Not sure if this is the right community, but I didn't see a general one. What search engine do you use? Besides Google increasingly spying on its users, the quality of its search results seems to have gotten significantly worse over the last decade. What search engine(s) do you use?
See the Australian conservative opposition (Liberal and National parties), for example. They are bought and paid for by the fossil fuel industry, have no actual plan to roll out nuclear, but are using it as a delay tactic. See also how conservative parties are attacking renewables but not directly talking about coal (for the most part) because they know that the general public won't accept it anymore. Conveniently, attacking renewables and talking up nuclear is an easy way to keep coal around for a little longer.
Your points are more historical, I'm talking more about the last few years or so, the period where most conservatives now won't admit to being climate change deniers, but incidentally have positions that worsen climate change.
In Albuquerque NM, they not only built world class BRT infrastructure -- they leveraged it to transform old Route 66 into a safer, more people-friendly corridor. Albuquerque Rapid Transit, or ART, is already a big ridership success, but there's so much more potential. So today we're taking a tour of the US's only Gold-rated BRT...
And the reason for this is that the "light truck" classification has weaker emissions standards, so they can cheap out on efficiency of the engine which means higher profit margins (and more harmful pollution for us to enjoy inhaling).
Yes. "ZLUDA lets you run unmodified CUDA applications with near-native performance on Intel AMD GPUs".
Companies developing CUDA applications don't need to implement it because it's a drop in replacement. A bit like how Wine doesn't require developer support (or support from Microsoft) for Windows games to work.
If you mean companies using CUDA applications through ZLUDA, perhaps, although I'd be surprised if that's legally enforceable in most countries.
Changes to the mutual obligations scheme, contained in the federal budget, will ease the rules that govern when a person’s payments are suspended, meaning job seekers will have a five-day grace period – rather than 48 hours – to account for missing employment services appointments and other activities before their income...
Some tweaks to make the system slightly less shitty, but ideally they'd get rid of this punitive system altogether, particularly since it only benefits the parasitic private job providers.
I get the impression that Netherlands public transport is above average but not exceptional in Europe (although it depends on which countries you are comparing to). But their bike infrastructure is world leading.
The economy as a whole has proved resilient amid the highest rates in decades. But beneath the surface, many low- and moderate-income families are struggling....
They also never seriously look at increasing taxes on those with higher incomes, which would lower inflation more effectively, since they have more room for discretionary spending.
Or reform the tax system altogether to target wealth instead of income.
Methane is worse in the short to medium term, so if anything we should be hitting it first. But as the other commenter suggested, it needs to be a full court press of tackling agriculture, electricity, manufacturing, transport, and efficiency all at once if he want to prevent even more severe damage to climate.
I think for the short to medium term energy prices will continue to increase so this is where the rebates will help. The investments to renewable energy are happening but without a war time level effort it's going to take some time for that to translate to lower prices. And you could argue that people that don't qualify for welfare but are on low incomes should receive it too, and that it's simpler and perhaps even less costly to just give it to everyone (due to administration costs from targeting).
On the other hand, I could see all of this bill support disencouraging people from getting rooftop solar and home batteries, and it might have a small effect on inflation (particularly from the wealthy who are already feeling pretty willing to spend). Although it might push some people to electrify more of their home if prices are low, so that could counter that somewhat.
I don't think enough people are on rent assistance to meaningfully impact inflation (and the maximum amount is quite low even with the increase). I see it more as a politically expedient way to give a small increase to the welfare payments, since it's an easier sell to people who hate "dole bludgers" (even if the effect is mostly the same) and most people on the payments are renters.
She seems like the type that would accuse such people of faking it to get special treatment, because they don't look "black" enough. The right-wing media in Australia were pushing that line for a while (and probably still are).
Right, but it's easier to continue to flout those standards than to build a high quality and affordable EV, with comparable profit margins. And the marketing is easier ("You're not a real man without this giant truck!").
There's better ways, like reducing car dependency and increasing housing density. Have people from all walks of life, live near each other and travel with each other, without being isolated in metal boxes. The ultra rich might still avoid that too, but at least the 99% will be around each other.
