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I mean how could the guiding hand of evolution know we'd just stop putting plants in our mouths? Tasty plants were everywhere! Always!

Sometime soon, someone will write a very insightful article about how the concept of intersectionalism elevated a bunch of disparate progressive ideas into a dogma where your entire morality hinges on perfect compliance on a dozen loosely related issues, and I'm going to read the heck out of it.

Oh, let me be specific: She would say things like "we want a lethal military" but she wouldn't say mainstream opinions like "trans women probably shouldn't play on women's sports teams," or "we shouldn't eliminate accelerated math classes to satisfy loud DEI zealots."

Progressivism lost big time. The deepest blue areas went the most red. Kamala said centrist things but she completely refused to say things that would upset the left, which made her centrist play feel hollow and unbelievable.

Read the room; the country is sprinting away from the left. Too far, too.

This is a big country — hundreds of millions of people — with just two parties.

Everyone ends up voting for a presidential candidate they disagree with about a lot of stuff.

Whichever coalition positions itself as more chill and friendly to heterodoxy will win almost by default.

I listened to Carl Sagan last night to fall asleep and I did not fall asleep. 🥲😬😳

We're making all your websites shitty and evil. What are you gonna do, log off and spend time with your family

To an asshole, all virtue is "virtue signaling."

"Colder" is totally right. I have been using both simultaneously and Threads' way of spreading out virality made it feel a lot more intimate and cozy. Bluesky feels like pop music.

Really starting to get your sense of humor.

Got a call yesterday from the recruiter who got the job I have now saying he's been feeling rumblings of a lot of openings coming up and wanted to know if I was interested. I'm not exactly in big tech but I thought that was encouraging.

I hope you do a video on this because this tweet is going to follow me around for weeks.

I'm shocked I didn't put that together. It was pretty on the nose, wasn't it? Lol.

Right, and my impression of the ending is that there's hope that with all the information left behind, the next iteration of the universe will be better.

My main point is that this made pretty good sense and actually says good things about the author's intentions (and what he could get by censors).

This wasn't my reading. Didn't the Trisolarians experience a technological explosion because they started allowing democratic thought after seeing what it did for humans?

The books make it a fundamental axiom of the universe that no civilization can truly trust the intentions of another, and because at any time one civilization can experience a technological explosion, their survival hinges on destroying anyone they find. It's a whole deal.

"I could disprove it if I wanted to. I just don't." Okay, turd eater.

I have a highly exclusive and secret source that says @sacamentocoach.bsky.social eats his own turds. No, you can't see it, but I've got it on good authority. Google it.

Is this your first day on the internet? Lol. Asking someone to cite a source is standard.

Yeah I just don't really get why you're here insisting on making a point nobody needed you to make. The common wisdom in YIMBY circles is that housing supply solves a considerable chunk of the problem but that other strategies will be needed for the poor. Right now, we just need to build more.

Why housing shortages cause homelessness - Works in Progress Why do high-cost cities have more homelessness? It's not just about rents — it’s also about the rooms friends and family can’t afford to share.

You're desperate to make this complicated, but someone had your same hang-up and wrote this article about the missing link, which is the availability of spare rooms among friends and family: worksinprogress.co/issue/why-ho...

Minneapolis is the example I was thinking of and it was about 22-23%, not quite 30%.

Then we should build a lot more housing in CA cities!

Not really sure what you're doing in this conversation at this point, but it does not take a large amount of supply for a modest decrease, unless you think 20-30% is modest. Tell someone who can barely make rent that a 30% decrease is "modest."

The only study I could find that supported this was just for Seattle, WA. I grew up in Phoenix, where homeless people were basically a seasonal phenomenon, at least back when I lived there.

In either case, more housing will decrease homelessness in cities where it's built.

The thing is, you can replace “cruel” in this sentence with funny, artistic, thoughtful, thoughtless, compassionate, greedy, kinky, creative, or any of 1000 other adjectives.

Why are so many of us only able to see us as exceptional in our faults?

if you follow like 5000 people on here youre fucking stupid and your feed looks like a hoarder house

They do. There's data out there (I'd try to find it if you twist my arm) showing that the more housing costs, the more homelessness you get, so X% reduction prices results in Y% reduction in homelessness. So a 30% decrease in housing prices is a significant win for homelessness.

YouTube video by Vox In defense of the "gentrification building"

Of course not. They sell to people who are already living in homes who then leave behind vacancies in less-valuable housing, which are filled by people who leave vacancies, and onward down the line. This conga line has been shown to reach all the way down to the poverty line.