Can you fail them for turning in slop and not specify that it’s AI?

Maybe it’s just that I’ve known Koreans in Korea, whereas all the Israelis I’ve known have been in the West, but my sense is that the nationalist biopolitics are even more central there, it’s just poorly understood in the West because most people absorb K culture through Kpop and bbq.

How many low-to-middle income countries are going to fall into the middle income trap?

My in-laws live in India and I think declining birthrates - though a bit delayed relative to the West and very good for Indian women - are a potential disaster in a country that compensates for horrendous public infrastructure with a really cheap labor force.

I’ve been accused of being a white supremacist On Here for saying that birthrates are a concern, and was informed I was “harping on a trope” when I pointed to East Asia (where I’ve lived, and where there’s a problem!).

I say this as a policy person who will sometimes get pitched “policy” jobs that are actually lobbyist roles (for terrible companies) and realize that some of my friends don’t have any idea what I do.

I would describe her as a prominent bureaucrat rather than a politician, which is part of why we’re all able to feel so positively about her.

This Democratic Party Is The Best Democratic Party It’s a low bar. But nostalgia will not help us.

wrote about the claim that the D party has abandoned its working class roots.

that didn't happen, bec Ds only recently began to fitfully fight for a multi-racial working class. the current D party is the best D party there's been. a low bar, but still. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/this-democ...

The WWC I know has no idea what any of those things are while being convinced solar panels cause cancer.

Right, at which point it seems that this is just entertainment for people who are bored and unhappy in their lives, the zenith of the Gen X malaise maligned in late-‘90s film.

Unfortunately, many of them operate heavy machinery.

Auto dealers first.

Yes, and within that they genuinely don’t grasp that there’s a real, complex world outside the agitprop they mainline through their phones.

Does anyone ever bother to ask him what he means when he says things like this? Because even when I put on my Joe Manchin hat this doesn’t really make sense. People lose elections sometimes!

Next up: municipalize the team, fill the roster with guys from Washington Heights beer leagues and cricketers from Jackson Heights, and see if the results are any worse than Flushing Meadows’ current steaming pile.

My favorite policies are the ones where you need to trumpet the dollar figure because if you highlight how few people you actually helped with that spend your constituents are going to ask “wtf are we doing here?”

Just consider how many people have elected to completely replace search engines with LLMs. It’s certainly not a majority, but those are the folks for whom it’s less a workplace efficiency tool and more a 24/7 energy gobbling thinking replacement.

This could be interpreted as the spread between voting for the guy and voting for the act.

Yes, but also counter: I don’t think the WWC knew what they were doing in the ‘24 election, and my takeaway is that they a) must be stopped and politically demoralized but b) Trump is likely to accomplish a lot of that demoralization on his own and c) we shouldn’t take them seriously as voters.

Promoting real-world policies that don’t involve doing the dumbest shit imaginable is good for all. Complaining that the world is terrible whenever you have to interact with it isn’t actually a policy position, it’s misanthropy.

As someone who grew up in a town that had the highest Trump margin in my home state, I reconcile this pretty easily by knowing my neighbors prefer a nonsensical policy slate that centers around nostalgia and avoidance.

It’s also Becoming The Monster in a way that has real risks of blowing up in Dems’ faces in 2028 if it’s a less blue year, which I view as a feature, not a bug. Nobody’s getting shut out of power forever here, but we’re not agreeing to unilateral disarmament.

You just know these dipshits used every cheat code possible when they were gaming in middle school.

I feel like we’re rapidly approaching 1962 “watch them because they’re bad” levels of ineptitude, only on an extremely high-priced team that is really expensive to see.

Maybe next time McLean throws?

Am I the only one who thought he already had been for awhile?

I’m not saying they can’t ever be valuable, but we start from a point where they’re a necessary step to doing anything - even things that are inarguably good! - rather than determining whether the thing we are trying to do necessitates them.

I was in one city where an extremely vocal local participant insisted that 3D-printed homes were the answer to everything (housing costs, jobs, pollution) and we had to dutifully record and document his hourslong rant as if it was actually adding value.

As someone who has led community engagement sessions, I really don’t understand how anyone involved in them thinks the community has anything useful to say. I spend lots of my time working on and thinking about urban challenges. Most members of the public have no clue what’s going on.