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Interests: liberal, atheist, urbanism, public transit, Tolkien, Silmarillion, walking, anime, yuri, Bujold, Liaden, fanfic, KF94s, N95s. My top Twitter thread (scroll past 18/end, it keeps going): https://mindstalk.net/15minComp.html

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congestion pricing is a policy miracle, many people are saying

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

In retrospect, it continues to seem like a really bad decision by the New York Times to push out Paul Krugman, their longtime columnist who won his Nobel Prize in the economics of trade and geography right before we have 4 years where trade policy is the #1 crisis in the country.

submitted 5 days ago • 83 comments

If floride is causing all sorts of health issues why do dogs who are fed tap water and never drink bottled water seem fine?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder that your tap water is probably perfectly safe and that the bottled water industry is built on lying about it. (Reminder brought to you by book I started reading)

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

my question is why? why are right wingers eager to destroy deposit insurance? what do they imagine they are accomplishing?

submitted 7 days ago • 323 comments

Sigh. It's several different kinds of wrong. The height of the Roman Empire is at least 150 years later than 50 BC, its population was still increasing, Roman anxiety about birthrates was elites anxious about aristocratic birth rates, which wasn't really a problem, as new families enter the elite.

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7-e...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

"I can never unsee it after somebody pointed out that car commercials never show more than 1 or 2 cars."

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

37 cars went through this 4 way stop intersection. Only 4 came to a full stop, and those were because they all had to wait for cross traffic. At least two didn't stop even for that.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

It's cheaper to cook for a freeloader at home than to eat out on your own.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

new postal truck, looks like a duck but functional and safer www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4XN...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Useful list of Bsky moderation options. The internal links don't work well for me, I simply skimmed my way through it, and learned things I hadn't, like "Detach Quote" or "Hide Replies For All" publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/bl...