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A graph of year-on-year change in professional services employment

funny fact amidst the AI stuff is that non-tech white collar job growth is in the least-bad position in more than two years right now, mostly because we've staunched the bleeding at temp agencies and hiring has picked up at law firms and consultancies

Are you not supposed to shoot at the floor buttons you want?

The bill cuts the stretcher requirement in small bldgs at risk of having no elevator at all (up to 6 stories, 24 units), as well as ordering the building code council to reconsider the issues of elevator hoistway opening protection and two-way visual comms. Tens of thousands in savings per building.

if he lost a scholarship over it, he should just make a gofundme about it, he’d be able to replace it with donations

one of the fundamental thesis of conservatism is that the liberals are all too chickenshit to do anything about their antics. anyways

It feels like there is nothing to be gained at this point? If the US were going to intervene in Iran the time to have done so would have been when protesters were being slaughtered. It feels like we are just going to be bombing for bombing's sake. What is the theory for regime change here?

pulling off a targeted strike shutdown on one specific government department seems like genuinely impressive minority party politicking

has anything like this happened before for comparison?

We’ve got a job for you in 2028.

I'm sure INDOPACOM is looking forward to having not a single missile left in inventory for China.

Good day to walk on water.

Two people holding hands under a platform heater with a heart above and the phrase 'You light up my life!'

Front view of a CTA train on tracks with, "This valentine is running express to your heart" below.

Illustration of train doors with a colorful CTA map above and the phrase 'Next stop: my heart' written on top.

Two blue accordion-style seats side by side with the text 'Be my accordion seat partner?' underneath.

send this to ur valentine 💘

A Tram2000 double tramcar with a "Pony" trailer in the middle of a large road with big old trees to both sides. It's sunny, there's a hill in the background and the tram shows the green rollsign of line 8.

Here in #Zürich, we're now definitely approaching the end of an era: Only one or two of the original Be 4/6 #Tram2000 articulated tramcars are left in regular service. Today, it was 2057 on a line 8 diagram.

i am far from Gavin Newsom's biggest fan, he is not a perfect angel on trans issues, he has vetoed some bills that i would not have vetoed

but this idea that he's just waiting to pounce and sacrifice trans people on an altar is complete fucking delusion

Amazing

YouTube video by NOS Chaos in Utrecht door nieuwe bussen

Apparently Utrecht's bus system is falling apart.

Made the decision to switch from diesel to all electric.

Failed to:
- install enough chargers.
- buy enough buses for added downtime.

In Dutch tradition, 1/5 drivers are now burnt out from the stress from the change.

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Who knew "make platform slightly trapezoidal" could save half a billion dollars

God the gall of @jaketapper.bsky.social lecturing that Minneapolis small business owner about the meaning of the word "concentration camp" while people are being crammed into poorly resourced buildings by the thousands and shuttled off never to be heard from again

Hasan going on a paid Chinese propaganda tour and then coming home to say that Democrats—one of if not *the* most pro-trans political party in the world—would shoot trans people for votes is beyond absurd

people like this should be heckled, bullied, and shamed every time they open their mouths

Oh Metro, you’re not sure if your light rail system is a light rail system? It is - and by the way the “pedestrian access point” starts at the centerline of the streets surrounding the station property.

The way to fix this is for HCD to issue rules (and as will surely be necessary, the CA Supreme Court to issue rulings) resolving any question as aggressively as possible in favor of expansive application.

It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees. The government suggests — with minimal explanation and even less evidence — that doing so would result in "chaos." The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights. 14 At this preliminary stage, Plaintiffs have made a clear showing of likelihood of success on their Fifth Amendment claim.

BREAKING: Judge Nancy Brasel, a Trump appointee, has issued a TRO in the Minnesota access-to-counsel case about treatment at Whipple.

"It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees."

If you suspect random prominent Jewish people of being agents for Israel, that is literally antisemitism. How is this not obvious

bluesky is a fucking wild site because you can post "wow, my energy bill was high this month" and the aboslute wokescolds will come out and be like "You absolute piece of shit, why aren't you frugalmaxxing, I keep my heat at 55 F and wear 7 layers at all times"

you may recall this basic problem from such hits as “spam email”

this is pretty interesting to me because it’s behavior that is a strong, costly signal from a human but is essentially free for an agent and we are going to need to learn to look out for that shape of thing

So much in urbanism is about tipping points.

If you have enough pro-urban infrastructure, it can turn into a feedback loop that creates more good things.

The same is true in reverse.

It's often not simply an A or B thing, but enough A or B to encourage it to actually function.