when you frame taxation as Taking Your Own Goddam Money Away you are reinforcing the rightβs message that you are a sucker, a patsy, if you believe in civil society
People often criticize traffic enforcement cameras as "cash grabs" but there's a robust body of evidence showing that these cameras change behavior and reduce speeding, thereby preventing fines.
Another question for this hypothetical, is are we trying to get it out a standard size door or do we assume there is a garage door somewhere that would fit the animal. I feel like I could reason an elephant out of the shop if there is a loading dock but not if I have to break a window
Fun fact: Tim Walz has not gone along with sports betting. Sports betting is illegal in Minnesota, even at tribal casinos.
the basic problem with marx as filtered through the american consciousness is that americans are fatally poisoned by jeffersonianism so everything gets read through the lens of whether it makes it easier or harder to be a yeoman smallholder
This is indicative of a mindset which essentially says "there can be no such thing as scholarship or intelligence when it comes from a group I've been conditioned to demonize" and we'd all be better off if we realized these people are simply like this. There's nothing to persuade here, it's bigotry.
Watch this clip.
Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.
Elad Simchayoff on twitter: I interviewed two Israeli Air Force pilots who are part of the operation in Iran. When I asked what it felt like to enter Iranian airspace for the first time, one of them said: βYou find yourself thinking, what do these people, so far away from us, actually want from us? They have a huge and beautiful country. Right now full of snow and lakes. Truly a very, very beautiful place. What do they want from us, this small piece of land? Itβs such a strange feeling.β
A surprising number of Israelis seem to have already forgotten that they're the ones who started the war.
One of the hardest things in our standards today is the lack of scalable widths for shared use paths based on volumes. It is critical we take paths and sidewalks as seriously as we do any street.
I always assumed there was no free parking in NYC but I guess you really can't escape car brain in the USA
Reuters headline: Exclusive: US intelligence says Iran government is not at risk of collapse, say sources
This is probably the most important takeaway of MC02 that no one talks about: When completely unfettered, Red destroyed a fleet in 20 minutes, but when reigning in the enemy Reds and fighting with a stacked deck, Blue still couldnβt complete all their objectives. Red maintains their dictatorship and lives to strengthen, rearm, and build
I spent two hours in 2015 researching Millennium Challenge 2002 and managed to figure it out faster than this administration
I'm going to blame my phone display but still better than average!
Half this app is bemoaning the fact that pizza hut no longer gives kids free pizza for doing a summer reading challenge but seriously check with your local library because ours gives out free zoo tickets and minor league baseball tickets for their summer reading prizes which is a much better deal.
Owner occupied houses good. Owner occupied apartments bad. Corporate owned rental houses THE WORST. Corporate owned apartments meh.
The folk morality around housing type and tenure in American cities:
Person drives into White House barricade, police say
Take note of when media reports assign agency to drivers instead of just saying "car" or "van"
there arenβt many things iβm more βold man yells at cloudsβ about than kid sports.
when i grew up your town had a team, you played on it with your friends and that was that. now iβm getting sold $950 lacrosse club team offers from a guy who claims to have noticed my kid at a practice she wasnβt at.
i laugh a lot around here at myself, family and the craziness of life with kids/teens - but will say just had the best couple days with that group.
Time the most precious resource with those you love.
now back to complaining.
Is Waymo operating in Waltham or was there a driver left out of this headline
Our friends at the @historicbostons.bsky.social launch their new 8 part series of events "Metacom's Resistance" marking the 350th anniversary of the conflict often known as King Phillip's War tomorrow and you can register for free here: bit.ly/4be6Ifl
Itβs pretty crazy that Trump is leading a false criminal investigation into Slotkin and Kelly and theyβre still voting to confirm Trumpβs NSA director
Tonight I watched as an angry pick-up driver loudly honked multiple times at a kid biking. But please, let us lecture the children.
I swear PDs coordinate these social media postings.
β¦this isnβt even a picture of Swampscott, by the way, despite what the sign in the picture says. AI? Photoshop? Why?
Reminder from @gwlandtrust.bsky.social:
if you are going out on our now muddy New England trails: ο»ΏCOUNTERINTUITIVELY, walk THROUGH the puddles, and not around them!ο»Ώ
ο»ΏPlease!
I'll never cease to be amazed by the people who believe that life was better as a medieval peasant
This is a very effective comparison
I see strangers posting about getting a bicycle and it makes me excited. Hell yeah. One of us! One of us! One of us!
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
trans people on e-bikes
Looks at sky high gas prices and ponders what could have been if we had only invested in safe bike infrastructure, public transit, and massive rebates for e-bikes
teewatterss on Threads: βlosing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollarβ
10/10 take. no notes
