below-left.bsky.social
Youtube essayist and occasional convention panelist.
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The scary thing is nothing we can conceive of is "inhuman" as such, yes. We are each capable of the worst things ever done, though we're also each capable of the best things too.
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The third point is scarily true for a shitpost if you think of gender as a performance. You are only the gender you appear to an observer at any given time, including those moments when you get self-conscious about your gender.
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Texas still needs to work out the fact that the Republic of Texas was conceived by slavery which is going to take some doing.
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Ghost in the Shell has a version of cyberbrain autism where some people will get pathologically obsessed with their linkage to the net, and the plot of SAC S2 ended with a man trying to take humanity to a new epoch by getting a bunch of refugees to jump into cyberspace permanently.
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Legitimately the coolest thing to learn. So easy to forget that people of letters in the past could still talk to and take inspiration from each other, we tend to imagine them existing almost in bubbles.
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"I heard Frederick Douglass was a fed"
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Jimmy Carter wasn't real he can't hurt you
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ah, NeoGAF nostalgia
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Eh, you need a lot more physical prowess to pull it off now compared to before where basically any adult without mobility issues could step over.
Gets the farejumpers fit at least.
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Gottdamn I lived off those coffees in the vending machines when I was over there (particularly the kick I needed around 1 PM when my body was telling me it was 3 AM).
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The *only* things I like about it are the idea of the Cult of the Sith Eternal, closing the loop that Palpatine had indeed figured out immortality but it was gross and horrible, the Jedi ghosts uniting behind Rey and the hint that Sidious was "all the Sith".
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Moriband would have made a lot more thematic sense but everything else about TROS is phoned-in so why not.
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Give her scritches.
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"Swamp" is the GOAT
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Or, or, you could ask Congress to implement your tariffs. Hell, that could be done with reconciliation since they are revenue-generating.
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you've been Thunderstriked
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when your hyperfixation is collecting other communities' jargon (I do this sometimes too).
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To me that reads more that the resentment of "managers" exists independently of "class", income, or credentials. Dr. Priyanka sits down at the bar next to Bricklayer Ted to grouse about those punks at the back office.
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and then 50 million people died. Lovely thought.
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Are we in the Golden Age yet
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eh, I think it was built up well enough through the series - the famous episode where Bobby figures out he's great at home ec including cooking and where Bobby works with Bill on his family BBQ recipe to name a few. It's a craft and Hank respects crafts.
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It bears a disturbing resemblance to late-era chattel slavery in that way, we must begin binding everyone to properly bind the targeted group because the binding is irrational in the first place.
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Definitely. It's a "yes and" thing for people who lack empathy.
Amazing how much the admin can come up with bad things that are bad for everybody, not just the targeted groups.
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Now if she were running money for Putin FinCEN probably wouldn't care, but this admin, and that kind of a target?
Unless they've just put all of FinCEN in the DOGE shredder because laws are for poor immigrants. But their Law is for her, too (along with the rest of us here).
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that is more or less the idea in seriousness - it taxes the value of the undeveloped land aggressively - if what you put on it is worth more than the dirt beneath it you'll come out ahead, if not, ditch it for someone who will make better use. Most variants assume the tax pays out a wealth fund.
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Seriously. I went to undergrad in Philly (go Hawks!) and now live in DC and Septa is so, so bad by comparison. Have also spent time in SF which also beats the pants off it.
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r/neoliberal: land-value-tax would solve this
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and while it is far from sufficient for ending racism, mere representation goes a lot further than people think. Your unconscious mind runs a lot faster than your conscience thinking about what a doctor/judge/The President can look like and having numerous examples shaves that off.
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There is no mechanism for maintaining order that cannot also be turned towards authoritarian purposes, it's just difficult to juggle encouraging civility for good reasons or encouraging it just to enforce negative peace.
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Probably just that the site grew a bit too quickly out of kneejerk reactions to Elon/the election and doesn't have enough organic pull to sustain that.
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Some people for sure. Most people seem content to wallow in the slop machines.
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True, in my case my employer covers all premiums if you choose the high-deductible option.
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the backlash is becoming too strident. It's going to be harder and harder as time goes by to tell AI from manmade art unless you're getting from primary sources.
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In fact you do occasionally get money back from your insurer if it was found that they didn't meet that 90% threshold.
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Because there are too few of them so there will be many buyers, and investors see it as a good option because they know they can command a high price.
There is a concern about price-fixing via tools to see other apartment listings, but that too stems from commanding a scarce resource.
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But if the great sin of capital is being able to extract wealth through idle ownership, the massive rent-seeking generated by the housing shortage is a Gomorrah of inequity. More income to builders and to working class tenants/homeowners alike, less wealth for real estate moguls.
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The main problem is left-of-center priors have been trained to view supply-side solutions with skepticism if not dismiss them as a mere plot of the ultra-wealthy.
This is part of the broader re-alignment occurring where the parties are sorting on economic literacy.
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Building more homes is *necessary* but not sufficient, the other ills you mentioned do not have significant impact on housing prices (and AirBNB bans can have negative effects like jacking up hotel rates in cities like NYC).
Need more beds-with-roofs first.
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and like, people have better stuff to do with their time so telling them to fuck off should be enough.
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But there are always going to be ideas that are oppressed through soft power because they're repugnant to discourse. Should such ideas be relitigated occasionally? Sure, but the motte-and-bailey these scolds use is they want racists to be free to constantly relitigate race science.
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You can't rise above the subjectivity of social consensus: free speech as a concept has always included the concept of some ideas being so distasteful that they would only be met with opprobrium. The idea with free speech is that only malicious lies and imminently harmful speech is *illegal*.
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"It's been 14 years man, where've you been."
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It's a question of forcing the median Democrat to take the positions of frontline Democrats.
I don't begrudge Dems like Gluesenkamp-Perez or Jared Golden their positions, I denounce the idea that their views need to become the platform.
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I give a shit about politics because I want to see a better world, not just prevent the world from getting worse. That means staking out unpopular positions and moving the needle.
and the point of small-d democracy within big-D Democratic politics is each faction gets to make their pitch.
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I think David Shor is a better guy than some make him out to be but Popularism the way dillweeds like Matty Y apply it is just antithetical to the idea of politics and also kind of does that thing where it assigns Dem Party Leaders responsibility for *everything* anyone left-of-center believes.
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Modern conservatism drives more and more into post-material politics. Like conservatism is bad even for big businesses now in the MAGA form! The only people who materially benefit are basically day traders and their ilk. They are driven by affect.
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yeah she's got a ways to go here and shows she's still credulous for a certain type of person hyping themselves.
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aye, you can't be anything but a striver to some degree to get a place of your own.
I'm kind of a burnout at heart but have to put on my achiever-face to stay comfortable.