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I went to a free Cake concert in downtown Berkeley (yeah, no place was safe) maybe a couple of weeks later and someone started the "USA!" thing and John McCrea told them to shut up because "this isn't about that." I've always appreciated him for that.
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lookit him go
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I mean... I think we're already seeing it.
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*looks up floor plan* demolition of Treaty Room + Lincoln Bedroom is my guess.
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Whose full speed?
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I really like the "ruin overtaken by nature" aesthetic in general and so rarely get to see it outside of the zombie apocalypse genre.
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I go to Best Buy every now and then if I need an SD card or a USB charger or something like that. The assortment of random stuff that fills the space formerly occupied by music and whatnot is... confusing.
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well, hold on now
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Uber is running a giant trafficking racket!
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I just this very morning went to go browse Threadless for the first time in a while to stock up on shirts, and the amount of AI-generated stuff was so overwhelming I gave up on buying anything. There's no way to filter it out! I feel so bad for the real artists lost in that noise.
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I mean, what this article describes is exactly the thing the party has already been doing for the last thirty years or so, so to me it does read as exactly "do nothing" (except for padding the usual consultants' wallets).
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they saw Elon literally put a hat on a hat and decided that was the secret sauce they were missing
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This jostled loose some almost-completely-faded childhood memories of reading every Pinkwater book I could find at the library. I need to reread The Magic Camera and Ducks, two whose covers I recognize but whose stories are now obscured by the passing of decades.
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I muted once my sealion meter hit the red, what'd I miss?
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Yes. He very clearly hates that.
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Scott Wiener impressed me during a Q&A once by responding to an earnest question about preventing displacement by frustratedly saying "look, things will change, we can't freeze them in amber". Who needs numbers when you can just dismiss human lives as impediments to The Future?
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And, like, the core idea of "YIMBY" is fine! I liked it back when Amy Farah Weiss (as far as I know) coined the acronym. But she'd be called a "NIMBY" now if she were still active around here because her concern was always people over profits. hoodline.com/2014/11/meet...
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I mean, this was around the same time that Sonja Trauss (head of the local YIMBY movement at that time) said "gentrification is what we call the revaluation of black land to its correct price". Some are more circumspect about the "leave or die" thing than others.
newrepublic.com/article/1804...
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Quotes from many many medical workers on what they've seen with their own eyes, as well as photos. The NYT didn't publish most of the photos they had because it was too goddamn horrifying.
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www.theguardian.com/world/2024/a...
I have not heard of a single doctor who has worked in Gaza over the past year who does not corroborate this. If it's a lie it's the most airtight conspiracy in the history of humanity.
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I just watched it last night and I kept forgetting he was Mark Ruffalo and going "who's this actor? Oh, right, still Mark Ruffalo."
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I think killing toddlers is wrong in general, actually. But I see you skipped the "human shield" goalpost shift and went straight to "killing toddlers is okay if it's motivated by revenge", so this "conversation" can end.
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Do you believe that toddlers are "combatants," or is asking that question going to trigger a goalpost shift?
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One wonders who the kids who get shot in the face by IDF snipers are "human shielding". Tiny Hamas agents hidden in their skulls? FFS.
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this was only five hours ago, my dude
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These things -> "" are called quotation marks. They indicate a direct quote taken from another source.
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Yes. Did you read the part I quoted about how anyone can just get a shot from a pharmacy even if the NHS isn't paying for it? That's what RFK seems to be looking to ban (we don't have an NHS-equivalent in the first place).
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I, on the one hand, skimmed some Google results hastily.
You, on the other hand, think SARS sprung from Reagan's corpse.
Relatively speaking I still think I'm a genius.
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Okay, recommendations vary (after more googling), but most people can get boosted 4x/yr if they feel like it: www.bbc.com/news/health-...
"You need to be aged 12 or above, and must not have had a Covid vaccine in the previous three months."
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A quick google shows that Canada and the UK both recommend annual boosters for the general population, and more frequently than that for people at higher risk. Which comparisons are you looking at for "most of the rest of the world"?
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Endless recall campaigns are dumb, but at the same time, it's really funny to see conservatives clutching their pearls about it after funding every other recall campaign I can remember.
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Think about it this way: if you already had more money than you could ever spend, would you spend the rest of your finite lifespan trying to make even MORE money, or would you go enjoy it? Everyone above a certain level of wealth has to have decided to prioritize money above all else.
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hey @moderation.bsky.app you got time to block Gazan accounts but you can't set up a filter for this same exact shit popping up over and over again?
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en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/firebom...
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"In the U.S., those costs don’t show up on the tax bill, but Americans still pay them at the end of the day" -- gee, maybe you could do that math and adjust the number in your headline accordingly!
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For a terrifying minute I thought this was a sequel to "Zaat" but it turns out it's the same movie. Phew!
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I feel a little dirty for putting "Clerks" in the same list as "Casablanca", but y'know, they're both movies I've watched a LOT of times.
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Anyway, one has to remember that they aren't just indifferent to displacement, they see it as a feature.
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A YIMBYbro I used to work with once said to me (mistaking me for a like-minded bro) that everyone living in a rent-controlled apartment needed to hurry up and die to make room for tech workers. When I told him he was talking about my family he spluttered a bit and then just doubled down.
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People whose whole field of study is "looking at real genocide" say this is a genocide. www.cnn.com/2024/12/19/T...
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Gonna spend the rest of my
life building an AI agent whose sole job is to fuck with anyone who disrespects my memory online after I die.
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Grim that one of the topics they’re testing civility on is gun control to 18 year olds who have been told in no unclear terms their entire academic lives that they might be slaughtered by a 4chan Nazi and that is an acceptable cost as long as senator Bloodfeast gets his annual NRA bribe