Louisiana taking ACAB to the next level

OMG this, and the breathless media reporting about that fictional title are part of the problem. Just the dumbest way to run an economy.

Gator, no!

I thought the niche would be sort of a cheap way to cosplay as a working guy, but I think the price point is probably too high for this to be a novelty second vehicle. But who knows? People drive and love Jeep Wranglers, which are kind of awful to drive in towns, and people still like the lifestyle part.

Yeah, nothing says Progressive Politics like submitting from a rag like the Post.

Multifamily building in most US jurisdictions already requires fire sprinklers, plus modern firewalls and materials, making them much safer than the old single stair constructions from 100 years ago. Egress concerns are typically addressed via emergency window egress up to 5 stories or so. And as others have said, single stair is the norm in Europe, with good fire safety records.

https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/2025/02/small-single-stairway-apartment-buildings-have-strong-safety-record

That's a shame, although I'm sure it's the right choice. Lael's first record-breaking round-the-world ride was a lot of fun to listen to in her daily reports.

Heat waves are some of the most deadly natural disasters, particularly for older people or people with health conditions that don't have access to air conditioning. I assume we will eventually find out the death toll for this heat wave, and I'm afraid it will be pretty terrible.

Taxing vehicles by gross vehicle weight and miles traveled is probably a good strategy, as more vehicles are BEV and the meager gas taxes in North America fall farther behind compared to escalating road maintenance costs.

I would far rather load the bed of the 1998 Silverado on the left than the modern one on the right. Loading a lifted truck (they are basically all lifted nowadays) is so much harder. I get why people love and hold onto those 1990s trucks, they were a lot more practical.

A lot if people, myself included mainly care about price and drm. So Steam is not something I care about, just price or GOG.

I'm with you. Although if the game is only on Windows, I'd rather be on Steam to make the Linux compatibility automagic.

Upvotes for both bird and bike!

That seems like a good plan. You can also just get a "beater" MTB bike for winter if you go that route, which you won't have to worry about as much with salt, ice, corrosion, etc. as your good road bike.

I forgot about Heroic, I'm checking it out now, thanks!

Booming Music for local storage, with some Bandcamp streaming and occasional YouTube playlists via NewPipe.

A built-in ad blocker is easily the least problematic announcement coming out of Mozilla in the last year.

tab grouping

Sure, okay.

vertical tabs

To each their own.

profile management

Whatever, it's fine.

and local AI features

HOLLUP

This article doesn't mention the limitations of remote access for Jellyfin, which requires some tricks like reverse proxy or Tailscale. I think Jellyfin is a great option if you only watch/listen on your home network, but if anyone wants to replicate the remote access capabilities of Plex, I typically warn them they are going to have to roll their sleeves up.

Non-paywalled article here:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/20/gay-bar-pm-st-louis-police-crash-owner-arrest/71986781007/

Officers arrested one of the bar's owners because he refused to show them ID? The officers just crashed into his bar in the middle of the night, he gets out of bed to see what that loud noise was, and they arrest him because he won't show them ID? In Missouri police can only ask to see ID if there is a reasonable suspicion of some wrongdoing, and I can't see that a building owner is doing anything wrong when he checks on the probationary cops that just plowed into his building because they suck at driving or were driving too fast.

It's just grift all the way down with crypto, isn't it? Scams layered on scams layered on scams.

Not a surprise, but still somehow crushing. It's a loss for us all.