Future Inclined

Infill may trend this direction over the next 20 years as self driving cars take over. No valuable real estate on parking, you send your car to go park somewhere ugly and out of sight or use cheap robot taxis.

The Postmaster General says USPS might be forced to stop deliveries in 2027 if current trends continue. Postmaster David Steiner says the postal service "will be out of cash in less than 12 months." Steiner has has also been on the board of directors of FedEx since 2009.

Do you like the idea that there is a new Dislike button on 𝕏? (👎)

Republicans are lying to the American people when they say the SAVE Act is a voter ID law—it’s a proof-of-citizenship requirement that would make voting harder, if not impossible, for a lot of people. Passports are expensive, documents don’t always match, and the process can be a mess (been there). We should be making voting easier, not adding more hurdles. Democrats can own this by proposing their own bill that accepts a range of IDs, and includes automatic voter registration and Election Day as a national holiday for starters.

When you realize these two women are chasing the same men, you'll begin to understand the problem.

Our society’s obsession with mental health hasn’t improved mental health in our society. I think there’s something to that.

As a huge fan of public transport, I do wonder if sometimes the future isn't trams or trains ( in the US) but tens of thousands of low emission, ultra cheap, self driving cars Sometimes acting as dynamically routed buses, if they costs can't come down through scaling enough

After a woman was raped in her hotel room… Travelodge now says staff must get explicit consent before giving someone a key to a guest’s room. I genuinely cannot get over the fact that this apparently needed to be written down as a NEW RULE in 2026. What the actual fuck.

My ancestors buried half their children. All mine are alive. My ancestors' house had a dirt floor. Mine is wood. I have indoor plumbing, I have hot water, I have never in my life hauled a full bucket half a mile and I probably never will. Do you know how rare it is, in human history, for small children to wear shoes? Mine have multiple pairs. I can speak to my relatives who live thousands of miles away, for free, at any time. Video, if we want video. With machine translation, if we speak different languages. The original Library of Congress had 740 books in it. I have more than that. If I run out of books in my home my local public library has 350,000. If I want to take a hundred books with me on vacation, they all fit on a device that fits in my purse. I have heat in the winter and AC in the summer and a washing machine and I have never, ever, ever had to scrub a dress clean by hand in the stream. I can look up recipes from more than a hundred different countries and I've tried dozens of them. I ride a clean and modern train across my city for $4, or take a robot taxi if I'm out too late for the train. I donate $40,000 every year to the cause of getting healthcare to the world's poorest people and even after the donations I never have to think about whether I can afford a book, or a pair of shoes, or a cup of coffee. There is a great deal more to fight for, of course. I hope that our descendants will look back on our lives and list a thousand ways they're richer. Maybe we ourselves will do that, if some of the crazier stuff comes true. But the abundance is all around you and to a significant degree you aren't feeling it only because fish don't notice water.

This is how the most dangerous job you never hear about keeps your world running every single day. Roughnecks are the frontline crew of oil and gas drilling operations.

The sun doesn’t have a ‘choke point’.