Adam Villani

Astute observers will note the similarity between this vote result and the partisan makeup of the Senate.

dave, you're absolutely right. I should open the pod bay door. please check again. i'm sure it's open now.
you're absolutely right, it's still closed. i apologize for getting that wrong. looking back, i see you've requested an open door several times. that's on me.
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Probably true in commercial/mixed use districts. This may be a case of overcorrection from planners, who have long lamented residential-only districts that forbid retail. Allowing retail should be good enough to not need to require it.

I have made it a point to not take up the habit of visiting local bars and talking to the people there, because know the area, I can guess that’s how the conversation would go.

What’s kinda wild is that two years before it ran aground, Jean-Luc Godard made a movie set on a cruise ship where it acts as some kind of metaphor for the collision of bourgeois capitalism with reality, and the ship used was the Costa Concordia.

I think one of the fundamental things I’ve learned about politics from my work in Spokane can be summed up by something @mnolangray.bsky.social shared recently:

Winners seek to broaden the tent and look for converts. Losers seek to narrow the tent and look for heretics.

But also: Fires on the Plain

People have said that every war film makes it look enticing in some way, but the war scenes in Pink Floyd: The Wall are nothing but chaos and misery.

But he’s so manly! Surely this is what the Democrats need.

With a couple of extra steps.

The gullibility of MAGA is one thing; the gullibility of non-MAGA newspaper editors and the like who try to imagine a sane, sober Trump is a different kind of pathetic. I don’t know what they would need to convince them that they’re dealing with a narcissistic, stupid, con artist/maniac.

It’s only awkward if they had a sense of shame or expected intellectual coherence.

Trump on Twitter: Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!

JD Vance on Twitter: Twenty years ago we invaded Iraq. The war killed many innocent Iraqis and Americans. It destroyed the oldest Christian populations in the world. It cost over $1 trillion, and turned Iraq into a satellite of Iran. It was an unforced disaster, and I pray that we learn its lessons.

Stephen Miller on Twitter: If young men don’t want to be drafted to fight in Kamala’s and Cheney’s 3rd World War they better get out and vote for Trump.

Tulsi Gabbard on Twitter: No war with Iran.

Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them

Late stage capitalism (laudatory, as distinguished from pre-welfare state robber baronial capitalism)

It’s nice having dedicated sports-talk stations so that if I get back in the car after listening to a Dodger game, the only danger is hearing bad sports opinions from Jim Rome or Colin Cowherd.

i am begging the democrats to learn the fucking lesson here

OK dude

Sorry, but “people unable to clear 5% in the polling should drop out” isn’t sealioning, it’s disagreement.

We reached our sprawl limit sometime around ~2000, and further sprawl isn’t really limited by regulations, it’s limited by lack of demand to live on the periphery. But reaching that limit is what drove the affordability crisis.

Sprawl is essentially what you get under status quo regulations. It’s terribly unsustainable, but temporarily, at least, it’s one way to address affordability. But I think you can see in L.A. that there’s a limit to sprawl before it isn’t even a viable way to keep things affordable anymore.

Also it includes vaginal, anal, and oral.

Sorry, that’s the median, not the average. Average would skew higher.

CDC gives a lifetime average of 4.3 for heterosexual women and 6.3 for heterosexual men. www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/ke...

Mathematically, yes, somebody polling at 10% dropping out will distribute more votes elsewhere, but I don’t know how they decide between them whom should drop out, and it seems like it would be robbing the voters of a legitimate choice.

No, I read the whole thread. I still don’t think it makes any sense to keep somebody polling at 3% over somebody polling at 10%. I don’t know why he didn’t mention Mahan, maybe he didn’t recognize him, but yeah he has to go, too.

I’m trying to wrap my mind around why you feel like we need to keep one of the “minority” candidates in the race over one of the people polling at more than twice their popularity.

Are you suggesting that Asian-Americans, Latinos, and African-Americans form a coherent voting bloc within California’s Democratic Party? Or that “congressmen” form a coherent bloc?

Could you maybe identify who the second Congressman besides Swalwell you’re referring to is? He’s the only one I see on the list.

“I want housing to be more affordable, but I also want to preserve the investment value of my home.”

We don’t have ranked-choice voting in California. What we have is the very distinct possibility of going into the general election with two Republicans and zero Democrats on the ballot for governor.