The European mind can’t comprehend needing a 6 line highway in the middle of nowhere.

Popularism is flawed because “voters support X” does not mean “voters will support candidate who supports X.” It’s not what issues you support as a candidate; it’s what those issues say about you.

Just as one example, this definition of “heritage Americans” would include Barack Obama and exclude Donald Trump.

we can't add any more letters it'll make the stars on the flag look weird

Lmao I got blocked for this. Anyways, here’s the original article, which I think is quite good. The headline is garbage unfortunately futurism.com/health-medic...

Ok, maybe I’m misunderstanding, but the article is about how the AI noticed real biological differences in the samples and due to a lack of data for underrepresented groups, was less accurate in it’s job. If anything the AI is actually good and is revealing the systemic racism of data collection

Very fascinating review of how Wisconsinites have viewed their financial situation over the past decade, and how much that seems to be impacted by partisan perspectives. It really hammers home how the negative view of the economy put Harris at a disadvantage in the election

Time for a cat timeline cleanse

Not great

This is arguably one of the most devastating stats I've seen for Trump over the past year Not even one year in, and already most people are correctly assigning blame to him for the state of the economy despite the dissatisfaction with Biden at the end of his term.

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We’re going to need to build more prisons to handle all of the pedophiles we’ll be locking up in 2029

I’m a bit surprised at the lack of discourse around the Judge Dugan trial. I would have figured more people would be interested in it

Defense Rests in Dugan ICE Trial After Brief Case and Character Testimony

Metro Rewind is now LIVE! How many trips did you take? How many miles did you ride? Were you in the top 10%? See how your rides rank: www.metrorewind.com?utm_source=b...

Pretty cool visualization of a day of Metra operations in the Chicago area. Certainly looks more frequent than I would have thought, although evenings and weekends probably aren’t great.

Public transportation is crucial for our economy, communities, and people. And here in Illinois, we are on the verge of delivering a world-class transportation network. The Northern Illinois Transit Authority is our step toward a future of having the best transit system.

It’s fascinating, but not surprising, that this guy’s evidence is that he himself is saying it. He really believes that people should just trust his word and his instinct, regardless of any other evidence.

Rules should always be enforced, consistently and proportional to their importance. If the rule results in undesirable impacts, the rule should be changed.

Many of us starting as bike advocates get pulled into being housing yimbys, because we see how land use enforces car dependency.

I’m just as happy as everyone else, but this isn’t unusual. Cardinal Dolan is turning 75 and is required to resign from his position. The Catholic Church has a stronger stance on being too old for the job than the US lol

Cars and guns are the only unalienable rights people have in this country apparently.

Watching lots of Spongebob has also given me the insight that too many people on Bluesky post like they're Squidward. Before you reply to me ask yourself "would Squidward say this?"

It really is Not Great that the immense suffering and destruction is perpetuated by the continued existence of one person. A trolley problem on steroids, where choosing to switch tracks is also a death sentence for the operator but it saves millions of lives.

things will not get *worse* they are only this bad because one man is holding a wildly disparate coalition together

the only thing I'll say about the meta-ethics of posting and which platform is that purely as a matter of realpolitik every political party and government not aligned with Elon Musk's at this point very explicit politics should be trying to degrade twitter's importance in the information ecosystem

Random Street Design Post: An idea for Prospect and North, which adds a 2-way cycle track to the east side and a contra flow bus lane along the west side. Arrows indicate routing of the 3 bus routes through here: - Light Blue: Route 21 - Dark Blue: Maryland 30 - Gold: Downer 30

Lexington is in Dawson County, Nebraska which voted 6,312 to 2,101 in 2024 to implement the kinds of policies that were well known to lead to this outcome.

Never forget that when conservatives couldn't win in a democracy they didn't abandon conservatism; they abandoned democracy.

Last week I made a crazy decision. I found out that my Marathon County Board Supervisor wasn't running for re-election. In fact, nobody had taken out papers... so I did.

Since Milwaukee is now in SubwayBuilder, I tried out my ideal rail rapid transit design (4 Light Rail lines, 6 Regional Rail lines). Here's the simulated ridership for each line over the previous 24 hours. Seems pretty good to me!

We really need to calculate (very approximate, inherently somewhat abstract) separate CPIs for labor, goods, and capital in the past. Ppl don't realize how wildly different the basket of stuff *available*, let alone *affordable*, is today. Middle class ppl had servants, but not antibiotics.

This sort of absurd, ultra-bleak reading of the remarkable prosperity of modern societies is not only embarrassingly wrong - and I saw a historian retweet this sincerely (!!) - but also helps fuel not materialist, left-wing politics, but rather reactionary right-wing politics ('RETVRN-ism').

the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry

Current* conditions near Traverse City, MI:

One way in which you know these fools are graded on a curve is that they've had 15 years to offer a somewhat viable alternative to the ACA/Obamacare and they still haven't done it. Trump said he had "concepts of a plan" for healthcare last year and basically got away with it from the media.

Since 2000, London has added more than 1.9 million residents (+26%), but the number of vehicle miles driven has declined by 10%; it's declined most spectacularly in the center. Outside of London, vehicle miles traveled have increased rapidly over the same period. content.tfl.gov.uk/travel-in-lo...

Not popular to say but the amount of respect I lost for American voters in 2024 has dampened any optimism I could've had towards Dem swing elections in 2025 and likely next year. Hard to get excited when a lot of this terror couldve been avoided if Americans took themselves seriously.

I kind of think compromise on issues only works if your base believes you share their vision for the world and have to make do. We are in an era where activation is everything. The problem with "issue polling" as a means to win elections is that it immediately betrays you as valueless/visionless

I wonder where the mid block crossing should go

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kind of like how for most of human history including when it was actually invented, classic liberalism would have been an unfathomably radical ideology

Also while we should work to make home ownership attainable for those who desire it, it’s important to remember that not everyone wants to own a home! We need housing options, and too many communities limit options.

One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan.

The 14th amendment is probably the single greatest aspect of our constitution and it’s a real shame that we’ve allowed it to be whittled away over the last 150 years. Things like Japanese internment and Jim Crow laws and gerrymandering should all be clearly unconstitutional based on it

Big news for regional rail in Milwaukee. While having some UP-N service continue onto Milwaukee would be nice, I hope there are more trips dedicated to just the Milwaukee-Kenosha section, being a service for Milwaukee rather than Chicago.

I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.

We can't stop being the Mom Party, and any attempt will be read as false, but if the Republicans are becoming the Divorced Dad Party, maybe we can become the Strong Single Mom Party.