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Eli Kahn@elikahn.bsky.social |
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housing/transportation/environmental policy; also dinosaurs, maps, fantasy/science fiction. left-neolib. đłď¸âđ. where are they painted that were drowned after their vows?
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Tom Hamilton and Ayesha Hazarika argue in their book that the increasingly formalized and televised nature of Prime Ministerâs Questions has concentrated power in the PM, who is now accountable for knowing everything the government is doing, so the UK may be becoming more like us in this regard
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JACOB REES-MOGG OUT as I understand it as an ignorant American this is like if one of those hopeless meme challengers actually beat Marjorie Taylor Greene
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I think thereâs reason to be hopeful that 4 months isnât long enough for them to settle on one story to pin on her they had years for Biden and trial-ballooned the Hunter stuff extensively. They had decades for Hillary Clinton!
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if thereâs men dating other men they met on tinder, the fact that they actually exchanged messages, let alone scheduled a time and place to meet up, is an above-median outcome for gay guys on tinder in my experience
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not at all coincidentally, this is the history of the 1930s that French people learn in school: France did not go fascist until it was invaded; it kept the fascists at bay through the 30s because the main left+center parties formed a coalition, which they failed to do in Germany or Spain
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I keep thinking of the oath of office when these officeholders in Louisiana and Oklahoma try to establish a state religion in obvious contravention of the Constitution. Does the oath - on the Bible which they supposedly revere - mean nothing to them?
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oligarchy is when someone other than me makes decisions and the less i like the decisions the oligarchier it is
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idk how well this applies across towns, but within them it seems obvious by revealed preference - you find tents clustered together in part because itâs a way for the residents to stay safe
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the really fascinating thing about this to me is how it spans the ideological spectrum - âeducation should focus on the âWestern canonââ is a right wing view but âfund the arts and humanitiesâ is a left wing view
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the real difference between young millennials and Gen Z is Gen Z-ers can look at this picture without going, âescalator temporarily stairs, sorry for the convenienceâ
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in fairness, i do not think we dweebs win either
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A is *humbling*. I think succeeding there depends on much more active mastery of game strategy than lower rundles - like I think if I wanted to get back up there and stay there, Iâd need to both intensively study my weaker areas and also play defense much more rigorously
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my favorite Oklahoma fact is that last year a state senator from OKC proposed a total ban on local minimum parking requirements (Carri Hicks, SB 246) it didnât pass ofc but it would be a bold, progressive policy in any US state, so for it to even be proposed in Oklahoma is v cool!
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The idea that itâs âmore cost-effectiveâ to subsidize more deed-restricted housing, or tighten rent control, than to, *for free*, remove luxury zoning restrictions that serve the frivolous aesthetic tastes of the wealthy is rhetorical sleight of hand.
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also Boston could lower their per capita carbon emissions from heating if they would update their building stock to reflect modern energy efficiency technology, but guess which US city has possibly the most complex and arbitrary system for permitting new construction
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it would be easier to dismiss leftists excusing Chomskyâs Khmer Rouge apologia if âeveryone should grow their own foodâ and âcities are full and donât need to grow anymoreâ and ânerds suckâ were not all popular takes in that segment of the left
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Bonnie Tyler, trapped in a sparking powder keg while the omnipresent shadow of love totally eclipses her heart, leaving her unable to do or say anything to save herself. Will Bright-Eyes turn around in time to save her from certain doom?!?
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a surprising number of people on here seem to believe that they can implement âpeople matter only insofar as they serve their Community, but, uh, i mean it in a feminist, LGBT-affirming wayâ and they will be disappointed to hear the beliefs of most of their anti-individualist bedfellows!
