What if it’s just a 20oz cup of deli mustard from the condiment bar?

Am I crazy for thinking that this is actually worse than the court banning abortion?

At least with abortion bans, people could see the direct impact and that could motivate voter turnout. This will be a decision that many voters won’t easily recognize as the cause of the corruption and injustice they will be feeling. A lot of people are going to get hurt, and they’re not going to know the real reason behind it.

The GOP finally got what they’ve been trying to get since the 80s. Get ready for The Jungle 2.0.

In the case of CA, these people are going to be given in shelter beds. (I know, it sounds counterintuitive to the ruling.)

The main reason CA brought the case is because they aren’t allowed force portions of their unhoused populations indoors. They can’t move a segment of the population unless there is enough space for the entire population.

So, if a county had beds for half of the unhoused population, and it wanted to bring half of them indoors, it couldn’t. It could only make moves once it had beds for all.

I’m sure some place will be shitty and will just throw people in jail, but the big west cost cities have a lot of unfilled shelter beds that they would like to fill.

And all that being said, a lot of these unhoused people are avoiding shelters for a reason. Being on the street is actually preferable to what people experience in some shelters. So, as much as Newsom will tell you that he wants to be compassionate and give people a bed, he’s not telling you that bed is next to a psycho that’s going to scream all night then assault someone.

As I recall, Gavin Newsom has basically been pushing to look at available shelter space, and clear portions of encampments based on that available space. Problem has been, legally, CA couldn’t clear encampments unless it could demonstrate that it had beds for everyone. As a result, CA has a lot of unclaimed shelter beds. Some counties don’t have enough for everyone, but they do have enough to start moving large portions of people inside.

That said, the conversations around this seem to miss one of the fundamental reasons why people are not excited take a shelter bed. Many shelters have been dirty, hostile, or down right unsafe. People have felt safer in tent communities where they could know and chose their neighbors.

I’m of two minds on this. The all or nothing rule on shelter beds was weird, but shelters need to be safe, help people get care, let people keep belongings, and not kick people out every morning at the crack of dawn.

Scientists look at the historical peaks from the last years, then they work back from that targeted date by adding in the many months needed to do trials, manufacturing, etc. Good thing is that, with mRNA technology, that time window is actually much better that it used to be for the older tech we’ve used for flu viruses in the past.

It’s never going to be perfect, but as long as you had last year’s booster, as the article mentioned, you’re much less likely to get seriously ill.

Predicting when next year’s peaks will drop is like predicting next years rainfall. You can get close, but it’s never going to be perfect. (Not the greatest analogy, since rain doesn’t mutate, and umbrellas don’t require months of human trials. Ohh well)

These are smart people working on this stuff. If they could have had an updated vaccine ready to go for any unexpected peak, they would.

Yup. Updates every year, just like flu vaccines. The virus mutates and immune wanes over time.

As the article says in the beginning, they come in fall.

• Much of the spending came after a poll in March from pro-Israel group Democratic Majority for Israel showed Bowman trailing by 17 points.

So he was down 17 points pre-AIPAC money. Then after AIPAC spent a record breaking amount of money, he remained down 17 points and lost by that exact margin.

The ungodly amount of money probably didn’t radically change the opinion of what most of his constituents were going to do in the ballot box.

Maybe he would’ve closed the gap a bit, but he wasn’t in great shape to begin with.

I’m a little unconventional in my ways—sometimes. I mean, I’m a silly goose

I pity whoever ends a relationship with this person. This person has “restraining order” written all over them.

What in the terrible photoshop I looking at.

Why is there two gigantic rolls on the ground?

Wait. What year is it?

Toy ‘R Us?

Slashdot?

To be fair, repairing any modern car is kind of a nightmare.

They just disbanded that project.

Rivian’s CEO looks like if Steve O was sober in the early 2000’s

For the people who are mature enough to need viagra, but still don’t know how to swallow a pill.

True, although their OSes don’t really disclose what is and is not being stored in the cloud by default. I like iCloud syncing, so it doesn’t bother me, but I could see how this would annoy others who want everything local.

When Oakland protests the police, they’re not exactly marching against the FBI’s white collar crimes division.

Pretty normal for manufacturers dealers to rent unused lots if they don’t have enough space to store inventory. And Telsa doesn’t have dealerships with attached lots. They just have little showroom stores, and they need hubs to park inventory.