We need people to virtue show (build libraries) not virtue tell (put up tacky yard signs that turn people off the whole concept)

Huh it's literally a 'mander just like the original one

So

X: Blaze your glory!

The quid pro quo he describes is real but I think most of them actually like Cuomo, or at least hate Mamdani. This guy is much closer to the left on street stuff, which is probably what the mayor can influence the most

Hate to link the post but they're good at this kind of thing (unlike the Times, apparently!) nypost.com/2024/06/16/u...

Lol this is the guy who made limewire, and is also an antivaxer, and also funds Streetsblog... Interesting dude but probably not representative (unfortunately?)

Finnish Baseball is a thing. You throw the ball straight up and hit it on the way down, you run the bases in a zigzag. This is real. I am not a crackpot.

100% not a crackpot

I love this in principle, but instead of creating yet another grant bureaucracy to vacuum up researcher's time, wouldn't it be more effective to fund CA's existing basic research institutions, the UCs, which will suffer tremendously under looming cuts?

Starting to seriously believe in @kevinbaker.bsky.social's prediction that they're gonna stop culling

Historically Rs were actually better for basic science funding in some ways. Dems are traditionally the ones pushing applications. The project 2025 doc actually proposes refocusing DOE/NSF back to fundamental science

I agree with all the criticisms of Zitron but I also sometimes wonder if holding people to standards like correctness and nuance is why there is no "left Rogan"

The correct angle IMO is that NIMBYism and associated regulations force the buildings to be as ugly as they are to most people

This is a pretty common take in YIMBY circles (maybe because of the prevalence of tech people?) and I sincerely believe that it actively harms the movement

Eh top European academics could be had for pennies on the dollar for the last 15 years. The supply of scientists has never really been a limiting factor

Everyone's denying this but it's true people were saying this. And they were correct! Bush was far worse than Trump I. Even Jan 6 is comparable to Bush v. Gore. Nobody was downplaying Trump II though

It was never rational but at this point TSLA is in just Musk's version of TRUMP