dasdoak.bsky.social
Gentleman adventurer, mostly decent bastard, only slightly pessimistic optimist. I ride bikes, tinker, program, and read way too much.
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Where did you find this graph? I've tried googling and haven't had much luck, though I have come across a bunch of the American Immigration Council's other material.
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We should build apartment buildings *in* parks, specifically along their edges so that the parks are activated by the presence of people 24/7, and so that the eyes-on-the-street effect covers parks too.
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Sometimes the only option is to literally export the page as it appears and include it in the appendix.
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Linkrot is a serious problem; you can reduce it by including a direct link to the Internet archive entry for the day you accessed the data but, ultimately, that also has a shelf life and limited functionality.
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"Are you English, a German whose name got butchered by the immigration authorities, or just someone who has an ancestor with brown hair or darker skin? No one cares; you're an American."
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There's also the bonus that it'd piss off anyone who thinks that demonymic surname should imply whiteness.
Nope! We're going with the spectacularly-open-to-interpretation-while-also-subtly-implying-POC "Brown."
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I wouldn't say "anyone" - they do seem to have the loyalty of their state national guard units, though whether they have complete loyalty in the face of illegal orders from the President is an open question.
But, yeah, the police are openly opposed to Democratic leadership and that is a problem.
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Playgrounds, sports fields, restaurants, shops, grocery stores, kindergartens, schools, transit...?
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Why do sidewalks spontaneously end in the middle of parking lots? Why are all the paths through the greenspace ridiculous? Why is there massive amounts of greenspace adjacent to the warehouses instead of being inserted *right next to* the housing? So many incredibly dumb choices.
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...it's a bunch of pour-and-tilt warehouses and insanely soulless medium-rise apartments in the middle of a gigantic parking lot next to a uselessly large park.
This is spectacularly dumb - I don't think you could design a worse allocation of land uses if you tried.
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This is also just good policy in general because people *SHOULDN'T* feel like their lives have been ruined by their choice to have a kid, and kids who grow up in happy families that are safe and comfortable tend to have much better outcomes than kids whose parents are constantly stressed and upset.
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Right now the expected sacrifice of parenthood is almost 100% on mothers and most women look at that situation and - rightfully - respond with "fuck that."
The easiest way to increase the birth rate is to make women feel like they won't be figuratively screwed by becoming mothers.
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But IMHO that you'd need a cultural shift in the perception of parenthood too for things to actually change - in particular, fatherhood would need to be redefined for *a lot* of people in terms of the expected level of personal sacrifice it involves *and* the honor of making that sacrifice.
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It's possible that existing policy levers of increased parental support would do the trick - but, if that'd be the case, it'd probably need to be *far* higher than even the most generous countries currently offer.
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And the other thing is that we don't really know how to *increase* the birth rate if it turns out that dropping below replacement is - as seems likely - quite bad.
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Yuuuup. Both Jewish and non-Jewish Israelis may apply for building permits but, for some strange reason, only Jewish building permits are ever approved within a reasonable timeframe.
www.972mag.com/israels-hous...
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The key problem is that he's not going to be able to "think of precisely the thing that I need" without reading a whole bunch of books.
Turns out that you need to know things to even ask for - let alone understand - things you do not know.
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"They might have paved Paradise and put up a parking lot, but the parking lot is also Paradise!"
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Which is why you plan in advance.
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We all have slow days, no worries.
Shit, I'm going to have a slow day when my alarm goes off
...in four and a half hours.
I really should go to bed.
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Most Latin Americans are Catholic, and Latin Americans are the people *primarily* being targeted by ICE at present.
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It does help that, this go-round, the primary groups being persecuted are Catholics.
Of course, it also helps that Leo XIV seems to have more moral clarity and urgency than Pius XII did.
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She actually went far enough up the alley that, on my first pass, I missed her completely. I had to go back and try again before I managed to catch her.
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Anyways, Morrison is just as simple; drive a few miles to Federal Center, get on the W, transfer to the A at Union Station, and then take it the rest of the way to the airport.
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Sorry, that transfer happens at Union station. My mistake
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For Highlands Ranch, drive ~5-6 miles to the Ridgeway Park and Ride, park in a multi-story garage that will protect your car from the weather for $4 a day, pay $2.75 for a 3-hour ticket, get on the E, transfer to the A at Auraria West, and then go straight to the airport. No traffic.
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Did you just completely miss the part where I said "build a train"?
In Denver, you can park at any of the park-and-rides in the entire city for up to 30 days, and the park-and-ride parking fee *plus* the train ticket to the airport is going to be less than literally any airport parking.
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People who complain about Jar Jar Binks forget that, while he isn't a racist caricature, C-3PO is, unquestionably, the most annoying character in the entire series.
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I'm just referring to the practical implications of having a large city's airport out in the boonies as far from the city as possible. It's objectively better for everyone to *not* have the major source of noise and air pollution located in the middle of the city like LAX, LAS, PHX, MDW, DCA, etc.
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lol, I just posted something to basically the same effect:
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But let's remember that this is Trump's White House; it's entirely possible that Trump forgot or didn't realize that he allowed coordination with the Israelis for this strike, the coordination happened without his knowledge, or he's just lying, and any combination of those is about equally possible.
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Meh, we'll see where the reporting lands on this ultimately - assuming we ever get a good answer. Regardless, my key point remains; this changes the game for Iran in ways that will ultimately be *very* bad for Israel.
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The reporting I've read suggests that Trump said "don't do it" - because he *really* wants a big, shiny deal somewhere given the abject failure of his tariff negotiations, which gives the Israelis even more incentive to wreck it because it's likely he was going to give away a lot to get it.
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There are the domestic considerations for Netanyahu that you mentioned as well - but the key part of the overreach imho is that, prior to this, Iranian leadership didn't think that Israel was going to try and kill them in their beds and, now that they have that fear, the game changes for *them*.
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Iran doesn't have a nuke, isn't close to one, and was about to enter into negotiations with the US TOMORROW for ending their program. This is about keeping Iran from normalizing relations, much as 10/7 was - in part - an attempt by Hamas to keep Israel from normalizing with Saudi Arabia.
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The strikes going well might prolong Netanyahu's survival, but having it devolve into the slog necessary for regime change ultimately imperils his survival; he thinks he can knock Iran around a little and that'll help keep him safe for a bit longer.
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My take is that Israel doesn't really think this is an existential conflict and they're just trying to do their "you put one of ours in the hospital we'll put one of yours in a morgue" routine, while Iran's leadership is realizing that it actually is existential - for them.
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Fun how, the minute you think through applying *most* anarchic scenarios to the US as it currently exists, it almost instantly turns into a speedrun of Coventry.
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They're demanding that she lead us while still being completely unwilling to support her leadership or grant her the power to lead.
Sounds about right.
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One of the problems with treating non-existential conflicts as though they are existential is that, eventually, the other party in the conflict realizes it is actually existential *for them*.
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And, because Israel has been seemingly laser-focused on alienating its allies, there's a good that that, when it's finally facing a competent connection of Arab states, it'll be doing so alone and under sanctions.
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The problem is that, the longer this goes on and the clearer a threat Israel becomes, the greater the incentive becomes for those states to get their shit together per the general theory of Fuck That Guy.
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Hey, you might've just been on one side of a large rotating counterweight station! Did you check for the Coriolis Effect when you were pouring your coffee?
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Yup. The real shame is that, if we'd done nothing, there's a good chance Saddam would've gotten the boot during the Arab Spring.
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And because DEN is in the middle of nowhere *miles* outside the city when you get off the train and walk around the city, you aren't surrounded by the sound of airplanes taking off and landing.