I wasnโt aware of this at the time but now Iโm only mad that she apologized.
PhD student at OSU AEDE. I study AFOLU emissions reduction schemes and want to study energy. Mostly I used Twitter for politics and space and war stuff, I figure this will be much the same ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men, and less Carbon
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I wasnโt aware of this at the time but now Iโm only mad that she apologized.
I lived in Madison once so maybe thereโs that bias, but I find the WI coverage especially engrossing because it feels like the us is following Wisconsin at a 12 year lag, and it gives me hope that we could slowly, patiently draw back from where we are.
The Beerhall putsch comparisons are just too strong. We even have Blutzeugen
We have butterfield the daring and martindale the cool Where could we learn the art of war within a better school Add morell to the list of names and we must all agree We have the finest generals in the army of the free
Oh Iโm not OP, but I assumed thatโs their stance as well. Also I think itโs Geoff, fwiw..
As an Eagle Scout, progressivesโ (mis)understanding of firearms is so frustrating Similarly, assault weapons and full autos are not nearly as big a problem as handguns and I wish people would take that into account! Tho mass shootings are a particular brand of awful and especially worth preventing
I believe heโs typically cited as a gubernatorial candidate. Iโm more optimistic on him than Abrams (sheโs fine but I think her moment has passed) or Bottoms (Atlanta just seems like a morass of low level corruption). They have a few other candidates in there with whom Iโm unfamiliar, so ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
Why youโd go for a 79-year old candidate instead in these times is a mystery to me (and I think Janet Mills has been pretty solid as far as resistance to Fascism goes)
If you donโt raise the complaint now it feels weird to claim itโs a big issue later. Seems reasonable to force a vote on impeaching, at a minimum: RFK Hegseth Bondi Noem Iโd throw it lunch for the blatantly illegal tariffs (and ofc Trump), but theyโre table stakes
Oh I liked him in my Twitter days. Sad.
Are we allowed to make fun of his voice? Itโs really awful but I wasnโt sure if that was below the belt. (And as a Sherrod Brown volunteer, I should say that thereโs good awful and bad awful, and our Lysenko is bad awful)
Where this at? Itโs pretty
Speaker of the house is a suboptimal position from which to be no holds barred attacker of the administration
Is wife guy derogatory? I never got that impression
paper doesnโt make the claims you suggest. Yes the use of the internet is a lot of electricity, but electricity is the fastest-decarbonizing sector in the world. Itโs far less plausible to cut off internet usage to an appreciable level than it is to imagine generating electricity sustainably
What? US carbon footprint is 25% electricity. Maybe your โbudgetโ is something else, but even if every bit of electricity went into making YouTube it wouldnโt come close to 40%. This entire comment is nonsense.
He identifies his location in video as bowling green, so thatโs a long way from Lexington
Obviously Mamdani: not a nepotism baby
Not sure if itโs too far for โreal New Yorkโ but even if youโre after wilderness backpacking, Iโm currently driving 9 hours to go hiking in the Catskills! This is desirable country!
Oh interesting. My connections are all at the US state house so yours are probably better informed. Too bad. Itโs a hell of a story
Rumor in my Ohio politics circles is that one such guy was Vivek Ramaswamy. Supposedly Vance and he hate each other over this
Katie porter gives me bad housing vibes. Maybe itโs just because sheโs from SoCal, which has bad housing policy but doesnโt seem to have as active a movement to change it (NorCal maybe worse, but YIMBYs are stronger there). But if Iโm wrong correct me Harris plz. I doubt anyone else can stop Porter
This is kinda going the other direction but Shลwa Japan is far too rarely invoked as an example of fascism too. Somehow Franco and Salazar get mentioned before Tojo
At some point wonโt the fact matter that every discussion of her views is pure projection? Like sooner or later theyโll find out that she doesnโt hold horrific views on the future of the white race, right? I mean unless she doesnโt hold horrificโฆ
Did you like the Gardner novel? What about it. I found the writing pompous. A lot of density that didnโt really feel like it got me anywhere. So Iโm curious what you found insightful about itโฆ
Farthest Iโve been: N: Riksgrรคnsen, Sweden (68.25 N) E: Tagaytay City, Philippines (not counting Narita airportโ121 E) W: Olympic NP, WA (123.8 W) S: Kampot, Cambodia (not counting Kuala Lumpur airportโ10.6 N) Bonus: Up: Pikes Peak, CO (14115 ft) Down: New Orleans, LA (-7 feet)
Sure: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/rev... The timeframes of the estimates (monthly v multi year) make comparison a little difficult. Anyway, My point was only that (contra NYT) the money we get from tariffs seems unlikely to be such a boon to the budget we have trouble dispensing with it.
