I don’t know how anyone could feel transported by being here. Its literally a single block of “car free” neighborhood development. Outside of that its your standard US city with subpar public transport, little in the way of pedestrian or bike infrastructure, and its very car centric. I think if the neighborhood was self sufficient and was of a size where most of your needs could be found within its boundaries then it could work. It would need to be much much larger for that though. Unfortunately that can’t happen because they have 1500ft or so on their block and all the land around them is developed.

I’ve been in a permanent state of alarm for months now. I have anxiety and a weird twitch in my eye. Why aren’t our politicians and news orgs alarmed?

This article and also this one at https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250306-inside-youtubes-hidden-world-of-forgotten-videos were interesting reads. It would be nice if they offered some pointers on how to better find this stuff.

Well this is guaranteed to be horrible.

The rules only apply to low paid employees. You bet your ass a regular federal employee could still be fired for receiving a free lunch.

Wow this article is really anti-fish. It was the osprey who dropped the fish onto the power lines yet the headline says it’s the fish’s fault.

This is F1 in a nutshell. The pool of drivers are all pretty good but they don’t really matter. Its all about the engineering and money.

Just join the USA already. Got rid of free tuition, defund NHS, have NFL games in your own stadiums, love the snus snus.

Right, if people didn’t pay the exorbitant prices then they wouldn’t charge it. It’s pretty simple.