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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Huge congrats to the team and my condolences on the loss.

FreeCAD is a huge part of my engineering toolkit and your work is greatly appreciated.

I expect that the 1.0 will be in the Debian repos by about 2026 and I’m looking forward to it. Stable distros be stable distros. :-p

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.

It’s crazy how hard it is to show Americans that public transit helps with so many issues in our communities. We’ve had generations of people now who have never even ridden a bus. Our cities were demolished for cars so we’re building our way out of a huge infrastructure deficit in the face of a populace who doesn’t understand just how damaging cars are to everything around.

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.

I didn’t say it was easy. I know how much it costs and it’s not an easy proposition. Given the alternative of living in a state where a woman denied her body autonomy I feel that it should put some serious pressure on finding a way to get out of the state when they can.

I, too, have moved states before (on a grad student shoestring budget), and also have have opportunities to move to Europe, so we did the math on the move cost. I’ve also got adult children who have moved with little more than a packed car trunk and a low paying job at the destination.

The US has such low wages that we don’t have “fuck you money”. That’s enough money on hand to just quit a job and/or move when things go wrong where you’re at. The more the rich depress our take home pay the harder it becomes to drop a job or fight against oppression by moving away from it. We’re in a bad spot as a nation in many aspects and having too few resources to move when society decides to own your uterus is just one of those problems.

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!

It’s not a city. It’s a parking lot hellscape.

It’s a sea of asphalt surrounding the occasional building. I’d never live there in a million years, and due to the car emissions from places like this burning our atmosphere, people won’t be living there in 30 years (or fewer).

Run as a right winger, especially an outright neo Nazi, in any EU or US country and they’ll ship a briefcase of cash to your door.

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.

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.

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.