And you don't need to force people to go to war to achieve it.
Kevin Roberts remembers when he could get a bacon cheeseburger, fries and a drink from Five Guys for $10. But that was years ago. When the Virginia high school teacher recently visited the fast-food chain, the food alone without a beverage cost double that amount....
Restaurants should be forced to pay their workers a living wage, which is how it works in developed countries. And paying below minimum wage should be illegal.
It looks like the data is taken from cities alone, which could skew the numbers a little, depending on how much of the population lives outside cities (and how they define what a city is).
Alon Levy, co-lead of the transportation and land use program at New York University’s Marron Institute, has spent years studying why some countries are able to build transport infrastructure cheaply and others aren’t....
Dedicated bus lanes are needed if we want everyone to use it, and not just the poor (since people will typically use the fastest, most convenient option). So it requires some changes to road infrastructure. Buses are also typically worse from an emissions perspective (especially fossil fuel buses) although it depends on the specifics. I'm not sure how that last point is any different with light rail, since all public transport will involve sharing space with poor people.
Nevertheless, I agree that buses can be a good option and might be a better fit in less dense locations in particular. On demand buses are starting to become a good option in rural areas, for example.
And Australia seems to be arguably overenthusiastic about light rail in general when it isn't always the best fit.
I was thinking enthusiasm from the general public, not so much governments. It's not that it isn't a good idea, it's just that conventional rail can often be a better alternative in many cases. But when it's the choice between building nothing and building light rail? Then yeah, building it's the obvious choice. And obviously, light rail is the better option in certain cases too.
True, but most of the people driving them absolutely do not need one, and that's an intentional strategy pushed by car makers to work around emissions standards and because larger vehicles have a higher profit margin.
That doesn't account for population increases, but that still looks like per-capita increase nevertheless, which is embarrassing in a developed country. Especially if you compare that with other similarly developed countries with comparable populations, which mostly have a line declining to double digit totals.
EDIT: Here's data looking at the maternal mortality rate, over the same period, with a few comparable countries.
A conservative plan for Donald Trump’s potential transition into the presidency calls for dozens of prisoners to be executed, according to HuffPost. An 887-page plan by Project 2025, led by the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation, says that if elected, Trump should make a concerted effort to execute the remaining 40...
The status quo when the term was popularized was a hierarchical society of have and have-nots. If we ever develop a truly egalitarian society rest assured, conservatives will be looking to roll back to what they perceive as the "natural" order.
In its latest move to implement a policy that London implemented long ago, New York Is doing congestion charging! In all seriousness, it will be a complete game changer - not only for the city, but for the entire continent.
NYC seems to have a unique mix of traffic, for the US. I don’t know locals who would drive and traffic seems to be mostly taxi/Uber. How much will congestion tolls really help when personal cars are such a low percentage?
I suspect much of the traffic is from commuters coming into the city. But even within NYC, a comparatively small proportion of people in cars adds up to a huge amount of traffic. And NYC would grind to a halt if public and active transport options didn't exist already because the city simply can't support that many people in cars. Congestion pricing is just an additional tool to reduce car usage (carrot vs stick approach) and push people to the better transport alternatives.
What search engine do you use?
Not sure if this is the right community, but I didn't see a general one. What search engine do you use? Besides Google increasingly spying on its users, the quality of its search results seems to have gotten significantly worse over the last decade. What search engine(s) do you use?
[US Representative] Stefanik Loses It When Fox News Host Reminds Her She Called Trump a 'Whack Job' ( www.rollingstone.com )
Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors ( blog.ucsusa.org )
A realistic understanding of their costs and risks is critical....
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sues Meta, citing chatbot’s reply as evidence of shadowban ( arstechnica.com )
They Transformed a Nasty Stroad With Bus Rapid Transit (CityNerd) ( www.youtube.com )
In Albuquerque NM, they not only built world class BRT infrastructure -- they leveraged it to transform old Route 66 into a safer, more people-friendly corridor. Albuquerque Rapid Transit, or ART, is already a big ridership success, but there's so much more potential. So today we're taking a tour of the US's only Gold-rated BRT...
