"More cars means less space to walk, cycle, push a pram or use a mobility aid safely. It means the stress of navigating noisier & more congested streets. Ultimately it means less diversity in street activity."
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flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.
Conservatives have been trained for decades to think of Constitutions not as agreed-upon rules for fair governance, but as a series of cheat codes and loopholes that let them hold power even when the voters want to throw them out. They won't accept anything less than permanent domination of us.
I don’t necessarily think that it’s useful for serious political figures to endeavor to fully dissolve — as opposed to regulate and constrain — corporate entities, but I’d make an exception for Palantir. It cannot coexist with liberal democracy and it openly says so
Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant
Mamdani: "What are we fighting for?. When you look back at the history books of our party, 100 years ago we had a very clear vision of what we were fighting for. It's sad that for too many Americans, when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, then have to turn to a history book."
if your stance is that you can never not vote for a political party no matter what they do or promise to do than you aren't actually an active participant in politics. you've declared yourself unpersuadable and safe, they never have to listen to you now.
And Karp not only quotes British Fascist Oswald Mosley’s speeches at length from memory, but installed Mosley’s grandson to head Palantir UK.
Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history
I never want to be a killjoy so I won't get in the way of people dancing in the streets when he drops dead but I think one reason everyone is so thirsty for it is we tacitly understand that to be the only consequence he'll ever face. Which sucks! There should be way more consequences
Just got hit by a car biking home from the gym. A woman ran a red light and smashed into me going around 15 mph (according to witnesses). I think I’m ok physically but a wreck emotionally. The woman tried to blame me but there couldn’t have been any more incredible people around.
This is what Times Square will look like when Congress or a cheeseburger finally does its job
i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan
I'd kill for 'admiral Janeway navigates nicene federation bureaucracy to coordinate relief efforts'
Painting with gold ground approximating a late Medieval or Byzantine (or early Renaissance) gold ground painting, with an image of Duchamp's Fountain and "Sant'Orinale" in all caps below
On the occasion of the opening of MoMA's sweeping Marcel Duchamp retrospective (now in member previews, opening to the public on Sunday), artist Kathleen Gilje's "Sant’Orinale (Saint Urinal)," 2017 kathleengilje.com/artwork/4886...
None of those things distinguish gaming from other hobbies
Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. - Mary Oliver
God this poem is haunting me again.
You know what? I'll admit it. The credible threat by a madman to wipe out a nation of 90 million people for basically no reason (presumably using nuclear weapons) successfully distracted me. I am now distracted.
Baseball was more fun when pitchers had to hit and anyone who says otherwise is a LinkedIn poster
Holy shit, is this is a wild bill (as currently written).
"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."
David Roberts -
the U.S. is basically aligning itself as the last big petrostate. And will go down with the fossil fuel ship; and China is aligning itself as the first electrostate. It is rapidly electrifying its economy, dominating the technology, supply chains, world markets, everything
Think about that..
quiet, bitch boy
dawg the things the suburban pta moms are saying
Colorado initiative 175 seeks to redirect all funding derived from auto adjacent revenue streams to road construction. Sponsored by construction firms and conservative group advance Colorado, would deprive transit projects, bike lanes and the general fund of $2.2b annually. hackmd.io/@CoRado/BkR-...
Shit is pretty bleak right now. We need a new kind of cheese
i can't believe a representative of the Vatican openly pondering whether someone should be burnt at the stake in 2026 and my answer is, "Yes absolutely, do it slow."
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