The answer is because local governments prioritized cars over streetcars and public transportation:
The real problem was that once cars appeared on the road, they could drive on streetcar tracks — and the streetcars could no longer operate efficiently. “Once just 10 percent or so of people were driving, the tracks were so crowded that [the streetcars] weren’t making their schedules,” Norton says.
The Environmental Protection Agency approved a component of boat fuel made from discarded plastic that the agency’s own risk formula determined was so hazardous, everyone exposed to the substance continually over a lifetime would be expected to develop cancer. Current and former EPA scientists said that threat level is unheard...
On the other side of the same coin your knee-jerk reaction to calling Biden a typical neo-lib is laughable when he’s led the most progressive administration since FDR.
A $1 trillion infrastructure bill, the first major gun control bill in decades which implemented some common sense background checks people had been asking for for decades; the Inflation Reduction Act which would have been Build Back Better if it wasn’t for the neolibs in Congress who fought against it saying it was too much. This includes a $2,000 annual cap for out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for those insured by Medicare. $80 billion dollars to the IRS to audit the rich. A $380 billion corporate tax increase, and $369 billion in clean energy.
I’m as progressive as they come. This has been the most progressive administration of my lifetime; but sure let’s just pretend that Biden is just another neo-lib and give every brain-dead progressive fodder to say that Biden isn’t doing anything so they stay at home during the election next year…
You’re allowed to say you want more from the administration and push them to do more, sure. But pretending Biden is just another neo-lib who hasn’t accomplished anything is reductive and not constructive or helpful for progressives who want more to be done because things take more than 1 election to be accomplished which is something the progressive voting block never seem to understand.
In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability. Article 6 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force browser providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites present on a government provided list....
Firefox and Mozilla have been struggling mightily lately. Downloading Firefox won’t help when Mozilla goes out of business. The best thing you can do is donate to Mozilla IMO.
Mozilla gets the vast majority of their revenue from having Google be the default search provider for Firefox.
Just going to point out, that you’re the only one in this thread who sounds offended. You started with the offended tone, I don’t think you get to play that card.
Pornhub blocked all users in Arkansas after the state’s new age verification law went into effect on Tuesday. The law requires porn sites to verify that users are at least 18 years old. Pornhub argued that requiring ID verification actually harms users’ privacy and puts children at risk. MindGeek, Pornhub’s operator, has...
There is a reason “learn to laugh at yourself” is a recurring quote from many people.
This is all this is, to learn to laugh at your younger self. No one is saying your feelings or thoughts as a teenager are invalid but perspectives and priorities change when you get older and the things that make you feel and act that way will seem trivial and therefore silly.
There is a reason this is a recurring theme between generations. Sorry but your generation is no different. It is not bullying, it is learning to look back at your younger self and see that the difficulties you were facing were relatively trivial even if they didn’t feel that way at the time.
Also please remember your sentiment the next time you see one of these memes “attacking” millennials. Basically the way you’ve formed your argument here is that this meme in this OP is “bullying” millennials.
This philosophy makes sense for IRC, but how would this work on Beehaw/Lemmy? You have to DM a bot to interact with it? How would people even know it exists? In IRC there is a list of users in the channel you can scan for helpful bots. I’m failing to see the equivalent with Lemmy.
If your income is that low you should qualify for Medicaid theoretically. Not that that isn’t its own hell to get and keep with red states kicking people off for simple paperwork issues. 'Merica.
Did you read the article, because it addresses this to some extent. It describes how she used pressuring members of her own party to get things done. Like pressuring Kathy Hochel to not nerf the Build Public Renewables act.
It is only not a strength in the press because the press loves to smear her. People are complaining she’s “just a plain old Democrat now.” Which just implies she goes along with the Neolib agenda. But she also fights with her own party too much? So which one is it?
The argument of “sponsored bills” passed in Congress to determine legislative effectiveness is either ignorant of how Congress works, or is disingenuous.
The last 2 Congresses have been the least effective in history and have passed the least legislation of any Congress ever. Any impactful legislation that AOC could propose of course isn’t going to get any traction because there’s only a handful of progressive members of Congress.
Your argument appears to be we shouldn’t elect any progressive members of Congress because they won’t be effective because there’s not enough of them to pass legislation. Do you see how backwards that logic is? You’re creating a chicken before the egg problem.
Only 1 piece of legislation sponsored by Bernie Sanders got to the President’s desk, and it was vetoed and didn’t pass. Yet I don’t see anyone making the argument that Bernie Sanders is an ineffective lawmaker.
AOCs and other progressives’ agenda isn’t to introduce new radical legislation, it’s to pull proposed legislation to the left so that it is more effective than it otherwise would have been. Pelosi has needed AOC’s and the rest of the squads votes to make legislation pass and has had to give concessions because of that fact.
