As-of-right zoning for housing people, discretionary approvals for housing cars

Imagine being Oswald Mosley's grandson, thinking "God I hope my grandfather doesn't fuck me over again" and then realizing the alternative is somehow weirder and worse

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

she’s not so much a cartoon villain as a fairy tale villain

Cannot think of better depiction of the modern tech elite than not asking the applicant if they have any relevant computer or engineering skill and just saying “do you like fascism and listening to me talk? Welcome aboard”.

Cowards refused to do a progression of knives in/out/up/down/top/strange/charmed

one of my longstanding takes is that car manufacturers should be forced to install mandatory speed limiters in every new vehicle and people react to that like I'm advocating to strip them of their right to free speech

god I’ve fallen off but “game: blouses” lived in my head and mouth for a looooong time.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

every fucking time I go back to thinking about a civil war battle I inevitably think of this post. cursed forever

ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go

I just do not see enough evidence of strategic thinking. yes, you can win more seats with moderates. but if you don't win a majority that will pack the court, you haven't actually won.

I could honestly go for a kind of Conservative Liberalism Just embrace being kind of moralizing and strict about liberal values. Embrace institutions (so long as they're liberal ones). Etc.

this is sort of what I imagine The Republic being, a kind of militant and small c conservative institutionalist liberalism that places a very high emphasis on civic virtue/duty. a functioning society that has arisen from the ashes to be a regional power, but also has some not so nice aspects as well

almost entirely unrelatedly, apropos of Lonsdale being five feet five inches of pure Gender, I feel like we need a short straight guy to do a reported deep dive on Manlet Fascism

my paternal great grandparents got off a boat in Newark and were americans from the moment they touched american soil. my only objection to that pattern is that i think we should send a plane to pick up anyone who declares themselves an american.

Well you see fentanyl is “poisoning America,” whereas cocaine is “fueling the White House“

Randomization should be the same norm at the appellate level, and district level Scrap the regional circuits, and have a national pool to draw panels, making it impossible to concentrate power like at the Filth Circuit

Anthropic CEO being the only one to not put out a Manchurian candidate style post about how David Sacks is the best most kind and public spirited person ever furthering my impression of them as the least bad of those companies

Wilhoit's Promise: if you expect to be on one side of Wilhoit's Law, we're gonna put you on the other side.

god's most perfect vehicle

On January 13, the Supreme Court is going to hear arguments over state laws targeting transgender girls in sports. This from @pablo.show and @motherjones.com is a great explainer on why the right-wing legal movement needs this issue to push trans people out of public life altogether

doing the gom jabbar test at physical therapy today

i have to workshop this take but imo collapsing once every few years is unambiguously Good for NFL teams trying compete long term. lets you flush the system and get new pieces/talent/ideas in the building

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

genuinely think the USPS would make legitimate money selling serious merch via collabs with fashion brands

oh it’s like this was designed for me specifically

Can't wait for the weirdly homoerotic Trump statement afterwards

New two wolves just dropped.

Would hate to have to work with Wa-Luigi Coates on a group project

High chain 📷 2024

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

Any “deal” that ends with Dems just getting a pinky promise in return is a mistake. The American people are suffering because Republicans refuse to stop healthcare costs from skyrocketing. An agreement that doesn’t fix that reality falls massively short.

Talarico's response is so cool though. "Jesus followed strippers, and are we not commanded to live like Him?" beastmode lmao

this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam

"Halal carts on every corner, next to a Tijuana-style taco stand," is a platform I believe in

More Canadian cities should have MLB teams honestly. Like Montreal should get one back, and Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa can easily support a franchise.

Yamamoto said he'd be ready to pitch tomorrow if asked, lmao.

Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896

Karoline Leavitt has always dreamed of an affair with an older man

You can always tell who first saw Jesse Plemons in FNL and who first saw him in Breaking Bad based on how you react to him being sweet and charming. It's either "that's the Landry I know" or "Todd isn't a dick? So weird"

Zoomer men are roughly average and zoomer women are the most left anyone has ever been

the democratic party will never fully reach its potential until it hands its redistricting over to vicious electoral map sickos

you could convince me that giving up on cutting military spending or drug decriminalization or whatever is tactically necessary, but if you do not end 2029 with a D SCOTUS majority nothing the Democratic Party does or says will matter again

I think this dovetails nicely with Capital A Abundance too: being able to get a legal challenge resolved in 30 days vs being able to do so in a year is a huge. Without any statutory changes could potentially unlock a lot of productive capacity that way.

Rule of law has to *work* at the practical level: cases have to be cleared quickly, and the legal system has to be adequately resourced. Not only should there be more judges, both state and fed court systems need far more technical capacity (in house experts, better technical backend)

I think a pseudo-niche political opinion that I’m developing is judge-maxing. Both the United States and the world generally need far greater number of judges. I think we need legal-abundance: an oversupplied court system able to both clear simple cases quickly and devote more time to complex ones.

I think this is a good proposal. I think like a punt returner could do it successfully a non trivial amount of the time