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Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 15h

Raising taxes is always worth it if it’s for funding transit.

Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 16h

There’s no coherent public purpose to limiting bus usage, certainly not with money as the mechanism. If the buses are full, add more. There is no major city in the world that has ever had too much bus capacity.

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Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 2d

How insulting and theologically incoherent. Probably the invention of some ‘guru’ who preys on confused westerners in Varanasi for the first time

Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 3d

What if anything can you surmise about the portion of burger customers who can’t evaluate concert ounces to portions of a pound in their head?

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Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 3d

Of course there’s a messaging war. Frame it as prosecuting those who stole from the military. And never shut up about how the thefts were carried out to prevent civil servants from returning to work.

Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 3d

All this stealing covers only a couple weeks of military pay (~$187B/year), so they’re just ensuring that pay will stop closer to Thanksgiving if they don’t do things like seat Rep.-elect Grijalva and vote on releasing the Epstein files that a few weeks delay makes no difference to

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Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 5d

35 countries and counting are sufficiently sure it’s genocide to bring criminal complaints to the ICC, and the judges are sufficiently convinced that they have issued arrest warrants for Bibi and Gallant. The window for abusing our uncertainty has decisively closed.

Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 5d

So Catholic doctrine is that the fetus growing in Mary’s womb was already god before birth? As an outsider to the finer points of god the son, I wonder how good the White Sox bullpen would be if Nestorius had prevailed with the Italian bishops

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Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 5d

Mostly true, but a few soccer commentators will surprise you. Tommy Smyth especially is known for one-liners that belong in Irish poems

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Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 5d

Any particular reason you single out Branko’s article? He’s usually quite well informed and cogent, tried to save us from Biden when Bernie still had a chance.

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Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 5d

This take brings to mind the Proudhon line about dreaming of a world where a mere democratic socialist would be executed as a *reactionary*

Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 5d

www.mnav.io you’re right it’s no longer uniformly true, but Strategy is not an outlier. Screwing with share acquisition rights, as Metaplanet did, is an effective method to underperform the market segment.

Bitcoin Treasury mNAV Tracker - no login required

Modified Net Asset Value (mNAV) calculations for Bitcoin treasury companies

www.mnav.io

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Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 5d

And that the value of a BTC in the treasury of such a corp is valued by Wall Street above the value of a BTC in an ETF.

Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 5d

As Matt Levine of Bloomberg’s Money Stuff newsletter/podcast points out once a week now, Digital Asset Treasury corps trade at a premium to the notional value of their digital assets. So Saylor’a board likes this, and will support using debt to buy more BTC

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 6d

In short, the problem here is not that Signal ‘chose’ to run on AWS. The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice: the entire stack, practically speaking, is owned by 3-4 players. 11/

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Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 7d

Marx is broadly pro-automation in chapter 15 of Vol. 1, sure, but his issue with the Luddites is at least as much that he wants to take political power, not just do industrial sabotage to maintain the status quo ante

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Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 7d

With options like these, I could see how domestic service might appeal

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 9d

if only all the CEOs could get some of this guy's courage bsky.app/profile/blas...

Blasphemous Jones @blasphemousjones.bsky.social · 11d

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."

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Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 9d

So you don’t know anything about who the electorate actually is. Got it. Spare me, I will not be taking your bootlicker podcast recommendations.

Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 9d

www.tomorrowwevote.org/black-and-la...

Black and Latino Americans, We Have A Voter Turnout Problem - Tomorrow We Vote

The 2024 election exit polling shows the Black and Latino turnout was less than in 2020. Look at the data to reassess for the future.

www.tomorrowwevote.org

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Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 9d

You do. And then read the article I linked again. The numbers are not ambiguous

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Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 9d

The headline is factually wrong, there was no boost to Trump’s Latino vote count. There was a vote *share* shift driven by a collapse in progressive turnout. And misleading, since the article correctly points out that the resentment is about lack of paths to citizenship for those long in the country

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Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 9d

Why lie about something so easily verified? Latinos lean progressive and have done so for decades. And strongly support paths to citizenship like the Dream Act. www.tomorrowwevote.org/black-and-la...

Black and Latino Americans, We Have A Voter Turnout Problem - Tomorrow We Vote

The 2024 election exit polling shows the Black and Latino turnout was less than in 2020. Look at the data to reassess for the future.

www.tomorrowwevote.org

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Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 10d

The movable part of the electorate is not 3x Trump voters, it’s marginal voters who turned out in ‘20 but not ‘24. Kamala promised to ramp up deportations, so Latinos stayed home. She really should have listened to the black women like Briahna Joy Gray and Ayanna Pressley who warned about this

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Solarpunk Kitch’n @mazepolypore.bsky.social · 10d

We agree Trump is worse, but the movable section of the electorate is not three time Trump voters, its marginal voters who stayed home in 24. Latino men were the biggest drop-off in turnout btw ‘20 and ‘24. B/c deporting family members is not sufficiently better than racist deporting family members

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