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Car brain should be in the next version of the DSM. Seattle has a bad case of it.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

I like “denied.” Adds to his sense of entitlement to me.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

Pesky statistics ino.to/2wo8hJy "When they are frightened enough, I am sure they will show growth." Like Toad and his seeds? @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social

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Perhaps a light rinse would have sufficed? mediamythalert.com/tag/light-ri...

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

This is it. No pension and social security under attack as long as anyone can remember means you need to preserve that one asset…if you can get one. And attacking anything that them think threatens it — density, public transit — makes people act crazy.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

they don't necessarily use the public transport or bikes…the often take cans and stay in American-branded hotels. They don't go to Europe so much as bring a bubble of the USA with them.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

Do Texas next… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

I’m reminded of how little I saw of the valiant defenders of the 1st and 2nd amendments during Occupy Wall Street.

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One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.

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Somewhere I read this described as "airportland" in the exact same terms.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

I think someone gave him a thesaurus. Never give pretentious twits a thesaurus.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

You too? I read all the books and I got a female presenting (w a military haircut) character which to me explained some of the crew’s confusion about how to interact. There is *so much* about human weirdness as seen by a non-human the show will not get.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power.” Robert Ingersoll.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

Could start w FDR’s second bill of rights that he never got to put into law.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

Laser printers are well under $100 if all you need is b/w. And toner doesn’t dry up. Not that you asked for a solution but on the off-chance someone is interested.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

They do. Which is why the claim that people vote against "their own self-interests" is specious. Some people will vote for white supremacy, patriarchy, even a reduction in the power of their own vote. All rights come with responsibilities…voting infers an educated thoughtful exercise of it.

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I was born in a log cabin I built myself.

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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buggins... is a thing.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

Golda Mier responded to a suggestion of a curfew on women, so they won't go out in the evening, that on the contrary, the curfew should be laid on men. I think about that a lot.

David Roberts (@volts.wtf) reposted

One bit of urbanism that caught my imagination and I've always remembered: Design a city that works for women -- where women can move freely & independently, without fear -- and you will have a city that works for everyone.

Rebecca Blood 🇺🇦 (@rebeccablood.bsky.social) reposted

I've never been more interested in a mayoral race in a city where I don't live.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

Define “going well.” For some it means more immigrant roundups. For others, more $ in their pocket.

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No, not everyone in the red districts voted R. But those who did see their neighbors and their neighbors’ kids more than the person they voted for.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

This is tough. Children struggle to learn that choices have consequences. But the consequences of their choices don’t kill their neighbors. Accountability is valuable. Do those who voted for these consequences regret that?

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

KEXP amplifier of many years here…not a national treasure but a global one. Expect to hear music of Iran on Wo'Pop this Tuesday night…music is a language we all know and share.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

“I could pay half the working class to kill the other half.” Imagine applying for and accepting a job doing whatever this is.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

This has been their "governing" strategy since WWII and the New Deal…if it was put in place in FDR or anyone followed the same ideals, they hate it. They don't want to govern, only dismantle.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

if you read more about how Vienna does this, you find out that the city controls the land w/in its borders better than the USA…speculation and holding land idle doesn't happen there. Making a finite commodity like land a speculative investment is how we got here.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

This is the libertarian vibe that some “progressive” cities share…property rights outweigh human rights, so buildings and land are more important than the people who could live in them, rather than on the sidewalk in front of them.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

Flag Day is right there…a renamed holiday — Democracy Day? — could be imagined.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

“If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.” Attributed to cardinal richelieu…

Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) reposted

Please join us as we welcome Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson to discuss their book on the "worse than Watergate" scandal of Joe Biden's mental decline

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Seattle here, also a smoking ruin. But maybe pull up some DOT traffic cameras (could be AI?) or look at scheduled flights…no airline is flying to a smoldering crater, right? It that convincing the easily duped is a good use of time.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

So…just like global heating and nicotine…they knew but creating value for the shareholders took precedence over public health.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

"The dictionary definition of sterile is “not able to produce children or young” and children are the canary in the coalmine for what is happening to our cities." Maybe Seattle's leadership will figure this out before the city becomes a theme park for the rich? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

And Rick Wright was a big part of why the classic Floyd sounds as it does.

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check out the comments to this piece on a large parcel of land near Seattle, how many times people argue against using it for housing development. It's not *in* Seattle but still…the attitude is pervasive here. www.seattletimes.com/business/rea...

