I live a 10 minute walk from Dimond Park. Hiking from there to Mt Diablo is...insane.

$1.87 per 100 miles difference in CA per their model if you own a hybrid. I drive about 5,000 miles a year. So just under $100 a year savings in CA if I'm following it correctly. $400 if standard gas vs home charge. 🙄

The Catholic Church's growth at this point is basically all in the non-white Global South. And in the U.S., I'd bet it's largely dependent on immigrants coming from the Global South.

The mathing is good most places except CA; particularly bad if one is in PGE territory and your ICE is not a gas guzzler.

Yes. The investor owned utilities in CA like PGE have captured their regulators and basically take the ratepayers for a ride. calmatters.org/economy/2025...

Indeed. There are many good reasons to loathe Reagan's policies. But he wasn't fash. His language (and even actions) on just immigration were day & night from this. And when it comes to how the polity gets moved by leaders & language, that matters.

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Yeah this. My blue state middle class butt hasn't touched the supermarket made in NJ stuff in over 10 years. And only bronze-cut domestic brand we found closed during Covid.

If you want to have kids, don't wait until your 40s. Everything just gets way harder as a parent the older you start.

He's a Federalist society stooge.

The groan from this Dad-level joke is louder than a shofar.

Maybe b/c I'm in a very odd niche industry, I had to learn early on how to develop a personality outside of my job. Cuz nobody wanted to listen to "Um AKshully, affordable housing is now largely public-private partnerships, with the LIHTC being how the Federal govt finances..."

Or, the avg techbro has the social skills of a wet turnip & just socializes with other techbros b/c that's all they know how to do. "Like yeah dude, I'm totally interested in your latest VC round & your rock climbing club. Sorry, excuse me...I think I see a friend over there I need to talk to."

I guess I'm canning poached quince this weekend.

This early in season, I'll take it.

Russ Vought isn’t really a bureaucrat, he’s an anti-constitutional criminal seizing a bunch of unlawful powers to conduct economic warfare against hundreds of millions of Americans because they live in states that voted against his patron.

NOFA in the bid docs probably included WBE/MBE subcontracting goals.

Like housing costs, inflation, perceptions of the economy all part of the accelerant mix. But the underlying fuel & ignition source were all already there. We can’t keep going on not fixing THAT & instead just hoping we can keep the accelerants down in the future.