Not to get too into the weeds here - I honestly don’t care about the specifics because the regulation is dumb theocratic NIMBYism and I doubt the commission goes out of its way to make it clear - but the proximity is just vaguely listed as something DABS is required to consider. Neither information on their website nor the regulation itself has a distance measurement.

Of all the things you can dunk on a business for, this one seems weird and nitpicky.

The AP style guide has been updated to require the use of passive voice in every sentence.

If you wanted, you could argue it from a purely technocratic perspective and say, sure, the lack of state funding for colleges made college less affordable, but there was still the implicit promise that if you took out loans to finance your education and that education didn’t make you financially better off, the state would reassume the burden. In fact, the affordability crisis might have gotten attention sooner if it did lead to a lot of bankruptcies because the federal government would suddenly be out a lot of money and it would be incentivized to pressure states to keep costs down.

Focus the conversation on Joe’s decision to remove bankruptcy protections, because that’s the issue - there was a safety valve (that most likely sucked, but it was at least there) where borrowers could get relief, Joe took that valve away, and that has allowed the problem to fester far beyond the measures he’s taken to ameliorate it.

Calls for genocide, looting, women’s underwear obsession

POV: you just pledged to the psychotic ethnostate frat.

Meanwhile, on my reading list, India is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today

Counterpoint: What reasonable person would think “Oh gee, I need to make sure my business isn’t too close to a church for it to sell alcohol.” What, are all the little old Mormon ladies going to get drunk on the wine vapor wafting across the street?

That’s really funny, he turned the idea of a Faustian bargain completely on its head.

Please please please do one on the health benefits of adrenocrome next week, please I have been a loyal and steadfast servant of chaos and this is all I want now

Oh, that’s funny - is white nationalism running around with the idea that deals with the devil are actually awesome?

Can’t tell if I’m too young to understand this or too old to understand this

The fuck is Faustian individualism? The climax of Faust is him realizing he fucked up when the devil comes to collect.

Building out public transportation to organically reduce demand for personal vehicles, even electric ones, which are still less GHG efficient than trains or buses
Passing laws calling electric cars “a pretty nifty doodad that’d be a smart fetch for a right-thinking man about town”

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As much as he wishes he could keep that promise, he doesn’t run the fundaments. Might not look like anything now but someday the bottom’s gonna drop out.

Anyone could’ve guessed that if you put a glass door in a fishbowl there’s bound to be leaks

I feel like we need a sticky given how often this question comes up. Put it with a Pepe the frog meme since that’s all the libs seem to notice (even when there isn’t a single one on the entire damn web site)

So if Plan A was to throw as much of Ukraine into the meat grinder as possible while eventually delivering defeat by economic and/or industrial exhaustion to Russia so that the ruins of both countries could be sold off for parts, what’s Plan B now that it’s not working? Is The West ^TM stuck grinding this out until Ukraine is forced to sue for peace, and Halliburton et al. will have to console themselves with all the defense contracts awarded along the way, or are we going to hear increasingly escalating rhetoric until a really big bomb gets dropped somewhere where it does a whole lot of damage and things go extra pear-shaped?

How would that work anatomically? Is it between the second dorsal and caudal fins?

Other than the confusing logistics that is both a hilarious-ass tattoo and a hilarious ass tattoo.

If Trump wins in November I’m going to go see how quickly I can get banned from r/politics by asking people if they voted for a stronger candidate in the primaries, and, in the extremely likely event that they didn’t, asking them why they don’t believe in the power of voting

“Beelzebub Lord of Flies asks: ‘Has anyone come up with a good reason why we should not burn in a Hell of our own making?’”