is different from Mamdani’s city-run grocery stores.

how we know it's 1899: ✔️ US President threatening Spain ✔️ US warships off the coast of Cuba ✔️ women's right to vote earnestly being debated in the public press ✔️ everybody's remembering the Maine

Manufacturibg Consent never goes out of style. #metapost

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

I swear stuff like this is the thing that’s going to turn me into the Joker. The same code departments that insist that safety demands increases to code stringency with no evidence let known unsafe conditions at existing buildings slide for years.

Binface genuinely ruins Farage’s entire plan, it’s incredible. It turns the whole thing into even more of a circus and it’s unclear Farage is even the center of it. He could lose to Binface - Reform only got 46% last time!

Grading was already the most unpleasant part of teaching before AI. It induces a lot of friction, actually most of the frictions and bad behaviours that happen in a class. Maybe AI will kill the very idea of exams and grading for good. Or maybe universities will turn Italian: oral exams only.

1. Don’t cheat, but if you “must” you cheat for a C, not an A. 2. S1, S22, and S31 better come out of this in a *much* better position than the others if integrity is to matter anymore.

I cannot imagine how depressing it would be to be an honest student in this environment. You’re working all the time, getting decent grades, and meanwhile all your peers are getting perfect scores and spending 15 minutes a day on class.

absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

As a sign of manufacturing decline, machine-made establishment candidates have been displaced by hand-picked establishment candidates.

While there are a LOT of people who created the fiasco in Maine and blaming any one person/group for it exclusively lets people off the hook who shouldn't be, horrible judgement by Schumer and the DSCC is right up there with the horrible judgment shown by national pundits and Maine voters alike.

This 1911 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map was created during a time when Prairie Avenue was lined with opulent mansions. Demolition and redevelopment was shown via the application of a paper correction slip. This map was corrected in 1949 and shows the silhouettes of those lost buildings under the slips.

I manage the full relationship between our firm and one of our biggest & most important clients. They make mechanisms that unlock engines & operate locks, they’re headquartered in some islands just off of Florida. In other words I’m a Key Account Manager, Key Account, Keys.

i open linkedin approximately every three months or so and every time i do, the posting there gets so much weirder than it was three months prior. alternate reality social media.

Architectural design standards are a prime example of something I've observed about bureaucracy. 500 people working together can make a decision that's worse than what any one of the 500 would have decided on their own.

I've found it fascinating that smaller & mid sized cities have generally seen fit to separate their sewer systems. I don't know what the cost-benefit analysis is for storage vs separation; I'd be interested in hearing from sewage experts on this! Fascinating, underappreciated infrastructure.

Like a lot of cities with old infrastructure, Chicago decided to invest in the Deep Tunnel project—really a massive system of underground tunnels and reservoirs—to deal with large amounts of stormwater. So far, it seems to be working.

Street food mafia, in Hong Kong www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

Voters are going to have the chance to eliminate CEQA for almost everything except industries and high speed rail with Proposition 45. That kind of argument won’t cut it.

Useful organizing principle for understanding current news economics: consumers give money to publishers as an expression of self and/or to fund the idea that somewhere, someone *else* will be persuaded by the content podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

That was really special - many Ds who passionately went on record denouncing Cuomo in 2021 then walked it back. A credibility shredder for their wing.

It was even international. Western Europe saw a post war hump as well ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

This graph is the most important open question in sociology, modern urban history, urban planning, and criminal law. How did we make the graph go up and then way back down.

What in the rural Wisconsin is going on here

NJTransit has stepped up its GTFS game. At stops with multiple boarding locations, the scheduled departure gate/lane is now included in the static schedules. Very handy if you're trying to catch a bus.

This is one of the things they legally exist to do, and a state party committee with ~100 people on it is not some tiny smoke-filled room of party bosses. It's not like a convention would produce a meaningfully different result anyway, it's the same set of party activists and minor officials.

Doing this with a 200+ page document of different bus operator shift paddles. Should be an entertaining podcast!

That’s what happens when you get rid of the department of defense

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

When it inevitably comes out that McConnell hasn’t been conscious since his collapse on June 14, let’s all remember that the Senate Majority Leader and Whip said they’d talked to him the day after he got CPR and that he was “engaged” (both of them used that exact word!) and would be back soon.

dammit I'm tryin'

There's only one person with experience running a campaign when the defacto nominee flames out horribly with ~100 days to go. Kamala Harris, your nation needs you.

This is not a characteristic of a healthy democracy

are any of the 'ohhh sorry is REAL PERSON too much for you apple polishing hall monitor HR ladies' types gonna exhibit any contrition or reflection that the guy with the very obvious red flags did in fact turn out to have extremely serious weaknesses as a candidate?

I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.

I have a pretty dim opinion of people who try to leap to the very peak of politics, running for high federal office or governor or whatever with zero experience. It may seem easy and uncomplicated. It may feel like anyone with the right look or feel can walk right in and do the job. Very few can.

While many of you are likely yelling "GO USMNT!" or "GO BELGIUM!" I'm yelling "GO FIFA REFORM and the rule of law!"

<clears throat> assuming the USMNT are the only international soccer team to benefit from FIFA corruption is yet another example of centering the imperialist American experience at the expense of the rest of the world. learn about FIFA's proud global history of shady dealings. do the work!

Supply chain managers are really much better at their jobs than anyone anticipated, give it up for supply chain managers.

Associating environmentalism with having to go without is what makes it unpopular. Taking away July 4th fireworks is what the bad guy does in a 90s Nickelodeon TV movie. How can you possibly think this issue wins people to your cause?