6:30am, Thursday, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
This congestion could have been a single train car, but the powers that be decided that it was better (for them) to make everyone dependent on the oil and auto industry.
"In his decision, Carney granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss, agreeing that Rundo and Boman were being selectively prosecuted, while “far-left extremist groups, such as Antifa” were not."
@BlackAzizAnansi Jesus. "Oh, we cant try this person unless we also try this completely made up other person. What do you mean you cant bring charges on a made up person? Sounds like you're biased to me".
"You can't try X unless you also try Y, hence, X gets to walk free".
This is the shit that flies in this country because of decades of undereducating the populace.
Portugal is crushing it: renewables met 91% of Portugal’s electricity needs in the first 4 months this year & have pushed their⚡️prices to a 4 yr low!
Renewables are carrying an increasing % of their electrcity demand in the first 4 months in 2024:
95% April
91% March
88% Feb
81% in Jan
Portugal’s rapid transition is evidence it can be done: renewables are up from 27% in 2005 & 54% in 2017 with their last coal power plant shut down in 2021. #nature#environment#renewables#earth
My nervous Formica subsericea colony. These are black field ants. When I turn on the light they panic. A newly emerged worker (called a callow) cowers as her sisters stampede over her. She is newly emerged and not strong enough to run and freak out.
One of her sisters picks her up and she tucks her legs in like a pupae so she is easy to carry. In a few days she will be a lovely black like her older sisters.
At 20 some million inhabitants in its metro area, it's by far the most populous city I've ever been to.
As I was landing, looking down into the winding streets of the city, I got the feeling that this was a place one could get lost in and never found again.
That intimidated me a bit.
So, getting blackout drunk on mezcal during a business dinner and wandering out in the streets was probably not a good idea.
Anyways - I just found out I'll have to go to Shanghai next month for a work event and it turns out it's twice as populous as CDMX, so that should be an interesting experience.
On a related note - anyone got recommendations for what to do when visiting Shanghai for the first time?
Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University has asked New York police Tuesday to remain on campus until May 17 to “ensure encampments are not reestablished”, the AFP news agency is reporting.
A wicked mind is a weapon of mass destruction
Misinformation is a weapon of mass destruction
Racism is a weapon of mass destruction
Fear is a weapon of mass destruction
Greed is a weapon of mass destruction
Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction
Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction
Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction
This Italian gas company could just stop responding to me, but if they don't I'll keep poking holes in their arguments.
Yes, there is in fact a single solution to the crisis and it is to stop burning fossil fuels, and no, so called "green gases" will not save your toxic industry.