Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

I think it’s also that a lot of other countries do not have Suburban areas. There’s the cities, and not the cities. America, hiwever, has Urban, Suburban, and Rural areas.

I live in a Suburban city just outside a major city. Are we gonna make my Suburban city a 15 minute city, too? Or only the major city I am close to?

So what happens if someone needs a car to get to somewhere out of town? Sounds like they wouldn’t have a place to even park their car. That’s one nice thing about small towns. Many are already “15 minute” and you can still drive also.

@lonewolf
@kleptomage
Apartment buildings in Europe have been built with underground parking levels for like three decades (or more, really), enough spots for every apartment and then some extra.

Some will say that US (and Canada) was “designed” for the car. If that’s the case, then tell me about this imagine of Houston, Texas from the 1970s.

The modern car-dependent city designs started around the 20s or so.

Which means that eyesore is a consequence of 50 years of degradation in design philosophy.

@NitroFury
When did you think cars where invented? Car manufacturing industry fuckery in urban planning was well underway in the 1930s already and fully cemented by the 1950s.

That eyesore of a photo just proves how bad things got.

@The Smiling Pony
Yeah it’s a complete eyesore, but I will say Houston looks better now than what it was 50 years ago.

Now that McCarthy has officially launched an inquiry into whether they should investigate the possibility of considering the prospect of perhaps looking into someday impeaching Biden, Fetterman gives his reaction.

Last week he was also daring them to, pointing out how hair brained the idea is at this juncture means it’ll likely backfire.

So how many folks remember that movie The Blind Side? Well, the football player upon whom the story is based, Michael Oher, is now suing his “adoptive parents,” Sean and Leigh Ann Tuohy. He alleged that he was misled into signing a petition appointing the Tuohys as his conservators with the understanding they were like adoption papers, and that they did so to profit off his talents as an athlete and later from the book and movie. He further claimed that he was not fully aware of what their status as conservators entailed until February of this year, and that they breached the terms of the conservatorship by profiting off of his story.

Legal Eagle gives a rundown of the situation as it stands here. There’s a lot of details not known yet, as the lawsuit is currently in discovery. Will be interesting to see how this one unfolds.

ETA: Tuohy’s lawyers have issued a statement calling the claims hurtful and untrue, that the Tuohys did not make much money from the book and movie (which they split with Oher), and that they seldom if ever exercised conservator powers over Oher. They further claimed that Oher filed the lawsuit after attempting to extort $15 million from them. Both sides, however, agree on the fact that Oher was put in a conservatorship under the Tuohys, and that the conservatorship was explained to him as being like adoption.

@BlitztheDragon
Kind of sounds like what happened to Brittany Spears, and I think Leeann Rhymes.

The real kicker to this is that an excerpt from the court documents for the conservatorship notes that Oher doesn’t fit the usual criteria for one, as he was already 18 and about to graduate high school at the time, and did not have any physical or mental disabilities that would normally require one.

The Tuohys (through their legal counsel) claim that they were advised by attorneys they consulted at the time to do a conservatorship in lieu of adoption, because in Tennessee it would be more complicated to adopt a legal adult. As Legal Eagle discusses near the end of the video, that’s false. It’s actually easier to adopt an adult in Tennessee than adopting a minor, because all that’s needed is the adoptee’s consent.

ETA: Supposedly the NCAA had ethical concerns about Oher going to play for Sean Tuohy’s alma mater, and the precedent that would set for wealthy people to go looking for troubled youth to groom into athletes to funnel into collegiate sports programs, and adoption/conservatorship was supposed to alleviate those concerns. That’s a matter yet to be clarified in discovery.

That impeachment inquiry McCarthy has announced? Turns out it can’t be done without a House vote…a rule implemented by Trump’s DOJ in order to protect Trump from impeachment investigations.

So the Crazy Caucus big brain plan to make an impeachment investigation to convince the rest of the Republicans to impeach Biden can’t happen until after they convince the rest of the Republicans that they need to impeach Biden anyway. They’re caught in a Catch-22.

I need to see pain in that parasitic bastard’s neck.

@BlitztheDragon
I heard the news a month or so ago and the video yesterday. Either way, this will be ugly.

@Dustcan
I’m assuming McCarthy just wants to impeach Biden to punish the government for daring to impeach Trump the criminal.

@Vivace
Greedy CEOs are the true danger to a healthy economy.

You can’t really get work without a car. Then you always have to pay insurance.

It’s almost to the point you have to pay to work, or you cannot participate in society.

I’m fine with a UAW strike because the Big Three US automakers have never been more irrelevant to the auto industry than they are now.

If they all go bankrupt again because of their greed and delusional Silicon Valley-like fantasies about EVs taking over the world, good riddance. That’s what they get for turning the once-bustling Detroit into the hellscape it is today.

Ukraine has attacked Russia’s naval base at Sevastopol and succeeded in destroying another landing ship, and more importantly: a Kilo class sub that was capable of launching cruise missiles. It was in dry dock. That’s one less missile platform Putler has to use.

The overall pace of inflation rose in August, but it was almost entirely driven by fuel prices.

Core inflation, when stripped of fuel and food prices, actually continued to cool. Dropping to 4.3 from 4.7% year over end.

Gas prices, the one thing that could singlehandedly decide whether Biden gets a second term or not.

@Zincy
Whenever President Biden happily declares that inflation is lowering, I swear, it’s like he thinks that deflation is happening. It’s not. And it’s still well above the fed’s target of 2 percent, anyways.

The feds 2% goal is arbitrary and asinine.

@Zincy
Yeah. A better goal would “as littlle as possible.”

A hard number makes it sound to the average dumbass voter like they’re actually trying to do something.

Inflation is a self-inflicted wound anyway, born from corporations outright admitting that they’d rather jack prices and burn the economy down than ever consider making stuff more avaliable.

@NitroFury
Where the fuck would the Mcdondalds go?

Can’t have enough Mcdondalds or Wal-Mart’s in a city.