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  • Kroger case tests FTC Chair Khan's bid to protect workers

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  • If you look at Kroger's acquisition of Fred Meyer or Harris Teeter grocery stores, they massively consolidated market power in big swaths of North America, and the stores that Kroger was forced to spin off by regulators soon failed, and the profitable ones were gobbled up by Kroger anyway.

  • The Supreme Court decides not to disenfranchise thousands of swing state voters

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  • . . . this time.

  • To protect US coasts, scientists want to zap the sea with electricity

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  • Sounds like the beginning of a supervillain origin story.

  • To protect US coasts, scientists want to zap the sea with electricity

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  • I don't have much sympathy for the McMansions, but there are huge sections of Pacific Coast rail line threatened by coastal erosion, and it sure would be nice to get some nice high-speed rail along there.

  • The Volkswagen ID. Buzz will start at $59,995

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  • Way too high for that class of vehicles. My fear is that it won't sell well, and carmakers will say, "See, there's no demand for a 7+ person EV, we'll never make them again."

  • A white supremacist warned me to comply with his demands or else. Now, he's in federal custody.

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  • Phil Williams, the investigative reporter in this article, is an absolute treasure in Tennessee. This dude has broken open more corruption, fraud, conspiracies, government waste, etc. in his career than I can even list. As an elected official or business owner, the sight of Phil Williams with his microphone and camera crew is the thing you fear the most, but he's very measured and patient.

    TL;dr: support your local journalism!

  • Harris proposes raising the corporate tax rate to 28%, rolling back a Trump law

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  • ¿Porque no los dos?

  • New York City is booting more cars than at any time since the pandemic, data shows

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  • Hey, while we're on the subject, does anyone remember the forum thread that went viral a few years ago of a guy whose HOA booted his car, and he managed to hide the booted car in his garage and the towing company freaked out? He updated the forum posts as the saga developed, and it's a very funny read.

    https://www.jeepforum.com/threads/epic-hoa-parking-boot-battle.572540/

  • Any “small-web” search engines?

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  • our Search Choices might be of use here

    Thanks, I think that's a valuable option! It's probably not what I was looking for. As I understand it, the "bang" use is just a way to use the search on a specific webpage, and is just a nice little hack to speed up searches on commonly used websites (i.e., Wikipedia, YouTube, BBC, etc.) I can probably get used to going straight to those sites, but it was a feature that got me using DDG at first and broke my reliance on Google.

  • New York City is booting more cars than at any time since the pandemic, data shows

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  • For anyone seriously considering this tactic, they already have your license plate and VIN when they boot your car. If you manage to remove the wheel and destroy the boot, many jurisdictions will come after you for damage to city property and it will cost you a lot more than paying to get the boot off. I had a buddy who found this out the hard way.

  • Waymo’s sixth-generation autonomous fleet has fewer sensors ‘without compromising safety’

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  • They just need to be better than humans, which is a rather low bar.

    Man, hard disagree. These systems have to be WAY better than humans to justify their huge costs. From a policy perspective, "better than humans" isn't good enough. And from a fiscal and legal perspective, it's disastrous. Companies need to achieve perfect or nearly perfect records to avoid being sued out of existence in products liability suits.

    Also, just a friendly reminder that Cruise (competitor to Waymo) admitted that it had an average of 1.5 employees directing each so-called autonomous car. Waymo hasn't had to disclose those numbers yet, but it employs far more people than Cruise, so I think it's safe to assume that the number is not zero. As much as I want it to be true, this tech is nowhere close to actually autonomous yet. My suspicion is that true autonomous vehicles are still many decades away, due to computing power constraints, sensor fidelity, etc. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/11/one-and-half-remote-cruise-employees-were-supporting-each-driverless-car.html

  • Any “small-web” search engines?

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  • Mojeek

    Thanks for the rec, I'll give Mojeek a try for a while. So far the results seem better than Brave (which I didn't seriously consider using regularly anyway) but I miss the bang options (!w, !yt, etc.) that DDG has.

  • Waymo’s sixth-generation autonomous fleet has fewer sensors ‘without compromising safety’

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  • Propoganda and marketing spin. Waymo also said its previous cars were safe and they've still had multiple incidents.

    It's utterly unacceptable that these companies have been allowed to beta-test their 2-ton vehicles and beta software on public streets.

  • JD Vance compares Harris to Jeffrey Epstein and claims polls showing Trump losing are fake

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  • Volkswagen's first electric ID GTI will be 'a real go kart' to drive

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  • That's what the first reviews of the Ioniq 5 all said, it's proportioned like a hatchback but it's quite a bit bigger in person. Which is a shame, I don't need or want bigger. The VW Golf or Polo presents a nice niche that no one wants to fill in the North American market.

  • She accused a New Orleans priest of sexual assault. The church quietly moved him out of state

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  • I agree that I'd prefer to see it disabled in c/News, it adds nothing to the conversation.

  • Challenge of the DAMn-ed: 242 miles, 24 hours to bike across Minnesota

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  • I know, part of me thinks I'm still 20 years old and I think, "hey, maybe I could train up and do that!" And then my back aches from just doing housework and I snap painfully back to reality!

  • When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable? When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means.

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  • Plastic recycling, definitely. Aluminum/aluminum recycling is very effective. Approximately 75% of aluminum that has ever been mined and processed is still in use, and it can be re-used and recycled a functionally infinite number of times. But you're totally right about greenwashing in plastics. Even the easiest plastics to "recycle" (like PET or PETE) can only be reprocessed once or twice before the polymers break down too much for re-use.

  • X ordered to pay $600K to fired employee who didn’t click 'yes' on email ultimatum

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  • Extremely hardcore.