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worth noting that many right-wingers believe this narrative *exactly in reverse*, where the left has executed a clever decades-long plot to capture US institutions and the right were the chumps who were caught napping. doesn't inherently mean both sides are equally wrong, but it's relevant context
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if you want to post about Hillary Clinton in this day and age whatever app youâre on should force you to do a captcha where it shows you 9 women politicians and you have to click all the ones youâd enthusiastically vote for for president
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yeah as with a number of these discourse tics on the left, itâs very revealing how TERFs specifically have weaponized this, what with accusing cis male supporters of trans rights of being âmen telling women how to feelâ
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âraising the stakes of stupid legislative decisions for society in general will force lawmakers to act wiselyâ is also belied by the âsequestrationâ budget debacle of 2013. Itâs still not the lawmakersâ own lives at stake and they wonât care how unthinkable the failure state is
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âi do not believe you have actually built the Torment Nexusâ
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yeah increasingly it seems like the primary social function of fear over x-risk from AGI is as a scam by Big LLM to sell more LLMs
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Yeah, sadly. I said âtall buildings generallyâ but people were mad about a specific tall building, the Cairo Hotel. And any fire safety concerns of the time donât explain why the limit hasnât been relaxed (apart from minor changes and special exemptions) since then
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Itâs apocryphal (or at least the limit is not based on or motivated by the Washington Monument). The Height of Buildings Act of 1910 was motivated by the limits of existing firefighting technology and an aesthetic distaste for tall buildings generally
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I do think it would be better if the capital permitted huge skyscrapers to overshadow the centers of political power - it would be a good visual reminder that the state is only part of civic life, not its center, and that political leaders are not above the rest of us
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This is true; I worked (remotely) one summer for an environmental consulting group contracted to design a clean energy strategy for Papua New Guinea, and thereâs a significant industry installing individual solar panels throughout the majority of the country with no existing grid
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*fatalism vs scolding
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Economist-style thinking - the dry analysis of incentives - offers a way out of the false binary of fatali vs scolding, and therefore holds immense liberatory potential, in my view.
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I suspect the presence of shame is - often if not always - what tips government action into the realm of illegitimate coercion. The governmentâs exercise of shaming should be strictly limited as inherently inimical to freedom
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Yes, to fight climate change a lot of individuals will have to change their behavior. But activists have been trying to achieve that by *making people feel bad*; regardless of whether thatâs effective, I donât think itâs necessary
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as someone who thinks a lot about climate change, economics, and the idea of individualism, i really think the way to think about the âno ethical consumption under capitalismâ debate is to home in on the toxic role of shame
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Relatedly the way politics treats peopleâs relocation decisions is incredibly indulgent of rural policymakers and their choices - pundits act like people leaving San Francisco is a damning verdict on SF whereas people leaving West Virginia is a betrayal the federal government should step in to stop
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new york state flop era still going strong
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yeah I mean this is part of why I preemptively say my view is right-wing - if itâs classist to assert that operating a machine that can crush a human to death is a privilege and not a right, then hand me a lorgnette and call me Emily Gilmore
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one of my most right-wing views is that thereâs a *large* number of people who should catch a lifetime ban on driving *even before* we redesign cities to be less car-oriented
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Staiano-Daniels gets at what bothered me about Shogun - the Europeans get to sound more or less liberal, playing into stereotypes about âthe westâ vs âthe eastâ. Imo the best parts of the show were when we see the Europeansâ insane, historically accurate religious hangups
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I would buy at least a moderated version of this where normies inherit the *slogans* of existing activists but sanewash them because they assume the activists canât really mean what they do mean
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especially vile bc hawaii v trump dropped right after masterpiece cakeshop, where SCOTUS literally said âthe fact that one commissioner said a mean thing proves this rule is unconstitutional animus against Christiansâ the court majority sees non-christians as second-class citizens
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the judiciary committee Dems should commit to subpoenaing him weekly until he quits
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my very dumb first thought is 'semantic association with textile crafts'
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iirc there was a lot of volcanic activity at the end of the Cretaceous and itâs the (distant) runner-up for most plausible theory of what killed the non-avian dinosaurs, after the meteor theory
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Wait didnât Pat McCrory already do this in NC in 2016? He conceded eventually but only after spuriously alleging massive voter fraud and dragging out the process
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a lot fell into place when I realized this ideological faction is invested in *debate* qua debate (which requires a set of norms), not freedom of speech (which necessarily includes the freedom to scold or mock)
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Love the theological contention that Jesus a) ISNâT alive, contra what evangelicals claim to believe but b) WOULD be alive 2000 years out if he hadnât been killed the kind of idea that used to get you put on a list of named heresies!
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I think Krasner might just be a better politician. I got the sense Boudin wasnât really fulfilling the basic comms aspect of being DA in terms of showing empathy and concern for victims of crime
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Some of the most popular housing-production policies are meant to get housing built in commercial zones or on land owned by religious orgs, but a lot of proposed legislation in this area needs rethinking to be effective. My boss and I write about it here:
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People who think weâre âcoddlingâ kids should really be up in arms about sex-segregating sex ed classes, which is the strongest example in US society of just that: failing to prepare kids for adult life because adults prioritize âprotectingâ them from uncomfortable conversations
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âThere is a cross-party consensus that the way to tackle the housing crisis is to build more homes. But this approach isnât workingâ
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