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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America lost one in six of its neighborhood bars in a single decade, and the killer was real estate math.

A bar like this can pour $3 beers because the building was paid off decades ago. The owner often lives upstairs. No rent, no investors, no debt service on a Pabst sign that's been hanging there for 40 years.

The moment that building sells, the math dies with it. A new operator inherits a market-rate lease, which forces $9 drinks, which forces a renovation to justify $9 drinks, which produces another exposed-brick cocktail bar where the dive used to be.

The Midwest kept its dive bars because of how they got built in the first place. Before Prohibition, Milwaukee's breweries put up corner taverns themselves. Pabst and Schlitz wanted guaranteed outlets for their beer, so they built bars directly into residential blocks. That's why these places sit on quiet snowy corners between houses instead of on commercial strips where rent explodes.

Chicago had around 3,300 tavern licenses in 1990. It's down to about 1,200. At the worst of the decline, America was losing six neighborhood bars a day.

And every single closure is permanent. You can't build a dive bar. You can only inherit one.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

France ordered big businesses to cover their parking lots in solar panels, and the businesses are embracing it.

Carrefour is putting solar canopies over 350 of its store lots, 180,000 parking spaces, and using the power to run its supermarkets.

Disneyland Paris started even earlier: its guest lot now has more than 80,000 panels over 11,200 spaces, producing about 17% of the resort's electricity.

France passed the law in 2023 requiring most large outdoor parking lots to put renewable-energy canopies or other qualifying shade over at least half the lot.

Many businesses don't pay a cent upfront.

Carrefour isn't even fronting the construction cost. GreenYellow is financing the entire installation and operating it under a 20-year power agreement. Carrefour uses the electricity and says the project will significantly reduce its energy bills.

The government estimates it could add up to 11 gigawatts of solar. In full sun, that's about as much as 10 nuclear reactors.

The US has somewhere between 700 million and 2 billion parking spaces. Most of them are bare asphalt baking in the sun.

Why aren't we doing more of this?

[Dandadan Migraine @Creatormigraine]

“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,”

If you’re not American and curious why everything is going to shit this quote generally sums up what’s wrong with this country.

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

🔥 🇺🇸 Tammy Duckworth just became our pick for president. And I’m not moving off of that until somebody one-ups her and that’s not gonna be easy because she’s the first. Mark this moment down. That was a very important sentence. 🤯

[prince. @onrooleyy]

introducing Kino (again).

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[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @BarnabyHistory]

🇺🇸 Limp Bizkit filmed “Rollin’” on top of the World Trade Center.

September 2000. The band shot on the roof of the South Tower at night. A helicopter filmed them and the towers while they played.

September 6, 2001. The clip won Best Rock Video at the MTV VMAs.

September 10, 2001. Fred Durst got a letter and a fruit basket from the Port Authority. Thank you for putting the towers in the video. Congratulations on the award. He framed the letter.

The next morning the buildings were gone. Wild.

[Ricky Zaccaglino @RickyTheGuido]

Hey @grok,

Out of the 36 major hospitals in Gaza, how many of them did Israel bomb?

Say the number first.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

He liked smoking crack and banging Latinas and that pissed off MAGA because he wasn't a pedo like they are.

[cutiepia @cutiepia8395]

I just want to point out… the amount of money the U.S. has spent on war in the last 2.5 months is roughly the same cost that Bernie Sanders proposed for universal college. So the real question is never ‘can we afford it’… it’s what we choose to prioritize.

[Kimiyah-Vette C8 @boujiebaddie]

Society tells this uneducated white MAGA that he’s more qualified than the highly educated black woman.

[Financial Physics @FinancialPhys]

As of today you need to earn

$7869 per week

To have the same spending power a minimum wage boomer kid had in 1971

[Rick Chow is evil. @MFG_iWPJ]

So a singular WHITE family, will own ALL OF THIS! Congratulations to every single influential person/entity in Hollywood that said NOTHING to condemn this.

[S @even_steven8tht]

I don’t think there’s a statement that better captures the conservative world view

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your dog carries your stress in its body for months. A 2019 study in Scientific Reports measured cortisol in the hair of 58 dogs and their owners over a full year and found that the two rose and fell together. When you are stressed, your dog is stressed. When you calm down, so does it.

The synchrony was not driven by walks, weather, or the dog's own life events. It was driven by the owner. Dogs whose owners scored higher on personality measures of anxiety showed higher cortisol year-round. The dog's body was tracking the owner's emotional state over months, not moments.

The bond between a human and a dog is not a one-way relationship where the human provides and the dog receives. The dog is absorbing the household's emotional weather and carrying it in its endocrine system. Your bad month is its bad month.

This is what 15,000 years of co-evolution looks like. The dog did not just learn to read your face. It learned to sync its chemistry to yours, and the hair on its back is keeping a record of how you have been feeling since the last time it was groomed.

The next time someone says "it's just a dog," the cortisol data says otherwise. The dog is a mirror with a heartbeat, and the reflection goes deeper than behaviour. https://t.co/L5PUkx6Jg9

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

People keep saying Trump term II is the most corrupt administration ever, so I built a model to find out if it was true.

I took the UN's definition of corruption, turned it into eight criteria and 100 points, and scored the leaders history remembers for looting their countries: Marcos, Suharto, Mobutu, Abacha, Obiang, Putin.

Then I put every president since Eisenhower on the same scale, both parties, with every exoneration counted right alongside the convictions.

Nixon scored 41 and no other American President scored over a 25.

Trump's second term scored a 91, which ties him with Suharto and Mobutu and puts him above Marcos and Abacha.

So he is not only the most corrupt president in American history. At this pace he finishes his term level with the most corrupt rulers of the last hundred years.

PSA: don't come in my comments arguing about the results if you haven't read the full article, because ignorance is a choice.

Full article is up now on my Substack (link in bio) and it's free.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Forget the money. Look at the guest list.

A Putin oligarch linked to the mass abduction of thousands of Ukrainian children, celebrating the marriage of the President's son to the daughter of the banker who called Jeffrey Epstein 'a gentleman of the highest integrity.'

Tell me again who the crime family is.

[kyama @kyamawebb23]

I can understand why Americans chose McCain or Romney over Obama, Bush over Gore or Kerry, or Bush Sr./Dole over Clinton. I may disagree, but I can understand those choices.

What I will never understand, for as long as I live, is choosing Trump over virtually anyone else.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

"The children will grow up".

This was also the argument that Nazi officials gave, during the Nuremberg Trials, to justify why they had killed children during the Holocaust.