They screamed about Build Back Better and told Pelosi not to call the vote and warned that relying on Joe Manchin to pass it would result in less effective watered down legislation. Instead of listening to them and trying to alter the bill to get more votes, Pelosi called a vote anyway and surprise surprise Manchin did an about face and wouldn’t pass BBB and we were forced to take the watered down Inflation Reduction Act.
So as a result of Pelosi trying to push through legislation by doing a deal with the devil (Manchin) we got less effective legislation and not BBB which would have been something similar to FDR’s new deal and second new deal which were instrumental in putting people to work in this country and building our infrastructure. Would you call that effective legislation?
They deserve it. It seems like so many transphobes only want to recognize the existence of detransitioners to use them as a transphobic tool to support their close-minded worldview....
Simple. The people making those types of arguments aren’t doing so in good faith. All they’re trying to do is twist any “evidence” to support their unsupportable opinion.
Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury on four criminal counts in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election leading up to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol....
I think the poster above you’s point was that the people who do work for him usually don’t get paid at all regardless of who is paying. Usually Trump would probably just stiff the lawyers so the PAC could use the money for other things like advertising and rallies.
However I think the answer here is the lawyers are demanding the money up front so stiffing them isn’t an option.
If it’s on a new console who says the performance or world would be bad? With hardware that isn’t 10 years old they could actually have a full world without the game chugging at 15FPS.
Also are you seriously gonna pretend like having the game be 3D is no different from Fire Red or Leaf Green? Lol
While many believe young people are becoming more liberal, data shows that 12th grade boys are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservative compared to liberal. Around 25% of high school seniors identify as conservative while only 13% identify as liberal. In contrast, the share of 12th grade girls identifying as liberal...
Bed, bath and beyond. (feddit.uk)
Canada’s Far-Right is Planning a Convoy to Toronto to ‘Save the Children’. It’s Already Spinning Out of Control. (pressprogress.ca)
The ‘Save the Children Convoy’ is struggling as organizers accuse one another of being ‘undercover cops’ or planning ‘violence’ and ‘terrorism’
When someone makes a crude joke on the internet (lemmy.world)
Most popular 'real' desktop will soon be the Linux desktop [Opinion] (www.theregister.com)
4chan gets it (lemmy.ml)
EPA Approved a Fuel Ingredient Even Though It Could Cause Cancer in Virtually Every Person Exposed Over a Lifetime (www.propublica.org)
The Environmental Protection Agency approved a component of boat fuel made from discarded plastic that the agency’s own risk formula determined was so hazardous, everyone exposed to the substance continually over a lifetime would be expected to develop cancer. Current and former EPA scientists said that threat level is unheard...
[HN] Will Browsers Be Required by Law to Stop You from Visiting Infringing Sites? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability. Article 6 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force browser providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites present on a government provided list....
The Thunberg Effect: Why Some Australians Overheat At The Mere Mention Of Swedish Climate Activist - New Matilda (newmatilda.com)
Thunberg is a Swedish resident who speaks English as a second language....
Arm the Homeless (lemmy.ca)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/2634741...
Pornhub goes dark in Arkansas after age verification law kicks in (www.theverge.com)
Pornhub blocked all users in Arkansas after the state’s new age verification law went into effect on Tuesday. The law requires porn sites to verify that users are at least 18 years old. Pornhub argued that requiring ID verification actually harms users’ privacy and puts children at risk. MindGeek, Pornhub’s operator, has...
I don't see anything wrong with how we used to be (sopuli.xyz)
Gas lobby launches new scare campaign on electrification, saying it will break the grid (reneweconomy.com.au)
What does everyone think of bots on Beehaw?
How do you all feel about bots?...
‘It’s like I’m worthless’: hospitals dump patients on the street in Kentucky (www.youtube.com)
America is hell
A Longtime Political Organizer in AOC’s District Says She’s the Real Deal (www.thenation.com)
I'd like more non-transphobic detransitioners to be supported and recognized.
They deserve it. It seems like so many transphobes only want to recognize the existence of detransitioners to use them as a transphobic tool to support their close-minded worldview....
Donald Trump has been indicted in special counsel’s 2020 election interference probe (www.cnn.com)
Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury on four criminal counts in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election leading up to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol....
After Paying Lawyers, Trump’s PAC Is Nearly Broke (www.nytimes.com)
NYT gift link (expires in 30 days)...
Sources: Nintendo targets 2024 with next-gen console | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
From article:...
High school boys are trending conservative (thehill.com)
While many believe young people are becoming more liberal, data shows that 12th grade boys are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservative compared to liberal. Around 25% of high school seniors identify as conservative while only 13% identify as liberal. In contrast, the share of 12th grade girls identifying as liberal...
parents are accepting yay!
So I came out to parents today and they are both accepting I’m happy :3