Jose Andres Martinez

I am a huge fan of Hawk Tuah but you took my life savings.

Khruangbin at the top of my most played artists for wrapped '24. My hometown influence is weighs heavily on me 🤘🏼, but the tracks are too smooth to hit skip. 3/5 top songs are Amapiano, the South African Vibes keep me amped up. ⚡️💪🏼😤🇿🇦

"Bob Simon concluded the public comments by stating that Reston was intended to be about creating a community, and he strongly believes that density makes a community. He observed that several speakers seemed to suggest that people are a problem and density is undesirable, and suggested that they can move to large lots far from Reston if they would like to live alone." Brian Winterhalter to self, “Reston Master Plan Community Forum,”, January 28, 2010, box 2015.019 6, folder RMP SS Winterhalter Notes, Dulles Corridor Rail Association records, C0204, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

tfw the 95-year-old founder of your planned community says you're doing it wrong and maybe you should leave.

Hunter Biden needs to do time because no one is above the law. Here's why I'm ok with dropping all of Trump's 91 indictments.

Just found the most perfect little ADU in Austin

The North Carolina General Assembly’s GOP supermajority just approved a hugely corrupt power grab, seizing authority from the governor and the courts to prevent any meaningful check on legislative abuses. Authoritarian stuff. A very dark day for democracy in NC. amp.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

When you tear bike lanes out of cities, people don't just decide "well I guess I won't commute to work anymore." It takes people who are not car traffic and makes them car traffic.

Do the folks who want to tear up bike lanes not understand that if the cyclists are not in the bike lanes they are in the lanes with the cars? In most cases in their own cars? Which means they are now (noisy, polluting) traffic? More car lanes just means more cars.

Cover: Moving From Cars To People: A Comic About Transportation and Land Use

Our comic, "Moving From Cars To People," shows & tells how the built environment in the US came to be designed for cars and what we can do about it.

Illustrated by Joaquin Golez and authored by Kelly Clifton & Kristi Currans, with Susan Kirtley & Ryan Alexander-Tanner: trec.pdx.edu/news/moving-...

Chuck Schumer Cuts Deal With GOP To Confirm Some Of Biden’s Final Judges, Drop Others Their agreement, which has angered progressive groups, means more of Biden’s district court picks will get votes, but none of his appeals court picks will.

As Maggie Jo Buchanan of Demand Justice put it:

“If Democratic Senators are already rolling over this easily while they still have power, we are in for trouble when Trump actually assumes office." www.huffpost.com/entry/chuck-...

A graph of US data center va office construction, where Data Centers spike to $30B from $10B as offices decline from $70B to $50B

US spending on the construction of new data centers is now about 58% as much as the spending on new offices, up from 11% pre-COVID

A diagram showing driver’s visibility from various wankpanzers and a 60-ton M1 Abrams main battle tank. The Abrams is much less likely to maim or kill children.

This diagram never gets old, unfortunately

95 Tesla deaths have involved fires or Autopilot. How the EV maker fares in fatalities per million miles. Tesla deaths from fires and Autopilot make up 24% of the fatalities in crashes. Learn about the death rates per million miles and vs other cars.

Fun Fact: Teslas have killed over twice as many people as the exploding Ford Pinto did at a roughly similar level of sales.

the Pinto sold ~3 million units & killed at least 27 people. Tesla is now creeping up on 5 million total vehicles & 95 deaths from battery fires or autopilot crashes.

shoplifting should take the place fishing used to occupy in our culture. avis of us wearing wraparound oakleys holding up cool stuff we stole, novelty "gone shopliftin'" door signs, that kind of stuff

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil 4x more than electric cars due to their staggering uptake in China and elsewhere.

Texas has installed more solar in the last eight months than 39 states have *ever* installed. Colorado is #12 on the rankings with 4,200 megawatts installed. Texas installed ~20% more than that from March 1 to November 1.... over a gigawatt of solar + storage each *month* this year! #txenergy 🔌🔋💡

When we renamed the town from Dairy (1/2 of Dairy Ashford Rd), they should've gone with, her far more believable middle name, Ozelda.

Chart compiling statistics on the number of Americans killed annually various causes. Includes source notes.

Americans killed annually by
All Islamic jihadist terrorists 9
Armed toddlers 21
Lightning 31
Lawnmowers 69
Busses 264
Falling out of bed 737
Being shot by another American 11,737

2017 estimates. The Royal Statistical Society gave this compilation its International Statistic of the Year award.