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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 11h
the other problem, of course, which probably applies to someone like wu, is that now there is an entire monetized attention economy devoted to rewarding people who refuse to get this. those incentives make it a lot easier to obstinately insist that people to your left are not "being reasonable"
turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 11h
i think this is one of those things where it helps a lot to have been in online spaces for a realllly long time.

by like 2005, i'd seen every manipulative rightwing trick in the book on online forums, so it's a lot easier to now see when someone is falling for their bad-faith discursive approach
polphilpod.bsky.social Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 12h
like, yeah, i get your perspective, i understand what you thought you were trying to do,

& this is far from unique to trans rights, people really get taken in by this impulse
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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 3d
these guys have gotten so lazy that you're just supposed to know they mean "no, real americans like *shitty* coffee. the shitlibs like *ristretto*. oh, topeka has ristretto now? well it's trash compared to the MADISON ristretto."

just like "christian" is now shorthand for "racist white evangelical"
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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 6d
it's one of these: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...
American Fotoplayer - Wikipedia
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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 6d
27 years ago a belligerent wino on the miami metrorail yelled "can't give the kids kool-aid, they'll just put iodine in it" and it's still rattling around my brainpan to this day
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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 6d
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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 6d
and even the billionaires who are less type-A assholes than bezos are still fixated on the idea that the sports teams they own should be profitable rather than just fun vanity projects, so odds are that bezos views the post the same way
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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 6d
rewatching THE REF (1994) and much of the plot is still fresh, with the exception of everything related to the police

even back then it was silly to think that cops would shut down a whole town on christmas, even an affluent one, just to catch one burglar, but it's especially ludicrous in 2025
turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 8d
it does seem instructive that young men go nuts over the gamified experience on Robinhood but seem to have little interest in doing the exact same trading at Fidelity or Schwab, which also have had apps for years
beijingpalmer.bsky.social BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8d
yup! I'm fine with just adding *friction* to gambling.
catfrat.bsky.social CatFrat @catfrat.bsky.social · 8d
I don’t gamble but I feel very strongly that people need to physically go to a venue to it. Being able to place bets on your phone 24/7 is going to ruin a lot of people
turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 8d
even 33 years ago it was fairly well-understood that republicans were a bunch of nakedly greedy warmongers. not *everyone* understood it, but a lot of regular people did
turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 8d
in SNEAKERS (1992), produced by Universal, the end features a character in a position to demand anything he wants from US govt agents. his ask: "peace on earth and goodwill toward men."

final scene is the punchline: the NSA fulfills his wish by stealing all the GOP's money & giving it to charity
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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 8d
name recognition likely matters a *lot* for lower-propensity voters. it's probably underappreciated that john fetterman, e.g., was not going up against someone super well-known in the D primary in 2022 in conor lamb (not a nobody, but not as high-profile as the sitting governor)
tiredgenerally.bsky.social Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 9d
this is so funny to me bsky.app/profile/brea...
breadnrosie.bsky.social rose @breadnrosie.bsky.social · 9d
ok this is hilarious. the polling by income is not what you'd think at all
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d
trump is demolishing our national symbols and selling the country for scrap to his corrupt donors
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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 10d
this all might be a cop-out (pun not intended), though. if the city isn't going to draw guns on ICE agents and instead go after them after-the-fact in criminal complaints in court, how is that going to work with a bunch of masked John Does who are probably going to flee the state pretty quickly?
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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 10d
i will be astonished if jenkins actually gets the SFPD to do it (they're not awful compared to most departments but still...).

jenkins is a political animal, though, so if that's where she thinks the wind is blowing it seems like a good sign in any case
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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 10d
in general i'm not a big fan of a centrally planned economy but it's getting harder and harder to see why that's much worse than "every 10-15 years capitalism comes up with a fun new way to make the real economy implode by wasting trillions of dollars"
justinhendrix.bsky.social Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 10d
Another depiction if the circularity of capital flows between OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, CoreWeave, AMD, and Oracle.
Graphic depicts select capital flows between OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, CoreWeave, AMD, and Oracle.
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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 11d
there are also basque enclaves in northern california and boise, idaho

also whole districts of st louis, missouri that are full of former bosnian refugees, apparently to the point that you can hear more bosnian spoken than english in some places
turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 11d
the sea island gullah/geechee area?
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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 11d
big sur definitely weird history- and climate-wise. for a long time there were no roads and the main way the people who lived there got supplies was by little boats in windy rocky little coves

i thought it was going to be like southern california but it's *even colder and even foggier* than SF
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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 12d
by "techies" here i meant "anyone working for a FAANG or adjacent company, whether they are software engineers or accountants or customer service people", since what we're discussing is worker ownership *specifically across the same industry*
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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 12d
also seems likely to produce massively unequal outcomes without aggressive redistribution efforts. you'd end up with arguably even richer techies than you have now, while anyone in a very low-margin industry scrapes by
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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 12d
i mean i guess the answer is probably "because the pension promised you a payout of $X, you're not getting any more just because your money earned $X+n for the pension fund" but it still seems weird to make this distinction purely on the basis of the return being fixed as a defined benefit
turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 12d
that's actually what i think is one of the big flaws of the overall take. okay, let's say everyone's got a pension and it's an old-school pension fund.

that means the pension fund invests in a mix of bonds and less-volatile stocks. why are you any more entitled to *those* returns for zero effort?
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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 12d
i know, ham sandwich and all that, but it does not say good things about our system that someone this rock-stupid was still able to secure a grand jury indictment when she'd never even tried a case
turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 12d
i mean, i think recent events (NVDA, TSLA, 2008-2009, etc) do show that it is very much true that asset prices can inflate into yearslong bubbles that don't reflect sane valuations.

i just don't think that is actually that a big a deal in the grand scheme of things for (most) individual investors
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