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Hundreds of parliamentarians from 73 countries say "take Cuba off the list"
  • All in the name of South Floridian votes. The Dems will (hopefully) eventually realize they lost that state years ago and stop doing dumb shit for votes.

    Who knows, though? The American empire's thirst for blood and foreign suffering often seems bottomless.

  • If only there was a way to get all of those people there and back home without a car.
  • Baseball was a secondary goal in the construction of Dodger Stadium. The primary goal was to get rid of a bunch of brown people who lived too close to downtown for whitey to handle.

    When you understand that, the giant parking lot makes tons of sense.

  • ‘Albion can’t be copyrighted’ - Peter Molyneux explains how his new game is set in the same world as Fable [VGC]
  • When asked if he was sure that Albion couldn’t be copyrighted due to its historical context, he replied: “I don’t know if I’m honest, I don’t really know… I hope so. I mean you would think that the responsible person I should be, I would’ve spent the last six months in lawyers’ offices…”

    Bold strategy, Cotton.

  • California’s new electric train makes for a shockingly better trip—we tried it
  • I was in SF this past week and took Caltrain down to Redwood City and back. I rode one of the express Baby Bullets, which is as fast as the diesel-electrics go. (The electric trains were sitting there at 4th and King, mocking me.) Let me tell you, I do not know how they think they can run HSR on this track in the state that it's in. This is far and away the bumpiest ride I've ever had on Caltrain, and I used to commute on it twice a day for two years. I'm actually concerned about the state of the track. It's great that they've run the wire, but I anticipate strict speed limits if they ever get the high speed rolling stock up from LA.

  • It Took Me 6 Hours to Learn Anything in Stormgate - Day9TV (Professional Review)
  • I had to look it up. It was called Guardian of Atlas and Sean left the company right after the beta launched and then the game got cancelled. My guess as to why it went poorly is just that it was inexperienced devs making a game at a time when SC2 was still actually relatively popular. There was no space in the already tiny genre of RTS.

    Now that Blizzard has essentially abandoned StarCraft, it might be possible for some folks to carve some of that tiny market away.

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    Writer Stephen King in his new Kamala Harris shirt
  • Showing all the balls by immediately coming out to say no to Medicare for All, yes to the border wall, and yes to genocide.

    This is the shit you like to see? Or is it perhaps that you believe in nothing and care only about aesthetics?

  • Derby, CT road widening
  • Tearing down the properties has reduced their local property tax base and also no doubt reduced the values of the properties across the streets as well. It's creating a downward spiral of local tax revenue while no doubt increasing state maintenance obligations.

    Decisions like this are why small towns like this are going broke. They make themselves easier to drive through and tear down the properties that constitute their tax base.

  • Derby, CT road widening
  • City or state would have had to pay to buy the properties anyway, though. Then the money spent on the widening could easily have been spent to modernize and update (or otherwise improve) the buildings.

  • Israel Police deploying Chinese traffic cameras blacklisted in the U.S. and Europe
  • The issue, to be clear, is not who makes the surveillance cameras. It's the surveillance cameras being installed in the first place.

    Alarmism about Chinese surveillance cameras is missing the forest for the trees.

  • Parking like this for your benefit
  • Except if the side of the truck says "U-Haul" or "Home Depot" people understand you're not the kind of asshole who buys and drives a fuckoff huge truck every day of the week.

  • Hochul Pushes for Congestion Pricing Delay in Last-Minute Reversal

    I honestly thought it was going to be Adams, but I definitely knew it wasn't going to happen.

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    Did y'all know they're building a monorail line under the Panama Canal?
    www.railjournal.com Panama Metro Line 3 now 50% complete.

    Panama Metro reports that civil works are now 50% complete on Line 3, the 25km monorail that will run from Albrook to Ciudad del Futuro.

    Panama Metro Line 3 now 50% complete.
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    Septuagenarian Upper West Siders yell at 15 year-old for wanting to preserve a car-light street at the cost of 13 parking spaces
    nyc.streetsblog.org Fight Over a Single UWS Open Street is So Bitter, Council Member Called in a Mediator - Streetsblog New York City

    We've seen divorces that were more amiable than a battle over a single roadway on the Upper West Side.

    Fight Over a Single UWS Open Street is So Bitter, Council Member Called in a Mediator - Streetsblog New York City

    Some great displays of carbrain in this article.

    >DeSeta also likened one of the groups advocating for the open street, Transportation Alternatives, to the National Rifle Association.

    >“TA is a multi-million-dollar not-for-profit lobbying organization. And you know what non-profit lobbyists could be? NRA is a not-for-profit, so, ya know, not-for-profit is a loosey-goosey term,” she said.

    ...

    >Like DeSeta, Herb Alter, who lives at 103rd Street and West End Avenue, objected, as many opponents typically do, to the "process" by which decisions were made when he was otherwise engaged. During the pandemic, he said, he and his ill wife decamped to their East Hampton second home — and the first he had heard about the open street was at the local dog run upon his return to the city last year.

    Basically, a bunch of 70 year-old rich white people who live in a neighborhood where 73% of people do not own cars are trying to get rid of some intense traffic calming the city did during Covid because they lost 13 parking spaces.

    It boggles the mind that there are people who live in Manhattan and choose to own cars without a dedicated place to keep them.

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