Nuclear power is so washed at this point lol. It's only marginal if you could turn new reactors on tomorrow, but absolutely washed when considering realistic timelines. Solar and storage has totally undermined its niche
"self-id neoliberal whose whole big thing is expanding state capacity" should not be a real thing
It's insane how every self identified neoliberal under 40 hates neoliberalism with a burning passion but doesn't realize it
It's really cool to see what I've been predicting come together. People are much more forgiving of you not doing everything you promise if you can plausibly claim the reason is that the rich and powerful are blocking you
Genuinely these folks seem to think education is a freshman philosophy 101 class (where most of the value is in being exposed to, for the first time, ways of thinking you've never seen once before), and literally nothing else
Building more helps reduce 1 at the "cost" of accelerating 3/4 and has countervailing effects on 2 that I think mostly cancel out
Gentrification can mean (1) displacement (2) the commercial infrastructure in an area turning into generic yuppieslop (3) new people moving in at all (4) any improvement to the neighborhood's infrastructure at all.
1 is very bad, 2 is bad but less bad, 3 is neutral, 4 is obviously good
If anything they should be slopping it up even more! Facebook was obviously built pre LLM but they used hand written artisanal slop in PHP so they could do quick development in the early days
It's so funny how everyone here, from the Blue sky developers, to the annoyed users, seems to think that blue sky is like a particularly good/bad example of vibe coding
For a new social media it's not that buggy, and also *has pretty slow feature development!*
In general the modern political culture of liberalism is *extremely* hostile to converts of any kind from anything to anything (incl to atheism), because the idea that you think about religion at all is problematic to the smol bean view of religion=culture and nothing else
Internet discourse on Catholics does not survive immediate contact with the Magdalene Laundries or the Residential Schools and yet here we are
Genuinely an extremely odd argument. "Why are people more concerned about the deaths of tens of thousands than they are with the deaths of hundreds? Clearly they support Hamas and oppose Fatah, they're deeply invested in Palestinian electoral politics"
As a certified Towers In The Park Enjoyer I think this is good actually
To clarify what I mean here, I would argue that I have more impact in the California election than I do in Massachusetts, despite voting here, because I know more people who take my opinion into account when voting in California than I do here bsky.app/profile/kavi...
Like Voting Discourse™ is 100% highly engaged liberals who have made voting an overly large part of their identity arguing with highly engaged leftists *who will vote* but are very interested in defending the honor of people who don't, while disengaged people are the actual nonvoters
Voting is simultaneously the most politically impactful thing 70% of the population does and a below median political impact thing for anyone deeply engaged with politics; the issue being all the Voting Discourse™ is by and for politically engaged people
Fully agree and I think fundamentally the issue we have in the Democratic party has gotten to this point by the left and center left bouncing off each other and escalating this further and further: the center left dumbly makes electoralism into a totalizing identity and the left dumbly rejects that
It is very interesting to see someone this out there engage in good faith
At this point, it's like keeping a gun in the house. Maybe you've got a secure safe and maybe you're trained, but it's still a gun, so let's not risk becoming that one kid from Sixth Sense. We're perilously close to that as is.
also i don't claim to be a "normie whisperer" but i'm lucky enough to have spent most of my life and most of my career not physically in the Beltway and I've never met anybody outside of the Beltway who gives a fuuuuuuck about "beating China" or even competing with them at all
Has there been any substantial commentary from the bayesian libertarian types who were arguing that prediction markets would lead to a utopian epistemological paradise if implemented on how it's turned out in practice?
This is though kind of true in many cities though, the core county is only a small portion of the urban area. Exceptions being LA/Chi
It is funny how, by this definition of a rich area, LA barely has any. (Tbh a thing non angelinos don't get is that it really is a very working class urban area)
(the label should add the >1000/km² caveat but for zips that's just everywhere in cities basically)
To be fair this effect is basically absent at the ZIP level, all cities have rich areas, the unique thing with SF is the entire city is the "rich area"
Here's the exhaustive list of everywhere with non-rural density (at least PW density 1000/km²) and low rent burden. San Francisco has done something entirely unique
