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All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 4h

It's been a bit of a meme lately, the creeping understanding that many of the things we take for granted about the US government aren't laws, they're norms. They just are because that's the way they've always been done.

All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 4h

I'm sure you'd be right for any building not on that list.

All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 4h

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It is exempted by name, in the relevant law.

There might be other laws being broken but anything related to historic preservation is not one of them

U.S.C. Title 16 - CONSERVATION

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All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 5h

Then it can go into quiet remission, waiting for the other team to be ascendant again.

All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 5h

Trump Derangement Dyndrome is as real as Obama Derangement Syndrome was.

(Very)

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All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 5h

I don't know. I was addressing one specific objection.

All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 5h

Blame LBJ

All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 5h

How so?

There might be some other law being broken here, but on this one item this uh...construction...is specifically not prohibited.

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All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 5h

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All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 5h

The white house and congress are specifically exempted

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All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 5h

The type of housing arrangement most directly designed exclusively for cars makes driving worse.

All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 5h

With a street grid, or even just streets that actually connect to other streets, you aren't limited only to other arterial roads. You don't even have to know which roads are arterials or not.

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All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 5h

Something I didn't realize about cul-de-sac suburbia is that it exacerbates traffic jams by preventing drivers from easily re-routing around congestion (thus alleviating the congestion) in the event of an accident or breakdown.

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All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 6h

And it won't be coming back any time soon. China will not trust their food security to us. They know we're unreliable, and so long as the uniparty and their masters are in control we will continue to be unreliable.

All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 12h

Fake Jefferson quote memers love to ascribe their brand of Christianity to a group of people most of whose beliefs would have them very uncomfortable.

All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 12h

Why don't we have universal health care?

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All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 13h

Yes but when did they interrupt shipments of vital supplies?

All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 14h

...eh okay. I was interpreting this as being about AI slop specifically not general enshittification.

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All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 14h

Transport costs are lower if distances are shorter, all else equal.

That is why the US needs war in order to sell its gas.

All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 14h

At what point has Russia been an unreliable supplier?

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All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 14h

How does business endangered by war and which would have occurred without war represent profiting from war?

All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 14h

I notice the G there. Google are the least of the major offenders but they seem desperate to do anything but lean in to what Gemini is actually good at: finding shit.

How emotionally invested are Google execs in keeping useless the absolute shitheap they made out of their original core business?

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Chris Naish - Admiral Wonderboat Comics @admiralwonderboat.bsky.social · 14h

a good question

Admiral Wonderboat is at a lunch counter, with a plate full of gross slop.
Admiral: Yuck! How long are you gonna serve us slop?!
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The Lunch Counter Workers are Facebook, Instagram, Google, TikTok, X
Facebook: How long will you keep taking it?

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All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 14h

Seriously though been trying to turn a troubled student of mine into a crockpot user.

All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social · 14h

They're calling it 'synthart' now.

They are signing it.