Maine Cybertruck Owner Sad Everyone Hates His Truck ( jalopnik.com )
ZLUDA Has Been Seeing New Activity For CUDA On AMD GPUs ( www.phoronix.com )
ZLUDA is a drop-in CUDA implementation for AMD GPUs
‘Stroads’ Aren’t Streets. They Aren’t Roads. And They Don’t Work. ( www.wsj.com )
Centrelink mutual obligations: budget changes tipped to prevent 1m jobseeker suspensions a year ( www.theguardian.com )
Changes to the mutual obligations scheme, contained in the federal budget, will ease the rules that govern when a person’s payments are suspended, meaning job seekers will have a five-day grace period – rather than 48 hours – to account for missing employment services appointments and other activities before their income...
Woke, Woke, Woke, Snowflake, Cancel Culture, Woke, insists Lee Anderson ( newsthump.com )
Transportation mode, World vs USA ( jlai.lu )
cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/6800661...
‘Hate is not a family value’: protesters clash as Sydney council considers rescinding same-sex parenting book ban ( www.theguardian.com )
Gina Rinehart demands National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait ( www.theguardian.com )
Streisand Effect, do your work!
High Interest Rates Are Hitting Poorer Americans the Hardest ( www.nytimes.com )
The economy as a whole has proved resilient amid the highest rates in decades. But beneath the surface, many low- and moderate-income families are struggling....
Don’t fall for “climate-friendly” beef | New FOIA documents give insight into the secretive, industry-funded science behind the much-hyped product. ( heated.world )
Budget Night Thread
Let’s party!
JK Rowling slammed for asking if she can be Black if she likes “Motown & fancy myself in cornrows” ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
Small, well-built Chinese EV called the Seagull poses a big threat to the US auto industry ( apnews.com )
A tiny, low-priced electric car called the Seagull has American automakers and politicians trembling....
Sen. Lindsey Graham Suggests Nuking Gaza, Calls Hiroshima ‘the Right Decision’ ( www.thedailybeast.com )
Germany may introduce conscription for all 18-year-olds ( www.telegraph.co.uk )
Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense," one customer says ( www.cbsnews.com )
Kevin Roberts remembers when he could get a bacon cheeseburger, fries and a drink from Five Guys for $10. But that was years ago. When the Virginia high school teacher recently visited the fast-food chain, the food alone without a beverage cost double that amount....
California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices ( www.wshu.org )
Need this nationwide. I hate having fees added on to the price of what I'm ordering.
East Asia has lowest car utilization, highest public transportation utilization. North America has highest car utilization and lowest public transportation utilization. ( www.visualcapitalist.com )
Narrative of Trump snoozing in court takes hold — much to his annoyance ( www.washingtonpost.com )
NVIDIA's Open GPU Linux Kernel Driver Will Soon Be The Default For Turing & Newer GPUs ( www.phoronix.com )
Donald Trump says he'll revoke Joe Biden's protections for trans people 'on day one' ( www.advocate.com )
‘The cheap option’?: why the Gold Coast may be on track to build the most expensive light rail in the world ( www.theguardian.com )
Alon Levy, co-lead of the transportation and land use program at New York University’s Marron Institute, has spent years studying why some countries are able to build transport infrastructure cheaply and others aren’t....
U.S. to Announce New Tariffs on Chinese Electric Vehicle - Considering rates of 100% ( www.nytimes.com )
Maternal deaths have halved in the last 35 years ( ourworldindata.org )
Conservative Plan Calls for Dozens of Executions if Trump Wins ( www.thedailybeast.com )
A conservative plan for Donald Trump’s potential transition into the presidency calls for dozens of prisoners to be executed, according to HuffPost. An 887-page plan by Project 2025, led by the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation, says that if elected, Trump should make a concerted effort to execute the remaining 40...
It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine ( steamdeckhq.com )
Congestion Charges: A Tool to Transform Cities (RMTransit) ( www.youtube.com )
In its latest move to implement a policy that London implemented long ago, New York Is doing congestion charging! In all seriousness, it will be a complete game changer - not only for the city, but for the entire continent.