Was there an exodus from Facebook to Lemmy I didn't hear about?
paultimate14
joined 2 years ago
Did this place have bike racks?
As someone who worked in a parking lot for years I can tell you 90% of the time the cars that park in these designated spots do not have anything hung from their mirror or on their license plates indicated they are allowed to do so. We couid have theoretically had the cars towed, but when there's still several empty designated spaces it's just not worth bothering with.
I'm much more upset about minimum parking lot size requirements built into zoning codes than I am about an easily-movable bike being left in a space for a few minutes.
Insane that it took 38 years to go from the first black woman in Congress in 1977 to the first black Republican woman in Congress.
Mia Love would have been 2 years old when Shirley Chisholm entered office.
That's easy for someone who can afford more expensive protein sources to say.
Eggs used to be one of the best protein per dollar values available. You still have flour (and flour products), lentils, and pinto beans as options. Maybe oats and peanut butter, although that's starting to transition from "protein per dollar" to "calories per dollar" to make sense. And those other sources will start to get more expensive as people move to them.
It hasn't gotten as much press, but the cost of chicken meat rises with the prices of eggs too. That has historically been the cheapest available meat, so I would expect people moving to alternatives to drive up the costs of pork, lentils and beans. Maybe beef and seafood too.
It's a significant blow, especially to people who do a lot of physical labor and need that protein. This isn't just as simple as "don't buy the videogame that's overpriced" or "don't watch the movie with the problematic actor" or "don't buy the low-quality fast fashion products made by slave labor". This is messing with people's food. Go look up all of the long-term ramifications to populations after famines.
Society is never more than a few hungry days from collapse. This could very well push America closer to that.
Why does this feel like misogynist incel nonsense?
The roads don't care about whether the car is ICE or EV. There are plenty of gigantic SUV's that are hybrids or even electric. Eventually we will see electric 18 wheelers.
There should be an additional tax on ICE's for their emissions as well to capture that higher externality. But remember EV's are not emission-free. Anything with tires is a source of pollution.
Personal vehicles cause a lot of problems for humanity, and only some of those are exclusive to ICE's.