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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 23m

I mean there certainly is a reaction from brewers as well to the perceived hops backlash in the form of the pastry stout which is one part joke and one part "well this garbage actually sells lmao ok"

k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 23m

It's also just weird because I swear old 00s era west coast IPAs seem passe, NEIPAs are pretty dominant from what I've seen and while they are "hoppy" it's not as in bitter; it's rife with pineapple, passionfruit, mango and guava aromas more than piney bitterness these days

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 29m

I keep seeing people complaining about beer and hops and like...

you want something sweet and malty without any bitterness or plant aromas and with alcohol malt whisky is right there, you need bubbles and less alcohol just get a highball

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 1h

I think the main refreshing thing about Mamdani, for me, is that he actually likes New York City and wants to see it thrive for everyone.

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 42m

Interesting!

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 53m

Would the wash(? is wash the term for the initial pre-distillation alcohol in rum) be made from fermentation of the raw sugar beet or would it be from just the beet sugar?

I'd actually be curious about the former, and also, slightly scared (natural sugar beets have a lot of geosmin right)

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Wintzards of the Coast @drilmagic.bsky.social · 9d

Chain Reaction: "this is going to sound so cool" i rev the engine and it explodes, leaving me rolling around on the road with a smouldering dick & ass crack

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 1h

don't aim the barrel at anything you don't intend to suck

k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 1h

practicing trigger discipline with my modified dyson hand vac

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 2h

And now we have a mayor whose solution is to slash the city budget and pour it all into the cops, to try and beat and shoot our way out of the problem they created.

k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 2h

Normally a functional city would have money to try to rekindle the flames of investment, but a part of the public-private partnership (where the latter held the power) was to cut tax revenue in order to prevent companies like Twitter from exiting (which they did anyways) so there's no money

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 2h

With nowhere to go and chronic instability people end up resorting to crime, drugs and living on the street, and when they can't hold it together anymore they go insane

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 2h

And now except for at the wealthiest and most insulated companies (again mostly in tech) small businesses start to fail and close shop, board up their windows. And now the people priced and evicted out of their home can't even find a service job

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 2h

And then, as always the bubble bursts (sometimes more than once, and sometimes the bottom falls out), but capital is unwilling to "take a haircut" and so they hold on to these properties as they remain empty

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 2h

And then suddenly it erupts and people are evicted and priced out of their neighborhoods, as patagonia vest drones start to settle in.

Block by block, the monster of gentrification consumes as capital seeks further opportunity

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 2h

As word gets out, independent investors hoping to make an independent profit start snapping up properties on the margins as well

It is understandable why it seems like transplants are the problem; there's essentially an incubation period when this public-private partnership develops underground

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 2h

on new development; pricier and targeted at upper class businesses get assistance to open in targeted neighborhoods, and denser housing with relaxed requirements on affordable units suddenly starts getting fast tracked for approval. Policing "blight" and "broken windows" suddenly is prioritized.

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 2h

That rhetoric has softened now for obvious reasons.

It's actually a top down process. City hall and investment capital (frequently connected to the same capital handing out seed and round money like candy at halloween to startups) start a partnership to remove and waive restrictions

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 2h

The folk politic view of gentrification is outsider, transplants especially whites and Asians, invade the city because of tech work and that by force of nature they price everyone else out. And that the solution is to evict and deport them.

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 2h

But it is essentially the rearrangement of capital in existing communities to the end of greater capital extraction targeted at a wealthier class, and it is how we ended up at the current visible issues of crime, homelessness and drug addiction

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 2h

The boom happened here for a reason and it's because finance has long been concentrated in San Francisco; and it was not long before the parasitic feeding frenzy began

Gentrification is often little more than a buzzword that even many that oppose it don't mechanically understand

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 2h

More locally specific the problems in San Francisco were exacerbated by tech wealth

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 17h

We can have democracy or we can have billionaires.
We cannot have both.

NYT: Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco (gift link)

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Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

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ka92 @ka92.bsky.social · 4h

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 3h

On the other hands, a lot of journalists are kind of idiots who had rich parents and managed to fail upwards with the use of only pandering to power and GLP-1s

k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 3h

It really seems like at least some of the so-called articles about the dangers of AI are this kind of advertising; that they're essentially covert ads laundered through "security experts" trying to convince people that AI is sentient and powerful and has massive potential as opposed to a bubble

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