Paris is kicking ass on recovering their city from the damage done by car focused development. Lots of new rail lines, removing parking, raising costs of using cars in the core, and making the city more people oriented. Keep it up! Every car removed is a win for Parisians.

… and that’s that. No real consequences for dictators. USA! USA! Kings are okay if they’re our kings, I guess.

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The next time they’ll get the right police on shift first so they won’t be arrested for attacking people. Then no one speaks up the third time because no one is there to protect us and we’ve arrived at totally fucked.

They learned from our local high-profile crooks that if you can delay proceeding for a couple years, the process ends.

Just fucking wild man

Yeah, we US Americans know. We’re despairing that our justice system has finally failed after decades of active undermining be the right wing to install unqualified and ideological judges instead of people interested in a rule of law.

The delay delay delay tactics mostly work here if you have the money and connections for it.

I’m hopefully that Romania actually uses this case to prove their nation has a functional legal system when it counts, especially with such a high profile case. These brothers publicly derided, insulted, ignored, and put down Romania to their millions of followers. Go get them and make them pay for crimes and the insults. Show us all that Romania will enforce the law when it counts because the US barely is.

Why women stay in those “some states” is just crazy. Why men who care about any woman in their life don’t work to immediately move out of these anti-humanist states is beyond me.

The president can’t ban vaccines in the US. Congress can pass legislation banning it and then the president can sign it, but the power lies with Congress here. I know we’re moving towards a more powerful Executive Branch, which is bullshit and a path to having a ruler instead of an elected official. Even the language used here is deceptive and designed to speak in terms of a monarchy and any real patriot would fight it tooth and nail.

No gods. No kings. We won’t be ruled again!

After watching the Endgame arc, I’m tired of superhero materials that just boil down to them punching each other for a while. I see some kind of conflict start and I start the timer on when they’ll be punching away. Rarely does it run long.

I’m in the “be prepared” group where we usually have a couple weeks of food and water around. We also have two forms of heat for when the power goes out.

Will we survive WW3 on this? No, but it has been very helpful after big winter storms that took out the city power.

Having some supplies to use in the short term is good for everyone. Being ready to go out to help neighbors and get the community back on its feet is how we get through to the next good times.

For a loose definition of “me” and more “my parents when I was young” was a mid-70’s Fiat. I have lots of memories where we waited in some parking lot or by the freeway for a tow truck or some other help to arrive.

Moscow, ID is fighting to keep the city public while local cults try to buy everything up.

Churches with no tax burden have huge advantages when they start commercial enterprises and then use tax free money to help their parishioners start/buy business after business with cheap loans and local support. Eventually the town is owned (directory or by proxy) by the church/cult. Then they take over city council and it’s a religious city by proxy.

Fun times for everyone else who are then abused by the cult for still living in the city and now joining their org.

It’s only illegal if someone enforces the law, a judge holds a trial, and an actual punishment is meted out.

Given how little taste our justice system has for holding rich people accountable, it starts to get fuzzy around what is illegal or not. As President GW Bush said: “The Constitution is just a piece of paper.” While he’s wrong about the material, he was correct that unless people believe in the ideals and rules laid down by the Constitution, then actually build a nation who follows and enforces their ideals, the Condition just sits there as a pile of material.

There’s tiny bits of real city around the US. It’s usually leftover fragments that managed to survive through the carpocalypse of the 30’ to today.

There are very few real city places larger than a 1/4 sq mile here.

Nothing. Build it if you want, but parking minimums are anti-people and city decaying laws.

Since we gave up E Pluribus Unum for In God We Trust the American nation has had trouble holding what shared national ideals we did have and headed straight towards “fuck you, I got mine” as a national mantra.

Who will help them? They can God ask their Republican/Conservative reps for it. True FAFO results.

According to Fox News, President Obama is still president and so is Traitor Trump. Everyone is president, depending upon who is watching at the moment to stir up one kind of hatred or another.

We’ll see what the courts say, but his “I’m a weird asshole” Tshirt isn’t helping his first impressions.

Given the latest wave of required GOP features, he must have finally admitted to killing a family pet with a shovel.

I’ve now been to Berlin at least 5 times in 28 years. I say at least because I now have to start rebuilding what happened when to have a truly accurate accounting. Once it gets above 10 I’m going to have to keep a note card reminder to have the number around.

Someone with Governor Walz’s travel history would be just a blur unless you get official records or work really hard to remember exact trip counts.

Ask Felon Trump how many times he’s been to Russia and see what guess he makes. This is a nothingburger of a story.

I turned down a professorship position at a uni in part because they used windows for the whole curriculum. It would have driven me crazy having to use windows given how annoying it is for dev work. I put value on my sanity and it wasn’t worth the modest pay bump to be driven batty every day.

I likely get to teach an IoT class next term. It’s going to be so much fun with SBC systems running Linux and Arduino sensor systems! That’s worth a ton to me.