In principle we shouldn't worry so much about individual consumer actions, but...

By 2020, the most recent numbers available, the E.P.A. estimated that the emissions controls had been removed from more than 550,000 diesel pickup trucks over the prior decade, or roughly 15 percent of all diesel trucks originally certified with those controls.

This seems to have become an commercial industry at scale, so is a genuine problem.

It's in the fine article:

The EA’s main complaint seems to be that the dredging was significant enough that it constitutes a flood risk.

Ultimately since we have such a huge wealth gap, normal people won't be able to compete with the rich who can buy homes as investments.

I guess it's nice that it's not just a handout to developers.

China is by no means perfect, but framing a country doing exactly as what every country should be doing as somehow sinister or having nefarious motives smacks of deep anti-Chinese indoctrination.

Donald Trump was born in the same year as Bill Clinton.

Trump began his 2nd term presidency 32 years after Clinton began his 2nd term.

I looked her up, and she was a famous page 3 girl who became a pop star, which I knew. She came out as a lesbian in 2003, which was news to me.

That chair hardly looks sturdy enough for that load....

"Internal combustion engine vehicles also lose range in extreme cold weather," points out Ed Kim, the chief analyst with the research group AutoPacific, who was not involved in AAA's research. The Environmental Protection Agency has estimated a 10% to 30% drop in gas vehicle fuel economy in cold weather, depending on the type of trip. "This isn't a problem that's exclusive to EVs. This happens to basically any kind of vehicle when it gets really cold."

Okay I'll bite.

Killing any news source that values truth in any way is a goal. So, mission accomplished by the fascists.

Along with a war chest that far exceeded Scott’s and a crowded field of newcomers, Clark’s campaign benefited from Scott’s death on 22 April at the age of 80.

We really need to normalize politicians retiring. They shouldn't all stay in power until they literally die of old age.

The police exist to protect capital and the capital class. They're not incompetent, they're doing their job just fine.

It's like using your laptop poolside. Seems cool but actually sucks ass.

Now that the US has declared itself a foreign adversary for every other country on the planet, can we start banning online ads, at least from US companies?

Is she going to be able to get some of that $1,776 million slush fund for people attacked by a weaponized justice department?

Well... without Mitchell McConnell ignoring the Constitution to get two extra appointees for Trump 1, we might be at a 4-5 decision the other way...

Thomas has been a weird and terrible person for decades, long before MAGA.

He was one of the main pushers of Citizens United, for example. He really believes that wealth should provide more political influence.

I mean, there's always the classic Rampage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/...

In the USA there is an assumption that people speed a little in their cars all the time. So speed limits are set lower than they should be, because people will go over them. People know this, and assume that the speed limits are deliberately set too low.

This leads to nonsensical situations like where you have a road with a 35 miles per hour speed limit, and then a yellow warning sign in front of a bend in the road warning that 35 miles per hour is the maximum safe speed. Like, why is the sign necessary if that's already the speed limit?

I learned to program in the 1980s. I promise you that for most programs written then the coder was like, "Two digit year, of course. Why waste so many bytes with a four digit year? Nobody will be using this software in 15 years!" And probably 95% of the time they were right....