Has anyone else been to the moon? No. I guess it’s pretty American then.
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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
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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.
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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.
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The African century
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Threads
• 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.