Those are all places that were relatively sparsely populated until the widespread use of air conditioning, which coincided with the takeover of city planning by auto company interests. Also things like the interstate highway system.

I dont like the way this article is titled. This matter is not settled yet, and repeating CBP’s claims that they are allowed to do this just strengthens their claims.

Using bethel as an example for an article is a bit disingenuous. It’s not a place that people should really be living any way other than off the land. It’s like saying the groceries on the space station or at everest base camp are expensive.

It’s like 500 km from any roads and thousands from anywhere capable of agriculture as the rest of the world knows it.

It’s also mainly Yupik, and politically, idk how they vote, but they aren’t exactly politically relevant compared to the basically 3 cities with more than 10,000 people in Alaska.

Yeah, in a similar vein, it could also potentially be due to differing standards for how causes of death are assigned.

Someone could have congestive heart failure leading to pneumonia that actually kills them, and one country might consider that cardiovascular while another does not.

There’s about a million diseases that dont actually kill you, they just lead to something else killing you. AIDS, for example.

The rights of way already exist for the most part. The whole nation was built on railways. Most are just cargo only, and many have been converted to bike/foot paths.

Alternatively, interstate highway rights of way could be used.

I hope one day the rest of the world will learn that Chicago deep dish is a gimmick, and what people in Chicago just call “pizza” is a completely different thing that’s way better.

Hawaiian pizza is Canadian

The Dutch started adding annatto to cheese to make it more orange ages ago so they could have a more uniform product year round since winter milk has less pigment than summer milk. This practice spread to other countries like France, the UK, and the US.

The Swiss later invented process cheese, and James Kraft, a Canadian businessman started making processed cheese with the annatto added. He did this in America, so the product became known as American cheese.

Processed cheese in general (and american cheese in particular) is not inherently a bad idea. It’s the best way to get a smooth melting cheese. There’s also no limit to what cheese can be used, so I’ve made processed cheese out of cheeses like pecorino (you just need to dissolve it into a liquid along with some sodium citrate). Then you have easy melting cheese that you can keep in the fridge and just toss with pasta whenever you want something like a cacio e pepe with less effort to control the heat and get the proportions right.

It’s a little misleading to call it dye. It’s annatto, which is a spice used in a lot of cuisines. It’s used in cheese from a lot of countries. It’s usually in cheese to make it more orange, but it’s not like it’s red #40 or whatever.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s13293-026-00976-9_reference.pdf

Couple notes on the study.

• weird that they used manual coding instead of eye tracking software.
• this is sold as looking at nature absent of nurture, but I do wonder if there are differences in prenatal treatment of male vs female fetuses that could be at play.
• they are trying to show that females are more interested in the face, and males are more likely to be interested in the mechanical thing, but, they needed the infants to look at the screens for long enough during a trial to count, so they had to retry multiple infants. The percentage of male infants who needed to be retrialed was significantly higher than female, suggesting that the male infants were just more likely to be looking all around rather than just at a specific screen.

The responses were basically heavily overlapping bell curves that only really show a sex difference in aggregate. Of the 120ish subjects they were able to complete, if even 10% end up gender non-conforming, you probably wouldnt have enough to make conclusions.

This is the only way that makes sense. Lots of people complain when a politician breaks campaign promises like:

“I am going to lower the cost of living”.

It’s not really a lie when they fail cause it isnt just up to them. Weaker wording like:

“I am going to try to lower the cost of living”

Would be technically non-falsifiable, but not actually matter to people.

The only things that I think would actually make sense to prosecute are intentional misrepresentation of facts, or decisions that are directly in their power.

I grew up near a road that I swear did the opposite of this. Drive the limit, and you hit every light, drive 5 over the limit, and you get endless green. Didn’t help that the road was a horrible stroad that visually facilitated cars going easily 20 over. Coincidentally the local police also kept like 75% of the on-duty cops on that road.

Light timing has got to be really complicated, so the approach seems like it couldn’t work everywhere, but where it can be implemented, it seems like a no brainer.

Not exactly. The specific heat of ice is about half of the specific heat of water.

So 6 tonnes of urine at 37°C would take 12 tonnes of ice from -37°C to 0°C.

That’s still ice, though, and it takes way more energy to thaw ice that to warm ice from -37 to 0.

Actually, I’ll just do the math.

6 Mg piss * 37°C * 4.18 J/g°C = 929 MJ

Let’s say ambient ice temp is -20°C.

20°C * 2.05 J/g°C * X + 333.55 J/g * X = 929 MJ

X ~2.5 tonnes of ice melted.

Not too bad. I suspect the change in albedo is the real problem.

Didn’t realize that! I just unchecked some of the things I don’t care as much about. Guess I could have just slid them down the priority list.

after every statistical review over the last hundred years of reviews of statistical data, your claims do not bare out.

Can you link one of many statistical reviews that you are mentioning?

Is that like a fork of StreetComplete (or the other way around)? My problem with street complete is that it decides priorities for you in terms of what info to ask you for. Like I dont care much about reporting road surfaces and lane lines, but I’d really like to contribute to mapping of hiking/biking trails, and things like water sources. I know you can do that kind of thing via web interfaces, but I like the way street complete makes it easy in an app.

Good article. He keeps focus on the transit itself, which is certainly a stylistic choice, but I can’t help but mention that there are a couple things I’d add to an article like this.

1. Transit can obviously be expensive, but even expensive transit is monumentally cheaper than roads. The example of the Toronto subway expansion serving 61k people for $344m works out to $5,639 per person. In this comment, I calculated the cost per person for roads in a random rural county at $432,000 per person.

2. He lightly touches on this, but often a huge driver for cost is the automatic assumption that transit cannot touch an existing right-of-way being used by car traffic. If you start with the assumption that you can’t just take a couple lanes away from a road to build something at grade, you’ve likely already upped the cost by an order of magnitude. The cost of the decision to preserve car travel lanes should not be considered a cost of the transit project, it’s a cost of the personal automobile project.

Yes, but there is incredibly strong evidence that mask wearing does reduce transmission rates. I haven’t looked (so definitely correct me if I’m wrong), but I suspect that lid closing likely does not have strong evidence for decreased transmission.

One factor that I think likely weighs heavily into this is that public toilets, where you could be exposed to particles from a stranger dont have lids usually, and they have a much more violent flush, while home toilets are mostly just used by your own household.

Yeah, thats why I specified it was just in the coating. Like the spangle in galvanized metal where you see grains with the naked eye.