That it's gotten this far with this many votes means that investment firms have already placed language into the bill that will let them continue to buy up houses by completing a few additional low-effort steps.

That's what I'm guessing, that each LLC is only allowed a certain number of units, or there's a limit on the number of different types of units which will only lead them to re-name each type of unit to something else. It's no longer "single family homes" but "one unit housing with land". Or it limits the amount of "affordable housing" they can buy, but then they just change what's affordable, or only build luxury houses - like everyone wants affordable, economical cars these days, but all you can buy are expensive, gas-guzzling SUVs.

Did you know that Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, lives in the 950 Lombard Street and 841 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, California? Very interesting!

I didn't know that!

Is this the same Sam Altman where, when someone tried to throw a Molotov cocktail at his house a couple of months ago, it took the police over 15 minutes to arrive to investigate?

Aka, Dances with Wolvesheads.

A bunch of artists have severed connections with the Kennedy Center. I would assume most would refuse to play there until Trump's hand-picked sycophantic Board is cleared of all the trash.

Not a Republican, Russian, Israeli or billionaire.

You can't just drop this and not tell us about this impossibly dumb rule you made years ago.

Also: welcome home, Critter!

A lot of sidewalks in major cities don't have room for these. Especially if you account for traffic, light, and power poles, street signs, bus and trolley stops, subway and El entrances, sidewalk trees, garbage, trash and recycling bins, sidewalk grates, cellar entries, cracked sidewalks, etc, etc, etc. And suddenly you're being asked to give up one piece of space that's supposedly reserved for you, to yet another 'move fast, break things, get permission later' techbro "innovation" that no one's asked for.

There's no regulation over them, no standards that they have to follow or how to behave, no way for the public to specifically identify a robot when they encounter it in public (like, say, your robot ran into my car or whatever).

I'd only allow them if each robot carried a certain amount of insurance, was registered and had some kind of license plate, had turn signals (I don't know if they do, the ones I saw didn't), had limited operating hours and locations, were forced to move aside for humans, etc - basically make them the absolute lowest priority thing on the streets and sidewalks. Streets, bike lanes, sidewalks, subways, etc, were each built for specific forms of human movement. If techbros want to introduce a new type of system, they should be forced to build their own infrastructure to support it (no idea what that looks like for delivery robots), instead of just blatantly overloading already-stressed public infrastructure.

Trees are a lot more green in the one that's had the red filtered down, lol. Definitely altered.

This is the point where civilians invest in bikes (and ebikes, if they're available), only for the military to confiscate those in a few months ...

Just curious - what are the chia seeds for?

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Lol, you have no idea ...

So, there used to be a writer's guild rule (no idea if it still exists) that you weren't paid full price if you re-used a script. However, if more than 10% of the script was changed, it was defined as a "new" script. And changing the names of the various characters involved counted toward that 10%.

So you get things like The Mod Squad episode 'Cricket' and the Charlie's Angels episode 'To Kill an Angel' being pretty much identical because they changed the names in the script. (Both were Aaron Spelling productions, and I'd swear he also used it in one of his other programs, but I can't remember which one - might've been either The Rookies or Starsky & Hutch? They kinda blend together after a while.)

54% of U.S. adults read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.

Department of 'Winning'.

A “foreign entity” has hired gunmen to shoot at synagogues in Toronto, Secretary of State for Combatting Crime Ruby Sahota said in the House of Commons on Wednesday. Ms. Sahota made the remark in an exchange about the government’s lawful-access bill, which would require electronic service providers, such as internet companies, to provide police and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service with surveillance and monitoring capabilities. Ms. Sahota said the shooters behind the recent incidents “were paid-for hires, hired by a foreign entity.” She argued that passing the bill would mean fewer victims of such crimes.

While I don't deny such a network could exist, it's terribly convenient that this claim (a) makes local shooters into "misled youths" falling prey to evil foreigners, and that (b) defeating this claimed network requires an expansion of government surveillance capabilities.

First they came for the trade unionists ....

Was 31 in 2013 when he ran over that woman, so he'd be about 44 right now - The same age as the man they just arrested.

Be the change you want to see.

Given that Belarus has:

• Allowed Russian troops to train in their country
• Allowed Russia to launch part of it's invasion from their country, and only stopping two months later when it was clear that the blitzkrieg had failed
• Allowed Russia to station missile launchers and fire into Ukraine from Belarus
• Allowed Belarusian troops to fight in Ukraine and only withdraw them once it was clear that the blitzkrieg had failed

I'm not sure how Lukashenko thinks Belarus wasn't part of the war. It certainly was eager enough when they thought it would be short and they'd get some of the spoils.