Archives: Tweets
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Anyone howling about ‘public / government inefficiency’ and how awesome ‘ business / private markets’ are should have to spend the next week trying to make a car purchase on a deadline, without losing their minds.
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You can really see how the massive push for self-driving cars is a desperate attempt to avoid real change in fundamental areas like transit, the economy, civic planning, community models, etc.
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Honestly – if every single car dealer just died right now, would anyone who’s not directly dependent upon revenue from them – in other words, not a tax-collector – shed the merest sliver of a tear? I doubt it.
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Wow. Buying a car is such a broken / terrible / old-school / wasteful interaction. Hard to think of something else that screams “I’m a structural tax!” and “Kill me now with new approaches” and “Everyone’s rooting for the meteor (not the dinosaurs)! so loudly.
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Grim Tallies Aside, Schools Are Still Statistically “Safe” Spaces via @NYTimes [Softballing the real issues – a society lacking functioning mass transit or healthcare = harmed children – to win eyeballs with junk-food-style headlines…] nyti.ms/2GGT7Nw
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Four in 10 Americans can’t cover a $400 emergency expense, Fed finds [Making America Great…!] theguardian.com/business/2018/…
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RT @anildash: Maybe there’s just a coin they toss over at Google, and when it’s heads, they make a messaging app, but when it’s tails they…
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RT @washingtonpost: Someone, somewhere, is making a banned chemical that destroys the ozone layer, scientists suspect https://t.co/RGSveFTn…
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RT @NatGeo: For the first time, National Geographic has compiled a digital archive of every map ever published in the magazine since the fi…
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…My original take on the three pillars of Trumpism: Ignorance, Incompetence, Inhumanity. twitter.com/greatdismal/st…