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This is particularly bad because Michigan has largely been spared from the recent severe weather hitting the Midwest. DTE does a shit job at maintaining infrastructure anywhere except the suburbs.

Then we could make a language where the letters are equivalent to the number of As

Firefox is great, especially with uBlock Origin

I think you’re confusing diversity hiring practices with DEI programs. DEI can be a great tool to help employees/students from feeling isolated. I also suggest you stop watching so much cable news; I don’t think DEI is as big a deal as the media makes it out to be.

Yes, the center of the meat

Chinese automakers are heavily subsidized by the government, so the US prevents their import to prevent them from undercutting domestic automakers. I’m sure there’s a balance to this that doesn’t involve a total import ban, but the US hasn’t figured it out yet.

It won’t be cold for much longer with the way climate change is heading. I moved to Detroit a few years ago, and all my neighbors have commented on how little snow we’re getting and how warm winters have been.

Eh, the heat waves and cold snaps are happening nationwide. I more mean that on average, it’s been pretty warm. Most of November and December was between 40F and 50F.

But for sure, the lake (and concrete from the city) helps keep temperatures moderate. We’re also lucky being on the west side of the lake, so we don’t have to deal with lake effect snow.

Patriot Act

This is the result of decades of having management full of people with finance degrees rather than technical degrees. They cut costs because they don’t understand worth. Same thing happened with Southwest Airlines.