the animal-lover-to-fascist pipeline is a thin one, but seems to attract a particular affluent European type - see: Morrissey

it's genuinely infuriating that the auto industry now depends heavily on people going into debt such that profits come from financing more than vehicles, and even all-cash buyers pay more as a result

mini golf is the pride and joy of the proletariat. it is a righteous activity golf courses are a plague for the bourgeois. regular golf is an inherently evil sport

TIL Leqembi

The thing about incomes I still don't think most people have reckoned with: if you keep the supply of housing fixed, and everybody gets an increase in real wages, basically only the asset owners win. This applies to both progressives and the Stancil-style-the-economy-is-good-actually economists.

he's such a strong believer in heterodoxy he believes in every dumb opinion at once, simultaneously

We should burn down every Southern plantation house that isn't being used as a museum to the atrocities of slavery.

allegiance to blood and dirt is treason to humanity

the Bluesky ouroboros

Exhibit A of why we need blocks with an expiration date, e.g. when you're neutral-to-positive on Stancil but you know he's gonna be On One just too much the next few days

one of multiple reasons to keep your kids far away from Republicans at all times

1. No they won't and even if they do, who cares because this tax won't raise all that much revenue. 2. California should implement a real tax on unearned, parasitic wealth by abolishing Proposition 13.

I again urge you to ask which is more likely: that millions of members of the public have gone insane, or that a comparatively tiny number of people at the heart of media and politics - who all know each other and often work together - have driven *themselves and each other* crazy.

i think that one of the basic problems is that most things promoted as true by those critics are either false or irrelevant. it is like criticizing Trump by asserting that he is a vampire who eats babies. he is worse than a vampire who eats babies, but he is also not that.

Me communicating with the new Japanese users.

“the energy in the room shifted” is so funny no it didn’t absolutely no one else saw or cared you are the only one ruining your own experience like this

it Is good when government regulations are standing in the way of bad things, and bad when they are standing in the way of good things. hope this helps, dear smart, erudite NYT editorial writer

Putting a ton of housing—including many affordable units—on top of a grocery store in a transit rich corridor is exactly what we should be doing and if NIMBYs hadn’t been so recalcitrant over the years they would have more bargaining power now but oh well www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

God bless labelers

Amazing results in New York remind me how disappointing it is that congestion pricing efforts have stalled in San Francisco. With congestion pricing, Muni service could be robustly funded, transit ridership would climb, and traffic through much of the Bay Area would significantly decrease.

*open on Mark Rober* THIS is the New Jersey Turnpike, and in exactly 15 minutes my buddy Fletcher will be dropped right _here_ after 15 MINUTES of experiencing the life of John Malkovich. how did we arrange this? let's think like an engineer and make it happen

I don't know how to parse these numbers without Matt Yglesias here to tell me what an imagined Latino voter in TX must think

Yeah this is the thing about NIMBY populists: they think their enormous inherited advantages in big cities make them victims. It’s a conservative ideology.

I do not intend to defend Waymo, but it should be noted that the root cause of this very unusual failure was an extremely common failure on PG&E's part, which they will likely face insufficient further consequence for

And the air is noticeably cleaner! Literally we can all breathe better thanks to the law!

"gentrifier" is particularly obnoxious when coming from largely older, already property-owning populations aiming at largely younger, renting populations

Anyway every housing policy fight is a proxy battle over who gets to live in your neighborhood and what lifestyles are acceptable.

I'd like a "Block for [week/ month / year / forever]" option, so I can distinguish people who are just On One too much lately vs. people saying dumb shit about an election vs. MAGA scumbags, etc.

why, yes, dear Loud_Jellyfish4504. yes, everything did. congratulations on being born into a better era

Jonathan Greenblatt, after reading this: "it's very concerning what leftist college students are saying about Gaza"

nature is as susceptible to Goodhart's Law as humans are

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

it is stunning how far so many CA "progressive" elected officials will go to ensure no one will ever again be able to find a home without wealth or inheritance

this would, of course, be a more compelling point if the real message wasn't "we want the ability to permanently block any and all newcomers from ever being able to live in _our_ neighborhoods too!"

because such people value pretty things more than they value human lives

this is what's notable about Brooks: he could have said "yeah, I met him, didn't know _everything_ about him, wasn't around for That Stuff". possibly true for some! the fact that he wrote a column like his one on Epstein and _didn't_ disclose anything makes him look several times sketchier

Update your assumptions about the NYT, I'm begging.

the people who rule today watch Bari Weiss. the people who rule some years from now will have cut their teeth on hbomberguy

me, consumer: "prices stopped rising 😁" me, seller of my labor: "prices stopped rising 😱"

I hope that media executives understand that they've sent a direct message to every Democratic elected official that the only way to get coverage is through assurance of retribution. even if the gerontocratic leadership doesn't get it, the next generation will have heard it quite well

it does, in fact, bother me that I'm in an urban oasis of relative safety from wildfires in my state and my own access to insurance is being threatened by a bunch of McMansions being built a couple hours out in Tinderboxville

I'm honestly convinced that if we try to invade Venezuela under Hegseth we'll lose. I don't mean botch the aftermath; I think we'll actually fail

it's 2025. how long do we have to live in 2016. how fucking long

historically, people have answered this with "national economy bad, but i'm doing alright" or such. the fact they're now saying "ii'm going bad" is, uh, not great

this hypothetical implies a world, and causal model, so completely divorced from our own that it does not make sense to frame this question in terms of any morality applicable to the world we actually live in

now seeing viral rants about Trump's Reiner post on *LinkedIn*. no going back from this one

I don't think it's an accident that we wind up routinely handing power to the absolute worst people in our societies on a regular basis, and any attempt to reform civilization will have to better directly attack the root elements of human psychology that cause that, not just structural elements

in general, I go one step further than the Plane Diagram: I specifically always want to hear from the failures. you can't always learn from their experience, but it's more likely to be educational than the success stories