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a man in a dark room says fewer ALT: a man in a dark room says fewer

Mine is fewer/less.

It being Warhammer, the potential for interesting (and invariably bad) choices to throw at the player are almost limitless. Keep up infrastructure, grow your industrial base, pay the tithe, suppress cults, keep your higher-ups happy--never enough for all of that, something's gotta give.

Planetary governor or, alternatively, Hive City Lord Baron

You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated:

If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

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The gaslighting is wild. THEY control the White House, the House, and the Senate—yet always find a way to blame Democrats for their mess.

The so-called “$1.5 trillion wish list” is about protecting health care, food assistance, and housing. (1/2)

You can literally just post a picture of a woman and be like WOMEN to rake in over 10k likes on Xitter now. I remember before I left there was a ten minutes hate against some 19 year old sorority girls dancing or some shit and I’m still not sure what everyone was pretending to be mad about.

One thing's for sure: I won't stop advocating for safe streets for all in Sunnyvale and the region.

Sunnyvale councilmember injured in bike collision - San José Spotlight Sunnyvale Councilmember Richard Mehlinger was hit by a car while riding his bike on California Avenue Aug. 30, breaking his left thumb and right wrist. He said the incident shows the necessity and urg...

Some unfortunate personal news: I'm recovering from a broken left thumb and right wrist after a crash with a car while cycling home. On the one hand, my prognosis is good and I'm lucky it's not much worse. On the other, I don't have working hands right now.
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I am sad that we seem to have settled on "clanker" for the anti-robot slur when "toaster" is just so much more derogatory.

bike dragoons!

The deep irony is the insistence that everything is class politics, despite the overwhelming evidence against such a thing, is proof that ideas have independent causal force. People read Marx and it broke their brains!

This is no great insight, but actually one of the cardinal flaws in the Marxian tradition

We get glimpses of this in Godbreaker as well, where there is an entire political economy of Breaths.

For Stormlight archive, the entire economy runs off of the spheres used to capture Stormlight. The gemhearts that the Alethi are fighting so hard for on the Shattered Plains are valuable for their use in soulcasting, especially food. Soulcasting itself is critical to the entire Rothar economy.

Well, for the Final Empire there's the fact that the entire political structure is a brutal slave eugenic magocracy, with the entire politico-economic system designed around controlling who has access to magic, and the supply of atium explicitly being used by the Lord Ruler to control the nobility.

the Cosmere is the shared universe in which most of his original works are set. I think the original Mistborn trilogy remains the strongest, but all of the books engage quite a bit with how the various magic systems impact the economic and political systems of the planets on which they exist.

The economics of magic is something I think Brandon Sanderson has done very well in his cosmere world-building

You need to be as excited for Mamdani as you are for Grijalva and vice versa. Trying to do this weird thing of claiming that an election in Arizona is somehow a rebuke of an election in NYC is insane and doing the work of the Republican Party for them.

Grijalva winning just shows what anyone who actually examines the Democratic Party for more than a second already knows; it’s a lib-left coalition that is going to nominate and elect representatives across that political spectrum depending on numerous factors for any given race.

To me the NYT is WMD lies, Clinton email obsession, trans bashing and constant whitewashing of Nazis. The way liberals hold it in esteem is one of the worst parts of liberalism and a testament to media illiteracy nearly as bad as the right’s.

<stares in Rimworld>

The New York Times was more skeptical of the academic qualifications of a black woman who had secured tenure and become the president of Harvard than they were of a white man who washed out of a grad program with a massive scandal and then became a white nationalist troll.

4/x And that's the Dream. To be that shining city on the hill. To live by the words of the New Colossus. To be that land at whose gates stands the Mother of Exiles and welcomes in--you get it. I'm crying, whatever.

And now we are reminded, as we were not a year ago, that the opposition hates that.

3/x I grew up arguing civics around the Shabbat table, with family friends both Jewish and gentile, of all backgrounds. Grew up so immersed in pluralism and striving for a better future that I had to learn later how unusual it is. (Small wonder my first published novel is so drenched in this.)

2/x My father's side of the family was cast out of their homes and washed up on these shores. My mother's side of the family found sanctuary here where they lived, as the other branches of the family burned.

These are stories told over and over, in the tens of millions. And some people hated that.

A year ago, I knew these two things: America was the greatest country in the world, and I was going to work my ass off to keep it moving forwards.

We lost that battle. Lost it to complacency, vs the openly monstrous. But the Dream lives on; American liberalism may yet raise our banner higher. 1/x

Happy birthday to the greatest articulation of critical American patriotism, Frederick Douglass’ “What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July” www.blackpast.org/african-amer...