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Just putting down a marker that AI isn’t gonna solve our housing problem

Yes, republicans logged more total votes, and will likely still win the runoff.

But besides the optics, keeping a Republican from getting past the 50% post and leaving the seat vacant longer is a real win.

A Democrat wins a plurality of the votes for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former seat. Whoa.

Why do only GOP Senators have a willingness to exercise power?

Every $0.18 not under the control of this administration is an $0.18 well spent though.

Help the enemy and yet still only lower the price of a gallon of gas by (checks notes from 1993) a whopping 5%? No brainer.

First day of fake spring was depressing af without the trail

A guy in shorts and tshirt is chopping up a snow pile with a shovel

outdoors in Cambridge is very confusing right now

I struggled to find an untacky way to work a Gerry Connelly reference in, and gave up

If I was driving I-66 alone from the Beltway to the Pentagon tomorrow at 8:30AM, VDOT estimates that it would collect $42 from me. DC has no interest in drinking some of that milkshake? bsky.app/profile/maus...

I mean this all sounds nightmarish, why would we ever bsky.app/profile/maus...

Oh HELLO.

TIL that this report considered a scenario that included South Arlington! And that only 16% of workers driving to this study area earned less than $75K.

where u at, 1102 bluesky

There’s still a designated person who’s been granted the authority to press the ‘yes’ button for every single contract. They know that if a contract is bad, they don’t sign it. Those people have had their numbers reduced, but the signature warrant requirement has not been abolished.

But I sat through way too many trainings telling me about all the many ways I could go to prison for writing or signing a bad contract. And none of those stories sounded as remotely corrupt and wasteful as these recent ones.

The thing that gets my Fed bureaucrat fists curling is that career warranted contracting officers are signing these corrupt and flawed contracts. I hope they aren’t the only ones to get sanctioned.

Imagine the British crash-out if they choose to design and build in China

“Of course, there are other ways we can reduce oil consumption – electric bicycles, which we also cover here on Electrek, have reduced oil consumption even more than electric cars have, and sold in greater numbers globally.”

Maine! You have options (with lower milkshake-duck odds)!

Look, I gotta ask… do you have any tattoos?

I keep resharing info about LaFlamme and the people mad about Platner‘s candidacy keep not sharing it and I don’t really get why you wouldn’t

External comms in particular at most Fed agencies are now mostly directed by non-career staff.

We all know they’re gonna come up with a Plan C, these two are both firmly in the Ted Cruz tier of unlikeability

And as with all these sorts of opposing voices coming from “inside the house,” the response is:

It’s great that ___ works for you, but the rest of us want ___ that works for everyone. You can stay on the sidelines, or hopefully open your mind. But if you keep opposing, we’ll leave you behind.

The "e-bikes are cheating" trope is just "protected bike lanes are unnecessary because I rode all over the place without them" for a new era: A mix of gatekeeping and survivorship bias that allows the person invoking it to defend their perceived status.

I’m not gonna dance in their graves if a few more white collar workers decide to take the train.

Its unpopularity is not b/c it’s incorrect, it’s that people on the margins trying to get by in this broken system get disproportionately punished when costs rise.

Many people disgust me, sadly including some with whom I share some common interests. I hate that there are people who ride bikes who think like this, and are then stupid enough to say it out loud.

Robotaxis: Traffic Laws Aren’t Optional! Tell your Governor to require autonomous vehicles to be ready for public roads, or be kept out of service until the company proves it has fixed its problems.

Consumer Reports is petitioning for stronger state regulating of self-driving car safety consumer.quorum.us/campaign/157...

It’s also a bit sad to see The Atlantic devolve into The Actually, a sad patronizing chronicle of tsk-tsking contrarianism about every damn thing.

We subscribed during Covid for Ed Yong’s clear and compassionate writing. And that didn’t last long, obviously.