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Trump is committed to making tariffs working somehow, so I’m pretty sure there’s going to be a collective market effort to resist downward price pressure to prepare for whatever else Trump tries slapping against the wall

The jungle primary was the worst attempt at election reform

i really shouldn't participate, but Andrew Jackson is most certainly not a founder.

Europeans will mock Americans for our absurd use of non-metric but then still use TL (Teelöffel, teaspoon) and EL (Esslöffel, tablespoon) in their recipes!

that is to say, to me it sounds like Wahab is right

is my interpretation correct in that there's a confusion here between opex vs capex in the reporting/original tweet? BART is in a precarious position because of operating dollars, but capital projects come out of a different till

Same

even before the pandemic hit, there was already whispernet style chatter among developers that market rents couldn't support more new construction. i wish that constructon costs had gone down instead of everything else that happened, but a building boom is a building boom

it's misogyny to claim it's mysogyny, pure projection

They did, it was the headline yesterday. Now it’s about the inquiry.

Assuming the OP was posting in good faith, the headline has been changed again

Summary of the email: There is room for a cycletrack on Hopkins without cutting much or any parking. Measure FF does not prohibit a cycletrack on the vast majority of Hopkins, just the commercial section between McGee and Gilman. The majority of Hopkins voters voted for Measure FF and against anti-cycle track EE in the 2024 election.

Summary of the email: flashing beacons do not work and the city should install pedestrian buttons that activate red lights. Bus stops needs to have seating on Hopkins; many stops have no seats right now. The protected intersection can use landscaping at The Alameda.

Election map showing the pro bike lane measure won along Hopkins Street.

My email to Berkeley City Council's policy committee over the proposal to not have bike lanes with the Hopkins Street re-paving. It's worth remembering that despite the controversy, the majority of Hopkins Street area residents voted for the pro-bike lane measure in 2024.

You mentioning the proliferation of 6:5 blackjack in Vegas makes me feel so seen

personally i think that this is relevant to folks outside of Berkeley - lots of people have to go through this corridor for various reasons

Can't believe we have to do this all over again. First steps first, get it out of Agenda committee.

Please blast your CMs and share widely!

actionnetwork.org/letters/save...

FF only disallows the section from mcgee to gilman, less than like 15% of the entire hopkins corridor

not that i'm saying we should skip on gilman<->mcgee because that is by far the worst stretch (lots of cars trying to zip to and from sacramento or the highway)

it's also a terrible excuse because the stretch between McGee and Gilman is only a tiny stretch of the entire Hopkins corridor.

They could do bike improvements everywhere else on Hopkins
with FF money

CM Humbert was at the Hopkins die-in and is now a co-sponsor on this piece of cowardice.

This is one of those extremely disillusioning and disenchanting political moments.

Hello as anon-white American who disagrees with you and agrees with the previous poster

the same migration phenomenon was not present in Wyoming, for whatever reason

15 years back or so NYTimes did some demographic migration analysis on politics, and one thing that I remember is that MT stood out because a lot of new residents were coming from non-conservative parts of CA who were there for outdoorsiness, so MT had tons of liberal pockets

Read a stat line that seems to explain why Labor in the UK seems to suck. In 2024 they won 63% of seats off 34% of the vote. They have a huge parliamentary majority but absolutely no mandate to do anything.

Maybe first past the post sucks

i aggressively tap my card bc i'm impatient but it's a bad experience. i feel like it's wearing out some mechanism in the machine faster, and also sometimes the doors linger a bit *too* long in the half-closed state that i feel like i've done something bad. but i can't otherwise imagine 40/minute.

could clear more passengers if it was clearer to everyone involved that you can scan your card well before the doors of the passenger in front of you close. (the display changes to "tap" very quickly)

but it's not clear & also feels bad (it causes the doors to loudly stop half-way & reopen)

the timeline for a lot of these projects even w/ better laws is such that they're being proposed for a policy/interest rate/construction cost environment several years from now, not the one we have now.

also, modifying plans keeps permits alive, so they can keep shuffling plans to extend the wait.

it seems pretty consistent with educational polarization than urban/rural. they may correlate to each other at times, but the big differentiator between all these suburban areas is level of education.

staten island is just weird, even by suburban standards. 28% pro Trump margin is like dixie-tier.

suburban TX you still only get like half that, you have former GOP suburban strongholds in california going blue, and you have northern VA suburbs that are basically the vanguard.

having their profits driven by membership fees probably has a virtuous cycle on their business. they don't care about sales per se, but whether customers are happy enough to re-up.

also you get stories like this which can only help endear them to the cost-conscious but walmart-eschewing consumer

Not only is the filibuster not in the constitution, the filibuster as we know it is relatively new! Ppl had to actually stand & talk; it being synonymous for supermajority requirement only emerged in the 70s. Senate has constantly tweaked filibuster rules & even ended it in part, it can do so fully.