Yeah, but the idea that respecting a woman’s due process isnt allowed in abortion cases because it allows abortion is insane. Abortion hasn’t been solidified as a right like the Trumpists argued. Due process is.

That’s exactly the argument that Roe v Wade made.

We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, in this point in the development of man’s knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer.

A state criminal abortion statute of the current Texas type, that excepts from criminality only a life-saving procedure on behalf of the mother, without regard to pregnancy stage and without recognition of the other interests involved, is violative of the (due process rights of the mother).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade

When Trump’s activist judges overturned it, they argued that not criminalizing abortion gave women rights that the constitution did not explicitly protect(?)

Because according to incompetent/corrupt Trump judges, that’s how the constitution works now.

My man, race is a social construct. Skin pigment doesn’t care if you’re from Mexico or from China, it’s literally the same color.

That’s really interesting, I wouldn’t have assumed that given the passenger counts on trains, the longer lifespan of the equipment, and the increased passenger/personnel ratio.

I guess train maintenance can be more expensive than bus maintenance, though bus engines require more complex maintenance as far as I know. I guess the capital costs of the vehicles and the rails maybe outweigh tee capital costs of the buses.

Decades of underinvestment.

It’s great that they offer the service at all, but it’s impossible to get reasonable service renting a freight rail line that goes the wrong way, while the freight company does everything they can to make Amtrak service worse to maximize shareholder value. Amtrak needs to own its own rails if we want trains to be faster than buses or flying.

It depends. If the train is faster then you have lower personnel hours. You can also fit many times more people on a train than a bus so you need fewer vehicles and drivers. For city transit, commuter trains are always cheaper per passenger than busses, assuming the train capacity is being well used.

2 people in a car is always more efficient than flying in terms of global warming potential I think. A long haul flight has similar GWP/km to driving 1 person. Shorter flights are worse.

Just physically having 1 billion dollars would take up the majority of a room, stacked up as a solid mass of $100 bills. It’s physically impossible to have 100 billion dollars in the same place, let alone 1 trillion.

https://youtu.be/8YUWDrLazCg

Nah conservatives wouldnt implement mamdani’s policies, definitely on the left.

Away with excess enemy!

Good to hear the DNC acknowledging the cost of living crisis and income inequality. Coalition building is a good goal.

He’s completely wrong about his job being top-down control of candidates though. We need to build grassroot campaigns and get more people running for office at every level, we can’t just have the DNC picking bad presidential candidates and throwing their hands in the air when they inevitably lose.

Not me, us.

The ICE gestapo is going to terrorize NYC no matter who’s mayor. I don’t think even Curtis Sliwa in office would discourage Trump.

But yeah, Mamdani has high expectations just like Obama did. Luckily, he has a lot of councilpeople on his side. The DSA has grown a lot in the past decade.

Bernie had a lot of resistance when he was first elected mayor too, but that didn’t stop him from making a difference there and getting elected over and over again.

The struggle doesn’t end on election day!

Trump and Harris had record turnout in 2024. People voting for Trump against Harris in 2024 had a bigger effect than apathy for Clinton in 2016.

Leak comment about Miller’s next victim?

court cases are not phone calls

Failures in education and misunderstanding aren’t unique to any one generation.

Think about how the right wing genz have completely abandoned gender and racial equality and are voting against green politicians.

Think about how millennials have embraced AI and get their news from corporate-controlled social media despite all the evidence for its harmful effects on democracy and critical thinking. The millennials who support the genocide in Gaza.

People aren’t convinced by the fakeness of modern media and want to believe what they already believe. That’s something that’s affecting all the generations.

You can call me a boomer and you’d be wrong.

Just stop using an OS that is intentionally difficult to use and hostile. It takes like an hour to install Bazzite

https://bazzite.gg/

Russia too. To some extent Sweden and China too.

Also plenty of settler states out there but they didn’t evict indigenous people as much.

I did read the link, and I also read other sources about Intelligent Speed Assist.

Intelligent Speed Assist is not necessarily a speed limiter, unless the EC has created new guidelines since 2024 that require hard speed limiters that I’m not aware of.

Sure, speed limiters aren’t required on ebikes either when you’re not on a public road, but 99.9% of vehicle usage is on public roads, even for racecar enthusiasts. EU regulation makes it very easy for manufacturers to make cars that double as racecars, since ISA can be disabled easily by the user. But neither racecars nor e-bikes are meant to race on public roads. ISA clearly does not go far enough.

There are much bigger issues with car safety than just speeding, I just wanted to point out that we knowingly allow car drivers to kill people with reckless driving on increasingly more complex and more dangerous machines. And we as a society are very resistant to any harm reduction tools that would prevent drivers from breaking speed limits, or otherwise adapt cars to fit better in the cities where they’re driven. Even historically-large 2-door economy cars are referred to as “clown cars”.

The reality is that the modern car is a high speed impact-armored vehicle designed for intercity cruising at speeds traditionally reserved for trained professionals. They are increasingly unsuitable for the intraurban environments they spend the vast majority of their time in. Cars might be important in rural areas, but personal mobility needs more variety than just cars, walking and the occasional sport cyclist.

Here is a video about intermediary vehicles that used to exist, but were abandoned immediately as soon as we could build something faster.

https://youtu.be/7NxFBbLSOzs

Until the average car driver gets some self-understanding about the vehicles they operate, modern cars do not belong in civilized urban neighborhoods at all. Speed limiters are just the tip of the iceberg.