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This is an interesting one. The old law allowed ANY challenge to delay building construction, as long as it had a basis in environmental protection. It was primarily used by NIMBYs to block apartment buildings near houses, or by businesses to protect their service area from competition. It would cause builders years of paperwork headaches just to get where they would have been at the beginning. It isn't even setting rules for what studies need to be done to protect the environment, just that if someone challenges your project based on environmental rules then a judge has to put a hold on it while studies are done to show things are fine.

That's awesome. Good for you!

I hate when companies throw away good employees just to chase a slightly higher profit margin, so it's nice when it works out better for the people they treated badly.

This is the likely scenario. They are predicting an incredibly unpredictable consumer market in the next 4-8 years but a very predictable defense industry market in that time.

Only if they speak two languages. Healthcare requires patient interaction, so knowing the local language is essential. Even if all the doctors speak English and all the schools teach in English in France, they will have to treat a person who only speaks French.

The difference between a layoff and a RIF is that a layoff means they can't afford to pay for specific positions right now and that if they can in the future then they will reopen those jobs, while a RIF means they are changing the structure of the company and all those jobs are going away permanently.

There are so many levels of fucked up in this story.

First off, the other police rammed a dude and pinned him to a wall with a car because they thought he was a criminal. A) Who the fuck thinks treating a suspect that way is OK? B) Why would you continue working with the people who think that is OK?

Secondly, four cops beat a man nearly to death because they thought he was a suspect in a crime. Same two questions as before. How can they think it's totally cool to beat a man nearly to death simply because he MIGHT have committed a crime?

Nothing says, "we're definitely not corrupt" like hiding all the communications of your elected officials.

It's not time in traffic. It's time NOT in traffic. Traffic is slow and not often deadly. Driving for an hour at 70mph is much more dangerous than an hour at 25mph.

And blue states often have bigger cities with slower traffic and shorter commute distances.

From the linked source, #1 is miles driven. You can keep copy/pasting the same thing in response to people hypothesizing miles driven is the biggest cause, but it won't change the fact that you are wrong.

It's miles driven per person. Wisconsin and Minnesota have ridiculous drunk driving rates, but they are middle of the pack.

Massholes were particularly bad drivers, but I think the speeds are typically lower and the quality of car higher than some poorer and more wide open states.

14 missing states, including South/North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Nebraska, Alaska, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Delaware, Rhode Island, Hawaii, and West Virginia. Most of those states barely have 100,000 people.