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I think the same thing, but for journalists who assume that replacing an incumbent, post-primary, due to one bad debate performance is an obviously correct choice. With special disdain for the political journos salivating for an open convention, which is insanely risky.

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So your stance is that we should not try to dissuade big countries from invading smaller ones via arms supply, unless they are treaty partners? That's a straightforward belief, but seems deeply fucked to me.

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? Ukraine is not in NATO

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The deterrent effect of arming a democratic society that wants to fight back against invasion is absolutely worth it. You also can't ignore that this is the second invasion in 10 years. If we aren't willing to help arm Ukraine against a larger adversary, what's stopping them from invading again?

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"Don't boo, throat." -Nancy Reagan

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I thought it was really mature of Alicent to not call the Lannisters a dragonless house, but a house experiencing dragonlessness.

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My experience in Boston has been good - the sources/sinks don't change too quickly, but we've got fewer people playing the game.

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It is deeply fucked to learn of more failure modes I handled for a shared scooter model weren't addressed by multi-billion dollar auto companies. (The other is the Hyundai/Kia regen-braking not activation the brake lights fiasco).

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Yeah, Trump-era child separation policies were a big source of this for me. An extended relative I'd always been on friendly terms with started posting about child separation being good. I had to be like "you know you're saying traumatizing children is good, right?". They understood and liked it.

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Fast forward, I meet a real Dutch guy, and learn they only eat them in December and you can get any letter, but it's not a big deal. Now I am clowned on.

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They make a pastry there year-round called a Dutch letter - puff pastry-ish, almond paste, sugar- it's very good, but only comes in the letter S. Family asks my wife if she wants one, she says "yeah, I'll have an A". We clown on her for not knowing that obviously they only come in S's.

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That moderation is only compostable in dedicated compoasting facilities. On my shitty posts, it will remain for 100 million years.

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I have no first hand experience with what semi-auto vs auto sounds like, but there were 12 bursts of gunfire, and all sound very fast - www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

I also think that at firing at ~60 degree angle down into a dense crowd means that space is not "mostly empty".

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If they have kaddo, definitely get it (sweet pumpkin, yogurt, ground meat sauce. It doesn't sound like it should work, but it's so good)

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Jane Eyre-Fry

#makeabookslightlygreasy
#makeabookgreasy

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I don't think I'm doing that? I'm saying that a vacancy tax is fine, but isn't a silver bullet, and the fundamental problem is a shortage of homes where people want to live.

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Related to you/your readers' interests, the ILWU created an integrated, 299 unit coop for workforce family housing in the '60s in SF: daily.jstor.org/st-francis-s...

But because of the housing shortage, units now sell for 620k + 1200+/month, with $10-20 million of deferred maintenance lurking.

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I mean, sure? The best way to soak landlords is to make them compete for tenants, which is why we need more housing.

If you mean that someone's hoarding apts and leaving them vacant, pass a vacancy tax and raise a bit of $, but it probably won't impact prices - www.governing.com/finance/citi...

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Housing prices are the single most important part of people's lived experience of "the economy" and the only way to make them better is to build a hell of a lot more housing. This is progressive.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/housing-is...

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Ayn Rand is a dumbfuck and so is banning apartments.

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*Stares at zoning map that bans apartments in half of the city* - yes, there are no regulations here

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if you rotate this picture of sick ET 90 degrees counter clockwise he looks like he is absolutely spitting

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Hell yeah. I can't thread the needle on how felon disenfranchisement is bad, but "Trump (Florida resident) can't even vote for himself, so why would any American do that for him?" feels right.

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Me: "doctor, I am so anxious, and the world so uncertain, what can be done?" Psychiatrist in a giant rainbow afro: "the rodeo is in town tonight. let the padded walls of a giant oblong barrel envelope you in their warm embrace, as they always have." Me: "but doctor, it is my first rodeo"

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Me, sophisticate: Pouring batter into the wafflemaker, setting the smartplug for 6:55 - 7:00am, turning out the lights, & waking to the chirps of a freshly made waffle. You, plebe:

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Not trying to troll, but understand what anti-yimbys want: What does "high levels of affordability" mean to you? Is a 10% affordablity requirement a success, or a pittance? Would you be happy with a density bonus + inclusionary requirement (you can build x% more apartments if y% are affordable?

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That makes sense - their one idea is to justify existing power structures. If that's correctly seen as stupid hackery, they're out a job.

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Why are you so unpleasant to a stranger for no reason?

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Similar to how Ed argues that EVs aren't a drop-in replacement for ICE, AVs won't be a drop-in replacement for the personal car.

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My gut feeling is there's a low ceiling on the fraction of the (peaky) commute market you can serve economically without carpooling. You'll wind up with too many vehicles idle during the non-commute hours.

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I mean, meh, because external protests don't have much leverage. But certainly going much better than the large piles of dead civilians that you seem keen to minimize.

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If you're hung up on using the word genocide, fine, it's a war of mass slaughter and famine. It deserves to be protested.

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That plant was out of network, chimpanzees gonna beat his ass.

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As someone who studies government, I want to say as clearly as possible that Trump 2.0 will not be the disorganized shitshow that the first term was. They have a credible plan to govern in an explicitly authoritarian model.

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Miyazaki's is about the daughter of a DC news helicopter pilot who finishes a single-prop glider and takes it for its first flight on the 6th. She follows a flock of birds past the Washington monument and sees a writhing mass spreading on the lawn, destroying the cherry blossoms.

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Suwan-kun, a boy in a swan costume, encourages people to give up smoking.

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Oof. Republican politicians are proud to kill pets and frequently compare people to vermin. Things are so bad.

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The biggest barrier to Mexican food is that people have zero tolerance for spicy foods. That might be increasing, but a decade ago an Indian restaurant warned me that they had real Indian chefs, and whether I was sure I wanted food extra spicy. There was no heat at all

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A decade ago I got a very thick crunchwrap from a "Mexican" fastfood place in a mall food court in Kyiv. Obviously not Mexican at all, but they localized it by adding pickles (like dill pickles), which was not bad.

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I was not prepared for the sheer number of pizza/sushi joints

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I think it's essentially advertising - "check out the world's most ludicrously expensive suitcase" gets people to see your brand, and maybe buy your other very expensive, but normal-ish, suitcases.

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