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| Bike #3 | Tern Link D-8 |
The source of humanity's fossil fuels problems in transportation boiled down in one slide.
https://theconversation.com/which-transport-is-the-fairest-of-them-all-24806
Sometimes I play a game called "everything goes back to housing prices", where I take some trend or issue and connect it by a convoluted and ridiculous chain of reasoning to find that the ultimate cause is housing prices.
Half the time I convince myself that the ultimate cause is, in fact, housing prices.
Status of fires relayed by BakersRelay. Note: Info is several hours old.
#ParkFire ACRES: 401,508 CONTAINMENT: 31%
#BorelFire ACRES: 59,340 CONTAINMENT: 57%
#TroutFire ACRES: 23,438 CONTAIN.: 49%
#PedroFire ACRES: 3,815 CONTAINMENT: 70%
#PioneerFire ACRES 35,476 CONTAINMENT 12%
#AlexanderMountainFire ACRES: 9,668 CONT.: 54%
The following fires will no longer be relayed, but will be followed for information on community recovery.
#NixonFire ACRES: 5,222 CONTAINMENT: 82%
#DurkeeFire ACRES: 294,690 CONTAINMENT: 86%
#ThompsonFire ACRES 31,557 CONT.: 99%
#StoneMountainFire ACRES: 1,557 CONT.: 100%
How a #Tax Break for #Data Centers Snowballed Into One of #Washington State’s Biggest Corporate Giveaways
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Companies have saved $474M since 2018, with most of the windfall going to tech giant #Microsoft.
Lawmakers repeatedly expanded who qualifies, and lowered the number of #jobs expected in return.
#News #PNW #Utilities #Electricity #Taxes #Government
https://www.propublica.org/article/washington-data-centers-tech-jobs-tax-break
Companies have saved $474 million since 2018, with most of the windfall going to Washington-based tech giant Microsoft. Lawmakers repeatedly expanded who qualifies, and they lowered the number of jobs expected in return.
Extreme rainfall is forecast with #Hurricane #Debby due to it being such a slow moving storm. Over the next five days, some areas along the Georgia and South Carolina coast may see in excess of 300 mm of rain.
Portland is run by cowards with no vision.
Concrete planters for calming traffic removed after frequent collisions https://bikeportland.org/2024/07/30/concrete-planters-for-calming-traffic-removed-after-frequent-collisions-388923
@notjustbikes earlier this year, Los Angeles Fire department did a political campaign against the Safe Streets Ballot initiative(even though the safe streets redesign includes dedicated lanes for emergency vehicles)
Someone on the Los Angeles subreddit did some digging and 75% of LAFD responses are to automobiles. They're barely even fire fighters anymore.
Luckily voters didn't listen and passed it.
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