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Spot on.

“Urban” isn’t always “dense”. In other countries, “rural” isn’t always sparse. I’ve been in hamlets there with low populations and very high density.

According to Kinder Institute For Urban Research at Rice University, Texas is 83.9% urban, similar to Maryland and Washington State. Arizona, California, and Florida are about 90% urban. Since 2022, U.S. Census defines “urban” as population 5000+, w/ 2000+ housing units, and commercial areas nearby.

Has someone stuffed a barrel of pickles into that guy’s mouth?

Thank you all. I stand corrected.

My understanding is that SoCal Research does low-cost online polling, the quality of which isn’t very good. UNH Survey Center is considered high quality and reliable. Polls this far from election time may not tell us as much as we’d like.

It’s not a dichotomy. Never has been.

“Critics warn that overreliance on CCS could divert crucial funding away from long-term renewable energy development.”

Wasn’t that the point?

Food causes 22-34% of climate change.
But it only gets 4% of the media coverage.

Why? Neglect. Misunderstanding. And a hell of a lot of greenwashing.

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Couldn’t Trump just use the $17 trillion he says he got from all these other countries to fund the government?

That should cover us for a while.

Where is that, by the way?

Think spiritually, act technically.

A vital read.

Amazing!

Or designing a complicated mop instead of turning off the faucet.

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Mediterrasian.

If the world were a town of 1000 people, 13 of them would be American, white, and male. A surprisingly high portion of those thirteen would say that they are the most important people on the planet. Weird.

US Taxpayers Will Pay Billions in New Fossil Fuel Subsidies Thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill A report finds that President Trump’s flagship legislation will grant $40 billion in new subsidies to the oil and gas industry over the next decade.

The Trump administration has already added nearly $40 billion in new federal subsidies for oil, gas, and coal in 2025, a report released Tuesday finds, sending an additional $4 billion out the door each year for fossil fuels over the next decade.

And guess what, taxpayers are going to pay for it.

Learning opportunity.

And yet, federal employees still have to complete annual whistleblower training that encourages them to report wrongdoing and assures them they will be protected if they do.

The man just farts words.

Big props to whoever came up with the idea of calling Trump “Metamucilini”

From an op-ed by Janet Yellen, who has led the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department.

Susan Collins to Get Hollywood Treatment at Fund-Raiser Featuring Democrats

It takes real money to be a spineless coward.

How it works.

Scarcity and abundance There are two ways to think about achievement and the idea of getting ahead: Perhaps it’s a race. Getting ahead means beating the competition. But perhaps it’s simply an effort to move …

Here’s a distinction we’re debating politically and culturally. I would have said “sufficiency” instead of “abundance”. There’s such a thing as “enough” — enough is plenty, and there’s enough for everyone.

Man of the people.

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

Carbon emissions are good, mRNA vaccines are bad. How to be wrong about everything.