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This is already the case in Seattle. It's hard to tell if the law was originally created with any good intention or if it was just NIMBYism from the start. Regardless, the net resu…

I really recommend the book "Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande. It helped me process the drawn out and unpleasant death of my grandfather and look at end of life care in a different li…

The US actually has a legal structure for employees to have beneficial (+ tax advantaged) ownership of their companies, the ESOP (employee stock ownership plan). It's a legal struc…

> How much of China's military command is a crony boys club full of people who never had to militarily prove anything? Have you even glanced at the current leadership of the US mil…

Seattle actually happens to have some absolutely great examples of local journalism as well as some extremely bad examples of corporate owned "news" factories. https://westseattleb…

... you don't think the highway construction firms are continually keeping the wheels greased to make sure the funding keeps flowing to them? "Big light rail" must really be puttin…

> Every time I think about EVs, I become filled with dread thinking about what will happen if an area loses power for an extended period of time A mid-size EV battery can easily st…

Can you source that? Diesel is only 13% more energy dense than gasoline [1] so the difference between the two fuels isn't huge. I suspect that modern (last five years) turbocharged…

The Toyota community has been far down that road with the DCM module in the new gen cars and found that the car still managed to get updates out to Toyota even with 50 ohm terminat…

> So we had to derive from them derived streams that didn't show temporal dependencies any longer, at least not as strongly Could you expand on that (or at least point me towards s…

Not always: https://www.live5news.com/2025/01/23/pastor-charged-with-vio... Wouldn't want to endanger the homeless by letting them sleep under a church roof without the the state's…

Given that steam turbine efficiency depends on the temperature delta between steam input and condenser, unlikely unless you're somehow going to adapt Nvidia GPUs to run with coolin…

> Something or someone really, really wants you to be comfortable with violence. Instagram started serving me violent content out of the blue recently. My reels feed went from most…

> Yes, but the economic rationale of immigration is to have younger workers who can pay into the system to buffer the growing older population Is it though? Not passing judgement e…

> Something very strange happened in the last 20 years. Tech companies discovered that the most profitable position to be in was global middleman , at a scale previously impossible…

As someone who works in US manufacturing, the situation is much more dire and I think the "low quality / high quality" back-and-forth is burying the lede. It's not just that China …

> It would take years to make a single new bus route in any city, I don't think I've ever even seen that happen. This is simply not true. Madison, WI just finished a massive revamp…

If literally a single person in this entire comment section had read the linked article they would have seen that the parent comment's (bad faith) point is directly addressed. > Of…

> The American right wing simply just doesn't have the cultural cachet in major institutions such as academia, Hollywood, publishing houses, and generally in major US cities to enf…

Universal tariffs with no exception don't even incentivize domestic manufacturing when it cuts local manufacturers off from an outside market that's bigger than the domestic one. M…

Can you point to a single public school in the US that does this? Not being snarky, I would love to have one to show as an example. My public school had a kitchen ... that it used …

Wow, what a cool piece of Madison history. I spent a lot of afternoons at Boulders in the mid-2010s but never knew that it had a predecessor like that.

What is the general view on Enver Hoxha by today's Albanian population?

> voters are not individual agents but rather a mob subject to manipulation by propaganda Who is even saying this is not true? The United States government is more aware than maybe…

This is basically how every discussion around building more transit in Seattle goes. The town hall meetings feel like an episode of Parks and Rec.