Children under 3 can ride free if they sit on their parents’ lap.

AI data centers are also gobbling down massive amounts of electricity, stressing the grid, giving consumers higher bills for worse service. All for something that pretty much everyone hates.

15% tariffs (which seem to be what he’s settling on) mean prices will increase about 15% over the next year (some companies will eat some of the tariffs, some will use them as an excuse to price-gouge). And absolutely no one is getting a 15% raise except the bosses.

I’m sure some company will build an empty frame somewhere in Wyoming, promising that it’ll be some kind of megafactory, and it’ll just sit there, full of empty promises, just like similar “investments”.

Is this something the Internet Archive wanted? And why?

I don’t know why people bother with AccuWeather, when there’s weather.gov, with it’s free API.

Oh, cool - thank you so much for your thoughts and experiences! I just gave that one a listen: I didn’t smell anything, not I got some interesting mental visuals and sensations: being in a tent in the rain, someone spinning/dancing very briefly, rain falling into puddles, a drop falling into a puddle and the slow-motion of spin-off drops arcing away. It was definitely less immersive once the vocals kicked it, but it was cool nonetheless. Thank you so much for getting back to us!

That just gives money to Musk and other (complicit) shareholders. I’d much rather the company sink and then someone buy their stuff at fire sale prices.

Just curious: If you listen to the playlist, which one (or which combination) comes closest?

I’m envisioning this as a person with synesthesia, and sounds produce smells for them, and they’re searching for the elusive sound that produces petrichor.

When I looked into it a couple weeks ago, most (?all) of Alberta infections were also among the unvaccinated Mennonites. In Texas and New Mexico, it spread between different unvaccinated Mennonite communities through meetings for worship and homeschooling, then spread fractionally among those who had contact with the infected Mennonite communities. I imagine the spread pattern is similar in Alberta and Ontario.

I was going to add in “bragged about just grabbing random women ‘by the pussy’ on tape” but then I went to look something else up, so I’ll just add to your list:

4. Has an entire 16,000+ (*) word Wikipedia page dedicated to their sexual assault allegations.

* For those of you who don’t remember from school, one double-spaced page contains about 250 words. So this is roughly a 64 page paper on his sexual assaults.

It’s PJM.

This is one of the things that pisses me off. I try to save the planet: I recycle and compost, I walk and bike places, I change the heat/air settings so I’m fairly uncomfortable, I don’t eat meat, I source local food, etc - all the things we’re supposed to do. And here’s some giant techbro company that decides they’re going to make AI that no one wants to replace jobs we can’t afford to lose, and build data centers to track everything about everyone in an attempt to sell you more goods than anyone needs (the production and shipping of which trashes the planet), all of which strains an aging grid, raises electricity prices on a people who are already struggling with an affordability crisis, and overstrains a dying planet - all so some technro dudes can have a little more money. It’s as stupid as the billionaire space race, where one SpaceX launch offset all the pollution saved by Tesla. It makes me feel like all my efforts have been futile, while they’re killing the planet for a few more dollars and a couple more toys.

Which is also part of the problem. If they’re cautious and issue “too many” alerts or are “too alarmist”, people ignore them.

The point is that the people of Kerr County made a deliberate decision that they didn’t need a local system to reach out to people living there. They decided they whatever information and warnings they were getting from the state and the feds was sufficient. It’s easy to point to the NWS/NOAA firings as “the culprit”, but where’s the local responsibility?

There’s all this focus on the NWS/NOAA not sending warnings early enough. Not from what I can tell, they were sending out warnings. And Kerr County, where many of the deaths have been, doesn’t have a local flood warning system because they didn’t want to pay for it.

Separate questions have emerged about the preparedness of local communities, including Kerr County’s apparent lack of a local flood warning system. The county, roughly 50 miles northwest of San Antonio, is where many of the deaths occurred. In an interview, Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior elected official, said the county did not have a warning system because such systems are expensive, and local residents are resistant to new spending. “Taxpayers won’t pay for it,” Mr. Kelly said.

Sounds like they should be blaming themselves, then.

what makes flash floods so hazardous is their ability to strike quickly, with limited warning. Around midnight on Thursday, the [weather offices for the areas that flooded] put out their first flash flood warnings, urging people to “move immediately to higher ground.” The office sent out additional flash flood warnings through the night, expanding the area of danger. It is not clear what steps local officials took to act on those warnings. […] the local Weather Service offices appeared to have sent out the correct warnings. He said the challenge was getting people to receive those warnings, and then take action.

Again, that sounds like a local issue. What happened to your pride in local government and not needing the feds?

He said that climate change was making extreme rainfall events more frequent and severe, and that more research was needed so that the Weather Service could better forecast those events.

No comment.

“The Civil Division shall prioritize and maximally pursue denaturalization proceedings in all cases permitted by law and supported by the evidence,” the memo said, adding that it should be among the division’s top five priorities. It suggested a wide variety of citizens who could be targeted for denaturalization [but] it also targets much broader groups of people such as those “who pose a potential danger to national security”

Ah, yes. Coming next month: all people participating in protests are now terrorists.

it was “especially concerning” that the administration would plan to pursue denaturalization through civil court. "Civil denaturalization cases provide no right to an attorney, meaning defendants without resources often face the government without representation […] There are no jury trials, with judges making citizenship determinations alone. The burden of proof is ‘clear and convincing evidence’ rather than the criminal standard of ‘beyond a reasonable doubt.’ Additionally, there is no statute of limitations, allowing the government to build cases on decades-old evidence that may be incomplete or unreliable.

All is as planned :(

"during the McCarthy era, when those deemed “un-American” were stripped of citizenship due to their political views. “At the height of denaturalization, there were about 22,000 cases a year of denaturalization filed, and this was on a smaller population. It was huge,” she said.

Hunh. TIL.

“The way the memo is written, there is no guarantee DOJ will pursue cases against violent criminals,” Vance said. “They could just do easy cases to ratchet up numbers, like we’re seeing with deportation. Or they could target people who, they view as troublemakers.”

Or both. I bet it’s both.

It’s average home prices vs average wages. Things like property taxes and cost of living aren’t included.

So, question: my cousin had a leaking pipe under his house and they ran one of those pipe lines things through it to fix it. Why can’t we run pipe liner through the lead pipes to at least reduce the exposure? And even if there’s some reason it couldn’t be done on some of the lines, surely it could be done on others?