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The thing I find weird is this: Trump is already known to be a pervert with a history of gross acts towards teenage girls. He bragged about peeping in the changing rooms at his teen pageants and made lude comments about his own daughter. Whether he did diddytivities on the island is irrelevant.
July 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The thing I find weird is this: Trump is already known to be a pervert with a history of gross acts towards teenage girls. He bragged about peeping in the changing rooms at his teen pageants and made lude comments about his own daughter. Whether he did diddytivities on the island is irrelevant.
Good. US SOCOM has almost completely abandoned peer conflict in favor of commitment to COIN in the Mideast. Even units that are nominally supposed to have geographic specializations elsewhere end up committed. It’s absurd. CENTCOM needs to learn they can’t have everything they want.
June 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Good. US SOCOM has almost completely abandoned peer conflict in favor of commitment to COIN in the Mideast. Even units that are nominally supposed to have geographic specializations elsewhere end up committed. It’s absurd. CENTCOM needs to learn they can’t have everything they want.
Very true! But also less demand and thus quite a bit cheaper. Some of the stuff I have seen on local Nextdoor here gives me an aneurysm though.
June 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Very true! But also less demand and thus quite a bit cheaper. Some of the stuff I have seen on local Nextdoor here gives me an aneurysm though.
This is the reason so much development takes the form of sterile exurban McMansions or huge new apartment buildings in the middle of nowhere or near old strip malls and busy streets. NIMBYs will put housing in the parts of the town furthest from wealth and prosperity if left to their own devices.
June 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is the reason so much development takes the form of sterile exurban McMansions or huge new apartment buildings in the middle of nowhere or near old strip malls and busy streets. NIMBYs will put housing in the parts of the town furthest from wealth and prosperity if left to their own devices.
I think the tough pill for MA libs to swallow is that ultimately local power is bad for housing and zoning/permitting power should be at a state level.
When left to their own devices towns either build no housing or build very little in inconvenient places. (1/2)
When left to their own devices towns either build no housing or build very little in inconvenient places. (1/2)
June 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I think the tough pill for MA libs to swallow is that ultimately local power is bad for housing and zoning/permitting power should be at a state level.
When left to their own devices towns either build no housing or build very little in inconvenient places. (1/2)
When left to their own devices towns either build no housing or build very little in inconvenient places. (1/2)
It really seems like nobody in MA grasps the scale of the issue. It needs to be orders of magnitude easier and cheaper to build, or Boston will become San Francisco.
I grew up in MA but now I live in CT simply because even on an engineer’s salary the Boston area is hard to afford comfortably.
I grew up in MA but now I live in CT simply because even on an engineer’s salary the Boston area is hard to afford comfortably.
June 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
It really seems like nobody in MA grasps the scale of the issue. It needs to be orders of magnitude easier and cheaper to build, or Boston will become San Francisco.
I grew up in MA but now I live in CT simply because even on an engineer’s salary the Boston area is hard to afford comfortably.
I grew up in MA but now I live in CT simply because even on an engineer’s salary the Boston area is hard to afford comfortably.
She’s still broadly too NIMBY unfortunately. She doesn’t really understand the scale of the housing issue.
June 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
She’s still broadly too NIMBY unfortunately. She doesn’t really understand the scale of the housing issue.
Neocons fundamentally do not have a sound theory of regime change. I know people who were saying last night that they thought these attacks would cause Iranians to rise up and overthrow their leaders. They don’t understand that this stuff causes a rally around the flag.
June 14, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Neocons fundamentally do not have a sound theory of regime change. I know people who were saying last night that they thought these attacks would cause Iranians to rise up and overthrow their leaders. They don’t understand that this stuff causes a rally around the flag.
and it all just pushes people to commuter suburbs, massively increasing their carbon footprint
May 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
and it all just pushes people to commuter suburbs, massively increasing their carbon footprint
Exactly. It’s largely a result of businesses wanting to protect themselves from lawsuits and stuff like that rather than as a result of any policy.
May 28, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Exactly. It’s largely a result of businesses wanting to protect themselves from lawsuits and stuff like that rather than as a result of any policy.
The ridiculous irony of DOGE is that the things it cut (NIH, NSF, USAID) were among the cheapest, highest ROI things the government funds.
