There are towns where the lights are all synchronized so that way once you get one green light, and go the speed limit, you will not have to stop at another light on the strip

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https://blog.esurance.com/do-synchronized-traffic-lights-really-solve-congestion-woes/

I’m a mathematician and my first thought was “Ooh, I should pick up a copy of his book to read on the bus.” Then I saw it’s $129 for the ebook and had a flashback to undergrad...

Edit: guys, I get it, libgen.

"All drivers need to be on the same navigation system". Or at least there needs to be an open system that allows all the proprietary backends to communicate in an open way.

Man, I feel like a lot of gangster movies would have gone differently if the hitman had just realized "take em out" just meant have HR file the paperwork and schedule the exit interview for employment termination.

"Get rid of her!" is what the voice that appears to be President Trump’s is heard saying. "Get her out tomorrow. I don't care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. Okay? Do it."

On the recording, it appears the two Giuliani associates are telling President Trump that the U.S. ambassador has been bad-mouthing him, which leads directly to the apparent remarks by the President. The recording was made by Fruman according to sources familiar with the tape.

And there it is, the consummation of a a criminal conspiracy currently under federal indictment in the Southern District of New York, personally directed by Donald Trump: an exchange of public announcements by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General (Yuriy Lutsenko) which would help rig the 2020 US election for Trump in exchange for firing the US Ambassador to Ukraine (Maria Yovanovich).

This is a bit confusing, because this conspiracy predates Trump's direct extortion of President Zelensky. Here is a summary:

• The SDNY indictment of Parnas explicitly describes the conspiracy with Lutsenko, at the time the corrupt prosecutor general of Ukraine, as a core subject of the indictment:

"They sought political influence not only to advance their own financial interests, but to advance the political interests of at least one foreign official ⁠— a Ukrainian government official [Lutsenko] who sought the dismissal of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine," Geoffrey Berman, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said at a Thursday news conference.

• Recently revealed text messages between Parnas and Lutsenko yielded the most conclusive evidence yet that Lutsenko was specifically offering to fabricate claims about the Bidens in exchange for Yovanovich's termination.

The messages, written in Russian, show Lutsenko urging Parnas to force out Yovanovitch in exchange for cooperation regarding Biden. At one point, Lutsenko suggests he won’t make any helpful public statements unless “madam” is removed.

“It’s just that if you don’t make a decision about Madam — you are calling into question all my declarations. Including about B,” Lutsenko wrote to Parnas in a March 22 message on WhatsApp.

• As WSJ reported in October, and which is now supported by a smoking gun audio recording, Yovanovitch's removal was personally ordered by Donald Trump, consummating the conspiracy.

• This scheme fell apart when Vlodimir Zelenskiy was elected President running on an anti-corruption platfrom, and terminated Lutsenko, who then became the subject of investigation for abuse of power.

• In the infamous phone call, Trump specifically berated Zelenskiy for Lutsenko's termination:

“I heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and that’s really unfair,” Mr. Trump told Mr. Zelensky, in what people familiar with the conversation said was a reference to Mr. Lutsenko.

“A lot of people are talking about that, the way they shut your very good prosecutor down,” Mr. Trump said, later adding that Mr. Lutsenko “was treated very badly and he was a very fair prosecutor.”

• In the same phone call, he also explicitly referenced Yovanovitch's removal and his displeasure with her.

In a telephone conversation that has set off a political crisis for Mr. Trump, he told Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, that she was “bad news.”

“She’s going to go through some things,” he added.

• We learned last week that the "things" Yovanovich was going through included extra-legal surveillance by Parnas or his associates, and discussion of paying entities within Ukraine to coerce, and potentially commit violence against, Yovanovich.

It is becoming increasingly clear that Trump was personally aware of everything that was going on, as was asserted in a letter revealed last week, from Rudy Giuliani to Vlodomir Zelensky when all of this was beginning, that everything they were doing was with the explicit "knowledge and consent" of Donald Trump.

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The recording appears to contradict statements by President Trump and support the narrative that has been offered by Parnas during broadcast interviews in recent days. Sources familiar with the recording said the recording was made during an intimate April 30, 2018, dinner at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Trump has said repeatedly he does not know Parnas, a Soviet-born American who has emerged as a wild card in Trump’s impeachment trial, especially in the days since Trump was impeached.

"Get rid of her!" is what the voice that appears to be President Trump’s is heard saying. "Get her out tomorrow. I don't care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. Okay? Do it."

Do it

Please, I'm so tired of this fucking circus

Few seem to be reading the article, so I'll toss this in the comments: the point is that releasing the information in this way is legal.

It's not whistle-blowing or 'screwing the rules'; it's just a thing the Senate can vote to do.

A senator NAMED RON WYDEN

wtf is the news media’s complex about Democrat’s names in headlines

Mark my words, Hillary's attack is only going to make those numbers go higher.

As soon as he is considered the front runner, Biden's in trouble.

Being the "strongest candidate" is Joe's whole premise for existing in this primary.

Bernie Sanders is climbing everywhere

Bernie! How many times do I have to tell you, stay off the kitchen counter!

"Bernie Sanders is climbing everywhere, despite our best efforts." - Corporate News Network

I like Bernie

Good for Bernie. He is a good candidate head-to-head against Trump and would destroy him in the debates.

As for the socialist tag, Trump and Co are going to call the Democrat nominee a socialist, no matter who it is.

He's also in Get Out

‘Sorry to bother you’ was such a solid movie but boy, did it take a weird turn.

No one wants to remember Death Note, but I can't forget

What about Short Term 12? The movie that launched him with that incredible rapping scene

Love him in Atlanta. The fucking episode where he buys the piano was so fucking good.