Has anyone else been to the moon? No. I guess itβs pretty American then.
The reason the US doesn't have abandoned cars littering the sides of roads anymore is because of cheap shredders that made recycling them profitable
He mentions that in Hawaii it's not worth it to ship these cars to somewhere with a shredder, so there are still abandoned cars sitting around.
When you hear people say they should mint the $1 trillion coin to solve the debt ceiling issue, you assume it's a comically large coin, right, this isn't just me
If you're wondering, the folks at mintthecoin.org have an explainer on how the coin would be normal sized.
The African century
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β’ Interesting thread about the epistemilogical difficulty in determining the true cost of CEQA on California. This is a section that was cut from a whole article in the SF Chronicle about how we can reform CEQA in the near-term.