Frankly if you made a movie where the Russians did this to our government I would dismiss it as implausible. That’s how stupid it is.
Frankly if you made a movie where the Russians did this to our government I would dismiss it as implausible. That’s how stupid it is.
May 26, 2025 at 4:04 AM
The ridiculous irony of DOGE is that the things it cut (NIH, NSF, USAID) were among the cheapest, highest ROI things the government funds.
Frankly if you made a movie where the Russians did this to our government I would dismiss it as implausible. That’s how stupid it is.
Frankly if you made a movie where the Russians did this to our government I would dismiss it as implausible. That’s how stupid it is.
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This is what happens when discourse becomes detached from evidence, deliberation, and accountability. Instead of engaging with real issues, politicians compete in a theatre of outrage.
The student isn’t a person here, they’re a prop in a narrative war.
The student isn’t a person here, they’re a prop in a narrative war.
May 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is what happens when discourse becomes detached from evidence, deliberation, and accountability. Instead of engaging with real issues, politicians compete in a theatre of outrage.
The student isn’t a person here, they’re a prop in a narrative war.
The student isn’t a person here, they’re a prop in a narrative war.
You missed the bit about two F-35 squadrons.
May 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
You missed the bit about two F-35 squadrons.
We live in a hell of cons’ creation. It’s time for them to live in one of ours.
May 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
We live in a hell of cons’ creation. It’s time for them to live in one of ours.
Even then, it’s still an issue that comes along with labor specialization, and many of its proponents are coming from an external perspective (“haha, see? Even the people doing the email jobs know they’re pointless!”).
May 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Even then, it’s still an issue that comes along with labor specialization, and many of its proponents are coming from an external perspective (“haha, see? Even the people doing the email jobs know they’re pointless!”).
Specialization of labor is a great thing that makes our societies more efficient and prosperous, but one of its side-effects is that there end up being a lot of jobs you hear about but don’t understand. It takes societal pressure against solipsism to avoid looking at these as “pointless jobs”.
May 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Specialization of labor is a great thing that makes our societies more efficient and prosperous, but one of its side-effects is that there end up being a lot of jobs you hear about but don’t understand. It takes societal pressure against solipsism to avoid looking at these as “pointless jobs”.
No economist not from UMass is going to agree “we should’ve done price controls” is the correct takeaway. The reality is that there were already indications the stimulus was going to be a bit too big, and “push” type stimulus always carries the risk of crowding out in related goods and services.
May 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
No economist not from UMass is going to agree “we should’ve done price controls” is the correct takeaway. The reality is that there were already indications the stimulus was going to be a bit too big, and “push” type stimulus always carries the risk of crowding out in related goods and services.
A lot of people discount all the work that has to be done between building a flying prototype airframe and actually having a usable CCA. Until the damn thing actually cooperates and interfaces properly with other components of the force, it’s just a big RC plane.
May 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
A lot of people discount all the work that has to be done between building a flying prototype airframe and actually having a usable CCA. Until the damn thing actually cooperates and interfaces properly with other components of the force, it’s just a big RC plane.
They made a wifebeater secdef and elected a guy found civilly liable of sexual assault president twice. They don’t give a shit about women until they can use them as an excuse.
April 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
They made a wifebeater secdef and elected a guy found civilly liable of sexual assault president twice. They don’t give a shit about women until they can use them as an excuse.
authoritarianism apologists like to hold up any supposed progress under their preferred dictators with no consideration of the likely counterfactuals: how much growth could have been achieved without them? How were similar countries that weren’t autocratic developing? Etc.
April 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
authoritarianism apologists like to hold up any supposed progress under their preferred dictators with no consideration of the likely counterfactuals: how much growth could have been achieved without them? How were similar countries that weren’t autocratic developing? Etc.
Do think the fact that our journalist estate is largely VERY online has a negative effect on discourse regardless of partisan slant. We often see issues that are much less salient to the general public but are very salient in niche online circles being discussed in major publications.
April 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Do think the fact that our journalist estate is largely VERY online has a negative effect on discourse regardless of partisan slant. We often see issues that are much less salient to the general public but are very salient in niche online circles being discussed in major publications.