Only so much nuance Iโm gonna commit to in a reply on a niche microblogging site though
Thatโs a fair enough critique, though I figured you might know and didnโt want to look it up. But I did. Admittedly not the level of rigor I would use to write a full size post, but this is broadly in line with what I was trying to remember. A lot of caveats to both the data in OP and here though
I mean, 20 billion is chump change in government budget terms. Didnโt we get more out of just properly funding the IRS under Biden?
It's a bizarre and frankly alienating feeling realizing that if you know the basic fact that the murder rate has gone down significantly since 1990 you're in the ~90th+ percentile of fact-knowers
On further reflection I think Tolkien is actually perfect here. We have an diminishing elite (elves/establishment dems) who are too self-important to pass power to the rising free people (humans/newer dems) and many people instead turn to mendacious promises of people ultimately bent on destruction
Obviously my leftist friends wonโt like it (even Iโm leery of it at timesโtoo stoic), but I think itโs a weirdly underrepresented dynamic, even if you disagree that itโs where we were in 2022!
Like, modern fiction sets us up to root for Trump 2024! Too little fiction that says stay the course and hold to disciplined gradual improvements. Arguably this could be Tolkienโs conservatism (tho without the hobbits), but very little other fiction sets this up!
I often complain that fiction has very little that seems comparable to my (center-left) view of the problems of the world: An aging and competent institution, with serious flaws but real capability to improve, is defeated by ragtag rebels who are mendacious and destructive.
Initially read this as Buddhism and was scratching my head for a solid minute before I figured it out
Huh. Is any popularly practiced astrology (at least in the west) meaningfully grounded in ancient tradition then?
I mean who knows when there will be sufficient votes to amend the constitution next? Makes sense to write with flexibility. On that note how wild is it that we did (and undid) prohibition with a *constitutional amendment*?!? I think about this every so often and itโs always astounding.
True, but good to assume congress will not be able to amend and write accordingly.
lol this expects too much of ECON 101 classes.
Gotcha. Does the senate do any business that we would want it to accomplish right now?
Realistically what would change if they did that? Itโd slow down judge confirmations mostly? How long before effects are felt? What reasons have they given for not doing this so far? Iโm pretty sure Murphy at least responded to such a questionโฆ Not doubting you, trying to understand better
โFentanyl tariffโ? I didnโt realize that was typically declared in cross border tradeโฆ
Oh but I guess I didnโt buy it. Just library.
I mean I think the mechanism is that if youโre a good poster, people who like you read your stuff. But if you post *with the intention of selling stuff* that kinda precludes being a good poster.
I read Oathbreakers by @profgabriele.com. And Ive added at least 5 books to my reading list from here. In general, I think what happens is people develop parasocial relationships and then take recommendations from people whose presence they like. Using it *to* sell books is too disingenuous to work
How is all of this operationalized? Like do the various port authorities have a clear understanding of what theyโre supposed to collect at any given time?
so itโs back to liberation day for those 150 countries? I assume this takes into account the โdealsโ which donโt all seem to have formalized language/total agreement the interlocutors? Is there a map of all of US tariff policies on Jan 20 2025? Always amazed that you keep up with thisโgreat work!
