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Most of the sane states are ignoring their recommendations now, but yes, he has already done a lot of damage and will do more.

The bigger, bigger context of the quote is that this game was initially supposed to be released in 2014, and now 2026 is looking unlikely.

And yes, im just talking about squadron 42, the spinoff fps of the even later game that is even farther from release, Star citizen.

The 12 years of release date slippage makes people extra wary about any qualifiers or maybes that the devs add, regardless of context.

If you scuttle it, it’s just a wreck. The boats have to come back up.

If you want more fun, in us navy parlance, boats are only submarines. Everything else is a ship. The easy way to remember it is that if it sinks on purpose, its a boat.

Submariners will tell you this is wrong, and that are only boats, and targets.

They made Babbit a matyr, and she rushed Capitol police during a violet mob attack on Congress, through a barricade, while cops shouted for her to stop. The cop that killed her fired a single, controlled shot. He was not firing wildly or with malice. She was ex military, and should have realized what guns drawn and warnings about deadly force meant. Bystanders next to her admitted to hearing the police warning her as she breached the barricades, but she did it anyway.

Her mother just got a 5 million dollar settlement from the government and she got a full military burial with honors.

They don’t need an actual reason for a martyr. They will invent reasons after the fact regardless of what happens.

It’s actually pretty tricky. It’s a historical building, which has protections. That the banksy makes it more valuable and a target at the same time is humorous outside of the sharp critique.

And all the sensors for the ship. And it’s detachable!

Also, the defiant has 3 shuttle craft. A working medbay on a combat ship? Nope, but 3 shuttles.

A clone of his cousin, then.

We should toss superboy in there, get Superman’s/luthors clone involved.

Call it half of a half incest.

Amazing recommendation. I’ve used Nova for years, and while its different, Kvaesitso is stunning. So smooth, and it surfaces apps and actions I use all the time better than Nova.

Not for decades. Only very, very recently have they gotten any appreciable press because Trumps admin fucked this up so badly.

You could literally see the accident from our location.

Sounds like he could make it in then. /s

That or something like it is literally part of the EU demand. Google has to pay the fine and tell them their next step to ending their conflicts of interest in 60 days.

Non paywalled:

Typically, I write about data showing a change, trend or something else new happening in Seattle. In this case, though, the story is about something not happening.

Census data shows the number of vehicles in the city has been effectively unchanged for years, even as the number of households has grown.

Because the number of cars has basically plateaued while the number of households has grown, the rate of car ownership has declined. In 2023, which is the latest available census data, there were 127 vehicles for every 100 city households, which is down from about 140 vehicles for every 100 households in 2017.

While overall there were more cars than households in Seattle, the number of city residents living without a car has increased rapidly. In 2023, there were a record 74,100 carless households, representing 20% of all Seattle households. That’s up from 53,200, or 16% of households, in 2017.

The slowing rate of car ownership was not consistent through most of the previous decade. At first, the number of cars owned or leased by city residents grew rapidly as the city’s population increased. In 2010, there were an estimated 388,700 vehicles in Seattle, according to census data. By 2017, that number had jumped to 460,800, a 19% increase, or about 72,000 more vehicles.

And then it suddenly stopped. From 2017 to 2023, the number of cars in Seattle remained effectively unchanged at just over 460,000. In 2023, the estimate was around 463,300.

Of course, it’s not that the city stopped growing, although there was a small population dip at the start of the pandemic, from 2020 to 2021. But overall, from 2017 to 2023, the number of households in the city increased by 35,000, or 11%. There were 364,600 households in Seattle in 2023.

Seattle’s car ‘population’ stalled in 2017

After years of steady growth, the number of vehicles owned or leased by Seattle city residents has barely changed since 2017.

Still, Seattle has a lot of cars. For comparison, in New York City, which is far less car-dependent than Seattle, there were around 60.5 vehicles for every 100 city households in 2023 — that’s less than half Seattle’s ratio.

Homeowners were much more likely to own or lease a vehicle than renters in Seattle. Census data shows among homeowners, there were about 177 vehicles for every 100 households in 2023. Among renters, there were only around 87 vehicles for every 100 households.

Around 9 out of 10 carless homes were rental units in 2023.

Living without a car is certainly doable in Seattle, especially in the highly walkable and transit-rich downtown neighborhoods. But I suspect the ever-increasing cost of living here is the primary catalyst behind the growing number of city residents living without a car.

