@Prkchopexpres @WallStreetApes Part of the reason for the push to electric was because it would be easier to meter the electricity to limit how much you could use the car. Reducing the amount you drive was always the goal.
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@WallStreetApes It’s bs. If it were built on climate concerns you think they’d omit electric cars from the mandate yet they haven’t.
Just another way to crush the citizens of the commonewealth.
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WOW 🚨 Massachusetts Democrats preparing to limit how much you can drive your car
Instead of driving your car, a new council will be established to make sure residents use more public transportation
“The bill proposed in Massachusetts would limit how far you can drive in your own car. So lawmakers say it would help reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions. Now, while no specific mileage limit was listed, the bill would require MassDOT to set goals to reduce the number of statewide driving miles.
It would also establish a new council to find ways to make public transportation more accessible for residents. Now, critics say A cap on personal vehicle miles would directly impact those in rural parts of the state.”
It received a favorable vote (4-1) and it has moved to the Senate Committee on Ways and Means Committee
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@vickieparker04 @WallStreetApes Most likely they'll add a required fee to your insurance. Say, an extra $1,000/yr if you drive more than 10,000 miles.
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@WallStreetApes How would this even work? Would they send police to read your odometer daily and then throw you in jail if you drive to work on a street you pay for? Just sell your car every 5000 miles? Drive everywhere in reverse? Which elites get to drive more?
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@WallStreetApes This isn't anything new. They had a commission a few years ago to do the same thing. They set a goal of raising gas prices to at least $4.50 a gallon as I recall, to reduce the number of "vehicle miles traveled."
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There are no brutalist elements here, it's a postmodern deconstrucvist take on the original ziggurat skyscraper concept with politics injected. Probably the last example of this that will ever be built.
Will Tanner@Will_Tanner_1
The point of Brutalist architecture, such as the gulag-themed Obama Center for Quality Learing, is to demoralize They know that beauty is inspiring and uplifting, and so wish to replace it with these ugly, lurking behemoths that destroy one's spirit and blight the cityscape
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@ChoochSkookum It says that repeating something that was done 50 years ago isn't anything people care about.
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We flew around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years and no one cares. What does that say about society?
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Carney just claimed in his speech today that Liberals have lifted a million people out of poverty.
Does it feel like it, Canada?
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The knowledge gap in the U.S. when it comes to pre-independence American history stretching from 1607 to 1775 is pretty extraordinary. It’s treated more or less like a black hole with the occasional mention of Jamestown, the Mayflower, the Salem Witch Trials, and maybe a passing reference to the French and Indian War (almost always tying it to the American Revolution).
168 years of American history which is almost entirely absent from our popular culture outside of professional historians and enthusiasts. I’ve always been troubled by that. This period is worth rediscovering.
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@Tablesalt13 Not precisely. He wants Canada to become a colony of the EU. We on the other side of the border think that's crazy, but if you really want to do it we won't stop you.
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‼️Mark Carney says Canada was BETRAYED by the USA
and says that our old strengths of depending on the USA are now Canada's weaknesses
"We must never forget the lessons"
Its obvious now. He wants this. HE WANTS a fight with the USA.
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@blocht574 That's right, I don't think people want assessments through high school. I think the public is still undecided about whether we should grade kids under 14.
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@Vertok55 Oh got it! You are skeptical and that society only wants a system that pushes people through with no accountability
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Do students do assignments to learn or to get a grade?
How about getting rid of grades and have students work till they show comprehension and competence.
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It used to be that you *needed* your close family to survive. Now, technology has freed you from these chains. You can move thousands of miles from home to pursue your career and artistic dreams.
Now, what percentage of the population that does just that do you think is on mood-altering pharmaceuticals to treat depression and anxiety?
wanye@xwanyex
Technological progress frees you from having children the same way that it frees you from having any kind of close relationships at all.
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@Eric_Erins That's the point. It's just another tax break for rich boomers.
