Karl

We (almost) never lose power from snow in the Great Lakes lake-effect region and our infrastructure is just as old.

Do make sure your furnace vent isn’t blocked, especially it comes off the side of your house and not your chimney (newer homes).

This is how people die of CO poisoning.

Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act.'

It was paired with tax cuts. I forget the specifics but it is the reason for this:

we had that in Western New York a few weeks back. It was a typical overnight 2 to 3 inch thing, but it sucked even in an area used to snow.

My wife and I were just talking about how 17” overnight generally doesn't lead to a full travel ban here in Western NY…

I guess Governor Hochul has officially abandoned her WNY roots (I kid).

I think an underrated part of this is how career Soldiers in general are not used to looking at their own salary and the value they bring

In some career fields like Logisics, the Army would cease to function without the skilled warrant officers dutifully coordinating movement in the various systems

Similarly, imagine if Bill Clinton had resigned over Lewinski and President Gore took over.

That and breaking up Prussia up so one state wasn't like 70% of country were the major fixes.

I firmly believe that the German Constitution was a bona ride attempt by American jurists to fix the flaws they saw in the American Constitution from the framework of the 1940s

UK: Prince Andrew arrested.

South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.

Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.

USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

But doesn't NYC have lower property taxes (especially if you go by rate) compared to the rest of the state?

This is a real common-sense idea.

Some years back (13-14) in Rochester NY, locals stopped a special use permit at the planning commission for funded state housing.

City council then rezoned the land and pressured reluctant zoning staff to make it happen.

It was interesting…

My reaction was certainly: 84, that’s it?

My parents sent me along with a whole bunch of other kids in stage in a 1988 campaign rally…

I would've been 5 at the time.

I remember being sent on stage by my folks in a 1988 rally at the War Memorial in Syracuse.

Also, I am not a moderate Democrat. One of the most irritating and destructive habits of the online left is acting as if progressives who urge other progressives to work in a coalition with more moderate Dems, are THEMSELVES moderate Dems. No! We are progressives who are not acting like children!

I wonder where millennials will end up. We were certainly idealistic and thus were hit hard by the general failure of “me too”, GWOT, and the current situation.

In a way it’s no different than hippies moving to Reagan…

I think when the race really begins it will come down to fight vs acquiesce and won’t be on the moderate vs. far left at all.

It will be who will fight and seek to punish wrongdoing over policies.

This is what united Spanberger, Sherrill, and Mandani who otherwise span from Center to Left.

High-info ppl chastising lower-info ppl for becoming sympathetic higher-info ppl has got to be the WORST form of “I don’t actually want to win, I just want to be smugly condescending to everyone bc I’m empty inside” anti-politics that there is.

Fredrick Douglass Branch Library pics

One corner of His former farm, mostly a school and ball fields today.

Great story about white flight northern segregation/racism in why the land he owned eventually ending up in City hands (through normal land transactions) didn’t honor him until the 2010s after over 100 years of public ownership.

Isn’t this an old problem?

One of the constant criticisms of the post-WWII army, and indeed generally the only commonly accepted criticism of the Army in Vietnam is that it became too corporate and filled with “ticket punchers” rather than people held to account.

I don’t know, there are a lot of sexist liberals/left-wingers too.

Less racists it seems though.

I hope so.

Can i say I’m so down on the state of gender/race in America that the best candidate in 2028 is a likely white man?

Certainly not among Dems, but there are still too many racists in America writ large.

Pritzker is likely the best.

I hate myself for feeling this way and I do hope that I’m wrong.

Wow, after looking at her posts, I guess I’m not special for getting called out in a quote skeet.

That’s all she does, with apparently zero interaction of her posts.

This is a great story, I was hoping someone would reply with it.

Isn’t Khrushchev due at Idlewild?

The theory is that suburbs are taking a left turn, starting in the Midwest, now showing up in the South

Where I am, the eastern-most part of the Midwest (Western NY*) this move started as far back as 2022 and accelerated

*if not Midwest, it is absolutely industrial Great Lakes, a subset of Midwest

Rochester NY has free hockey (including equipment) for city kids. The city has like a 50% child poverty rate.

She also already played hardball (and mostly won) against one union - the corrections officers who did a wildcat strike.

But that was upstate (largely WNY) so there’s a fair chance the downstate transit union wasn’t paying attention.

Correct.