After all, transportation costs are the second-largest household expense after housing in the U.S., and that’s primarily because of car ownership. Beyond the cost of the vehicle itself, there’s fuel, maintenance and repairs, insurance, parking, registration fees and so on. It makes sense that a growing number of city residents would want to avoid all these expenses.

Non paywalled:

Typically, I write about data showing a change, trend or something else new happening in Seattle. In this case, though, the story is about something not happening.

Census data shows the number of vehicles in the city has been effectively unchanged for years, even as the number of households has grown.

Because the number of cars has basically plateaued while the number of households has grown, the rate of car ownership has declined. In 2023, which is the latest available census data, there were 127 vehicles for every 100 city households, which is down from about 140 vehicles for every 100 households in 2017.

While overall there were more cars than households in Seattle, the number of city residents living without a car has increased rapidly. In 2023, there were a record 74,100 carless households, representing 20% of all Seattle households. That’s up from 53,200, or 16% of households, in 2017.

The slowing rate of car ownership was not consistent through most of the previous decade. At first, the number of cars owned or leased by city residents grew rapidly as the city’s population increased. In 2010, there were an estimated 388,700 vehicles in Seattle, according to census data. By 2017, that number had jumped to 460,800, a 19% increase, or about 72,000 more vehicles.

And then it suddenly stopped. From 2017 to 2023, the number of cars in Seattle remained effectively unchanged at just over 460,000. In 2023, the estimate was around 463,300.

Of course, it’s not that the city stopped growing, although there was a small population dip at the start of the pandemic, from 2020 to 2021. But overall, from 2017 to 2023, the number of households in the city increased by 35,000, or 11%. There were 364,600 households in Seattle in 2023.

Seattle’s car ‘population’ stalled in 2017

After years of steady growth, the number of vehicles owned or leased by Seattle city residents has barely changed since 2017.

Still, Seattle has a lot of cars. For comparison, in New York City, which is far less car-dependent than Seattle, there were around 60.5 vehicles for every 100 city households in 2023 — that’s less than half Seattle’s ratio.

Homeowners were much more likely to own or lease a vehicle than renters in Seattle. Census data shows among homeowners, there were about 177 vehicles for every 100 households in 2023. Among renters, there were only around 87 vehicles for every 100 households.

Around 9 out of 10 carless homes were rental units in 2023.

Living without a car is certainly doable in Seattle, especially in the highly walkable and transit-rich downtown neighborhoods. But I suspect the ever-increasing cost of living here is the primary catalyst behind the growing number of city residents living without a car.

After all, transportation costs are the second-largest household expense after housing in the U.S., and that’s primarily because of car ownership. Beyond the cost of the vehicle itself, there’s fuel, maintenance and repairs, insurance, parking, registration fees and so on. It makes sense that a growing number of city residents would want to avoid all these expenses.

Openai has an “at cost” azure deal with Microsoft. They don’t make any azure money from them.

This feels like a mix of “keep the bubble moving somehow” hype and a shot across the bow at Microsoft, who are in a nasty back and forth with Openai right now because openai wants to break its early deals with Microsoft to go fully for profit to get a large amount of funds from Softbank. Microsoft isn’t okay with that, as it would cost them exclusivity to Openais tech and various other things.

The meme is referring to this murder of an 11 year old who just rang a doorbell and ran. The murderer was lying in wait in his yard with a gun, and shot the kid as he ran out of the yard with his cousin.

The cousin screamed for help and tried to save him, but he died shortly thereafter. A neighbor called the police. The murderer calmly walked back into his house, offering no aid, not in any fear for his life.

I get your point, but ACAB means that you don’t just take cops word for things, because they are bastards. They lie and cheat and kill with impunity. If the cop has dashcam or badge cam video of the loud “muffler,” then ticket away.

Sure doesn’t seem the cop has proof, especially when they go fishing for more offenses after the stop. The latter is common cop behavior when they can’t pin their initial issue on you. They try to retroactively justify their bullshit, to get you for something to prove you’re the “bad guy.”

Since the cop cant prove the noise violation, he finds several other “provable” violations like window tint or an air freshener or whatever. This adds weight to his initial, unprovable allegation, but that doesn’t actually make it true. Cops fervently hunting for penny ante “gotchas” after the fact makes the whole thing suspect.

It was the most wishlisted game on steam ever, priced at a very reasonable $20, and it released today after a 6 year wait with almost no press before the last couple of weeks. All the press it did receive was about how the devs were just having a good time, which was insanely endearing.

It’s basically the ultimate indie darling at this point. I 100% believe it could crash all the platforms above.

It seems like a mix of the above and the doctor relaying a fun tidbit to the patient.