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When did upper middle class start meaning upper class? Something like 90% of Americans identify as middle class now.

U-3 Unemployment doesn't include people not actively looking for work, people making less than they'd like, or working less than they'd like.

https://www.lisep.org has alternate measures that try accounting for take home wages as well as seasonal variability (construction is noted as being volatile but relatively well paying).

Turning transparency off significantly improves the look and responsiveness imo.

In the US, at least, there are some utilities that charge based on maximum kW (demand) and total kWh used (energy). ComEd in Chicago is a utility with a demand rate plan option.

Idaho Power’s local generation is quite clean. But…during the summer in Idaho, almost a third of energy comes from Wyoming and Utah where coal is still a substantial part of generation.

If you look at the all years view on electricity maps (https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-MIDW-MISO/all/yearly), 25% is share of generation from coal in MISO.

I'd be curious to test the GP's point. Since electricity maps doesn't have cost data for most US balancing authorities, you maybe could try figuring out power costs per balancing authority to end customers by using something like the https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/ "Sales to Customers Customer Sited" data. Revenue over Megawatthours for Industrial service.

I agree vision zero hasn’t been particularly effective in the US. In Boston, we have roads like Jamaicaway where the speed limit was lowered to 25mph and people regularly drive 50. Speed limits are functionally unenforced.

Human behavior as a focal point of blame is skewered in a book that just came out.

https://a.co/d/21guqjp argues that traffic engineering and design is what has resulted in the much higher death rate in the US than its peer countries. If lanes are wide (3.5m or larger), people will drive as fast as is enforced.

There seem to be two competing nomenclatures around strong/weak typing where people mean static/dynamic instead.

Doesn’t BYD have a bus factory in LA already?

Why are em dashes a giveaway? They’re auto inserted on Windows for two hyphens still, aren’t they?

I updated to avoid paying the new American tariffs. The advertised AI features were decidedly underwhelming.

If you’re interested in a what an analog clock in decimal time might look like: https://decimal-time.netlify.app/

On the northern edge of Jamaica Plain (east of Brookline in Boston proper), there's a pretty stark example of Brookline's accumulated advantages. On the Boston side of the pond that separates the two, there's Jamaica Way. It's a four lane road with few pedestrian crossings, and drivers regularly going way over the 25mph speed limit. The multi family housing on the Boston side is significantly cheaper and denser as well. It too has a trolley (the E branch of the Green Line), but unlike the Brookline side, the trolley on the Boston side isn't grade separated, so it's quite slow. It also typically runs older rolling stock.

Massachusetts has a state level Transit Police, at least.

Some of parcels in the doc on page 58 (K) in particular are interesting. The city ended up widening the road there pretty significantly. When they built https://maps.app.goo.gl/7yVzp4vm72Js3w618 back in '22, there was just one tower. The original plan had two towers instead of one (https://bpda.app.box.com/s/lsw68tzgu4g788h9dr4zvorlc6ohy0oy). The resulting sub area is only two buildings now, where there were tenements before.

At the time, Romans would have said they spoke Roman (Romaic[1])--not Greek.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Greek

My parents spent $18K on rooftop solar in the Boise metro area. One Tesla powerwall battery and install on top of that will be another $15K.

Neither of these terms seem to exist on wiktionary.

A good chunk of the English lexicon was foreign at one point or another: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkhorn_term

> who...will they sell the juice to?

Utah is already a power exporter. Utah generates about one-fifth more electricity than it consumes, and the state is a net supplier of power to other states.[1]

[1] https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=UT

When the pandemic hit in the US, and people were hoarding a bit, I had several times where I had to carry groceries home in a fruit box.

> From mid-14c. as "to pain, torment." Of tight shoes, from 1570s. Meaning "to steal" in English is from 1650s.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/pinch#etymonline_v_16335

I lived in northern Germany (55°N) a few years after living most of my life at 42°N in the US. The lack of natural light in the winter was brutal.

With enough fricatives, some languages still manage. See the Serbian for Serbian, srpska https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republika_Srpska.

Nytimes gift links only work for the first person that uses it, I believe.

It’s much more difficult to do traffic enforcement by sweat and blood in Boston where narrow roads are more common. Bots for traffic enforcement would free cops up to deal with less rote work too.

In places like Massachusetts, traffic cameras are illegal, which is unfortunate.

I agree with your point. On

> Anything with a `then` method can be awaited, and so native Promises aren’t actually all the special or sacred. Invoking await on an expression involves no extra machinery, only that a Promise-like object is returned.

note that _anything_ can be awaited in JS.

``` const x = await null; console.log(x) ```

Cabrini Green is the more infamous example, I think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini–Green_Homes

Income tax when I lived in Germany ('17-'19) was 42%. The Soli tax was another 5%. Transit was relatively expensive compared to Boston, where I live now, but in much better shape. Transit coverage in the suburbs seemed much better too.