So this woman, Mandy Gunasekara who perports to be from the “Independent Women’s Forum’s Center on Energy and Conservation”, is actually a bullshit artist who actually doesn’t believe in science, right? I’d be curious to know if there is anyone else from “Independent Women’s Forum’s Center on Energy and Conservation”…

So Twitter is profusely bleeding advertisers (Elon Musk, gOoD aT bIzNuS) and we know Tucker Carlson drove them away from Fox by the barrel. So I see where this is going. They’re gonna charge (whether its Twitter Blue or extra) for the ability to watch the show. Elon will think this will be some brilliant move to…

A wealthy region’s governments actually coming up with a practical solution instead of just a new way to treat unhoused people like subhumans?

Your perspective is very limited; people have always been overworked and underpaid. Look at Japan in the 70s, 80s, and 90s: they were seriously overworked people there but they didn’t go on violent rampages. And even in America, with the constant assault on labor by each successive GOP-led Congress or Presidency,…

Jesus... I’m not speaking of any one single authority. Look up the word authoritarianism in any dictionary. And no, it has nothing to do with the ‘illuminati’... *facepalm*

The TSA is the same way.

That’s the obvious thing(s) to do, but to actually do so requires having humanity. Authoritarianism is much more fun, then you get to club everyone in the head with draconian rules and lord over them laughing maniacally, while your victims groan in pain and agony (and with children screaming), sitting on a cramped…

Fort Lauderdale to Miami is about 30 miles.

100%. I don’t think you could ever PAY me to vote for a Republican, but Democrats absolutely fucked up here. Biden broke the strike, which would have pushed for more regulations that were directly aimed at shit like this.

Why should Buttigieg be involved with this? Republicans in a Republican state supported a Republican who cut the regulations, but the Congress remains responsible for the laws. Even had the braking rule been in effect, it applied to trains with 70+ cars of hazardous material - this train had 10 and so would not have…

This is what happens when, as a Democrat, your party and leader breaks a strike. When an incident happens that is at least partially based on what the strike was about, especially so soon after breaking it, it completely destroys your ability to respond to it in any meaningful way. I hope Biden and all the other…

You’ve described the exact reason I got out of programming. I loved it when I was able to see myself as hot shit working on toys that I enjoyed.

As soon as I got employed and was a cog, I hated it, and realized it was time to find a new career.

If I wasn’t busy with my real, actual work, I would dip back into that first article announcing George was going over there just to re-read all the dick-riding comments about how this galaxy-brain genius was going to move mountains, just to taste how poorly they aged.

I’m willing to be there’s a “no stopping on tracks” sign just the other side of that beam.  This was pure idiocy.

100% this. That beam is freakin enormous. When they moved the Space Shuttle through LA they had to practically shut down the entire goddamn city, and that was actually 12 feet shorter than this beam

I feel like if you are moving something like that you need to coordinate with the railroad if a crossing is unavoidable.

Its almost as if predators seek out jobs that give them access to their preferred targets and have minimal to nonexistent oversight.

Meanwhile, there’s now legislation to require forward cameras on vehicles because more children are being killed in “frontover accidents” where the driver can’t see the first 10-12 feet of ground ahead. Think about that. We’re now talking about cameras to see in the direction we generally look out of our vehicles.

The average gas tax in the United States is less than $0.30 per gallon.

You must have a very tight sphincter if that qualifies as “out the ass”

Fuel isn’t even taxed enough to pay for necessary infrastructure maintenance, not to mention environmental externalities.