This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

Whistling past the graveyard in the Colorado basin. This warm dry winter is going to be a disaster for reservoirs this summer. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Look between the perennial benchmark underperformance, shotgun wedding with SpaceX, and mass exodus, I think we can officially declare xAI roadkill, gone the way of Mistral or Facebook as members of the permanent LLM underclass (and without even the benefit of an open source community around them!)

Ooo and I forgot about this part – it provides moral support for international harmonization, which is the touchiest thing in the world of American elevator standards 👀

The bill cuts the stretcher requirement in small bldgs at risk of having no elevator at all (up to 6 stories, 24 units), as well as ordering the building code council to reconsider the issues of elevator hoistway opening protection and two-way visual comms. Tens of thousands in savings per building.

Incredible how every person who’s ever found intelligence differences between races has also found that they are part of the superior race. What are the odds??

After masterminding the dismantling of USAID, leading to an estimated 90,000 deaths internationally, Russ Vought is using some $15,000,000 of that budget for his own security detail as "acting director" of USAID.

Congress could, in theory, just disestablish the Fifth Circuit right?

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

six architects in Chicago were involved in the top 50% of new construction dwelling units in 2025 (multifamily and townhouses included; SFH excluded from this count)

However low your opinion is of those running the country, it's not low enough. Completely unserious, self-absorbed sociopaths. (Read the whole thread)

Commissioners complained about setbacks being *too* generous, asked if they could require *less* parking. What's a guy gotta do to get attitudes like this in his city?!

Still gobsmacked by this Sacramento Planning Commission meeting. 300 unit project. Tons of public support. Commissioners said state law required them to approve, but that they’d support it regardless. All agreed they’d prefer less parking. 10-0 vote to support. Done in 2 hours. Magical.

The way to fix this is for HCD to issue rules (and as will surely be necessary, the CA Supreme Court to issue rulings) resolving any question as aggressively as possible in favor of expansive application.

A/E firms even market themselves like this, bc understanding the local codes and building departments will literally make or break a project. “Pay a little more for our bespoke knowledge to avoid the risk of ruin”

One of the consequences of complexity in codes is that you erect barriers for design professionals. If codes are not simple to follow, you end up with less competition – higher costs, worse design, and duplicative architects of record hired for compliance after a building has been designed.

damn you're telling me that sin taxes work to reduce consumption of socially harmful goods while keeping them legal and thus avoiding the problems of criminalization?

So one challenge with LA city council elections this year is that the only pro-SB79 vote guaranteed to remain on the council next year is MHD, while 4 anti-SB79 votes + Nazarian (who was absent but I assume is anti) remain on. Getting Nithya in at mayor and getting her a pro housing council on top

This one is absolutely incredible.

This is probably the most popular model in China. It could use a trash can nearby.

This is as close as you can get to “Dog toilets recommend by scientists”👍

It’s really bizarre bc no one would accept that much human poop all over the place yet because it’s dogs it’s ok? My sister lived in an apartment in DTLA that had a dog run on the roof and it made the rest of the roof amenities awful

we're not doing the stuff in the image anymore, we're leaving "actually anti-social behavior is fine" in the dustbin of woke 1

Pulled off another immaculate transfer (missing the A Line at 7th/Metro, catching the B/D Line to Union Station downstairs, making it up three stories at Union Station onto the train I missed).

Minnesota still needs your attention

That’s right

Given how damaging the Epstein Files have been to Donald Trump specifically it’s political malpractice the Biden admin didn’t release them to the public.

Idk if this is an 80s/90s kid thing but I definitely would not have wanted to be an intern at a company my dad had a high position at.

None other than Art Leahy once described this when answering a question about why LA had lagged in building rail: “people would have said we’re not a city we’re a big village”. (My one big complaint about City of Quartz is that it fundamentally accepts that reactionary premise)

"Saxon, officially an ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations official, has pleaded not guilty to the charges. He reportedly started seeing the victim when she was 18 and he was in his 40s."

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This is such a wild thing to say to someone who just shot an unarmed person bsky.app/profile/jmet...

Have heard many Metro Rail customers playing Here Comes the Hotstepper lately and we are suspending the code of conduct to allow it.

Call it The Beach Boys LA or the In N Out LA or whatever but the promise was a traffic free megalopolis where everything was 20 minutes away by car. Never existed, never will.

y’all are the real content creators.

Basic problem of LA: all these drivers hate their lives but rather than trying something different they quietly seethe and pine for a promised past that never existed.

Open and obvious corruption that would have made the USSR blush

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Made it home from skiing just in time for the halftime show and watched that before my kids made me put on their shows 🫡

This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.

Given that, like, FB and Instagram are already saturated with slop content, it seems like the best you could hope for as a business proposition is lowering costs for the slop creators. Ordinary people don’t seem interested in generating a lot of slop.

It’s almost as if achieving outcomes requires trying to design policies based on how the world works

Honestly, it has to be a weird time to be a figure in pop culture due the president being Literally The Worst. Like, Elmo can say sharing is good and somebody in his X mentions will say “Elmo, you rotten son of a bitch. This goes against everything President Trump stands for.” And that’s not wrong.

It’s like a government run by Matt Yglesias, starting as a liberal and getting himself slow bored into being a reactionary.

Since the comparisons will inevitably be made, unlike in that other high profile mayor race, Karen Bass seems to basically be a decent person. She’s not outrageously corrupt or dragging a decades long history of demeaning staff and abusing people.

having just gone through a mayoral transition here in pgh, i am occasionally shocked by how few people go into local governance in order to govern including, for some fucking reason, localities with a higher gdp than most countries

Feelings on the future of LA before and after Raman announced she’s running.