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We're all NPCs in their world…and in their game, they never lose, just respawn and keep playing.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

Fascinating (not really) to see how many holders of well-paid sinecures think this book is dumb and bad without an iota of self-reflection. Step back — way back — and look at the whole picture. Then shut up and look again.

Ballie Northman (@ballienorthman.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

I was open to your critique, especially in the face of purges at the U.S. federal level. However, you merely offer a 90% ad hominem attack of the late author and I discern just one counter argument that "most people are very bad at ascertaining the importance and purpose of their jobs." 1 star.

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yeah, I started a little earlier but they emerged as the people I wanted to be all along.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

this encapsulates the difference between the Metropolitan Police (which is what His Grace the Duke of Ankh would be leading) and the police in the USA, which originated as slave catchers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian...

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

45-47 and his followers have been claiming the USA is "under invasion" since his first term. If the prestige media have pushed back on that in any meaningful way, I haven't seen it. I suspect definition 2 is being used here.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

maybe an obvious idea but in response to the idea of freezing Ukraine's borders where they, what if France or Britain suggested the USA do that in 1863, rather than crushing the rebellion?

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

Didn't the Saturn line also use dyed plastic body panels? Repairability seems like a good goal but plastic? Hmmm…

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

austinlouisray.com#/how-id-fix-... This, but for Seattle.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

This Gizmo Cuts Plastic Bottles Into Neat Strips ino.to/ZGvyODe This is how you re/upcycle soda bottles into 3D printer filament…that long strip is fed thru a machine using pultrusion, making filament from PETG. I'm sure a jig to remove the top/bottom cleanly would be simple. @core77.bsky.social

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So it's not just me? Are these people, allegedly adults, really afraid that the man is going to call them a bad name on social media? I know tougher middle schoolers and you *know* how fragile they can be.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

It would be fun to see the signs and websites pushing this idea…

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

www.core77.com/posts/136031... @core77.bsky.social might want to look at the Olympus XA family to see a similar design language.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

To hear them talk, they *have* been subject to oppression by the government (even as they run it) and the media (even as media owners are more likely conservative).

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

This is not the first time I have Seattle presented with these same boundaries at The Urbanist. I get it. I don't live in Seattle, despite what the street signs say.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

I'm aware. I have lived for 25 years in the hinterlands north of 65th. The point is that de facto borders of Seattle, as seen by policymakers and perhaps urbanists as well, just north of the UW down to the stadiums.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

I was told years ago that Seattle's northern boundary is around 50th, maybe 65th. @theurbanist.org agrees, as this map seems to be their default. Reminiscent of the New Yorker cartoon "View of the World from 9th Avenue." D5 should join Shoreline, I guess. Or break away on its own.

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Interesting to ponder what would happen if he was denaturalized. Part of the Oath of Allegiance requires one "renounce and abjure all allegiance[s]", so he would have to return to his birthplace and hope they allowed birthright citizen so his could be restored. www.uscis.gov/citizenship/...

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Lottery winner who owes his success to a job at a gov't research institution says what?

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Lots of people are doing just that…using a heatgun to remove the TSLA branding and replacing it with something less toxic.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

using a child as a shield? what's with these clowns making this kid part of every public appearance?

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

Is he capable of feeling humiliated? Look at him.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

How has she presented herself as Leader of the Opposition? This isn’t Parliament. But if there is such a person/title @aoc would appear to be the closest we have.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. They are the lovers of law and order, who observe the law when the government breaks it. wist.info/thoreau-henr...

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

One for the calipers and skull shape crew… PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

Run America like a business…by cutting your billing and accounts receivable departments.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

Tell me you have never been in a public school or school board meeting recently without…you know. Every meeting/training opens with a land and labor acknowledgement.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

Reading terry pratchett’s Sourceror, wherein the wizards take over as if they own everything but also understand nothing about how the world works…

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

They could also shout “you lie!” like some performative jackass when Obama gave his SOTU.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

So much for the 14th amendment/section 4. “The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, […] shall not be questioned.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

They voted for the guy they thought hates the same people they do. They didn’t vote for policy or governance. They voted for resentment and validation. I hope they enjoy what they got for their votes.

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I bet he didn’t pay much. I suspect the mark put himself in hock and Putin picked up the ticket cheap.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

kottke.org/25/02/in-wha... This is the underlying message of this book. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spi...