And now I would say Markey should call it, having admirably served another term. But heโs not Why do we have to wait for him to fall apart to find his replacement?
But thatโs how it should work! Someone says โMarkeys washedโvote for meโ. And if Markey isnโt washed, he can show it and win (as he did)
I wouldnโt have voted for Joe Kennedy and Markey I think demonstrated his fitness in that election, but I think that was a legitimate position to campaign from and itโs too bad heโs basically vanished since losing that primary.
I know. And Iโm aware of some of the reasons. But โIโm challenging so-and-so, who has been a good senator but is now too oldโ should be more viable (and less punished) than it is.
Though hopefully with a mandatory retirement at 75 special elections and appointments would be rarer.
In practice, I mean its appropriate to appoint someone of the same party who is not likely to be a major influence on the special election. Ideally theyโre also capable so former senator is an ideal fit Ted Kennedy->Paul Kirk->Scott Brown is the model (not endorsing the outcome; Scott Brown sucks)
Weโre into edge cases here, but Iโd also exempt appointment replacementsโoften when a senator dies, it makes sense to put in an elder statesman type to fill the role until primary voters get their say. In fact I think itโs ideal for the appointee to not run for maximal democratic legitimacy.
This is true, absolutely, but I donโt really understand the mechanism by which the candidates never *just lose* in a primary. In theory, the voters could enforce age limits already and the hypothetical amendment takes that discretion from them! In practice, obviously itโs different.
Agreed for most. I think just a simple 18year term makes a lot more sense for scotus though. Doesnโt really matter, but you really want those retirements to mesh mechanically with congressional/presidential terms
Would you set it dynamically, like 75, but goes up if life expectancy does? I think effectively this would mean its life expectancy minus 3?
Afraid to ask... what is SA?
the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
Rub a pork loin with oil salt and pepper. Put in oven for an hour. People react with awe when I make this. Itโs not hard. Even so I follow a recipe. Itโs really good but thereโs no deep talent to it.
All fun (as it were) thoughts to ponder as I try to get into og Lovecraft literally today Iโve read Call of Cthulhu and Dagon, but looking forward to my reading agenda ahead: Color Out of Space Horror at Red Hook The Ballad of Black Tom (not Lovecraft) Shadow over Innsmouth Mountains of Madness
Is his claim that without him the city would be fine and people could mind their business? Iโm having trouble understanding this text
Maybe itโs because I am religious (to the true believer everythingโs a sign), but I see these things as quite closely linked. Lovecraft was clearly atheist, but he believed intrusions from the beyond (foreigners irl) preyed upon a world whose meaning was adrift. But Iโll read your article, thanks.
Yeah but they have a masters degree* so *that they were scammed into paying 80k for
Note to the one person who gets to the end of this: I think this is easily misinterpreted as opposition to atheism or something along those lines. Itโs not that. Donโt dig in too deeply, Iโm struggling to articulate and unwedded to these ideas anyway.
Anyway, itโs an idea Iโve been toying with and still canโt quite articulate correctly. TLDR I think cosmic horror builds on a sense of โwhat will we become in the modern godless worldโ and for a time that question seemed meh. But I increasingly think itโs an important question.
But society as a whole seems broadly incapable of handling this lack of purpose. The evangelicals backing Trump seem as godless as anyone, but I do wonder if in place of many of the meanings of old, people have turned to the elder godsโthat is, to their fears and prejudices.
At some point, I figure it must have seemed that we safely managed collapsing belief in Godโcertainly many atheists are perfectly as ethical as theistsโbut an idea I toy with from time to time is that in fact this was prescient. Society has not yet learned to deal with the Nietzschean death of god
Iโve been slowly getting more into Cosmic Horror of late, and I think thereโs an interesting way in which the thesis seems to be that *comprehending the vast indifference of the universe* induces insanity.
