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It’s R290. Which means North American code writers have are going to need another half dozen years to “research” if it’s safe to have a few ounces of propane in an outdoor unit that could conceivably leak, which of course never happens with propane in your house that you burn on purpose.

Whore you, the apostrophe police?

MacOS26 terminal icon on a dark background looking lopsided

@pbones.com IMO the funniest Liquid Glass icon blooper (visible with the Terminal icon on a dark background) is this lopsided mess

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Half the time the single unanswered question is one that I wrote and forgot about.

Begging for someone to ask them to explain how autonomous vehicles are going to (more than marginally) expand roadway capacity.

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Just like SimCity was not based on actual US minimum parking standards, because it would have made the cities too boring to keep players’ interest.

California drivers are fine but IME in Southern California when it rains is like here when it snows (to be fair, a mix of both driver unfamiliarity and infrastructure that's designed for like the 95 percentile of bad weather).

I (and perhaps you) get confused because we think intellect has to be connected with wisdom or thoughtfulness, but it just doesn’t. Intelligence is values-neutral and amplifies whatever it is pointed at.

California plates + rain?

Same product in US ($448) and Canada (CA$330/US$235), so roughly 2x difference.

They don't sound like a terrible idea on the surface, but some of our best-loved neighborhoods would have been illegal to build if parking mandates had been in place in e.g. early 20th century or before.

A parking mandate requires a certain (arbitrary, often large) number of off-street parking spots when building housing or commercial buildings (even bars!). Repealing them lets developers build only as many spots as they think they need and lets small urban locations work for more projects.

Dear Toronto: We will stop scoring runs this game if Doug Ford agrees to stop tearing out bike lanes. Until then, the runs will continue.

On the 18th we need to be vigilant for increased violence and provocation by both law enforcement and counter-protestors, both of which will be used to try to justify more violence and authoritarianism.

Although my hunch is that society-wide there is lower-hanging fruit than renewable diesel at an extra $100 ton of avoided emissions.

WTA hits pause on purchasing hybrid, electric buses | Cascadia Daily News With costs and challenges rising to electrify, WTA embraces renewable diesel

IMO the right call here: www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/oct/07/.... Electric buses are only going to get better and cheaper, and diesel buses are already so much better than solo driving that it's a net win if it keeps a few more cars off the road.

It’s the 70s oil embargo but we’re doing it to ourselves.

It Only Tuesday WASHINGTON, DC—After running a thousand errands, working hours of overtime, and being stuck in seemingly endless gridlock traffic commuting to and from their jobs, millions of Americans were dishearte...

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Me: the US needs a Loonie

*monkeys paw curls*

In the short time since Kavanaugh wrote that opinion, his assertions have been proved demonstrably, almost laughably false too many times to count. As Sherrilyn Ifill notes, the justice’s claims were already belied by the factual record in that case, which showed ICE agents violently harassing and detaining American citizens for extended periods simply because they are Latino. Now the agency, freed from constitutional restraints by SCOTUS, has stopped pretending to be engaged in anything other than racial profiling. Bovino’s admission only confirms what we already knew: These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience Kavanaugh described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous. Ifill and Anil Kalhan, a professor of law at Drexel University, have proposed calling these detainments “Kavanaugh stops,” a label that’s quickly catching on.

It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Bellinghamhenge

A storefront with a sign, saying “Bellingham flat bread” (with “flat” and “bread” as separate words). A decal sign below it in the window reads “fresh baked everyday” (with “everyday” as one word).

We had a similar crime against compound word grammar that managed to get it wrong twice in opposite ways sourdough.com/sites/defaul...

Also I'm not sure filming a commercial for a 7150-pound truck is quite the win for "climate action" that OP thinks it is.

Also why does it walk like it just sharted?

If you were to buy a tent from REI in the early 80s, this is what the instructions you got would look like:

“Zesty Jumble” is my favorite flavor of potato chips.