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Yes, and it only returns, “I can’t even”

we don’t use this without first writing proper unit tests for our changes, integrating them with the regression tests, and thoroughly documenting our changes for the next developer that has to work on this

I’m an optimist, and it’s technically possible

That’s a good point, didn’t even consider that. EVs have really fast acceleration, despite being heavier

To be fair, the DoJ generally protects everyone who is rich and powerful. I was surprised they gave Bob Menendez a slap on the wrist, rather than dropping the case

And I do consider 11 years a slap on the wrist, considering he took bribes from foreign governments. That’s Eric Adams levels of corruption, although nowhere near Trump levels of corruption

Justice Department officials chose to move cautiously and slowly over concerns about the implications of investigating a former and possibly future president, taking  pains to insulate the probes from even the appearance of politics

I don’t buy this. It doesn’t take a poli sci expert to know that Trump would make the probes political no matter what. The Justice Department would have to be incompetent if they actually believed this

For instance, it took more than a year after Trump was defeated for the Justice Department to convene a grand jury to hear evidence in the alleged criminal scheme by Trump to use fake electors to overturn the results of the 2020 election

This is the part that really kills the “caution” excuse. Why wait a year? The only possible excuses I can think of are: Incompetence or the rich and powerful protecting a fellow rich and powerful person, even if he is from across the aisle

I’d be interested to see if Trump ever goes after anyone involved. Jack Smith, the Biden family, Garland, etc. He’s gone after a lot of people that criticized him like John Bolton or James Comey. He’s also going after Letitia James. But not people involved in the Justice Department probe that was intentionally slow-rolled

I suppose that does bring a potential 3rd reason: Fear of reprisal. I’d put that under incompetence though. If you put the criminals in jail, it’s a whole lot harder for them to punish you for investigating them

While those are all contributing factors, I’d argue cars getting bigger has added two additional major factors:

1. Impacts are far more likely to be deadly due to the higher hood height knocking the victim to the asphalt/concrete, rather than them going over the hood

2. Higher hood heights have far less visibility, giving less time to react, if the driver sees the victim at all

Combine that with people generally being distracted by smartphones, and we get the current situation

It’s hard because people are addicted to their phones. Tech companies have spent billions making social media as addictive as possible. Americans also have no other choice of transportation. If you want to go somewhere, you generally must drive

There are probably several factors. I doubt there are as many people using a smartphone while driving in other countries. If someone wants to sit on their phone while commuting elsewhere, they can walk or take the train/bus/subway. In the US, you have to drive no matter what

The drivers being on their phones is a major contributor, I’d imagine

Separate minimum wages doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Especially when it’s so hyper specific:

minimum wage that would apply to construction workers on any housing project with 10 or more units and a height of up to 85 feet

So we’re incentivizing smaller buildings, which is the exact opposite of what we need. Large, single-family homes being the only housing allowed in large swaths of cities is what got us the housing crisis. Now we’re incentivizing them even more?

Construction workers currently earn a median wage of $18 per hour in L.A. and frequently face wage theft

The fact they’re nearly doubling the prevailing wage for construction on apartment buildings, without addressing wage theft makes it abundantly clear this bill is about disincentivizing dense housing

It’s just a bill to further inflate housing prices dressed up as helping workers. The main group that will benefit from this is wealthy landlords

If pollutants are the primary driver of adverse mental health outcomes, I’d expect to see Beijing be a never ending parade of people jumping from buildings. Given that’s not the case, I wonder if there is a maximum effect of pollution, or if it just happens to be a correlation

Cars cause a lot of adverse effects. I live right near a road that is entirely too fast. It has a direct effect on my mental health in that it means I can’t open my window due to noise. I can’t easily walk anywhere because half the places I could walk are cut off by a fast and busy road. Anecdotally I’d feel like noise and loss of mobility from nearby roads would have a more substantial effect on mental health, and it doesn’t seem like the study did anything to isolate the different variables caused by cars

The economics term is elasticity. The demand is inelastic

(Not disagreeing with you, just adding a tidbit of knowledge)

As if we’re not already doing that

Wish someone had told me that before I bought a plane. My new hobby is aviation

I believe this is the song she was playing

Terrible Google translate of the lyrics:

I’d like to talk to you, But the TV is too loud— It’s pretending to be your head, Its speaker is so much like your mouth.

My country has risen from its knees In all its negative growth. I negatively agree with everything— Here’s my answer to your non-question:

Where have you been for eight years, Fucking inhuman beings?! I want to watch the ballet— Let the swans dance!

Let Grandpa tremble in fear for his “Lake.” Get the nightingales off the screen— Let the swans dance!

When it’s all over, you’ll be silent And pretend you had nothing to do with it. Your face is more sour than a Crimean cherry plum: You’re clearly slightly depressed about something.

I’d like to talk to you, But the TV is too loud— It’s pretending to be your head, Its speaker is so much like your mouth.

Where have you been for eight years, Fucking monsters?! I want to watch a ballet— Let the swans dance!

Let Grandpa tremble for his “Lake.”

Get off the screen, Solovyov— Let the swans dance!

A lot of references to the fall of the USSR

In theory, that’s true. In practice, most people aren’t willing to risk jail time

Consider what happened with controllers under Reagan. Nearly all went on strike. Of those that went on strike, there were 2 groups: Those that crossed the line and went back to work when ordered, and those that held the line in solidarity

Those that crossed the line were allowed to keep their jobs. Those that didn’t were immediately fired and barred from ever working for the federal government again. That effectively meant their career was over. They could never work as an air traffic controller again. Jail is an even bigger threat than that

It’s more or less a literal prisoner dilemma, except we have a historical precedent for it. I think it’s incredibly shitty, but realistically I don’t see it working

Oh don’t worry about that, they already caused their havoc

Thanks to the FAA’s shoestring budget, they don’t have the funds to just issue an STC to allow existing planes to use it. Each plane owner will have to pay for one to be issued. It costs me $200 to get one issued. It costs that much because the FAA hasn’t had the budget to upgrade their systems, so handling applications takes a lot of labor. They need to manually verify the make and model of aircraft will not be at risk of adverse effects from unleaded gasoline, since safety > all else

It’s a good thing the FAA verifies this, but it shouldn’t be such an inefficient process. The only reason it’s so inefficient is because conservatives have gutted federal agencies for so many years. MAGA will still point to the inefficient process as an example of why they should keep cutting funding, “see how inefficient the FAA is? They don’t deserve our money!”

There is really no mechanism for their private jets to have traffic coverage that wouldn’t be given to other air traffic

The American air traffic system has a rather egalitarian design that I’m a big fan of. By and large traffic is treated equally. I, in a small GA plane, can fly into nearly* any civilian airport just like a private jet or commercial airliner. Air traffic control is a public service provided for free to anyone that needs it. A good example of where socialism has worked well

*There are some minor exceptions, for example LAX requires prior authorization for unscheduled GA aircraft at the moment. That and ATC may make a GA aircraft wait for a while before sequencing, but that’s mostly a practicality issue, since they need to give a small plane a lot more time to land and space to avoid wake turbulence

The primary result of this is primarily delayed or cancelled flights. Safety hasn’t been significantly affected, although controllers are human and susceptible to human factors such as stress or fatigue that they may feel more pressure to work through than normal