Not as easy as it sounds. What people want and what they need are often different. Americans want gas powered cars (69%), not EV cars. But we need to switch to electric ASAP.

Instead of Jews, it’s Hispanics. Instead of gypsies, it’s the homeless. And instead of trans people…well that one is the same.

It’s a result of any stage of capitalism

That might work fine for small, densely packed European cities but it won’t work in most of the US. I live in Chicago and can drive by car for 45 minutes and still be in the city. It would take me at least 30-40 minutes to bike to work depending on the wind. When it’s -20F outside, that is just not happening.

I can’t wait for crime to spike in Trump’s term and then have Biden blamed for it because of this.

Sweden and Denmark are 47th and 44th in the number of cars per capita. They aren’t even in the lower 2/3 of countries. Out of the lowest half of countries on the list, the only one where it regularly gets cold is Greenland.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_by_motor_vehicles_per_capita

Micromobility will never be a solution for places where it rains a lot or where it gets cold often. People need an enclosed cabin like this.

There’s a lot of fake “bronze” stuff coming out of China, so keep an eye out.

In linguistics this is called expletive infixation. It’s a good example of the inherent grammar of language that we are never directly taught but know anyway. For example, we know fanfuckingtastic is correct but fantafuckingstic is wrong.

The McDonald’s employee sounds like an excuse to cover up finding him using illegal digital surveillance. They had to have been getting thousands of calls across a half dozen states of people saying they saw the guy.

It’s all pretty blatantly anti-authoritarian which is a nice lesson for kids.

It’s an offshoot of a group Paul Manafort has worked for since the end of the Trump presidency, so I would say that’s a sure bet.

The latest genetic tracing points to the origin being the animals sold at the market in Wuhan.

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00901-2

They are a dark money group, so they hide their donors. The founders are Ted Cruz’s PR guy and a personnel guy from Trump’s presidency. It was created in 2020 specifically to obstruct Biden.

I love that the article didn’t post his address, but did post a picture of his house, how much he paid for it, and the name of his mortgage company. It would be terrible if anyone used that information to find out where he lives on Zillow…

While we are changing borders, can we give Illinois a small bit of border with Michigan? It would be nice to go east from Chicago without ever crossing into Indiana.

Yes. These truths are things like the economy is improving but will take time, prices will never go back to what they were before Covid, man-made climate change is a real existential threat to human civilization, legalizing abortion results in fewer deaths than banning it, trans people exist, and institutional racism exists.

Some of the comfortable lies are that tariffs will fix everything, fuel prices will drop if we drill more, wars in Ukraine and Palestine can be easily ended with simple negotiation, and Project 2025 isn’t the working plan for the Trump presidency.

Explaining the election result is simple: people picked comfortable lies over uncomfortable truths.

Shit like this is why Trump won.