“Can you imagine a family of four getting an ice cream, and it being upwards of $60? . . . That’s upsetting.”
For this price you should get something you could put in your will.
The push for more E.V.s comes as the world’s leading climate experts say that retiring the internal combustion engine is critical to staving off the most deadly effects of global warming.So it seems we've given up on avoiding global warming completely and are now only worried about the most deadly part of it. (Also, NYTimes, tut tut…it's not global warming any more, it's climate change. Try to focus here.)
In addition to the regulations, the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, championed by Mr. Biden, provides tax credits for buyers of new and used electric vehicles, along with incentives for charging stations and grants and loans for manufacturers.
And I've heard those electric cars can really burn some rubber.
Pink and brown, like white, have standard definitions to audio experts. Other color noises are more recent creations with very flexible definitions.
Colored noise? Maybe you have to be dreaming.
(Yes, I've heard of it. I've even listened to some of it.
(SPOILER: It sounds like noise.)
Here's a little summary from the Associated Press.
Moscow has aggressively expanded its military cooperation with the nations by using the private security company Wagner and its likely successor, Africa Corps, with Russian mercenaries protecting African leaders and helping states fight extremists. Russia offers security assistance without interfering in politics, making it an appealing partner in places like Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, all ruled by military juntas that seized power in recent years.
Russia has taken advantage of political unrest and discontent in coup-hit nations, capitalizing on popular frustration and anger with former colonial power France. Military coups have ousted governments seen as close to the West and doing little to alleviate grinding poverty and unemployment.
In return, Moscow seeks access to minerals and other contracts as well as political support, or at least neutrality, over its invasion of Ukraine. Africa is rich in minerals, oil, and other resources, which are increasingly central to economic and national security. African nations also make up the largest voting bloc at the United Nations and have been more divided than any other group on resolutions criticizing Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
[Emphasis mine.]
For a country that's supposedly being challenged by Ukraine, they seem to be doing pretty well.
“America thought it would weaken us, and in the end, they made us stronger,” Levi, 31, told The Associated Press from his farm in the South Hebron Hills — one of dozens of unauthorized settlement outposts dotting the West Bank.
…what happened to all those sanctions on Russia? They've disappeared into the burn bag?
Haven't heard much about them lately.
Although towns held remembrances locally…it wasn’t until 2014 that a French president — Macron’s predecessor, François Hollande — paid national homage to Normandy’s civilian dead.
Allied casualties during the Normandy campaign were 73,000 dead, 153,000 wounded.
In Normandy, the German Army suffered 290,000 casualties in total, including 23,000 dead, 67,000 wounded, and more than 200,000 missing or prisoners of war.
– Commonwealth War Graves Commission
[Casualty figures for no war ever, even those long concluded and thoroughly studied, are precise.]
The heaviest hail stone on record in the United States had a reported diameter of 11 inches (27.94 centimeters) and weighed nearly 2 pounds (907 grams). It was discovered near Vivian, South Dakota, in July 2010, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information.
Those who had fought for congestion pricing had been eagerly awaiting the implementation of an idea conceived here 72 years ago — one that aimed to transform the city’s busiest streets and set an example for other American cities that are battling traffic and pollution.
But they woke up to shattering news on Wednesday.
Things have become so adversarial recently it's impossible to do anything for anybody without furiousizing somebody else.
Manhattan is, without a doubt, the traffic jam capitol of the U.S. Let one fender get dented somewhere on the island and the whole place gridlocks for an hour. Or more.
To some, that's part of the city's charm. Honk honk. To others it's…pollution. Of every kind.
For everybody, it's a mess.
According to World Population Review, "On weekdays, the number of commuters pushes the Manhattan population to more than 3.9 million, or 170,000 people per square mile."
Congestion pricing — charging a toll for driving in Manhattan during certain busy hours — might help tame the beast. A bit. (The only thing that can really bring Manhattan traffic to a halt is a major snowstorm.)
Or it might not.
[Hochul is New York State's governor.]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled plans to enact immediate significant restrictions on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border as the White House tries to neutralize immigration as a political liability ahead of the November elections.
Wait. There's an election?…
FOLLOWING UP:
Within hours of the AP's story above the New York Post ran with a piece that begins:
The Biden administration announced an executive order Tuesday that it claims would shut down the US-Mexico border once illegal crossings hit 2,500 per day between points of entry for seven consecutive days — a “crackdown” that will still permit a minimum of 1.8 million new arrivals into America every year even if enforced properly.
And the New York Times reported:
The order is the most restrictive border policy instituted by Mr. Biden, or any other modern Democrat, and echoes an effort in 2018 by President Donald J. Trump to cut off migration that was blocked in federal court.
The American Civil Liberties Union will sue, the Times says, and quotes ACLU lawyer Lee Gelernt: “It was unlawful under Trump and is no less illegal now.”
Biden's executive order "mirrors," the Times says, a bill voted down by the House of Representatives in February.
From the Post:
“Today, I’m moving past Republican obstruction and using executive authorities available as president to do what I can on my own to address the border,” the president said, before warning lax border enforcement could make the crisis even worse — as GOP politicians have long argued.
So whatever's been accomplished here probably hasn't been.
…from the mid 19th Century to the mid 20th, presidential candidates were not picked by primary elections but by conventions of party establishment delegates. There was a lot of horsetrading that went on at those conventions in what the press liked to call smoke-filled rooms.
The final crack in the traditional convention process came…at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy, who won the most primary votes, lost to fellow Minnesota Sen. Hubert Humphrey in the delegate count. Humphrey had not run as an announced candidate in the 17 primaries, and only 38 percent of convention delegates were chosen by voters in primaries. (Republicans picked just 34 percent of delegates in primaries.)
When I partook of Democratic Party politics in the 1970s, we held county conventions to pick delegates to a state convention, which in turn picked delegates to the national convention — but those delgates were bound to vote for the winner of the state primary for a certain number of ballots. I forget how many (and it varied from state to state), but the process never in my recollection went that far.
Now, of course, we do primaries nationally but the two major parties keep their fingers in the pie by appointing "super delegates" — party officials who are voting delegates at their conventions but are not bound by the primary results.
Biden will again face organized campaigns in multiple states to vote for “uncommitted” in protest of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. In New Jersey, “uncommitted” will appear on the ballot in most counties above the phrase, “Justice For Palestine, Permanent Ceasefire Now!”
New Jerseyites have never been known for mincing words.
I'm not signing up for this war. My war is over and I don't have time for another one. You're on your own.
But how Hamas became Palestine, that's an intriguing question.
Behind the scenes: The White House has met with liberal influencers to reassure them Biden isn't looking to ban the app.It's getting to be kind of fun. Maybe Elon will buy it, too.
Dozens of World War II veterans are converging on France to revisit old memories, make new ones, and hammer home a message that survivors of D-Day and the ensuing Battle of Normandy, and of other World War II theaters, have repeated time and time again — that war is hell.
It's an awesome thing to see, an air drop like this. There's a photo accompanying this AP story. And there are a lot of movie depictions, of course.
D-Day is a military term for the date on which an event is to occur. H-Hour is the designated hour. And so forth. This particular D-Day occurred on June 6, 1944. Today, 80 years ago, would have been D minus 4.
But how healthy is our favorite seafood? Is it good for our bodies? What about the world’s mangrove forests and sea turtle populations?
So many questions, so few answers.
From another Times food article:
Now envision those shrimp lying on a warm tortilla topped with fresh cut cabbage and a smoky-spicy drizzle of chipotle crema sauce.
Those shrimp is delicious.
