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Software engineer, chronic pessimist. Software, music, language, politics.
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If 2008 was the Great Recession, what are we going to call this one? The Stupid Recession?

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NEWS: President Yoon REMOVED - UNANIMOUS DECISION

submitted 4 days ago • 73 comments

A slide about the death toll in Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic.”

submitted 8 days ago • 77 comments

A groundbreaking new study found that the surge in SUVs from 1995 to 2019 reduced Minnesota's highway lane capacity by 9.5%. Less lane capacity --> More congestion Me, in CityLab 🧵

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

God showered with Elon Musk every conceivable gift and reward you could imagine--fame, fortune, power, influence, glory, many strong sons to sacrifice at his burial altar--and the only think he wants is to be a popular Reddit poster circa 2012. It is, quite frankly, rather baffling.

submitted 13 days ago • 33 comments

new meme format just dropped

submitted 56 days ago • 26 comments

The urbanist movement has focused on eliminating parking to nudge people onto transit but transit is actually getting worse. Low-income Oaklanders applying for transit oriented homes are struggling to give up their cars and livelihood for stable housing. darrellowens.substack.com/p/why-transi...

submitted 56 days ago • 21 comments

a concentration camp doesn't have to be a death camp to be deadly; the combination of negligence, underfunding, and legal grey zones creates an extremely high 'natural' death rate whether it's the Chinese in Xinjiang or the British in Kenya, as well as rampant possibility for abuse.

submitted 68 days ago • 21 comments

Chilling.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

They choose this. They choose this. They choose this. Melania. Usha. Ivanka. They are adults and they choose all this. They can leave at any moment, and every day they are still choosing this. They are not victims, they are henchwomen.

submitted 73 days ago • 228 comments

At Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing, "the Republican majority displayed no willingness to block or even seriously vet a nominee who resides far outside the former boundaries of acceptability for a position of immense power," Jonathan Chait writes:

submitted 83 days ago • 35 comments

The year is 2035. I meet President AOC in the Oval Office. "You've done well," she says. "By telling men to dress gay, you've lowered the population rate by 90%, thereby reducing carbon emissions." She slides me a manilla envelope. I can now afford a home in a walkable neighborhood

submitted 84 days ago • 695 comments

New Folding Ideas! Mantracks: A True Story of Fake Fossils youtu.be/2UDXdqqJQPE

submitted 87 days ago • 132 comments

A reminder that Los Angeles had its hottest summer in history last year. Southern California has received just 2% of "normal" rainfall during the current "rainy" season. These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels. We are in a climate emergency.

submitted 89 days ago • 184 comments

I hate this urban tough-guy bullshit. America's dense walkable cities should be pleasant places where it's easy to raise a family without a car, not dilapidated shitholes where you prove how hardcore you are by ostentatiously tolerating inconvenience and disorder.

submitted 88 days ago • 43 comments

Breaking News: Jean-Marie Le Pen, the French far-right politician who rode waves of xenophobia as leader of the National Front party, died at 96. nyti.ms/3DJTdXL

submitted 90 days ago • 196 comments

The Oval Office is back on the market…

submitted 92 days ago • 826 comments

Great images showing the 40% pollution reduction in Paris thanks to bike lanes & traffic changes. It works and people in Paris are loving it! #ShareGoodNewsToo

submitted 110 days ago • 11 comments

in these times of need we must turn to the most aging and sclerotic among the party. no positions unless you've had at least one massive health crisis in the last year, I say.

submitted 111 days ago • 8 comments

republicans should definitely try to stop the corrupt democrats from winning with the electoral college by getting rid of it

submitted 119 days ago • 225 comments

It's true: Big cars shrink the parking available to everyone else! Due to car bloat, fewer vehicles can fit in a block of curbside parking. That point was crucial to Montreal's recent adoption of weight-based parking fees. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

submitted 122 days ago • 1 comment