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Charles Taggart
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Sure, and I’m not screaming bloody murder at her for running, I just don’t trust Chuck Schumer’s judgment (and I am his constituent).
For me, this was far less about Platner than about the gerontocracy (though I don’t think I necessarily went all in).
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“a partial fix is worse than no fix because no fix will motivate a full fix” is a complex second order argument that should probably come with detailed analysis of the best available evidence and most accurate models, rather than sneering derision at anyone who prefers the partial fix to no fix.
Well no juice in that case.
I think the real problem is that the Democratic Party hasn’t adopted a platform perfectly informed by 60-second reels and TikToks.
Maybe the brewery guy has some juice?
I gave him $10 but at this point I think the issue is that the Fetterman tail risk is no longer a tail risk.
Yes, I had missed the once-per-day thing, but I feel like it will be such a win that we’ll see more trains. Legalize TOD statewide and we can really cook with some gas. The Hudson Valley could be what the Bay Area might have been. (I’m way out over my skis, I know, but it’s fun to imagine.)
This is not to be read as a defense, because these guys suck, but: do they even believe it themselves? The line between edgelording an earnest belief just seems so blurry.
The headlines are all about Albany but I’m more interested in the impact on Hudson. The low cost and flexibility of the fixed walk-up fare make it a lot more viable as a day trip or a 1-2x/week hybrid in-office requirement. Also makes Hudson *much* more interesting as an Albany bedroom community.
This is worth watching if for no other reason than to explore who Andrew Cuomo is gaslighting more, himself or his audience.
Anand Giridharadas to Andrew Cuomo: "First of all, governor, it's 'Mamdani.' This is a very big, diverse city you want to lead. We should get the names right."
There’s also a flattening effect of phone cameras versus actual cameras that means not only will you remember things worse, your attempt to remember with phone pics will be a colorful but boring rendition. When I look at my DSLR photos post-travel I’m in awe, when I look at my phone pics I’m meh.
Black people and trans people but also workers. So much of this is tied up in 2022 labor market reaction. But to your point, they’re risking a massive backlash that may make them long for a hot labor market where workers had too much power for their liking but we were all making money.
Gotta spend money to make money.
They don’t even have to do “it was all a dream” though. It’s space fantasy and he has magic in his blood. Nobody was like “wtf is Gandalf doing here, how cheesy!” Episode 1 consists of a space ghost as a major character.
Also: as if this would matter for commercial viability.
Were you alive / politically conscio at the time of passage? Because I was and I don’t recall Obama abandoning the bully pulpit, but I do remember Lieberman being a huge asshole.
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"liberals lack a theory of change" is one of the things that gets me every time. like what's the leftist theory of change. how is its track record. what number general strike, seizure of the means of production, workers' revolution are we on.
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One of the chief problems of inherited monarchy is that there are either not enough sons or there are too many.

The Ottomans came up with a robust solution, albeit one impractical in today’s hellscape of wokeness.
Right, in the US the most viable large-scale storage involves V2G with a ton of EVs.
I think you’re a lot more likely to stop that at the ballot box than at some secret third thing.
China performed miracles because it’s way easier to build infrastructure when you’re starting from scratch and have free rein to demolish whatever you feel like. Robert Moses performed miracles too.