Economic precarity in general is used to drive down wages, either directly or, in this case, by inflation.  Increasing the cost of living increases the size of the “reserve army of labor” by pricing out people who were on the margins.  People who are the new bottom of the “middle class” (a thing that does not…

There are plenty of abandoned houses sitting on a couple of acers of farm land basically at dirt cheap prices compared the the US. Many in Portugal don’t want them, they left their family farms long ago and moved to cities. The people buying them have been non-citizens.

Least favorite roads: Any road leading into Phoenix, AZ

It doesn’t imply that.  It doesn’t infer that either, that’s what you do from something that is implied.

The final sentence of her article *is* incorrect, but not how you’re saying. Her wording is ambiguous.

Does it mean twice as many were pulled over? Well, that’s false. Half as many were. (Look at the linked Jalopnik article.)

Does it mean that an individual black person faced twice the risk of being pulled over as an…

If it took 15 months for him to be charged, and there were a punching down angle to it, yes she or any of the writers on this site present or former in the past decade or so would have.

Cops, however, are particularly relevant to drivers, and would have us believe that they are paragons of road-going virtue, so a cop…

If the stories of LASD gangs are true, so should most of that department.

They’re setting him up to be convicted of manslaughter, then.

I can’t seem to find what degree any of the charges are. There was mention of 25 years, which if it’s just the murder charge appears to mean first degree? But at least one of the articles says that’s for *all* charges. (But he can’t be convicted of both…

Mold can be blue!  This is a good analogy!

Remember when RFID passports came out and there were instructions circulating online for where you need to smack a passport with a hammer to destroy the RFID? 

As though other automakers don’t make mid-year changes.

Every autopilot death saves Tesla ten million dollars on advertising.

They will issue refunds in the form of twitter blue checks.

Oh, hey, we used to use those in Alaska, too. Never got to -70C, but did get to -70F when I was a kid. -60 (about the same as in this video) was still something that happened fairly often when I was of driving age, -50 was a couple weeks a year, and -40 was routine.

A lot of very familiar practices here. Nostalgia. I…

Let’s see how that works out for Boeing in the next few years.

Ironically, a large portion of it is.

Tell Winnie to set up the camps!

I’ll wait for it to show up in the next Humble “Very Positive” Bundle.

“Republic of China” is Taiwan.  Soak in that a moment and reflect on whether you really are as well informed on this as you think you are.