One of those women, Adorno said, is “paralyzed and using a wheelchair.”
Reminder that ICE’s excuse for their behavior is that they are keeping the “dangerous criminals” off our streets by, apparently, replacing women in wheelchairs with armed thugs who are whisked out of state to avoid legal consequences if they murder you in broad daylight
I keep telling my doctor, they aren’t jelly rolls, they are radiator fins. I think he’s trying to trick me out of beating his geekbench record
I maintain that the correlation between those two factors is not nearly as strong as people make it out to be when trying to explain away the violence that American sunbelt cities impose on their residents. -20 vs 80 is an extreme example (Minneapolis probably has as many of those days as Memphis has days above 100, which surely has its own negative impacts on the appeal of active transportation), but yes I suspect that you could find more people walking about in below freezing temperatures in a city that is built with pedestrians and their safety in mind than you will find out and about in balmy temperature in a city that is built to put the car above all other forms of transportation. I don’t even think it’s particularly counterintuitive if you think about it for a bit. Think about a snowy Christmas market, and then think about a 4’ wide, unevenly paved sidewalk flanked by a steep ditch on the side of a 6 lane highway in the most beautiful weather you can imagine. Which of those scenes would you be more surprised to see someone walking through?
Trusting trillion dollar companies because they are within your jurisdiction is how the US became the US. A trillion dollar company cannot be legally controlled because it will buy out any controls you attempt to place on it. The only solution is to break the company up into entities of a size that is capable of existing within the law without becoming the law
Well, that and the fact that this website is largely dominated by US, Anglo sphere, and Western countries, which generally have a higher degree of direct complicity in the Palestinian genocide than in the Sahel
In 2019, Minneapolis reported 16% of all trips into or out of the city were made on foot. In the same year, the Memphis Metropolitan Planning Organization reported 1.02% of commutes were done either walking or biking in Shelby County (the county containing Memphis). Commutes vs. all trips and 150 km2 city vs 2000km2 county, so it’s not a perfect comparison by any means, but I don’t think that data is indicative of a massive bias towards pedestrian activity in Memphis vs Minneapolis. Weather is not a strong indicator for pedestrian activity, infrastructure is. But infrastructure has a correlation with safety, so we don’t see high pedestrian modal share cities like New York, Chicago, or Boston on this list, but it has nothing to do with how cold their winters are
Outgrowth of the early colonial charter system that Virginia had and a few centuries of evolution from that point. In at least a few cases was a “great” way to maintain segregation, but many of the cities were independent well before that point and some actually ended up annexing the county they were initially independent from, leading to the weird situation in the southeastern tip where there are seven “cities”, almost all of which are county-sized
My most urgent issue is human rights. Ipso facto trans rights. If you think you can Munich Conference your way into “helping” fight the modern Nazis, you are the one who should reassess the value you are adding
Lol, as if. They pinky promised not to get caught doing anything too atrocious with the information they gain from spying on you
It’s hard to call the design intent a risk
Wow, the Vikings really lost their touch after going Christian, huh?
Let he who hasn’t partied with Jeffrey Epstein throw the first stone
After 16 times specifically in a school zone in a 12 month period? Surely this is so watered down it affects nobod-
Streetsblog reported that Staten Island cop James Giovansanti notched 547 speed-camera and red-light violations since 2022
Insanity
The gas tax also only covers about half of road expenditures generally. The myth that the gas tax funds roads is a convenient lie to get people to believe they are acting independently when every commute they take in their lifted Ford F8500 Eagle edition is in fact reliant on state welfare
Carrying water for incandescent bulbs on the basis of their reliability is wild. Yeah, several companies have taken advantage of the conception of lightbulbs as a disposable good to cheap out on LED bulb construction until they are also disposable, but they did that so successfully because changing incandescent bulbs was such a common occurrence, it was the template for a proto-meme joke. Not everything in the past was better than things today
Me 5 years ago: the mad max aesthetic is cool and all, but the relentless need for practicality in war equipment would prevent any group from evolving all these extraneous metal cages and spikes onto everything they use, so it’s a tad unrealistic
Reality:
It’s for sure a lot. Maybe the Epa is counting the water that so many Americans spend watering our trademark huge monoculture lawns so they can stay green regardless of drought/heat wave conditions. Some homes have almost industrial scale sprinkler systems just to accomplish this, although I’m not confident even that would get you up to 400 gallons
It was in his recent interview with Pod Save America
All three state supported VA rail routes are on this map, along with the Cardinal, the Crescent, and the I-95 Amtrak routes. The S-Line isn’t, but it also doesn’t exist yet. Same with the Commonwealth Corridor. VRE shares tracks with Amtrak, so it is there, but does not have any visible effect on this map.
They’ve been caught before, which would make getting caught a second time even more embarrassing