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[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago

Hmm...

spoiler


Pretty sure it's just a bug in the federation of images between blahaj.zone and lemmy.world, but it was a funny coincidence.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

"Why saw her with a telescope?"

"Because it's dull, you twit; it'll hurt more!"

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Because I don't think you're allowed to be a Senator and the President at the same time. Although I can't remember which part of the Constitution says that, so maybe it's one of those things that's a norm instead of a rule?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

The point is, this didn't happen because the Democrats made a mistake. This happened because the Democrats knew exactly what they were doing and did it on purpose.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Bullshit! You had zero intention whatsoever of having a productive conversation; that would've required accepting the possibility of your opinion being changed. Instead, you came in with the condescending attitude and explicitly stated goal of figuring out precisely how you were right and I was wrong:

I’m only asking to find out what your actual position is so I can know if we disagree on facts or on feelings.

You basically asked "so anyway, are you ignorant or just plain stupid?" That's fighting words and you fucking know it, so don't try to pretend otherwise now!

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

I'm not saying capitalism doesn't have a lot to answer for, but I'm pretty sure road rage has separate and distinct causes related to cars themselves, including but not limited to:

  • When you're enclosed in a car you become more anonymous and may feel less accountable for your bad behavior than you would if you were exposed as a pedestrian. Conversely, other drivers are also enclosed so it becomes easier to dehumanize them.

  • You're driving what's likely your most expensive piece of personal property, so you're prone to be defensive when it's threatened by other drivers' behavior.

  • A car is also a very personal choice that's designed to provide the comfort of a private space, so it's easy to feel like the presence of other road users is intruding on your space.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/64647650

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

LOL, you start off in bad faith asking bullshit 'gotcha' questions, and now you have the utter fucking gall to try to claim moral high ground?

What I've done isn't a devolution; it's self-defense. You're just butthurt I didn't fall for your ploy.

But sure, if that's what you want, I'll make it explicit: you're a toxic POS and have been since our first interaction.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago

I would 100% rather wash radio telescopes than plates.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 45 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

This phenomenon is so well-known that Disney was making cartoons about it 75 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwPSIb3kt_4

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

LOL, they got upstaged.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

You're not wrong, but it's also an indication of just how thoroughly the Israelis have destroyed their credibility/moral high ground that my immediate thought after reading your comment was that maybe the shooter was Mossad doing a false-flag operation to manufacture that result.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 31 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

You poor, dumb bastard. You didn't realize Musk and the Russian oligarchs were already ideological fellow travelers? "Warning" him would've only made him invite them in faster.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/64597842

 

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/28282534

This is awesome!

A brief view of the changes:

  • Eliminating parking mandates downtown and within half a mile of light rail and streetcar stations

  • Eliminating parking mandates for offices and most retail

  • Eliminating parking mandates for residential uses, while maintaining one parking space per unit for developments over 200 units

  • Reducing parking mandates for bars and restaurants while removing mandates completely for establishments under 2,500 square feet

  • Eliminating parking mandates for designated historic buildings

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/64312522

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/36827447

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/62487284

"They told me that if I do not back down, they will fight to defeat me"

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28665588

Lawyers for the federal government briefly published internal correspondence on Wednesday evening detailing a laundry list of flaws in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s legal strategy to shut down the MTA’s congestion pricing tolls.

The document, dated April 11, was mistakenly posted on the docket of the MTA’s federal lawsuit challenging U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s effort to kill the tolls by revoking federal approval. The internal 11-page letter, sent from attorneys in the Southern District of New York to a lawyer for the federal transportation department, was taken down less than an hour after it was erroneously put online. By Thursday afternoon, the attorneys were taken off the case while a transportation department spokesperson speculated they published the document as an act of sabatoge.

It marked a new, bizarre wrinkle in the legal back-and-forth between New York state and the Trump administration over the future of the Manhattan tolls — and sparked yet another round of recrimination within President Donald Trump's justice department.

Three assistant U.S. attorneys wrote in the internal letter that Duffy’s current argument to shut down the tolls isn’t likely to hold up in court. The program was approved under former President Joe Biden through a U.S. DOT pilot program – the Value Pricing Pilot Program – that allows local governments to impose tolls on federally funded roads. Duffy has argued he has the authority to rescind that approval, but the government attorneys were skeptical.

“It is unlikely that Judge [Lewis] Liman or further courts of review will accept the argument that [congestion pricing] was not a statutorily authorized ‘value pricing’ pilot” by the federal government, the letter states. “We have been unable to identify a compelling legal argument to support this position."

 

"This deep-dive investigation digs into the impact on the computer industry by volatility from frequent tariffs changes in the US market. We travel the US and make some calls to the EU to learn about how tariffs changes and rates are affecting various businesses, including those which already manufacture their own goods in the US and Canada. We spoke with independent freight forwarders, computer part manufacturers, computer building factories, Canadian and US-based case building factories, downstream manufacturers, and more about the real-world consequences of the current tariffs policies instituted by the US Government. Features ‪@der8auer-en‬ (Thermal Grizzly) and ‪@rossmanngroup‬ , alongside Hyte, CyberPower, iBUYPOWER, Corsair, Cooler Master, 45 Drives / Protocase, and a freight forwarder from Straight Forwarding."

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42741549

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