Trevor Sullivan

Wait that might actually be correct though.

Because your factory floor is littered with actuators, and you're already running wires everywhere. The cost of those is super marginal.

Compare to the cost of at least 4 single-purpose moving parts (handle, hinge, latch, spring) not including the lock.

That's the incentive that already exists.

When you have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars over years to get land you already own rezoned, only corporate megaprojects can afford to get built.

With this law, I can put up a wall and knock out a door and make my house a duplex for like 20k.

No, that is not what he's saying at all. He's talking about gerrymandering.

By squishing all the Republicans into one congressional district, Democrats are the majority in the rest of them, so a 45-55 state gets 8 Democrats and 1 Republican in Congress.

That's an odd way to spell out the number 20

(the REALID law was passed in 2005)

The latter. Both will run, but only the right one will do as expected.

There's nothing stopping you from naming a variable `list` but from that point on you cannot use the built in list constructor

I generally don't like to post screenshots of text, but someone posted this in our local Strong Towns group and it was too good not to share here.

Disinformation from @thiswillhold.bsky.social

A deceptive substack post from "ThisWillHold" is making the rounds. It was debunked months ago when it first appeared, but wanted to share a more detailed review.

@electiontruthalliance.org filed a lawsuit against PA and included this disinformation. It originated in data they gave Dr. Mebane

LATLONG.SHOP on Instagram: "#30daymapchallenge | Day 13 1(5) minute map | Almost 15 Minute Cities Updated my 2022 analysis to look at Madison neighborhoods that are almost a #15minutecity — areas wit... Uncover the concept of almost 15-minute cities in Madison, where a 15-minute walk gets you to schools, parks, transit, medical facilities, and grocery stores. See how this urban planning concept can i...

www.instagram.com/p/DQ_5L8xltn...

Not quite a 15 minute city for anyone yet, but close 😛

Ownership of railroads is not the same as ownership of trains.

All of those countries have publicly owned railways, over which private operators run trains.

In exactly the same way as the interstates are publicly owned but CoachUSA is a private bus service.

This is downstream of the fact that the railroads are privately owned in the first place. In other countries the government owns the rail roads, just like all the other roads.

What's the math behind that?

Natural gas emits less CO2 per gigawatt than coal, this doesn't add up at first glance.

What are the odds that SCOTUS rules that Trump can keep the illegal Tariff money because it would be too complex to return it to robbed consumers, then also authorized the administration to claw back legally distributed SNAP funds directly from poor people's bank accounts.

No averages required.

The economy is K shaped, spending in the top 20% of households is accelerating so rapidly that it makes up for the fact that everybody else's spending is trending down.

Businesses are pivoting to luxury goods because those are the only consumers who still have money to spend.

Yes, this pattern appears basically everywhere, it was observed and well discussed by commentators on election night.

It isn't a revelation that Trump voters turn out for Trump alone, that's like, their main distinguishing characteristic vs supporters of any other candidate ever. They are fanatics.

All of this is either irrelevant to claims of election fraud, or addressed by the visualizations and simulations on the website

The "long list of progressive accomplishments" is 3 half-assed infrastructure projects that began before his term as governor which he tried to *prevent*, but De Blasio got them done despite Cuomo's objections.

Also if the urbanists in question are IN Russia, there may be a high-rise-window-shaped reason why they might not choose to publicly highlight criticism of authoritarianism, in which case this is pretty gross victim blaming.

(which may be invalidated by the original context which I don't know ofc)

I guess I don't know the original context, but on the surface this sounds like whataboutism.

"This place has good urban design" does not imply "this place is good in every way and I want to live here".

No, you don't understand. Spending is frozen. The military can't legally be paid from taxes. Their paychecks last week came from an unknown source.

That's not... how it works? Nuclear power and nuclear weapons have little in common beside the name.

There are 32 countries with nuclear power and only 8 are nuclear armed or are considered capable of becoming armed (like Iran).

Like the difference between a campfire and a flamethrower.

You know the longer the half life of a thing, the less dangerous, yeah?

Carbon 14 has a half life of 14,000 years, and your body is full of it.

Polonium 210 has a half life of 100 days, a few grams of it will kill you for being in the same room.

Longer half life = less radiation

Not burning fossil fuels? What purpose were you thinking?

I think you understand handicap backwards.

In games a handicap means breaking the rules in favor of a disadvantaged player so they can participate.

Having a handicap in golf or chess or go means you suck and you'd always lose without help from a "cheat". It's the opposite of what you described.

People who say that liberals shouldn't stoop to the level of fascists or else they are betraying their principles don't understand why the Generals always lose to the Globetrotters.

When they drive a forklift onto the court and the refs do nothing, forklifts are legal now. Get one or lose.

What is a better strategy?

Historically, when liberals refuse to abandon broken norms, fascists win.

There is no politics referee who will blow a whistle and assess a 2 minute penalty on the Republicans for illegal gerrymandering. They started doing it, now it's part of the game.

The urban density crowd, who infamously despise Brooklyn, Hoboken, and Evanston.

"Suburb" is not synonymous with "car wasteland"

It used to have a lot more. Housing and Urban Development was looted by a massive embezzlement scheme in the 80s and never recovered.

So, how do they prepare? The article doesn't say. There is no specific idea of what can be done, you just say "communities can prepare". How? By doing what?

What happens when some rogue sheriffs shut down polling places? What happens when feds steal voting machines before their rallies are read?

Literally the exact same thing happened in 2020. Was that also statistically impossible?

When pundits say an election is a "toss up" they don't mean it's a literal coin toss.

When someone is more popular across the country, they win more contests, that's how elections work.

Their "shocking discovery" is that bigger samples give more consistent results.

That's literally it.

Two 1000 person polls are more likely to have similar outcomes than two 10 person polls.

It's not a conspiracy, it's the most fundamental law of sampling: bigger samples are more reliable.