Everybody’s talking about the destruction of consumer electronics and that’s bad, but basically everything in modern life has a computer in it. Hospitals, airports, transportation, shipping, medical devices, farm equipment, and point of sale terminals had a good run
👏 👏 👏 Amen!! Closing fossil fuel infrastructure should be part of the cost calculation for building it.
who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
Five stylized purple people viewed from the top, each person suggestively has their hands next to both of their neighbors' torsos. Text: "Richmond CIVILIAN Review BOARD / Richmond, Virginia"
Meme. Five stylized multicolored men, similarly viewed from the top, much more explicitly jerking off their neighbors. Text: "Richmond Civilian Review Board"
Move over, Richmond REAL! The new Richmond Civilian Review Board logo is the worst branding attempt ever made.
Yes! I think I struggle with the bad choice of
1. Build more stuff because we need, in particular, more 🏠
2. Which means destroying more 🌳, which lowers quality of life (and health!) for anyone living in said housing
We could achieve both if we were careful
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
$75mil spent on TV ads this cycle for one person to get a job: Gov. Of Virginia.
It's easy to lose sight of how big these numbers are.
The median income in VA is $45k/y.
If a working life is 50 years, a median Virginian would need to work over 33 lifetimes (1650 working yrs) to make $75mil gross.
So rules? Yes. Enforced? As with everything in Henrico, haphazardly and often with bias towards the poor, the different, and the fun.
I don’t actually see a definition for “occasional use”.
Otherwise, it’s pretty typical Henrico language that they get to decide, e.g. whether there are:
“adverse health, safety, noise, or nuisance impacts on any adjoining permanent uses or nearby residential neighborhoods;”
I sincerely apologize for missing this! I hope you didn’t have any trouble with code enforcement.
“Garage or yard sale. The temporary and occasional use of the premises of a dwelling for the sale, open to the public, of personal property.”
So when it looks like a lot of Dems might win, what do you do the week before the election?
Burn it all down with a stupid stunt sure to piss off every Republican voter in the Commonwealth.
Dems eat their own to protect the rich.
If more Dems win, it’s not a battle against “others”.
It’s a battle of the safe-seats and the swing seats and Dems do not want the internecine conflict. Nooo.
Because there might be uncomfortable questions. And Dems willing to break with the party.
And Dems pissed that the party ignored them.
All this does is embolden R’s and make it near-impossible to get the second round through, because a bunch of Dems that might’ve won will now lose.
But boy, it makes safe-seat Dems look brave and bold and like they’re fighting for the people! 🙄
They do not want to win.
This is SO ridiculous.
Wanna see 💰 💰 💰 go 💨 for Dems in swing districts who worked for years to make it possible to win only to have leadership throw gasoline on the fire of their opponents’ campaigns the week before the election?
👇🏻 this is how you know they don’t care about winning
The city that once defined postwar prosperity — where wide streets, endless subdivisions, and freeways to the horizon promised a future of limitless growth — has been dealing with a $1 billion budget shortfall.
But the story here isn’t about a bad year. It’s about a bad model.
I’ll be there with the trash trailer!
Sitting in an Airport Commission meeting and listening to Members pat themselves on the back about enormous growth in airport traffic.
Not a single 🍆 word about impacts to the community from noise or pollution.
I’m sorry, Varina.
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ICYMI
✅ These things exist!
✅ Tons of Europeans have them.
✅ Folks in VT and NH could be next
@canarymedia.com’s Sarah Shemkus has the story 👇
Black and white photograph of a group of men in suits leaving a platform set with folding chairs; the men are chatting and shaking hands; a large poster at the back of the platform reads, "Your City Tax Dollars at Work / The Richmond Coliseum / Cost $15, 976,000 / To Be Completed Early 1971;" Richmond, Virginia. Inscription: Stamped __Red date stamp - Jun 8 1968 and black date stamp - Jun 7 1968; black "Property of Richmond Times-Dispatch / News Leader" stamp; black "P.A. Gormus, Jr." stamp __Verso Geographic Description: Richmond, Va.
"YOUR CITY TAX DOLLARS AT WORK"
If they could only see us now...
#rva
Well, tbf, who keeps insisting they cover campaign financial reports?
(The parties, the consultants, and the fundraisers.)
As long as money is the only metric that matters, AI can cover financial reports. Then what’s a political reporter to do except beg for relevance?
Well, 🤚 lawyer, the answer is “they have lawyers trying not to get sued for factually incorrect statements”
Laws likely broken, but SCOTUS may decide laws don’t exist so we can’t say “broken”…
Norms? Norms are squishy and relative. Sure, say someone broke a norm.
“Battleground” is about making money for the Party and the picked consultant/vendor circle.
It’s a loss leader they use to raise a boatload of money statewide, take their cut, and recruit more people they can treat like ATMs.
And the cash keeps flowing to the inner circle.
Spend $10k in ten races, hit hard where incumbents are lazy and not well-liked, in small towns with bipartisan local concerns, 💥
$100k to get 1-2 winners.
Or you could spend half a million on a “battleground” and likely lose it.
This is how you know “battleground” isn’t about winning.
This is what’s so stupid about “battleground” theory.
If the party invested in candidates strategically and early, they could spend a fraction of the resources to get winners.
Instead, they wait for “proven” candidates where R’s see it coming and spend bags of 💰 to likely lose by 1-3 points.
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You can help georeference some of the Sanborn maps. Interesting way to tour through old Richmond (and see the changing streets/names).
Systemic r*cism is affirming decisions made by people who expressly considered race when they made them.
If you can’t prove somebody didn’t say in 1956 “hey, let’s put a landfill here because it’s a Black community” or a “poor community”… maybe don’t burden that community more.
A tale of disparity:
Springfield Landfill, western Henrico:
closed, solar panels installed on top, *because there are (rich) neighborhoods here now*
Gillies Industrial Landfill, eastern Henrico:
Closed. Now to be an asphalt plant.
Tough 🍪, neighbors that prayed for a better day.
Do we to space out kids by 4-5 years until public school kicks in? What about afternoons?
We’re millennials, we already put off kids until we were sort of financially secure because that’s WHAT WE WERE TOLD TO DO.
So we don’t have much time. And still save for a very uncertain economic future.
