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Christo Silvia

@christosilvia.bsky.social

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Housing 🏘️, transit🚇, walking🚶‍♂️ and cycling 🚲 advocate in Woburn, MA, USA Car lite advocate, ebike owner Historic 🏠 owner, renovation amateur, and marriage enthusiast Vegetarian Senior RF Design Eng The opinions on this account do not represent my employer

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 28m

For many tasks having a robot is preferable. Those tend to be automated already.

Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 29m

Past performance is not a guarantee of future results

Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 29m

No I mean all of the existing development which already exists

Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 30m

Sure but that's revealed preference in the current unsubsidized environment and where housing is incredibly expensive. What if it was just as easy to have a kid as to not have one? If the state would give you 2 years of paid childcare work per kid at ~70k/yr?

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 32m

Yes new apartments are, but SFH stock is massive, the US is basically all suburb, and SFHs are getting bigger

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 32m

Right - and we haven't even reached the point where everyone is able to have as many babies as they self report wanting to have

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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 34m

The shitty thing is the rhetoric. The whole issue now firmly in the gross reproductive control conversation and not the child tax credit conversation and that's a swampy nasty dynamic with consequences.

Reframing really matters here.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 34m

The unpopular point that I made at this particular discussion was, “You’re trying to figure out a stable equity valuation on something that, if it works, will be taken from you by the government at gunpoint in exchange for a check /they/ will determine the value of.”

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 35m

This is why I do have to wonder if we should be actively Fraternizing

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 35m

Actually I do kind of wonder about junior enlisted going out on these deployments and then returning home and telling everyone how cool the cities they went to are

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1h

It's pretty funny that Texas decided to do an Inglourious Basterds type of mission to Chicago and so they assembled a team of guardsmen with the most epic Mike Ditka mustaches

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 38m

You'd be surprised how easily shouting "B L O C K E D" at people in real life gets them to stop talking to you too.

andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 39m

Bluesky taught me the joy of blocking. I block people everywhere now. I just blocked an ex boyfriend on duolingo. I can't stop.

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NPR @npr.org · 51m

Authorities have charged a 29-year-old man in connection to starting the Palisades Fire, which killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,800 homes and buildings. (via @laist.com)

Uber driver charged in connection with starting the Palisades Fire

The Palisades Fire erupted on Jan. 7 and went on to kill 12 people and destroy more than 6,800 homes and buildings.

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Adrian @adrianconrad.bsky.social · 1h

I’m doubtful that demographic collapse is a salient enough issue to overcome this collective action problem. It would require corps to be extremely (20+ yrs) forward-looking.

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 38m

I mean at that point those people kind of just overthrow the government, don't they?

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 39m

Unions have prevented US port automation pretty successfully, our ports lag way behind the rest of the world

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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 1h

the biggest story out of silicon valley in the last 15 years is dunning-kruger syndrome, especially in the realm of economics. they thinkovated goldbuggery but somehow made it dumber

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 1h

Hey it's that guy from Assassin's Creed 2

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 40m

I am not going to like this tweet just to help you out

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 47m

At some point, I assume, the fact that social media, the news, and the real world are all different is going to sink in, right?

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 4h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 41m

(at the risk of butting in when unwanted)

I am thinking about this post, and I'm wondering how anecdata generalizes across the population

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 2h

Let's just consider straight cis women, and let's ignore sperm donors.

How many cis women are:
1) Single and childless by choice
2) Coupled and childless by choice
3) Single, wish they had a husband, don't want kids
4) Single, wish they had a husband to have kids with

How big is group 4 vs others?

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 43m

Didn't realize I had let it go this long but have canceled my @washingtonpost.com subscription because it has become a shameless mouthpiece for Bezos et al. I've tried to shift some money to independent journalists & will try to do more

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 47m

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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AzumangWX 🌪🌀 @azumangawx.bsky.social · 3h

Appears we potentially just had an unwarned #tornado in populated areas near Taunton Mass. I will be looking for damage reports to send to the NWS, if you have any please @ me or the NWS.
#WxSky #weather #MAwx

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22d

"You've let me down, you've let the squadron down... and worst of of all you've let yourself down."

Russian MoD video with a partially deflated decoy aircraft in the background. Like a dog receiving a bollocking its tail is tucked away out of sight and its nose is down.

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Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 47m

This is the sort of thing I expect to see a lot of over the next 2-3 years. Hybrids (both gas and PHEV) hitting near-cost parity with conventional ICE.

🔌💡🔌🚗

www.caranddriver.com/news/a688880...

www.caranddriver.com

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