Viewing profile — kitten_mittens_

When did upper middle class start meaning upper class? Something like 90% of Americans identify as middle class now.

U-3 Unemployment doesn't include people not actively looking for work, people making less than they'd like, or working less than they'd like. https://www.lisep.org has alternate me…

Turning transparency off significantly improves the look and responsiveness imo.

In the US, at least, there are some utilities that charge based on maximum kW (demand) and total kWh used (energy). ComEd in Chicago is a utility with a demand rate plan option.

Idaho Power’s local generation is quite clean. But…during the summer in Idaho, almost a third of energy comes from Wyoming and Utah where coal is still a substantial part of genera…

If you look at the all years view on electricity maps ( https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-MIDW-MISO/all/yearly ), 25% is share of generation from coal in MISO. I'd be curious…

I agree vision zero hasn’t been particularly effective in the US. In Boston, we have roads like Jamaicaway where the speed limit was lowered to 25mph and people regularly drive 50.…

There seem to be two competing nomenclatures around strong/weak typing where people mean static/dynamic instead.

Doesn’t BYD have a bus factory in LA already?

Why are em dashes a giveaway? They’re auto inserted on Windows for two hyphens still, aren’t they?

I updated to avoid paying the new American tariffs. The advertised AI features were decidedly underwhelming.

If you’re interested in a what an analog clock in decimal time might look like: https://decimal-time.netlify.app/

On the northern edge of Jamaica Plain (east of Brookline in Boston proper), there's a pretty stark example of Brookline's accumulated advantages. On the Boston side of the pond tha…

Massachusetts has a state level Transit Police, at least.

Some of parcels in the doc on page 58 (K) in particular are interesting. The city ended up widening the road there pretty significantly. When they built https://maps.app.goo.gl/7yV…

At the time, Romans would have said they spoke Roman (Romaic[1])--not Greek. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Greek

My parents spent $18K on rooftop solar in the Boise metro area. One Tesla powerwall battery and install on top of that will be another $15K.

Neither of these terms seem to exist on wiktionary.

A good chunk of the English lexicon was foreign at one point or another: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkhorn_term

> who...will they sell the juice to? Utah is already a power exporter. Utah generates about one-fifth more electricity than it consumes, and the state is a net supplier of power to…

When the pandemic hit in the US, and people were hoarding a bit, I had several times where I had to carry groceries home in a fruit box.

> From mid-14c. as "to pain, torment." Of tight shoes, from 1570s. Meaning "to steal" in English is from 1650s. https://www.etymonline.com/word/pinch#etymonline_v_16335

I lived in northern Germany (55°N) a few years after living most of my life at 42°N in the US. The lack of natural light in the winter was brutal.

With enough fricatives, some languages still manage. See the Serbian for Serbian, srpska https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republika_Srpska .