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Having survived a non-fatal crash, those matter too. I'm curious what the complete data says, but great to hear there hasn't been a fatality. Hopefully the bike lanes routed around parklets doesn't allow for parklets to illegally encroach on the bike lane (which I've documented all over the bay).

As I’ve always said: billionaires pay tons of money to make you think your vote doesn’t matter. It’s insidious. Be very wary of anyone who tells you elections don’t matter, or that both sides are the same.

What are your thoughts about restaurant parklets on streets with protected bike lanes?

In practice, that means bikes are speeding *through* the same space drunk patrons are standing in and I've seen many near collisions as a result (e.g. near Telegraph Ave and 44th).

That's the dream if you can afford it or aren't a renter.

Yep, I'm not here to get into your fight with you, just provide the easily Googled link you asked for that I also was curious about.

Dem darling showered with Miriam Adelson-linked money A group funded by Adelson was the biggest donor to James Talarico’s campaign last year.

www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

To quote a great American idiot, "Vladimir don't do it."

We are so fucked.

Living in a rural area, just 2% of homes using wood as their primary form of heating seems suspiciously low to me, but I'll admit I'm biased because of where I'm living.

Just gonna throw some California shade... since we are the most populous state and all... but who cares about gas prices in Georgia? In places that matter gas is more expensive than when Biden was president....I just paid $4.89 a gallon which is cheap out here.

I see a plain plane and I want it painted red, white and blue,
No other colors but maybe some gold too.

Amazon's new cloud unit suffered at least two outages in December stemming from errors involving its own AI tools.

And we still think AI and megaconglomerates shouldn't be regulated?

I'm pretty sure this is what Moore's Law ultimately predicted, that technology would improve exponentially until the curve was basically going straight up, then the curve reversed as humanity ruined what was already working perfectly.

Some things should take longer than 8.5 hours.

Making limoncello, for instance, needs significantly more time. To rush the process will ruin the taste.

Much like an 8.5 hour SCOTUS ruling is in bad taste.

True, not one of the poorest, but at 31st for median wealth they are technically in the bottom half.

Further proof that the West Coast is the best coast.

Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi – the result can shift mountain grasslands to scrub Over a three-decade experiment in the Rocky Mountains, fungi and plant life fundamentally changed. The result has consequences for cattle and wildlife.

Warmer winters are shrinking snowpack, reducing beneficial soil fungi and pushing Rocky Mountain grasslands toward shrubland, with ripple effects for entire ecosystems.

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#climatesky

These MAHA types like to say vaccines cause autism (they don't).

I am curious if not getting vaccinated causes stupidity and gullibility, or if those are pre-existing conditions.

Guys, by now it should come as no surprise - you got conned by the Don.

The year and location, 1990 Canada.

I love the Canadian Tuxedo.

BREAKING: We reached a settlement that requires the Trump administration to permanently maintain medical research that had been erased on a government website.

The government doesn't get to censor science.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Beware of geeks bearing grifts.

Please tell me she didn't shoot that horse.

Mr. Ed, stomp your hoof once if you are alive or none if she already took you to the gravel pit.

This entire administration is a bunch of JAGoffs.

I think those terms have as much of an accepted legal meaning as "all natural," aka, none at all.

"The willingness to stand up for environmental, nature and climate protection is greater when we experience ourselves as connected to nature."

I've been warning of this for years. If kids don't play outside they become adults alienated from the natural world with no incentive to protect it.

We can make him tall, or we can make him not so tall. Snowman.

In this case he was not so tall because there wasn't much snow, but the fact that we got any where I live is impressive.

Let's build a snowman we can make him our best friend!

Let's build a snowman we can make him our best friend!

Nothing, except more too insane to believe headlines, will come out of the State of the Onion address.