https://www.firstinspires.org/programs/fll/
It’s the entry level competition from the same people who make the competition with those 2m tall robots.
I participated in their mid level one (18 inch / half meter cube size, metal parts) when I was in high school.
Zoning and laws like parking minimums are part of it, but it’s also literally the government paying for car infrastructure because that is a routine and unquestioned part of government budgets while any spending on other forms of transit is heavily limited and it’s expected to turn a profit from fares, which roads never do. The spending on roads should be questioned, and spending on other forms of transit should be seen as an important public service.
Well, for context, I come from the Chicago area which does have commuter trains but is still a massive sprawling hellscape because everything - including the train stations - is designed for cars. So it’s true that everything is too far apart there, because the car-centric design itself makes it so.
I guess I should specify - everything in the US is too far apart to be a good environment for people, because we built it that way. It is not too far apart for public transport to be built, though. Building public transport (as well as walking and cycling infrastructure) and specifically building less car infrastructure is the way to make it less far apart and make it better for people.
Cities in the US are far apart because of car-centric design, not the other way around. If we just invested more in other forms of transit, then our cities would not be so sprawling.
The moral of the story is: Watch PornHub videos instead of YouTube videos to do your part to support content creators.
Trans women when they have to go in the mens room and defend themselves against creeps.
If these people are so amazing to earn that much money, we should ship them all to mars and we’d have a thriving colony in a few years.
Cry
You’d better bark for your owner like a good little puppy. :P
Probably, but that doesn’t make for a good clickbait headline.
I was born to have those recommendations turned off so I can think for myself.
Logistics disrupted by the oil shock caused by its own actions?
The thing about that is the main Democrat establishment hates that type of candidate and tolerates Republicans by comparison, so in such a race, the Democrat party actively sabotages the leftist candidates. That’s why Bernie runs as an independent - the Democrat party would not support him and actively sabotaged his attempt to run for president in 2016. The Democrat party also attempted to sabotage Mamdani’s run for mayor of NYC, but they were unable to stop him from winning anyways, despite their opposition. So, maybe the dam is starting to crack and we will see more cases like that. The party will fight it tooth and nail the whole way, though. They would much rather have Republicans in power than leftists.
They’re more afraid of leftists than they are of MAGA. They more or less threw the 2024 election on purpose rather than move an inch to the left, and then after losing, they figured they can just lie low and blame all the destruction on the Republicans, claiming that they were completely powerless.
I’d be too chicken to try that even though I’m gay. T_T