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that said, i understand that cash for clunkers took a lot of used vehicles off the road

yup. there is a 2000 RAV 4 in my driveway with over 235K miles on it. this might be the year it has to retire, because there is a part that needs replacing and there are no replacements to be had.

that's because it has more people with security clearances in charge

I'm still thinking about this exchange. As is often the case, we see Nuzzi acting out the most extreme version of a phenomenon that is actually pretty common in elite media: people taking umbrage at the idea that they're supposed to exercise moral judgment, and can be blamed for not doing so.

Helen tracked them all down

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As long as Microsoft keeps Office feature-limited on macOS, there will be a market for Windows. My work machine is a M4 MacBook Pro and I still sometimes have to log into a Citrix server to use Excel because the feature I need isn’t in the Mac version.

Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?

That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.

We interrupt your evening to present Boing.

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I've been saying for the better part of a year that Trump is on a mission to decriminalize corruption. To make it the legal equivalent of jaywalking.

I feel that more strongly now than I ever had.

Trump admin releases $3.7B of delayed household energy aid Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program funding arrives as the winter heating season begins and utility bills skyrocket.

After immense public pressure, Trump is releasing $3.7 billion in federal funds that he withheld from families struggling to pay their utility bills.

Staying loud works. Let’s keep up the pressure. We will continue standing up for our community.

Dollar Stores: Where Trumpian Sleaze Meets Affordability Ripping off lower-income shoppers is about as MAGA as it gets

Dollar stores rip people off on pricing. When Trump says affordability is a "con job," he may have a point, but not necessarily the one he intended deanbaker22.substack.com/p/dollar-sto...

when it became obvious ODOT's public hearing was set up to be a trap, @nomorefreewayspdx.com held our own hearing - it was well attended (more so than odot's) + we submitted a video of our event as the public record. the feds transcribed it! point being, make and legitimize your own spectacle

Trail Blazers sure are getting a lot of wear out of those city edition jerseys. They’ve worn them for six out of the nine games played since they were introduced.

Five policies to increase cycling in your city:

The most important part of a bike plan is the car plan;
Design for the speed and behaviour you want;
Start with a link; plan for a network;
Don’t give up at the intersection;
Use cycle tracks to feed transit (and vice versa)!

several headlines from various outlets concerned that the white house altered a transcript in which Biden used the word "garbage" to describe republicans who laughed at a racist joke

still can't get over that mainstream media closed the 2024 presidential election cycle with this non-story

Last week @theverge.com published my essay exploring the limitations of large-language models. This week, that same essay is cited by a federal judge in Michigan to distinguish the process of human reasoning from what these models do. Very, very gratifying.

Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants Washington, DC– Upon further review, the Institute of Museum and Library Services has reinstated all federal grants. This action supersede...

IMLS announces "upon further review" that it is reinstating all federal grants to libraries. It leaves out that it's doing this because a federal court told them a few weeks ago that the Trump admin's decision to destroy libraries was not legal.

www.imls.gov/news/stateme...

So much of this shit is gambling! Robinhood is fucking gambling! Crypto is gambling! Videogame business models are gambling! It's all fucking gambling! Laws need to really catch up to the fact that the brain can be hacked by this shit.

This is what every city in America could be doing to address affordability without spending a single public dime

It’s a trashed panda.

map of San Francisco showing much of its west side zoned for much larger buildings than were long allowed

Congratulations to San Francisco, which just re-legalized 4+ story buildings on 60% of its land.

Inner Eastside for All is our plan to do something similar here in PDX. Join us!

www.axios.com/local/san-fr...

The Custom Oregon Plate N0 was available, but is now reserved. https://dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=custom #Oregon #LicensePlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #CustomPlate #N0

the number of subsistence-level fishermen living in desperate fear right now because Kegseth and co have to make snuff videos for twitter is just...you get very angry if you think about all this too long

Democratic erosion but for vaccines and public health

"The birth dose has been credited for a 99% drop in infections in children and teens"

From the study: "during 1990-2019, cases of acute hepatitis B fell 99% (from 2180 to 13) among people aged 0-19 years" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This year's Giving Tuesday theme is "Pay for Things Our Government Refuses to Fund"

This is an interesting thought experiment. The answer is not what you might think!

The Custom Oregon Plate MMTACO was previously assigned, but is now available for reservation. https://dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=custom #Oregon #LicensePlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #CustomPlate #MMTACO

sick fucks, truly

that's where the grabbed content lives!