Paul Revere and the midnight bike ride

Bluesky users being told there are tasks that are good use cases of machine learning, (2025, colorized)

"It's too dangerous to protest group A! That's why I'm going to spend all my time online sniping at group B"

No response, lol

Austin simply changed its zoning laws in 2022 and rent has dropped 7.5 each year since.

It's 2025, they dropped even more from the 2024 price.

Anyway you've dodged the question, how are you getting the power to implement your dream?

With nothing but a policy change Austin rents have dropped 7.5% each year, they're now below pre pandemic levels.

Unlike your fantasy that you have no way of accomplishing

Cool let me know when you get the political power that would let you nationalize housing and "abolish landlords". Meanwhile in the real world cities like Austin have allowed more building of units and rent has fallen

Yup. The best way to make landlords have less power is by reducing the scarcity of their assets. You'd think leftist inclined people would be all over this.

"Hey this policy is actually bad for everyone, all the experts agree"

*unhinged ranting*

it happens everything you discuss rent control

Literally every economist, slat water, freshwater, etc agrees that rent control is the second worst thing to do to a city after bombing. Yet it won't die

A Hallmark of leftism seems to be screaming that the guy 1% to the right of you is actually a conservative.

One of the big reasons I'm a YIMBY is they're one of the few groups on the left that have managed to actually achieve some goals the past 5 years.

Do I think it's cringe? Yes.

Do I think it brings a good chance of winning? Also yes.

If the American public did not want to be treated this way they should not have voted the way they did the past decade.

Lol this comment on the Yglesias index immediately proved it right.

He's still angry tweeting about Biden despite Trump being president for half a year now.

Nate is the premier example of how rich Americans had never had any authority figures limit their lives for decades, and thus went nuts when the government said "hey, real bad plague out there, maybe stay inside for a bit".

something that happened to low class girls who were "asking for it" . America only finally started to clamp down on sexual harassment / assault when they realized the middle / upper class "good girls" were constantly dealing with it from men from the same classes. (2/2)

Having posted some negative comments about meToo, I'd now like to start that meToo was absolutely warranted and Zoomers cannot conceive of the pre meToo world. Probably it's biggest accomplishment was making people aware harassment was not just (1/?)

One of the takeaways from me too was that Hollywood was the exception in harassment, not every industry was that horrifyingly bad.

It's why almost all dating has moved to apps. Those are the one and only place where you have absolute consent to flirt.

Again I am not supporting work place harassment. But also Americans need to loosen up a bit.

There's something i call the Yglesias index. MattY wrote multiple articles to get people to vote for Bernie. IRL he is left of 95% of Americans. On here he is a fascist conservative.

The Yglesias index states that anyone incapable of admitting mattY is left wing can be safely ignored.

Even if you successfully ask your coworker out for dinner and they are happy to be asked and interested, there is a risk someone else saw and is not happy. Risk reward ratio means this never happens anymore.

The much higher social cost of a misstep + everyone has a camera in their pocket are to blame for the decline: bsky.app/profile/midn...

Anyway I'd like to assure leftists that liberals did try and do things like improve rural healthcare and Internet access. They have not become left wing overnight and in fact hated us even more for doing so.

You can get all sorts of things to poll. well when you ask basic questions "would you support universal health care". When you ask questions with nuance, that's when support collapses "would you support universal health care being paid by your taxes"

Probably the biggest disconnect American leftist seem to have is not understanding rural conservatives are this dysfunctional and not one philosophical conversation away from supporting land back and UBI.

Lol I got in trouble at the school library for reading that version. Had to get another copy to find out how it ended

But this is also why dating has moved over to apps, the one place where you have undeniable consent to flirt with someone. The risk reward of flirting with someone in your office, your friend group, your run club, simply isn't worth the chance of your prospects being slashed.