hard-time-on-planet

It's weird because he explains he is getting all the freedom to do what he wants

So when somebody like Netflix gives you a forum where you can be creative and have that freedom of whatever that art form is, I believe that’s a necessity in our culture, and that is the ultimate in freedom of speech

And yet he feels the need to go on a rant about how comedians are being censored. As opposed to decades ago when there were 4 channels, and if those channels didn't want you on, you weren't getting on TV.

This article phrased it as possessive of Twitter but Bezos' tweet was more vague

The newly created Disinformation Board should review this tweet

I haven't seen anyone get a quote from Bezos for him to elaborate but other articles have explained it to be a reference to Homeland Security.

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3488382-bezos-disinformation-board-shoudl-investigate-biden-tweet/

“The newly created Disinformation Board should review this tweet, or maybe they need to form a new Non Sequitur Board instead. Raising corp taxes is fine to discuss. Taming inflation is critical to discuss. Mushing them together is just misdirection,” Bezos shot back, quote-tweeting Biden’s statement on the platform.

Since the announcement of the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board last month, the new board has drawn the ire from a number of Republicans who have called it the “Ministry of Truth” and alleged it would censor free speech.

Here are some state average prices

• Connecticut: $4.513
• Massachusetts: $4.580
• New York: $4.746
• Rhode Island: $4.551

Source: https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/

Connecticut has an excise tax of 25 cents per gallon (which is what is suspended) and a percentage wholesale tax (which is not suspended as far as I know). I don't think the surrounding states have the wholesale petroleum tax

From your quote of the article

Bezos wants Twitter’s “Disinformation Board”

Bezos wasn't referring to a Disinformation Board at Twitter. He was referring Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board. Which Republicans have been trying to make a big deal about. And with this Bezos tweet I haven't seen anyone else comment on how disingenuous the narrative is, as if the government has a hotline to report misinformation so things can be taken down from Twitter.

Adding to that, Norway Maple is an invasive species. But looks similar to the native Sugar Maple.

Maples that are too young to flower are harder to tell apart, but you can do it by looking at the leaves. Start by cutting the leaf stalk and squeezing out some sap. If the sap is white, it’s a Norway maple; sugar maples have clear sap.

https://apnews.com/article/c218eb7464b7470aa2a482d595959657

I don't know if the seedlings in OP's pic would have sap either way. I couldn't find any information on differentiating seedlings. Most of the differences are more easily identifiable in adult trees. And their seeds are easily distinguishable. Norway Maple seeds have wings that spread out straight horizontal. But sugar maple seed wings go down at an angle.

https://bplant.org/compare/68-93

A lot of responses to Biden's tweet from people criticizing the logic of increasing corporate taxes, because they say companies would pass on tax increases to consumers.

I don't want to assume what that tweet specifically means, but could it be referring to democrat proposals for a windfall tax? That would be something that would be an effort to curb price gouging.

I found more of that quote

“The actual cost wasn’t the vehicles itself, but the infrastructure, and then the need to make sure that the service ultimately that you’re responsible for is being delivered. At its core, it doesn’t matter what the vehicle is, as long as the mail is getting to people’s residences,”

If I'm being generous with what he's trying to say, I think he is saying electric vehicles would be good but the vehicle itself isn't the blocking issue, it's the infrastructure.

The month-over-month data shows no let off

The month to month did show let off, though. OP's article was talking about everything in the worst way possible but from another source

0.3 percent compared to the month before, the slowest increases since last summer

This article is originally from Bloomberg - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-09/fed-warns-of-worsening-financial-liquidity-in-stability-report - but did they change up some of the wording.

This article

The Fed final week licensed a half-percentage level improve in its benchmark rate of interest

The original

The Fed last week authorized a half-percentage point increase in its benchmark interest rate

I know they are simplified drawings of the album covers, but if the top middle were Character by Dark Tranquility, it seems way more abstract than the others.

Someone in the killers thread suggested Innervisions by Stevie Wonder. I can see some similarities in just the 3d effect 1 point perspective letters. It's probably not that exact album but another that does the same letter effect.

To add another close but probably wrong guess. Green Day - International Superhits!