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

Canada can't revoke Phony Stark's citizenship…sez here he renounced it as part of taking USA citizenship. I wonder if Sa will accept him back…does he also disagree with birthright citizenship? www.uscis.gov/citizenship/...

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=040e...

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Sounds right to me. Someone described the city where I live as wanting progress without change. "I want things to get better but I don't want be inconvenienced in the process…" tell me you have never undertaken a big household project without… you know how it goes.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

Someone told me that the invasion of UA was justified because UA is full of Nazis. Same person argued that NATO should go cuz it gave Russia a sad. I bet he doesn't know this historical detail. The 1st point wasn't worth engaging…but on the other, how can you be a union member and believe that?

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

www.thenation.com/article/poli... I have been asking the same question since a drug-addled sex tourist ruled the AM airwaves and created an army of unquestioning "dittoheads." Do the Dems need their own version of Phony Stark to clean house, like the other one is doing to the entire government?

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

Maybe if we banned extreme wealth, none of this would matter. If what is now a decent professional salary put you in the top 10% or earners, where's the temptation?

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

It's almost as if we pay government employees well enough — not lavishly, but enough — to reduce that temptation. Some students need to learn a lesson many times, it seems.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

wist.info/chuangtzu/74...

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This is what 45/47 is throwing away…more intergenerational goodwill than any nation could buy, all to satisfy some racist urge of his own and the same feelings of those in his demented orbit. crookedtimber.org/2025/02/18/n...

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

make your own at gulfof.mapquest.com

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

www.futilitycloset.com/2025/02/18/u... See also JS Mill.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. — Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) Amer. writer/ journalist related: PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.

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shirts and stickers are available where and when?

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in possession as encrypted backups, which is what people are paying for. Apple has put some effort in making sure it can't access any of it, so that it can never be required to turn it over to anyone. It might possess your data but only as an inaccessible block of ones and zeros.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

Apple doesn’t know any of this. It belongs to the person who owns the device.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

I like the term and concept of "model collapse." I think it sums it up perfectly. Imagine having that much money/power/opportunity yet being unable to engage with the world beyond Atherton…

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

srsly, who expected a guy who couldn't run a casino along with a guy whose entire business is founded on gov't contracts and tax wheezes to know what they are doing?

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... I disagree. Poverty *is* a crime but the poor are the victims, not the perpetrators. Those responsible are cities and states that have allowed rentier capitalism/housing speculation to swell this diaspora of the dispossessed.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

The sale would be for the tax liability on the land and the market value of any improvements — for vacant land, that's $0 as well. So it's really just conveyancing/title transfer. A 99 year lease is a great revenue stream that could add up to a multiple of any fee simple sale. 2/F

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

fortune.com/2025/02/12/b... "Developers shirk new projects, complaining of high costs" is the headline. The cost of developable land where boomers want to live is too high: land value tax/ground rent would lower the entry cost, get these projects moving. The ideal to acquire land is $0. 1/

Russ Jones (@russincheshire.bsky.social) reposted

Go to Google Search "Gulf of Mexico" Click the 3 little dots next to "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" Choose "Send feedback" Click "Gulf of America" Click "Inaccurate content" Click "Incorrect" Tell Google the correct name en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of...

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f... Dear Denmark, you could ease into this with Washington as we already have Scandinavian communities to get hygge established.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

Sure, but how does that help *him?* What do 800 homeless vets or 5 million hungry kids or families who can't drink their tap water mean to him?

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... What's up, Seattle city council? Maybe give this guy a call? Repurposing underused city land is a great idea…lots of private land that could reclaimed but do the easy stuff first.

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

…and how long they hold onto it, long after they have any use for it (acres of land near me on a busy state hwy with no productive value and housing/homelessness "crises")

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org)

In a Faustian bargain, the USA became a de facto empire with control/influence around the globe and in exchange it sent people and money with limited control other than the grant type (art/culture/food/education/healthcare). Do those altering the bargain know the value of what is being given up?

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

Look into who pays the most to artists, if you haven't…when I checked last, it was Apple and Tidal. Spotify was not in it.

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they will lose, and what gets (re)built in afterwards will be better, stronger. How long is anyone's guess. (The irony that what the vandals destroyed will lead to something worse (to them) than what they attacked…)

Paul beard (@paulbeard.org) reply parent

/laughs in Seattle…