Also transit time, unlike driving time, can be productive time (especially when transfers are minimized).
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Also transit time, unlike driving time, can be productive time (especially when transfers are minimized).
More War, No More Noem
an accurate headline and also a tongue twister
The explanation pointed toward what to do: debunk lies, spread truth, build alternative media. Public opinion turned, war-happy elected officials started paying a price. What do we do if most people already know what's happening is wrong, and simply don't feel there's any point to doing something?
The outrage-free disapproval unsettles me more than the fleeting public support at the outset of Iraq. The early polls on the Iraq War had an explanation: a 911-traumatized public, a lying administration cynically exploiting that trauma, a complicit media giving undue deference to government claims.
By all measures, this war has vastly less public support than the Iraq war started out with. But paradoxically, there seems to be much more public resignation about the war proceeding.
I don't know how to explain the vibe difference today. Is it because I'm older and disconnected? Because we're numbed by a quarter-century of War on Terror? Have we lost a sense of collective agency, resigned to being bystanders in a multi-state conflict initiated by our own elected officials?
In 2003, when GWB launched the invasion of Iraq, it was like I could feel the earth move beneath my feet. Protests gridlocked downtown SF. I got arrested. Even the cops minding us were talking about the war. One said "you know we're just doing our job. My daughter's out there protesting."
Massive cognitive dissonance for me, going shopping, seeing people meander through the grocery aisles and exchange pleasantries about anything else. Seeing petition gatherers out front and they're talking about transit funding or liability reform, not THE MASSIVE FUCKING WAR.
There's something unsettling how about how normal everything feels (to me, at least) here the the country that just launched a war now involving 14 nations.
Guys the regime's clear it launched this war for one reason:
To stop a nuclear program, to stop a missile program, to stop terrorism, to change a leadership, to change a regime, to advance national interests, to defend allies, to open shipping lanes, to keep Israel from doing it first.
They're bought in BTC? I assumed they were just marketed and sold in USD as ATVs.
What are you doing about it?
A fun fact from history is that productivity-enhancing technology generally *intensifies* work.
A friend worked with Pauli Murray's archives, and could *smell Pauli's cigarettes* every time she opened a file or notebook.
Yes. Fun fact: peak energy intensity from our sun at ground level is roughly in the frequency range our eyes perceive as green.
This is the frequency range that photosynthetic organisms reflect rather than absorb, which why they all look ... green.
It's complicated. Crops use a limited range of the light spectrum for photosynthesis. PV panels use a limited range of the light spectrum for generation. They overlap, but only partially. And PV cells, esp w/ perovskite, could be engineered to use more non-overlapping spectrum.
It is weird to frame roofs and farms as an either / or.
Bad Bunny really got the president to denounce a straight couple getting married on TV.
I didn't really understand the primary energy fallacy until we electrified. Here in Northern California, the climate's mild enough that our heat pumps are mostly operating well above their labeled COP. Will probably never utilize all the rooftop solar capacity we installed.
To get media democracy, we'll need supportive regulation and subsidy. To get those, we'll need it to be a high-salience political issue, which it mostly hasn't been for the quarter-century American newsrooms have been bleeding jobs.
Gutted for all the good people getting cut at the Post, but also somewhat buoyed by how many people not employed in media are getting really really upset by newsroom cuts.
Grabbing Bad Bunny tracks off Youtube to mix into a superbowl interview and I'm getting bombarded with pre-roll ads from Kristi Noem urging people to self-deport. In English.
3 yrs ago I started writing a book that is in stores TODAY. It's narrative nonfiction, anti-fascist spy thriller set in Trump era. It's timely as hell & I'm proud of it.
A thread of what people are saying abt it & why I hope you'll help make it a bestseller www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...
We got Palantir's user guide for ELITE, the tool they made for ICE: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...
Acts of mutual aid demonstrate that people like to help each other, that the Other is not an automatic threat, that government could be operated for the benefit of all rather than the subjugation of some. Their right's worldview requires those acts to be insincere, or it crumbles.
Big swaths of the right have internalized a worldview in which society is a war of all against all, and government just a tool to make one in-group win. That's why they can't understand minor acts of solidarity. It's also why those acts have a political impact beyond just helping people.
Berkeley definitely applies rent control to e.g. backyard cottages on single family lots, if they were built early enough. Costa Hawkin exempts them from local rent control once they become legally detached from other units, which is what a condo conversion does.
Looks like both, with non-ADU units in multifamily still subject to preceding restrictions on condo conversions.
Bit of an end-run around rent control here. Berkeley has a lot of ADUs old enough to be rent-stabilized.
When ADUs convert to condos, they're exempt from local rent control.
Local law gives tenants the right to stay, but they'd be subject to bigger rent hikes.
www.berkeleyside.org/2026/01/21/b...
The problem with these bespoke power sources that political leaders embrace as a matter of ideology rather than practicality isn't that they're more expensive -- which they are -- but that they're simply not reliable.