Favorites March 20th 2022

Wally Nowinski @Nowooski

New York has a surprisingly good program that pays citizens a bounty for videos of trucks that violate the 3 minute idling law. I would love to see it expanded to cover bike lane violations too.

nytimes.com$87.50 for 3 Minutes: Inside the Hot Market for Videos of Idling TrucksA New York City clean-air program allows citizens to report idling commercial vehicles in exchange for a cut of the fines. Some drivers respond with fists.

The article talks a lot about people being upset about being caught by this program, I'm just surprised that they're aware enough of the program to be upset.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The waning of religiosity is really underrated as a driver of social/cultural change.

Not exactly off a cliff, but definitely a precipitous decline.

Ben Collins @oneunderscore__

Startling data: 26 percent of unvaccinated people in Canada believe Russia invading Ukraine is justified. 2 percent of vaccinated people in Canada believe the same. More evidence antivaxx communities are evolving into general pro-authoritarian spaces. thestar.com/news/investiga…

Seems sorta like polarization, which applies in Canada just as much as it does here.

• Thread speculating about what Putin's more scaled-back endgame may look like. Also some explanation of why they're essentially leveling Mariupol. They’d still be looking to take a pretty big chunk of territory.

Golden Gate Park, September 2021