This was kickback laundering.

That used to happen to me ALL the time in grant writing. "Oh, the thing I submitted a year ago got funded? Let's see what I wrote.... Damn, that's good. It doesn't look familiar at all."

What I remember is that Davis was being a grown up and a bunch of Edison and PG&E assholes got their panties in a twist because he wasn't letting them increase rates to protect shareholder profits and exec bonuses.

Not really; biodiesel and conventional diesel are complementary goods. An increase in the price of one will increase the demand for the other. Unless you have zero-cost, zero-time scalability, you have to raise prices to (1) bring demand back in line with supply & (2) fund expansion.

Well, just at the big airport, and just for taxis and TNCs. It's still free to drive into the horseshoe for personal vehicles.

But this would go over better if we had a hard launch date for the APM.

Once Upon a Dave Mattress Band

And there wasn't a man in there until the cop came in.

The DNC left Mamdani high and dry. There's your "blue no matter who."

Gavin Newsom is a windsock, not a Democrat. He's iridescent, not blue. He will do whatever he thinks is popular, whether it's shutting down CA in a global pandemic or throwing trans folk under the bus.

Gavin Newsom has made California worse for everyone in many ways. Why should we think he will do any different for the US?

Coming up with the most anodyne whiteboi candidates doesn't work and keeps us from making any progress. Newsom can't win because he doesn't inspire anyone.

IF Gavin Newsom is on a ballot

THEN me and many others will refuse to vote for him

THEREFORE instead of bitching at me and others like me

YOU should take the *years* you have and make sure that doesn't happen if you actually fucking care

BECAUSE my position is immutable

I haven't worn mine out yet. Maybe I need to wear it tomorrow

Which is so much fun!

this made me cackle all the way through

Caltrans isn't part of the city... Not sure that's a good or bad thing though.

Do handicap placards stack? Like, if two people in the car have them, can you just park in the middle of the street? Or on top of other cars?

Well, remember how much we love things that explode, plenty of people have fewer than 10 fingers.

Unfortunately pounds are in base 16 so we don't understand them at ALL

I too have fond memories of the happy innocence of america when I was a child (a meatgrinder war in Vietnam, huge constitutional crisis with watergate on the horizon, gas shortages, inflation, political assassinations, etc etc)

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Heh, I have a feeling it's the same as one of my meds, based on the dosage. I have the option of 50-100 mg.

Oof. That sucks. I rotate between two or three things because I worry about that happening.

That tail. So FLOOF

Haha, I remember when my then-boyfriend (now ex... wife, I guess?) was super-excited to show me something. So after we waited 10 minutes for Windows 3.11 to load, they opened Mosaic. "This is it! The Net! Like in Neuromancer!"

European-American, that is.

Her mother is English/German, and her father's family is Spanish by way of Cuba, so yeah, she is European.

...which goes to show that race/ethnicity is a social construct.

A black t-shirt on a dining table. The shirt says, "Ride the D" with the D in a purple circle.

It's arrived!

...which also lobbies hard to keep exploiting their drivers. Had to stop using them when they were campaigning for Prop 22 in CA.

Yeah not sure if anyone has told him how poor quality the Venezuelan oil is yet.

(To be clear, the lines during Desert Storm were NOTHING like the gas rationing during the OPEC crisis, but they did have a lot of Boomers saying "Ah, this is *nothing* like what happened in the '70's, you kids don't know...")

Or if you look at the last several times we got into beef with countries in the Middle East and what it did to gas prices.

You can do what Bush I did, but that just gave us "SOLD OUT" signs and gas lines that prompted reminiscence about the 1970s.