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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon Director's Cuts Are Coming This Summer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was so bad that it made me realize I could be a screenwriter.

  I think what happens is Zach Snyder gets together some good ideas for characters and stories (and some pretty mockup pictures), then he uses those to sell the project. Unfortunately from there, he doesn’t or isn’t able to flush those ideas into a compelling narrative with engaging characters. Everything stays very 1 dimensional. Suggest a hard pass to everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building Them | The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting read. Found this particularly interesting:

  Within a year of the rule’s adoption in 2021, Colorado’s Department of Transportation, or CDOT, had canceled two major highway expansions, including Interstate 25, and shifted $100 million to transit projects. In 2022, a regional planning body in Denver reallocated $900 million from highway expansions to so-called multimodal projects, including faster buses and better bike lanes.

  Now, other states are following Colorado’s lead. Last year, Minnesota passed a $7.8 billion transportation spending package with provisions modeled on Colorado’s greenhouse gas rule. Any project that added road capacity would have to demonstrate how it contributed to statewide greenhouse gas reduction targets. Maryland is considering similar legislation, as is New York.

  “We’re now hoping that there’s some kind of domino effect,” said Ben Holland, a manager at RMI, a national sustainability nonprofit. “We really regard the Colorado rule as the gold standard for how states should address transportation climate strategy.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Childbirths in Korea hit another low in February⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TLDR: Korean population shrunk.

  Relevant text below:

  The number of babies born in Korea fell below the 20,000 level for the first time for any February this year, data showed Wednesday, amid deepening woes about the country’s demographics amid rapid aging and the ultra-low birthrate.

  A total of 19,362 babies were born in February 2024, sliding 3.3 percent from a year earlier, according to the data compiled by Statistics Korea.

  It marked the lowest figure for any February since the statistics agency began compiling related data in 1981.

  In terms of February readings, the number of newborns fell below 30,000 for the first time in 2018 and had stayed around the 20,000 level until last year.

  The number of deaths advanced 9.6 percent on-year to 29,977 in February this year, the largest figure for any February.

  The population, accordingly, declined by 10,614, the sharpest fall for any February ever. The number of deaths has outpaced that of newborns since November 2019.