What the fuck happened here? This is their left of center party? No exaggeration to say that seeing the attempts to pivot to the center from other center-left parties is what freed me of the delusion of popularism. Why would Democrats try to follow this lead? Why does James Carville want to?
The man who was supposed to be attorney general. ๐ญ
Will he fight? Any democrat is better than any republican (and I figure his nomination is preordained), but Iโd like to feel confident weโre not getting more Schumers and Warners?
Its true and needs to be the start point for any discussion of the 2024 election BUT of course itโs true that the campaign couldโve done better. Itโs too defeatist to say it was hopeless from the outset. She coulda won. Analysis must start from *democrats did extremely well given conditions* though
Iโve never heard of this (am a DnD neophyte) but it sounds very cool and totally unlike any DnD Iโve ever heard of
Holy shit this must be a hell of a troupe. Iโm lucky if I can get 5 people together. Is that not unwieldy? But yeah native English speakers are generally disconnected from the world wherever we are (not me Iโm built differentโข๏ธ*) *lol except in Cambodia
Itโs baffling and bad since it means that their policy is so brutally anti-city. But also, the fact that they regularly win without answers to โhow do I make home prices go down in cities people want to live inโ (at least answers other than lebensraum policy against migrants) is baffling to me.
When I lived in Berlin, I hung out w/ locals (speaking German helps, as does occasionally nodding politely when confused). Being a foreigner was fun! When I lived in ๐ฐ๐ญ, I spent more time w/ expats. There was little that they were, just things they werenโt. Hard not to be sterile in that environment
I wonder a lot about how many nice, friendly people voted for the NSDAP in 1933. Many of them must have been good neighbors, friendly with SPD supporting friends, etc. I think about my family who voted for the (to me) unthinkable. I wonder what that was like over the following 12 years.
As I might have understood, then in my first year of having my own opinions about music:
โWhat perfect albums came out when you were 16?โ Does the prompt demand that I recognized them as such at the time? Iโll answer as if the answer is no, since I couldnโt find anything great released in 12-13 (my time range) that I would have recognized as such at the time.
Donโt think this is true. Elves are just generally superior to humans in LOTR, and Legolas is an archer. But like, Beleg is a top tier archer and Gil-Galad is portrayed primarily with sword. Fingolfin is a swordsman in single combat with Morgoth
My love for urbanism often seems to clash with my girlfriendโs love of yards. Is there a path for private outdoor space that includes soil? Or just Laubekolonien?
Strong anti-sandwich movement among the nominally pro-burger gop. Hard to know what to make of it
For leagues cup opener? Or whatโs the occasion?
As a partisan of Soccer and thus NWSL, itโs too bad the best womenโs sports league in the world is WNBA, but Iโll take being number twoโฆ
The turncoat conservatives believe things (hence being turncoats). The establishment hacks believe in winning, which ironically is a big part of why they loseโeveryone can sense the spinelessness.
Oh I love this!
The library should make these. Surely it can be done
Tbf this has been in the works since the first Trump adminโฆ
The streak of white goes up with Newsoms piece of shit slicked back hair in the hall of fame of politicians intentionally looking like comic book villains for no obvious reason
Shhhh
Dukes and Dauphins, for example
Bicycle? They could actually manufacture these!
I wrote this with an OSU campus target in mind. That andโฆ the state street target in Chicago
Ick is critical. โPeople in decent society donโt do that, even if itโs legalโ norms are a load-bearing pillar of society and always have been
Oh this one hurts. Iโm cursed with decision paralysis and only wirecutter could cure it for years. How long has this been this messed up?
Iโve never seen an urban Walmart, but city targets exist and can be quite transit friendly, too
i love Columbus Ohio, but even the dense parts I can dream of no more than like weekly it feels like. But thatโs not bad. Also an underrated aspect: bumping into strangers, but familiar stranger whom you see at the park all the time or at the bar or wherever
The fact that I was born in Chicago in 1996 and regularly visit and fundamentally canโt imagine the city without it is a pretty strong point in its favor