Today the Georgian anti-corruption agency will be abolished and absorbed into the State Audit Office. The anti-corruption agency was introduced three years ago as part of the conditions to obtain EU candidacy. Clearly, Georgia has abandoned the very idea to become a member. bm.ge/news/dgheida...

Nice work by CM Katy Yaroslavsky to get coffee kiosks in all the new Metro D Line stations opening in May! cdn.mc-weblink.sg-mktg.com/weblink/MTc3...

The 1979 Iranian Revolution was wild stuff, with left-wing and Islamist movements working together to overthrow the Shah - and then the theocrat’s taking power and obliterating the leftists. Not saying the exact same is gonna happen now, but there are gonna be weird alliances like this inside Iran

Denying the Republicans agency is a common fallacy out there and it's not the first time I've seen people use a comparison that nicely demonstrates their own broken thinking. But tiger and zookeeper is next level 😅

just realized this post was around the same time I almost got hit in a crosswalk too, very similar situation except on my bike

(some) drivers really seem to think "I didn't see you" is exculpatory!! absolutely baffling

if you call every Jewish person a Zionist, it’s because you are antisemitic

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons. openai.com/index/our-ag...

People project so much onto Michelle Obama it’s crazy. It’s relatively common knowledge that she hates politics. She also never held a legislative or executive political role of consequence. And before you’re all “Well it’d be better than Donald Trump!”, examine why your bar is in the earth’s mantle

the thing no one prepares you for when you learn English as a second language as a person on the autism spectrum is that sometimes words actually don't mean things

"Our interest, I think, very much is in NOT going to war with Iran.  It would be a huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to our country." - 10/27/24

Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei would be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed www.reuters.com/world/middle...

"I don't understand how something works but also I'm cynical about it" is such an unfortunate minima for a person to live their life at.

My city claims that shutting a brand new bike lane for 2.5 years and dumping riders onto a high volume street is fine but also “cyclist safety remains non-negotiable”.

got a "oh! well you could've fooled me" response tonight after telling someone i'm not gay... whatever it is, after all these years i've still got it

Folks should be reminded if this, but also that it was Iraq that paved the permission structure for Ukraine in the first place.

My Mom getting to heaven while 90% of the country doesn’t does feel basically just to me.

Cities: "We're going to say we want zero traffic deaths, but we want achieve that without actually changing the way we do anything."

nice argument. however, I have already portrayed you as the stark raving mad daimyo Hidetora and myself as the blind Tsurumaru helplessly holding a portrait of Buddha standing on the edge of the cliff

The U.S.’s negligence in prosecuting and convicting white collar crime (especially financial crimes) is, imo, an understated but huge reason we are where we are today as a country. This is just the latest iteration in a long line of behavior like this

"I'm part of an oppressed minority group and/or mentally ill which means I have the moral authority to be an asshole to strangers whenever convenient" is a popular moral calculus on social media, but one that I hope we leave behind in the ancient history of Woke 1.0

Good thing to remember online right now is that everyone here is very emotionally dysregulated and dealing with that by posting

Pundits are always focused on "how does this play" instead of "is this actually true," and the complication is it's pundits that shape how politicians' statements play. So if pundits are saying "trump is positioning himself as the anti-war candidate," the message they convey is he's anti-war.

Oh my god we need an internal purge of the party. No wonder we keep losing.

“guy who suffers severe brain damage becomes more conservative” is not remarkable in itself but I really wish it didn’t apply to a US senator

This is the logical endpoint of anti-anti-Trumpism: "I'm all alone. I'm afraid of everything. There's no one to trust." All while living in a wealthy, internally peaceful society, earning a hefty paycheck, and getting regular reminders of the high status that you've enjoyed since birth.

All drive thrus should be banned

Incidentally, I downloaded Claude like a week ago and transitioned my coding aide from GPT to Claude and the results are pretty good so far! Didnt do it over this, but man, doesnt make me want to go back

“I am angry that the city that I love allowed an accident that should not have happened." www.berkeleyscanner.com/2026/02/28/t...

A land value tax solves this Mapo Tofu

what’s happening to anthropic is nothing compared to the Popeyes

There are minor cults preying on vulnerable socially isolated trans people by saying nobody will ever accept them unless they join the cult, which use competitive political radicalism as a loyalty criterion. The only thing I can suggest is to ignore them.

There are nearly 2,000 events on the No Kings Day map in all 50 states (and 10 countries). March 28 will be the largest protest in American history. Find your local event or plan a protest in your area: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Jack Dorsey renamed the company to Block because he thought blockchains would be the future, in case you were wondering what his track record of predicting long-term tech trends is

I have made nearly 300 flashcards for my auditing exam so far and I just want to soak in an epsom salt bath for the rest of the year, ideally in lieu of taking the exam

American planning in a nutshell: building apartments in a wealthy neighborhood? You need special permission and must rent 20% of them at a loss to poor people. Combining 10 apartments into a mansion for one extremely rich family? By-right process, no subsidized housing requirement, and a tax break.

one guy said the problem with traffic in America is the way they design the drivethru at raisin canes. He’d been all over the country and that was a universal. He wanted to know if we were looking into that and I said yeah but people don’t listen to me.

it’s so cute how they don’t realize they’ve already been helping republicans get elected for years

my friend fixed up a bike. (took too long being ocd truing the wheels). marin larkspur. selling for $200 near Harrison Whole Foods #oakland #bikes anyone know anyone looking for a bike, plz share. for riders 5'3 - 5'8 sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bik/d/oa...

There is a bipartisan consensus among angry people that the rest of us should be forced to listen to them

gotta watch out for confusing what's aesthetically pragmatist with what's actually pragmatist

changing your values based on public opinion polling means you don't actually know how to hold values lol

You need that affectation to get centrists on board, you have to make them feel smart for the message to land. Telling stupid people what they want to hear in a way that allows them to be smug to people they don’t like is the service he provides.

There simply is no road to electoral legitimacy when you call YOUR OWN BASE loons and extremists.

You keep saying this and I keep wondering, if moving to "more mainstream" positions is such no-brainer, how come it has been so disastrous for Keir Starmer? Last night he lost a seat that the Labour Party has held for 100 years. Is that what we want for the Democrats?

"everyone secretly agrees with me they're just too afraid to say otherwise" dude just go be a Republican already

Couldn't agree more. Dems should be refusing aipac money and supporting an end to the genocide. Let's fight for these mainstream views!