Nice! It’s the off-season, but sure, let’s build something up!

Mostly long-tail bikes, with racks. The main goal seems to be to be able to carry some kids along with maybe some groceries.

Credit unions used to have some limitations, like no national or regional reach, but now they link their ATMs in networks together, and depositing a check is as simple as taking a picture with your phone. They’ve given me good loan rates, relatively good interest rates on checking accounts and CDs, and I always get a human when I call. Your money is insured up to $250k through the NCUA, basically the credit Union version of the FDIC. And you own part of the credit union, and the income stays local. There probably isn’t a perfect financial institution, but credit unions can be close.

That kinda tells you what kind of business Tesla is, if its valuation is based on politics and government-adjascent grift rather than vehicles sold and revenue.

I do not like that saddle.

I like this market segment, I’m glad RE is in this space, but I hate that saddle.

Womp womp on that price.

Andreesen is a hypocritical NIMBY who can go walk into the ocean for all I care. His opinion shouldn’t matter.

He’s probably right in this instance, but rich people do not deserve to be listened to just because they are rich.

I’m generally a fan. I see a lot more people biking around my suburban sprawling American city, and I’ve noticed the majority now are ebikes. Probably half of those are cargo bikes, so they really seem to be enabling more trips outside a car, and that’s pretty great.

Boooooooooo!

Just a reminder, the “major questions doctrine” is bullshit, used by the partisan conservatives to ignore the plain text of a statute whenever they want to engineer an outcome. Don’t pretend that this is anything less than make-believe judicial bullshit.

Thanks, Biden!

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I just want to tip my hat to Elizabeth Lopatto’s writing in this piece. I miss following her on twitter and had forgotten how spicy and on-target she can be. Good stuff.

Truly a superb photo, it jumped out at me even before I clicked through and read the description. Thanks!

Just stop building in Phoenix already. We’re just creating the next round of climate refugees.

Except she does stop, for 3.5 years at a time, only to crawl back out from under her rock to get some attention in her brief period of pseudo-relevance as a potential spoiler. Away with her.

The current Indian government has prosecuted or detained employees of foreign companies in the past for actions taken by the company. There is a real risk here.

I do think the Indian government has a point if you read the lawsuit. This is a ongoing lawsuit and the page taken down had info on it and a discussion page where people were talking about the ongoing lawsuit. The lawsuit says that this “…Complicates and compounds the issue at hand.”

Hard disagree. Ongoing lawsuits often have complicated issues, but are nonetheless topics of public concern. It’s sometimes inconvenient for governments and large corporations to have the public aware of the lawsuit and the underlying facts and issues, but that’s no reason to impose a gag order.

Frankly, whenever I hear a court give vague rationales like “complicates the issues,” I assume they judge just doesn’t like the criticism. That’s what it sounds like here.

If this is the case, why aren’t the Brits famous for longevity or graceful aging after generations of boiling everything?