jasonfossella.bsky.social
retired Byzantinist. professional tritagonist. occasional writer. dead language nerd. plant dad. š³ļøāš
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The longest day of the year in southern CA is 14 hours and 28 minutes.
so thereās one day a year you can have 91% of what you want, in this life thatās pretty good
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youāre describing California
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Missouri made non-standard crosswalks illegal for āsafety reasons.ā Iām sure Utah will catch up
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because theyāre effectively their own little society, where the only thing that matters is the metastory
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havenāt found that to be true at all, and Iāve been at this for decades. now, somebody with like a two-year IT degree from a community college, thatās different, they can be taught. but CS majors? feh
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CS majors are basically unhirable as actual software developers- they have a lot of theoretical knowledge thatās worse than useless because most of it runs counter to how software is actually made. Iād much rather train up a smart 18 year old with no skills than break in a fresh CS major
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NYC Carpenters have been under a consent decree stemming from a RICO case for 30+ years. theyāre not quite the mafia anymore, but theyāre not not
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because many unions in the US arenāt unions so much as a sort of cartel that controls specific jobs and rent-seeks off that control
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accurate. if Paramount were to announce a DS9 reboot today half of bluesky would die from happiness (the rest would be suicidally depressed over the assumed shittiness of the reboot)
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I do so hate it when my politicians donāt stay bought
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short words, choppy phrases. no feminine meter (lines that end with an unstressed syllable). less trochees, more spondees
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linguistic critique- they should avoid polysyllabic words of Greek or Latin origin. stick to simple English. eg āabundanceā is too fancy and too scholarly. call it āThe Big Dealā and for short (thanks, Biden) the BFD. links it to the New Deal, and gets across the idea- lets build more, build bigger
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not a sociologist, but just based on living and traveling: race. LA is overwhelmingly non-white, Bay Area about 52% white, Oregon extremely white. white people are more comfortable allowing more housing if they safely can assume their neighbors will be white, otherwise they fight like hell
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THIS, so hard. I lived in a townhouse and I got in a nightmare situation with shared maintenance. you can end up with neighbors who canāt afford it or just donāt care. Iāll never do a shared roof or walls again
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the Dem leadership is old but not that old. Pelosi got elected to the house in 1987, Schumer in 81. the 90s was their heyday
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I think this generation of Dems got burned by the 90s healthcare reform attempt and learned a kind of antipopulism, where they try to score moral points by making tough, unpopular decisions. itās a trauma response, like how I flinch now whenever I see Joaquin Phoenix because of Beau is Afraid
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ohhhh, I thought you meant $400 for the year lol. still better than mine, I get nothing
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at that price I might actually go. but this is America, so Iāll just keep telling my bartender stuff
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actually now remembering when my grandfather died and all his relatives came in for the funeral, we rented them rooms all over town. could have been like 13 counts of running illegal boarding houses. now theyād just be in airbnbs and it would be legal and taxes would get paid on it
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I would have had them illegally stay with a neighbor lol
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ok but whatās a ācommercial areaā? life is not simcity. people live in downtowns and there are touristy shopping streets in neighborhoods. also: people visit other people, and we donāt all have a spare room. I donāt want my parents 30 minutes away when they visit, I want right by
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we should also build more hotels in neighborhoods people actually want to be in, rather than next to the airport or the interstate. hotels are also housing, and we need more housing
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I donāt know you but I know that feeling. congrats
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is that the one where Kaiser Soze dresses like his dead mother and Soylent Green is Lukeās father?
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no I mean there are literally none. real political parties the way they exist in eg the UK are illegal in the US. our āpartiesā are agents of the state
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neither are the Republicans. there are no political parties in America
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thereās a debate going in in the wow community about the value of āimperfect informationā- that itās more fun to play when you donāt have every bit of data & you have to improvise and communicate. Blizzard is about to ban addons that let players know too much (like timers for everything in a fight)
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then the population will be smaller and weāll less housing overall. works out either way
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but they want to, because theyāre star fuckers. the NYT would suck Satanās dick for āaccess.ā Elon is out of favor this week so heās only getting a half-hearted handy, but in a month theyāll thirsty for him again and weāll get a rehab piece
(I am in a spicy mood this morning)
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you donāt need apartments for density. we have a 3 bedroom house with a nice yard on a 3100 sq foot lot. if you put families of 4 in houses like that, thatās 35k/sqmi. thatās denser than Queens. everybody can have a yard for their dog, it just takes planning
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enormously. we have a sheepdog, and she needs outside space, even if itās just to hang out during the day. the dog park is not enough because we donāt have time to take her there for more than maybe an hour a day
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itās another way he makes Gondor Roman. ancient Rome was entirely pedestrian during the day. animals and drawn vehicles were allowed in at night for deliveries
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this is clearly a conspiracy to give every medievalist in the country a stroke
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Iām the ginger price guy! two years and it never rings up right
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but her initial impulse was to go on Gavin Newsomās podcast to applaud ICE, so this is pretty good
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those processes donāt actually prevent highway expansion, they never have. theyāre almost exclusively wielded as a weapon to stop transit and housing. so removing them just levels the playing field for transit
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yall will make a charming 52nd state š¤£š¤®
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deuteragonist
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what dressy-but-casual clothes can you recommend for a Missouri summer? I need something to wear for social events when shorts and a tshirt arenāt acceptable but itās 90 degrees and 70% humidity out
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and thatās an unfollow
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the lack of speed of American courts is an ongoing miscarriage of justice. I was on a jury in a pretty simple civil case in 2019 (a guy got rear-ended by a city vehicle). I check on it now and then, and itās still on appeal. even if he got the full payout today, inflation has cost him 20% of it š”
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it is hard to admit that weāre ugly bags of mostly water and our behavior is driven by the ratio of chemicals in that bag. when I started HRT I turned into a horny disgusting pig and my own behavior shocked me (the initial dose was WAY too high, Iām much less disgusting now š¤£)
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house parties are always a mistake
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EAIAC example one billion
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and yet someone wrote them without realizing it š¤£
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the internet was a mistake, part one million
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only like four people are in on this joke but it is hilarious