Nice so you don't have to floor it to make a yellow or Kickstart your air-cooled motorcycle when a long red turns green.

The timing is off by 3 seconds to stop people from going just before it turns green. So people go 4 seconds early.

Saw this earlier today, talked to the owner, apparently it can't be on the street because it expired before they fixed the law. The new law merely requires yearly inspections after 13 years, but didn't grandfather in all the old bikes.

It does explain why I've seen so many public motorcycle exhibits; if you can't bear to export it, at least you can display them.

Mr. Xi, tear down this firewall!

https://web.archive.org/web/20241214192158/https://thecradle.co/articles-id/28069

https://archive.ph/iBkZh

To be clear, these are the guys who joined Al Nusra (which later rebranded to HTS) and allied with ISIS.

Full text version: https://txtify.it/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/world/middleeast/syria-rebel-leader-interview.html

Wikipedia article on the guy

Trump deported fewer people than Obama or Biden per year because many states and cities resisted.

Looks like the dems are going to cooperate with Trump this time.

We shouldn't have expected anything else from the guy who made his name by splitting with the party to oppose desegregation.

I guess if Ukraine can't hold the territory, we can still punish Russia by blowing Ukrainian children's legs off for the next several decades.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0166083

Back during the Bush and Obama years, I remember hearing so many right-wing conspiracies about FEMA camps.

Why didn't anyone ask "If FEMA has the ability to set up camps and transport large numbers of people, why aren't they doing that every time there's a big hurricane or wildfire?"

Looks like it's having a measurable effect.

The bill in question is the one Biden tried to pass, but was blocked by republicans after Trump called it a bad bill, despite containing only things the republicans want.

It would enable the president to shut down the border and gives billions to ICE, CPB, US Marshals, etc to increase detention capacity, train additional personnel, etc. It also gave billions to Israel and Ukraine.

Kamala gonna have the immigrant vote locked up.

Among other changes to immigration law, the measure would make it more difficult to gain asylum in the United States and increase detentions and deportations of those crossing into the country without authorization. It would also effectively close the border altogether if the average number of migrants encountered by immigration officials exceeded a certain threshold — an average of 5,000 over the course of a week or 8,500 on any given day. The bill also would give the president power to close the border unilaterally if migrant encounters reach an average of 4,000 per day over a week.