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Wouldn’t this not just lead to owner occupied housing assets skyrocketing in price and commercial real estate tanking?
Peter Schiff@PeterSchiff
@GrantCardone Property taxes should only be levied on income producing properties. Not residential, owner occupied housing, as the properties don't generate income to pay the tax.
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@Zookemnukem @SeattleIndepen1 Because neo-classical architecture was the leading style of the time (early 1800s). Trying to imitate French architecture, which was itself imitating Roman architecture, has no relevance today.
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@Vertok55 @SeattleIndepen1 Just curious how is this cheap imitation compared to other buildings
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Too European, insufficiently American. This would make for an odd juxtaposition in Washington.
It’s very hard to do things like this properly. You risk the effort being half-assed or being an over-the-top caricature.
On a deeper level, I would suggests that the idea this is being proposed indicates that level of exhaustion in our culture and society. We desperately want to go big and monumental but are so used to thinking small that all we can do is a copy of a 2 thousand year old design.
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
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@Zookemnukem @SeattleIndepen1 Not at all. The Capitol dates to 1818 and is one of the most impressive public buildings in the country. The White House is a little older. This is just a cheap copy, like a trinket someone might pick up on a trip to Europe.
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@Vertok55 @SeattleIndepen1 So like every building in Washington from the state capitol to White House
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@AnthropoceneMe1 I think us old curmudgeons are more willing to wander into a hipster bar than our kids in their 40s who think they're making some sort of statement by staying away.
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People should open more hipster bars and coffee shops in my sparsely populated rural part of Pennsylvanian where the average age is 105.
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I just want to say on the record to my current and future employers: I have not used AI, I do not use AI, I never will use AI. If hiring a professor or publishing a writer with integrity matters to you at all, just know that I’m right here and I’m very employable.
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@SketchesbyBoze Only 200 pages a week? That used to be normal for middle school.
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Not trying to be mean but if you’re majoring in the humanities & you can’t read 200 pages a week, and you feel the assignments are garbage, perhaps the humanities isn’t for you. Spend less time tweeting your disdain for books and I suspect you would find the time to read them.
nur@nourician
200-300 pages a week is fucking delusional. people have jobs and responsibilities – their time is less free than ever!!! a lot of the shit they assign as readings in the humanities is also total garbage lmfao, maybe 30-40% is worth reading
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@Zookemnukem @SeattleIndepen1 No it doesn't. It's just a cheap imitation.
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@Vertok55 @SeattleIndepen1 It does tho since it fits with other buildings in Washington
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@transatlenjoyer @Noahpinion If there is any justice, property in San Jose will soon be the same as Stockton.
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@Vertok55 @Noahpinion No undesirable place has such a huge property market value
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Woohooooo!! Now time to build up some dense housing and trains!!
Democrats Deliver@DemzDeliver
🚨 San Jose is now rated as the safest city in the nation.
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@chrisqu10069644 @Peter_Atwater What is defeatist about pointing out that income inequality is greater now that it was 50 years ago?
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@Vertok55 @Peter_Atwater No it wasn’t but continue to be a defeatist.
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Those at the top really have no idea what it means to live on $70,000 a year in America today, let alone live on 80% of that.
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
Kevin O'Leary says you can become a millionaire on $69,000 a year. “Take 20% of your salary of $69,000 and put it into the market each week and don't touch it”
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@Lib_Development The older skyscrapers, like the magnificent Empire State Building and Chrysler Building, spoke to aspirations for the future. The pencil towers are just vanity projects for the idle rich.
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@Vertok55 Please, for the purposes of me getting it, explain yourself
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I don't understand how people hate the pencil towers so much. They just look so cool
Daniel Trubman@dmtrubman
Haters (many of them not even from NYC) can say whatever they want, but as soon as the weather gets nice folks love to chill out on the Great Lawn, taking in the views of the pencil towers south of Central Park.
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