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Fuck. California abandons diesel truck ban and 3 other clean-air rules before Trump is sworn in

California drops zero-emission truck rules after inaction by Biden's EPA

We had such hopes.

Google AI gives a plausible answer if you ask it of water will freeze at 23F, but 27F? I saw a the screen caps and had to try myself and: "No, water will not freeze at 27�F; water freezes at 32�F (0�C), so any temperature below 32�F will cause water to freeze."

Sigh. The world has just gone bizarro.

Quadricycle test ride. Got as far as 5th and I yesterday before we lost a bolt on the steering, today we tweaked a bunch o'stuff and our neighbor Mark, who helped with welding, shot video.

https://youtube.com/shorts/hOm7tLxQAG0 https://youtube.com/shorts/bElHIAMynXU

The Commonwealth Club web site isn't responding right now, but that latest to outside interviewing Gabe Metcalf about the "California Forever" development in Solano County is fascinating, and I would love to have/hear a longer conversation with him to a more sophisticated and knowledgeable audience.

I just like that we use 'conveying donkey' as our expression for 'really fast'.

I'm so old I remember when we looked askance at the Soviet Union and China for heavily controlling media access.

This morning my feed is full of discussions of using shady VPNs to route Internet traffic through other places to bypass state and federal media access controls.

Huh. TikTok playing Trump against Zuckerberg is a twist I should have seen coming, if I was paying attention.

Thinking about "teams" in the context of activist organizations that often do good bc work and sometimes fuck it up, more than ever I'm a fan of issues advocacy, and let the organizations, or candidates, or personalities, catch up.

Issues first.

More Naga with pic

More Naga

If you're in the Petaluma area in the near future, a drop in to the fairgrounds to see Naga is a nice stop.