Three years of "environmental review" to build housing in a major city, fucking kill me www.theurbanist.org/court-of-app...

right wingers think it's good for the ruling class to get arts and humanities degrees. they understand the value this type of education has for the rulling class. they support vocational education (which is what they consider STEM to be) for other for precisely that reason.

like they will literally tell you that the reason they hate American universities is that giving the middle and lower classes a holistic education in history, sociology, literature etc causes them to get ideas about how they should be running society instead of the rulers.

this is similar to how for primary education they support drill instructor cram school for public school kids and send their own kids to new age feelgoodery type schools. there's no contradiction there, they want ridgid thoughtless discipline for workers and autonomy and creativity for future rulers

Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in July.

None of this is true. There were very real national security concerns. The military didn't decide to ban TikTok from official government devices because they didn't like what kids were saying about Israel on there. This is a nonsense narrative that has somehow become BlueSky gospel.

Great reporting on this perspective in Science: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1. Risks of ultra-processed foods are likely caused by their differences in specific nutritional properties, not in being 'processed' 2. 'Ultra-processed' miscategorizes many healthy + sustainable plant-based products

It's actually worse. Because his NY and DC rich buddies turned what probably would've been a senate race that had a buy in of a quarter million dollars into one that was 10x that much. In effect, a bunch of rich consultants and bundlers BOUGHT a primary win. Just like Adelson did w/ Talarico.

100% of Democratic appointed judges voted in favor of LGBTQ+ rights, but they're financially incentivized to ignore that and instead blame everyone else instead of the wealthy influencers who told them that their rights weren't worth protecting and that they should stay home.

Y'know, the whole protest against the "15-minute city" concept is based around not being able to leave your area without getting on state-controlled Surveillance Express. This is clearly insane because we'll have personal EVs. Meanwhile, Leftists: "I must enforce the hukou."

I am so freaking tired of people blaming Obama for Trump. Their connection is that Trump is a reaction against everything Obama represented about a changing America.

Here’s the thing about GDQ: while I can understand some of the complaints about the overlyproduced tone of the event, more than anything I’d describe it as a success story in how it’s important to aggressively and intentionally curate your own community to create an inclusive gaming space for all

Election theft is a way to get Amerimaidan, not a way for Trump to finish off American democracy *successfully*.

though also Norway managed its oil windfall way, way better than the UK did.

--europe trying desperately to figure out what swedes are, 1628 or so

Weird internet Maoist: China is the worker's paradise, the sole bastion of True Communism in a corrupt, capitalist world China: We built a 1:1 recreation of the Mall of America in our mall that contains 12 other malls.

Could not be more true, particularly given a political context in which incumbent parties all over the world had been getting slaughtered for 18 months

Hasan is a bitter, irredeemable, petty asshole. Incapable of not taking the low road.

the stage of dogfooding when the dogfood starts to taste good.

Firework cleanup at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool this afternoon.

Re: how US pop culture has decided that All US Farmers Are In The Midwest & Wear Flannel All The Time

Ace Combat Zero In Space, but with furries

I love how they expanded on the story in this game.

ok maybe the new star fox is good actually

"How do we build a functioning whole from the works of fallible individual systems?" is, of course, the central animating question of the field of cybernetics - one that applies to human organizations just as it does to choirs of software agents.

HEGSETH! BURGUM! WHERE IS MY LO-CHLOR? YOU PROMISED US SWIMTRINE AND ALL WE HAVE BOTTLES OF PEROXIDE FROM FUCKING RITE AID! AND IT'S ONLY 70 FUCKING PERCENT!

Being marginalised and persecuted doesn’t give you the right to abuse others.

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

idk its interesting to me to think back on how much of the "reporting" about how hopelessly senile Biden was came from Olivia Nuzzi

Direct hit from Dupont Circle.

Children who grew up with Trump are mad that the a man took the Presidency seriously, and they still think they're anti-Trump.

You're going to watch the entire legal establishment flip on its head, too, now that their lords and masters have informed them that it's a Reasonable Topic of Disagreement™. The idea that this was completely settled law for a hundred years is going to be totally verboten to mention.

They did a better job simulating a nuclear blast with conventional explosives than Christopher Nolan did, tbh.

So the important thing to note here is that presidential approval polling irrevocably broke on roughly January 20, 2009

Baudrillard spinning in his grave so fast he torpedoes out of the hillside and remains airborne, lasers shooting out of his eyes with such force earth is cleanly cut in two

related: as much as people were mixed on Chimera Squad, I legit think it's worth praising Chimera Squad for following up on an alien invasion and "decolonize Earth" story with "ok, now we have a bunch of basically innocent aliens who have no other home; we must build a new society together."

i can’t stop laughing at this

Assume the Victory Position.

@mike10010100.com I had some good food, America is stronger then trump

To save democracy we clearly need a Manhattan project for cheap food delivery. Robo burrito taxis, robo food trucks, robo shipping, robo deep fryers, etc.

The problem here is the same group of people complaining about the cost of fast food (delivery) are also enthusiastically in favor of vandalizing delivery robots as a form of anticapitalist praxis

Trump was ranting about a squirrel the night before the election! The fuck!

surreal. like an f zero level

I have no idea how this one got this level of production, but damn. The OP alone is in the early lead for best of the season. I'm actually weirdly impressed with this one. It's full of gross-out humor but also seems to have an actual soul beneath that. Easily one of the strangest of the season.

Mr President Sir you are still good to give the speech sir you can do anything you want sir weren't you going to prove how strong you are sir

Between this and the French with the sign on the Eiffel Tower, good reminder these things are bigger than the current admin and moment

god reading the MattY substack is so funny, it's like the centrist version of the Dreher letters

An interesting thing about Matty and some of the other professional commentariat is that they seem to genuinely, truly *hate* liberals who take liberalism seriously more than they do the actual radicals and socialists and such who are their ostensible enemies. They take it as a personal affront.