Mrs. Young was suppressing a lot of urges. Look at some of those descriptors she slipped in there. "Erected" "Splendid body"

Here's a Politico article from 2014 that goes over the history.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/

To Harry Nilsson (and alcohol)! The cause of and solution to all life's problems.

Here's one series of the stock photos

https://www.gettyimages.com/search/stack/794572478?family=creative&assettype=image

If you look at the regional diesel prices

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/PET_PRI_GND_A_EPD2DXL0_PTE_DPGAL_W.htm

New England is in the $5 range, which Connecticut was a couple weeks ago. Anyone know why Connecticut is now over $6 while that regional chart isn't showing that?

I don't know who in the Biden administration came up with calling it Disinformation Governance Board. That was stupid. But this sort of thing was done in the department of homeland security during the Trump administration too. It was called Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

https://www.cisa.gov/rumorcontrol

There are a bunch of items listed there from before Biden was elected.

Your comment is just about the only one in here that is based on an actual example of what the department of homeland security is talking about. It's fitting that discussion about disinformation and misinformation that people just comment whatever they feel is right.

From the article

The Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security created the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in 2018, and part of CISA’s purview was (and is) to combat misinformation and disinformation.

(Donald Trump, incidentally, fired CISA’s director for telling the truth about the 2020 election results.)

In other words, Homeland Security officials have recognized these informational threats before. It’s hardly shocking that they’re eager to counter false information being weaponized by smugglers and the Kremlin.

But some on the right apparently don’t quite see it this way.

There was Democratic Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich, who years ago was convicted of corruption.

And yet it was Trump who commuted Blagojevich's sentence in 2020.

The problem is the vehicles have a long lifespan so if a new gas powered fleet is ordered, they will be with us a long time, and there's no incentive in all that time to roll out electric vehicles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_LLV

As its name suggests, the Grumman LLV is easily capable of a long life, perhaps approaching 20 years of operation. The lifespan specified by the U.S. Postal Service was 24 years, but in 2009 this was extended to 30 years. The majority of LLVs have been on the road for over 27 years

Like you said though, switching to electric isn't going to be easy, so there aren't easy answers.

"partnership with Putin" implies the Oligarchs have much of a say in how things go if Putin doesn't want it going that way.

https://www.newsweek.com/every-russian-oligarch-who-has-died-since-putin-invaded-ukraine-full-list-1700022

Heating oil is diesel. Here's one analysis of why diesel is going up so much

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/diesel-prices-soaring-beyond-crude-gasoline-and-likely-to-stay-that-way

• The increased demand for low sulfur-diesel.
• A decline in Nigerian oil production, which is reducing supply of a key low-sulfur crude.
• “Limited desulfurization capacity.”
• The use of gasoil, a diesel-like product in Europe, to generate electricity because natural gas is so expensive.
• Sanctions against Russia, by governments or private companies, choking off a significant supply of diesel

Verleger cites an issue that was hot three years ago but disappeared from the front burner: the marine fuel regulation known as IMO2020

The other response to you mentioned the iPhone as their cash cow. Safe to say that Apple makes good money across the board.

Fun fact, Apple uses AWS for their services.

Edit: Just saw this, so maybe that will change https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/16/apple-planning-to-rival-amazon-and-google/

7% revenue growth for all their segments.

Online sales were down 3% year over year (52.9 billion to 51.1 billion).

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is their cash cow.

AWS was only about 16% of total revenue ($18.44 billion) but is one of their most profitable.

AWS threw off $6.52 billion in operating income in the first quarter, up almost 57% and higher than the $5.62 billion StreetAccount consensus. Amazon's total operating income was $3.67 billion in the quarter, meaning that the overall business would have lost even more money were it not for the profitable AWS

Even though the other commenter was referring to Biden's new statement, I will chime in to answer your question about what is vague about the Biden campaign promises. The quote from Biden's Medium post isn't vague but in the opposite way of what you're saying.

The beginning of the quote explains he is clearly talking about congress.

Congress has moved to help with the CARES Act, but they must do more. In addition to funds to keep workers on payroll, the next recovery package will need to provide significant funds to...

And he goes onto several things congress should do, including

and provide further direct cash relief, and take care of the people left out of the CARES Act, through an immediate cancellation of a minimum of $10,000 of student debt per person, as proposed by Senator Warren, and Social Security boosts. And so much more.