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US Energy Information Administration: Pipeline shutdown disrupts gasoline supply in the Southeast:

Gasoline and other petroleum products also continue to be delivered by Plantation Pipeline, the other major pipeline transporting supplies from the Gulf Coast to as far north as the Washington, DC area. With a capacity of 700,000 b/d, Plantation has about half the capacity of Colonial Line 1 and ships a mix of gasoline, diesel, and other fuels. Like the Colonial system, Plantation also runs at or near full capacity.

Emphasis added, but damn the writers are lazy.

Also, RT Luca Filipozzi @LucaFilipozzi Replying to @Bing_Chris:

Thank you for targeting Big Oil rather than a hospital. Now, finally, we can see some law enforcement reaction.

Former Sacramento Police Officer Arrested After Allegedly Sending Explicit Messages To 15-Year-Old Girl He Met Online. The "Former" is that he was fired after the allegations were confirmed.

The family of the 15-year-old girl says she appears to have met the former cop, Daniel Donahue, through an app tied to Snapchat called “Hoop.”

The girl said she brought the conversation to her aunt’s attention when she found out Donahue was a police officer.

Those excess mortality numbers... damn! New Study Estimates More Than 900,000 People Have Died Of COVID-19 In U.S.

IHME: Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19

Signed up for Netflix to watch Mitchells vs the Machines. Turned that off after half an hour (great animation, no screenplay connection), signed up for Paramount+, watched the first episode of From Cradle To Stage. Enjoyed it, but we're just not cut out for TV & movies.

I saw a quote from Orson Welles that I was trying to source, “I don’t say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could”, but I couldn't find it..

This is not that quote, but it's good: Orson Wells talking about police misconduct on his BBC show in 1955

Letters of Note: Diane Fossey mourns the death of Max Standby

Letters of Note update: in case it wasn't clear, 'Max Standby' was a vibrator

Exclusive: Sacramento PD documents describe secret investigation that led to cop’s arrest

The case spilled into the open Thursday with Sacramento police announcing the arrest of Alexa Kimberly Palubicki, 26, a three-year veteran of the department.

Palubicki faces two felony counts of filing a false police report that accuse her of lying when she reported that the motorist came to their attention because he hadn’t used his turn signal when pulling into the gas station and was suspected of driving under the influence. She is scheduled to be arraigned Monday.

Your car is spying on you, and a CPB contract shows the risks

The kit, MSAB says, also has the ability to discover specific events that most car owners are probably unaware are even recorded, like “when and where a vehicle’s lights are turned on, and which doors are opened and closed at specific locations” as well as “gear shifts, odometer reads, ignition cycles, speed logs, and more.” This car-based surveillance, in other words, goes many miles beyond the car itself.

Presence of Armed School Officials and Fatal and Nonfatal Gunshot Injuries During Mass School Shootings, United States, 1980-2019 doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.37394

... in fact, controlling for the aforementioned factors of location and school characteristics, the rate of deaths was 2.83 times greater in schools with an armed guard present

Wait, when did we go from "Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter" as satire to sincerely asking "do you have a SubStack?"?

‘We’re terrorized’: LA sheriffs frequently harass families of people they kill, says report

The report looks to be at https://www.aclusocal.org/site...asd_family_harassment_report.pdf

Via https://mobile.twitter.com/SamTLevin/status/1389693659356942336

A New Study Reveals that Not Prosecuting People for Nonviolent Misdemeanors May Actually Reduce Crime

In a new study we consider this question, using data from Suffolk County, Massachusetts (where Boston is located). We show that prosecuting minor offenses like the ones described above actually does more harm than good. Scaling back the prosecution of nonviolent misdemeanors leads to an increase, not decrease, in public safety.

How did we reach this conclusion? In our study we exploit a feature of nearly all criminal justice contexts: what happens to your case depends a bit on luck. As a defendant, you might get lucky and be assigned a lenient prosecutor instead of a harsh one. In Suffolk County, cases are randomly assigned to prosecutors, and those prosecutors vary in their leniency. Using rich administrative data from the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office on future criminal complaints, we follow the lucky defendants over time to see what happens to them, relative to the people who were unlucky and got assigned to a less lenient prosecutor.

A Surprising Number Of Sea Monster Sightings Can Be Explained By Whale Erections

Cetaceans, sex and sea serpents: an analysis of the Egede accounts of a “most dreadful monster” seen off the coast of Greenland in 1734, April 2005 Archives of Natural History 32(1):1-9 DOI:10.3366/anh.2005.32.1.1

April 2005Archives of Natural History 32(1):1-9

DOI:10.3366/anh.2005.32.1.1

If May is any indication, it's definitely gonna be a Hot Summer, but I don't think we need to gender it. Hot Nby Summer, maybe?

McSweeny's: I Am Thrilled That My Career Day Exhibit on Shaft Hardening at My Son’s Middle School Was So Popular

This is really good, and worth a New York Times read, an excerpt from Steven Johnson's new book and PBS show Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer: How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life — Between 1920 and 2020, the average human life span doubled. How did we do it? Science mattered — but so did activism.

Charlene said, of our sunscreen stash, "some of them I threw out 'cause they were gross and old", and I wondered just what the subtext there was...

Unsolicited deck pic

I have a new favorite recipe and food web site: http://www.justthefuckingrecipe.net/

The struggle far transcends Twitter, and is real: RT Midtown Brandi Frown 😾 @ItsTheBrandi

Twitter culture is talking to someone on this site for eons and knowing their pronouns and then having to be like, 'Uh, weird question but what should I call you when we chat IRL because I will not yell, "Corporate Chicken Fucker, we finally meet!" in public.

If you haven't had your fill of sweet Jewish mythology urban fantasy lately, this is just so much all that: http://giganotosaurus.org/2021/05/01/just-enough-rain/

Walkable Main will not return to Breckenridge

“Something that I am really concerned about is … if a restaurant that is in the closure is able to be not just at 100% capacity but then even above 100% capacity, we already have an employment issue in this town,” Owens said. “We know lots and lots of people are trying to hire and are understaffed, and I guess I would just really hate to see some people that are at 120% capacity getting full staff, and then somebody north of town or south of town not able to get full employees because there’s just additional pressure on the employee situation.”

"We can't stop catering to cars, business might improve!" is certainly a take.

Via this Twitter thread.

Cool Twitter thread about how the pop group A-ha was critical in the introduction of electric car incentives in Norway.