eigenvogel.bsky.social
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It's extremely reliable, but drinks fuel and doesn't make that much power. Particularly true of its truck versions, which essentially convert gasoline to noise, especially when coupled with Ford's automatics of the time (which are always in the wrong gear).
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It thinks Reddit shitposts are real.
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Or both. We already have a whole indie space full of less developmentally intense games, although that faces its own pricing difficulties; the fact that AAA titles are stuck at a low price point means people expect indie games to sell for even less.
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Part of the problem is the sticker price of AAA games has gone down in real terms (as we've seen recently, gamers simply won't accept prices over $60), but the cost of producing games has gone up as people demand more content.
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AnD nOw YoU kNoW...tHe REST oF tHe StOrY
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It's an investment. If your house burns down, you can recover the dice from the rubble, good as new.
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You understand I’m talking about a set of 7 dice made of tungsten for $650.
I’d need to disguise it as a purchase of alcohol or pornography or something.
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There's a certain school of thought that says that if a Democrat wins in a blowout, it means someone further to the left should have been nominated. It makes a certain logical sense, but it ignores that elections are hard to predict, close ones are terrifying, and one miss can do a ton of damage.
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This is the kind of thing you see when transit projects are mandated to spend a certain percentage of project funds on "public art."
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I crave their Monte Cristo.
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I think they would be a hard sell.
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Also if he tries to ram a tariff authorization bill through Congress that could keep them busy for a while, which would use up time they'd otherwise use to try to do something more evil.
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I had that thought too. On the other hand, I feel like this might be better than the current scenario where he gets to impose tariffs, then rescind them when people start to feel pain, thus repeatedly getting credit for slaying dragons of his own creation.
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Yeah, also kind of a political tabloid; a lot of their stuff is short and thinly sourced.
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The funny thing is those cars are covered in cameras, so either he didn't have Sentry Mode turned on or he has video of who did it and doesn't want to say so for some reason. Maybe he stuck it on his own car for content.
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It's Cillizza, he probably hires someone to detail his car every week.
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They were kind of flummoxed. A network with a show that succeeds with the "wrong" audience is like a mad scientist trying to build a revolving door and accidentally making a time machine instead. The time machine is impressive but they had all their sales brochures printed up with doors on them!
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I consider that part of the second category.
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He really only does two kinds of takes: Ones that are utterly shallow reads of conventional wisdom, and ones that are self-serving for him and his friends.
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It's the worst kind of politicization! The kind that inconveniences him!
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In the column he wrote about this he also gets upset that people yell at him for eating Chick-Fil-A. www.thedailybeast.com/please-leave...
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Behind the scenes he's talking to Nate Silver to come up with a winning betting strategy based on Tesla vandalism.
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Usually people who push this idea are people who think gut instinct and intuition are more valuable. "A mother knows her kids" comes up a lot in anti-vax circles.
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I bought a car from a surgeon who thought he was also a mechanic, and it was a mess.
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It's not just buses. I lived in SoCal for a while and people talked about the LA subway like it was insanely dangerous.
Some of it is the homelessness crisis, which has turned public transit into bedrooms, injection sites, and often bathrooms for homeless people.
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It's mostly a fear of them being used to track everyone's movements. OTOH most people who worry about this also carry a phone that tracks their movements...
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My experience with buses in Seattle was admittedly that they spent most of their time stuck in traffic. When the light rail went in it was much faster, if you were lucky enough to live along the route. On the other hand it gentrified every neighborhood it touched so living along it wasn't affordable
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One of my unpopular opinions is that streetcars are just heavy, expensive buses you can't reroute.
Light rail is at least grade separated and can avoid traffic. Streetcars get stuck in the same traffic jams cars and buses do.
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Right? If delivering policies that help people was a winning strategy, it would have shown some sign of paying off by now.
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I know what you're trying to do. You think if you divide the world up into "weird trans people" and "normal trans people" and throw the weird ones under the bus, Republicans will leave you alone. It won't work though.
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I'm non-binary and I've experienced significant gender dysphoria in my life. You're simply wrong about this.
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There are lots of plausible nominees at this point and it's partly going to come down to who manages not to do anything disqualifying. e.g., people were big on Whitmer until she appeared in the Oval Office with Trump.
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That's what I think too. It's a cynical take that reveals a lack of basic political instincts, but his recent past is full of stuff like that.
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My conclusion is he just likes to argue.
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Isn't that exactly the kind of media outlet that originally boosted RFK Jr.'s anti-vax crusade?
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Mind you for all those reasons I think the odds of him actually getting nominated are less than epsilon.
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I think he wants to run for President. And I think he's aware that, because he was Governor of California, it would be easy to paint him as a lefty. So he's trying to tack to the center -- the problem being he was already IN the center, so he's veered off into the weeds.
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It's a good comparison because, like anti-LGBTQ positions, anti-UBI stances are mostly based in religion.
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Keychron might have something -- a lot of their keyboards have a choice of keycap colors.
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I'm convinced there are a lot of dudebros who are reflexively anti-Democrat entirely because their moms voted Democratic.
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Yeah, over the objections of urbanists, who wanted a "no replacement" option.
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You'd think, but a major argument for tearing down the viaduct was we needed to make commuting harder so people wouldn't do it. As if we could all afford to live next to the George & Dragon or something.
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There isn't a Democrat to blame.