A study published last month in the journal Nature found that charging stations boost sales at nearby businesses. Shops, restaurants and hotels within about 300 feet of an EV charging port see sales increase roughly 3 percent compared to similar businesses that don’t have a charger nearby
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Bari, Italy is a neat little city. It would be 1000% times better if they made it more walker and bike friendly. It's side-walks are so skinny, all for the sake of cars.
And for gods-sake get rid of all the motorcycles. It's a small city, you can get by with an ebike.
Sincerely, the person who got woken up multiple times at night by noisy-ass motorcycles.
The worst AI scraper that doesn't even identify itself as such is still this user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0
It's not even listed on darkvisitors(.)com
I see 5120 requests in the last 24 hrs alone, all for JPEG & WEBP files. I don't want to know how much bandwidth & energy it consumes, globally.
Easy to block via Cloudflare or .htaccess: Firefox/72 is ages old and no human visitor would use it.
Spread the word.
Ugh. WTF. Disinformation is almost certainly costing human lives in western North Carolina.
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I woke up this morning with the unshakable realization that the pop music of the George Herbert Walker Bush administration is the most forgotten of any era. This is basically post 80's synthpop, hair metal, and hip-hop, and pre grunge and gangsta rap. It was mostly propped up by heavy MTV and corporate radio airplay so it's unclear if anyone even wanted it at the time and it has not enjoyed any sort of revival that I'm aware of. Only my tiny microgeneration of "tweeners" is nostalgic for it.
NEW: Can Corner Stores Mount A Comeback? Via Citylab Bloomberg.
“Toderian champions a finely grained retail model he calls ‘corner convenience’: a small market, cafe/restaurant or service that ideally would be legal on every street corner across the city & suburbs.”
“Let’s not make the primary challenge the fact that the city has made them illegal. At a bare minimum, City Hall should get out of the way.”
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Big list of ways to give and get help for folks affected by #Helene, vetted by @triblogblog
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EV sales remain healthy despite online doom and gloom
Battery EVs are expected to account for more than 8 percent.
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