it’s actually pretty funny that the reason Waymos caused congestion during a power outage is because they followed California law, which requires you to treat disabled power lights as a four way stop lol

I wrote about racial discrimination in America, and how only high-profile lawsuits can convince Americans that the system is fair. noahpinion.blog/p/america-has-…

at this point this is really a story about how adjuncts and TA's have no academic freedom

Many city parks depts view “commerce” in parks negatively. No one can adequately explain why, but it’s reality. It’s also self-defeating as it creates a revenue source & drives higher usage. Unfortunately many parks dept heads measure success by acres owned, not visitors per

So much of American life is dictated by the risk of litigation. There are so many nice things we can’t have because someone might do something stupid or an unlikely event may occur and we really should figure out how to fix that.

Sorry we need to dedicate 10 years for the Nari Nelkow's to show up to meetings, form fake non-profits to back candidates who will drown the project in red tape and if that doesn't work we sue

I asked someone about this and they should hurt women hurt themselves, hurt men hurt others

“Tenant protection” laws have enabled endless grift for anyone with enough shamelessness to exploit them

Americans love thinking of the Native Americans as the elves from Lord of the Rings

Lmao. They asked her to come kick. And then found out she was a soccer coach and former college player, and told her she couldn’t kick anymore. I don’t know if an organization that hates their fans more than the NY jets and its ownership

The way this looks like the pricing of rent controller vs non-rent controlled apartments in the same building/complex lmao. End Boomer Land-Rent Control

Baffled by people who want more housing but hate home builders, want more medicines but hate pharmaceutical companies, want more jobs but hate employers etc. There's no Easter Bunny...if we want stuff, someone has to make it.

Grifting but leftishly

What's even better is the one of the right, despite being a local welfare queen will have the time to show up to every meeting to fight new development and the money to donate to non-profits and NIMBY pols

I wish 1491 was mandatory reading in school

A lot of blue states are weirdly conservative (read: anti-renewable) on energy policy while rhetorically signaling progressivism, and it leads to this worst-of-all-worlds situation where you get neither electoral benefits nor lower prices.

Loved when Wisconsin was 2/3rds Republican in the State Lege but the popular vote was 51/49

Or the fact that most buildings in CA are less than a century old and most East Coast buildings are less than 150 years old

A real problem with how litigious American society is, companies are incentivized to keep everyone in the dark rather than risk material for a new fertile ground of lawsuits to develop

A HS Classmate of mine married a guy with CF in the late 2000s, he was dead within 3 years. People have no idea how far we've come.