Normies also don’t understand why inflation happens, economies of scale, or how automation and trade affect prices—and they shouldn’t have to!

But then they also shouldn’t angry about things they don’t understand, but alas that is the human condition.

This is also why you get Boomers reminiscing about 36¢/gal gasoline in 1972 regardless of what the purchasing power of a dollar was…

Ironically, because of inflation, that would be $2.79/gal nowadays, which is a little less than the current avg of $2.98/gal, but all they see is a 6.75× increase.

Normies think higher sticker prices = inflation.

The good news is that the person (allegedly) behind the change is now moving to Meta/FB.

You can read more here from @daringfireball.bsky.social but his replacement sounds great: daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_...

You can adjust the transparency, thank goodness! I myself prefer "Tinted".

How to change:

→ "Tinted" = Settings > Display & Brightness > Liquid Glass

→ "Reduce Transparency" = Accessibility > Display & Text Size

Oh and yes, Waymo will *not* reduce congestion, which is yet another reason why we need more public transit.

Waymo also does not encourage density in urban planning.

AI-generated but I imagine (or hope) it looks something more like this:

The goals of Waymo ought to be:

→ Reduce and eliminate dangerous driving

→ Reduce and eliminate the need for off-street parking

→ Reduce the need for car sewers (on-street parking) to then enable street calming measures

But again, that should go *in hand* with public transit and walkable cities.

Oh and one more thing—increased usage of taxis and rideshare (including Waymo) over individual cars (whether owned or rental) ought to reduce the space we need to waste on dedicated parking!

But of course, that will be for nought unless we also eliminate parking minimums.

Also, Waymo is *not* surveillance—the conspiracies about this are understandable but wild and demented.

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Read the abstract but don't have access to the study—how would this work for a city like St. Louis where (it seems) the overwhelming majority of offenders don't have license plates?

Also, do you happen to know the revenue vs. operational cost?

Close enough: bsky.app/profile/kenm...

(searching for my "Everything Is Projection" post to re-up...)

If we can get reporters to use "died by suicide", we should be able to get reporters to start saying "killed by driver" instead of "killed by car."

Amazing, the car on its own apparently decided to kill this actress, according to the headline... no mention of a driver unless you dive into the article. 😡

Corrected headline:

'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' actress Wenne Alton Davis struck, killed by 61 year old driver while crossing NYC street: sources