Interesting paper by Princeton professor Evan Soltas on permitting in Los Angeles Developers are willing to pay 50% more for land that already has permits to build in LA: "Overall, our results suggest permitting is a major barrier to housing supply in Los Angeles" evansoltas.com/papers/Permi...

Lol, lmao even

"thin places" are locations where the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is said to be particularly thin.

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if some snotty wizard boy called me a muggle i'd cast a little chin magic on his ass. alakazam you're in the fuckin hospital!! and nobody would think of it as hitting a kid by the way. ok. people wouldn't say i hit a kid. cause they'd agree it's a totally different power dynamic. wizards you can hit

We make fun of elon but this is a clean win for him. Even after rebranding twitter as a goebbels computer with A.I. revenge porn journalists stayed on it frying their brains for retweets from jd vance and faulty sean spicer clones. Now they’re writing “Does AOC’s Brain Smell Different?”

And yet we're about to bomb the Middle East again. Explain that.

a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing

"excuse me sir, there must be some mistake- i voted to create the camps, not live in the zone of interest" is like every trump voter

He only got a life sentence but it's good to see the WSJ raring to go

oh you think white people don't have culture? what about this sickly family of incestuous warlords from a book i didn't read?

This would be the worst calamity to hit the American economy since 1929!! It's very weird that it is never treated as such!

Oh they're doing just fine

V. perceptive line in this: "Many prefer the smaller, less crowded, slower-paced Providence of today, where you can find a parking space downtown on a weekday in front of one of the old 20th-century office buildings." A fact of US life that there is a very large pro-urban decline constituency.

We've reached a weird era in human history where we have this web of institutions we call the "tech industry", and they don't produce technology, they produce *business models*.

“We’ve got our plucky home alone improvised weapons” consider instead: guns

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

Wow this is basically an @ifbookspod.bsky.social show schedule

correct. we should’ve shot all the confederates and occupied the south for a hundred years, and we’ve been paying for it ever since

Any CEO who thinks Golden Dome will persist beyond the Trump era is kidding themselves. Dems, even pro-defense people, have been very critical of it. Maybe some components will persist but the giant vision is tied entirely to Trump. When's he's out, it's dead. spacenews.com/space-compan...

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Hard pass for me, my local bus has more comfortable seats. Spending 6 hours in them on the San Joaquins recently was torturous. How did we peak with the la-z-boy superliner seats and then decide "nah, let's pretend weight matters like it's an airliner!" and then strip away the few joys of trains?

BASE level coach seats on any train should be as nice or nicer than contemporary airline first class seats. People come in different shapes other than "plank", and we're sitting in the seats for longer than most medium distance flights anyway.

Darabont's was near-perfect? There are like 100 other King titles yet to be adapted? I don't like this?

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

[Ron Funches voice] Goku.

is this good

King George, 1782:

Well fuck this shit then. Try again next year boys after you develop a goddamn O line

Woke 2 is here and it's spectacular

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Only a Gen Xer could make an actually valid and true point this fucking annoying

Japan is a typical, developed democracy. Elections take place in an environment where the general public have a range of political parties to choose from, operating in a pluralistic media landscape, with totally free, secret ballots, after which the LDP win.

One of the many ways the 1970s is a foreign country is how marginal this vision of space was. Common heritage of mankind, site for international cooperation, frontier of research. The fight to make it a “perfect playground for libertarian billionaires” was a long one.

Goodness gracious

the mayor of LA is the 'ruler' of the late Holy Roman Empire and is regularly fucked with by lots of other fragmented little entities

I'm gonna sound like an old man but I'm getting really fucking sick of the smell of weed absolutely everywhere

Thread on Cantonese... bsky.app/profile/niao...

Don't look, but in eight hours, Team USA is also squaring off against India in the Cricket T20 World Cup. Two years ago, Team USA beat powerhouse Pakistan on the same stage in what was one of the biggest upsets of all time, on the backs of part-time South Asian and Caribbean immigrant players:

This is true, the story was actually about me

😍😍😍😍 Hire me Eric do you know how much I'd love to *wield* a goofy meataxe for a change

Jesus how is this south African lady still going

The 2nd time this week in LA that an elderly driver has killed people on a street where traffic safety measures which could have prevented it were cancelled by local council members caving to auto-centric nimbyism. These deaths are systemic policy choices.

The Oracle Speaks

Now we have no salsa and no freedom. Jimmy Vaccines is also dead