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Car insurance renewal notice just came. Lemonade breaks out the price per car: 2013 Toyota Prius is going up ~20%, both for base rate and per-mile cost 2018 Chrysler Pacific base rate is going up ~10% but the per-mile cost is going down a tenth of a penny This is due to tariffs, right?

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One relatively minor consequence of the Iran-Israel conflict is the wide berths flights have to take to avoid missles. This flight from Qatar to Georgia traveled more than double the normal distance, turning a sub-3-hour flight into a 5.5-hour one. www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

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Cc @hels.bsky.social: some appliances being explicitly coded

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Shorter NYT non-endorsement: one guy thinks bureaucrats should be selling tomatoes, the other guy resigned in disgrace for being a sex creep. We can't recommend either but we think the sex creep is probably better.

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He's even capitalizing the nouns to make it sound more like the original German.

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I find it very helpful to think of the US as having space for two parties. Who occupies each space is what it's all about. Look at how the GOP has been transformed in the past 15 or so years. It's the Dems' turn next. Before it's too late.

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LOL another fun screwup from Google's AI Overview. The Oregon kicker is a biennial tax refund, as you can tell from the search refinement buttons.

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Now we're rooting for both Harvard *and* Gavin Newsom?

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Can we now call him Gulf Vader? apnews.com/article/trum...

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Oof, this gives sociolinguists a lot to think about.

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Oh, the irony.

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If you have Global Entry, that card they sent you is a federal ID and it'll satisfy Real ID requirements starting next month.

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