After Tempe resoundingly voted down the Coyotes arena plan, the state AG found officials had illegally met privately with a consultant to investigate arena opponents. A newly released recording of one meeting has shown what politicians say in private. https://t.co/06bsd8FukN
There is a strange phenomenon where people who have to rely on the welfare state for the first time and discover it to be cruel / inadequate immediately assume that it *must* be far more generous for everyone else, rather than it being cruel / inadequate for most people.
The Loblaw grocery chain overcharged customers by selling underweighted meat across 80 stores for an undisclosed period that ended in December 2023, a CBC News investigation has found. https://t.co/2Xulchv0Ki
The lesson here isn't that Charlotte is singularly bone-headed in handing out cash to billionaires; it's that siphoning off public money for private profit is a pandemic with no end in sight, and even the less-bad deals would be scandalous in a saner world https://t.co/JqCsSfsHId
i have a friend who works high up in tech who told me that computers were not programmed to go past the year 2024 which means that midnight on new year’s eve we could lose everything that’s stored on computers- i urge you to start downloading your files and spread the word please
The Elizabeth Line this year moved more people than the 18 lanes of the 401 freeway, the widest in North America.
Traffic is simply a geometry problem, and adding one more lane won't fix it.