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PhD student posting about politics while I wait for experiments to run. endorsements != endorsements. min flow is max cut they/them Developer and operator of urbanstats.org 📍 Cambridge Mass

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 Urban Stats 30.0.0 🚨

Added international weather data to urban stats!

Also: added minimum daily temperature averages (and averages by season); seasons now represented by months not astronomical seasons.

You can now create global good weather maps!

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 4h

Opposition to abortion on genuine grounds of utilitarianism would be strongly supportive of contraceptive access. Anti abortion types generally are not, because they don't oppose the destruction of fetuses, they oppose a world where sex exists for reasons other than procreation

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 4h

Republicans oppose abortion for the same reason they oppose gay marriage or trans people existing publicly: because it contradicts the vision they have for how society should be rigidly organized around gender lines

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 4h

In general the Republican anti abortion position speaks liberal language, of rights and utilitarianism, so liberals imagine that it's a more popular element of the Republican social platform, but it isn't at all; and the utilitarian/rights language is just there because liberals humor it

eaglesadvocate @eaglesadvocate.bsky.social · 10d

He also needs to wear his thoughtlessness on running pro-life candidates. Coates calls him on the issue not being popular even in red states and Klein basically goes “ah, well, never-the-less”.

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 6h

- full RGB choropleth maps
- bug fixes: RTL text works now and colorbars fit in PNG exports

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 6h

🚨 Urban Stats 30.2.0 🚨

Variety of improvements and bug fixes!

- yearly stats now nest! Much cleaner interface
- ability to edit the insets on the mapper screen (by @spudwaffle.bsky.social)
- comparisons can now be reördered and sorted
- CSV export for most pages

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 7h

I'm pretty sure, this is called, swimming

Fun fact board saying "#200: penguins fly underwater"

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 14h

Like there's not that much real here beyond some datacenter construction. These companies don't employ a lot of people (like Microsoft does, but not people who actually work on the AI stuff) or underwrite mortgages or anything

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 14h

2008 was bad because of the fact that it involved the housing market and loans and stuff. This is almost all investment and the valuations are almost all expectation. If it bursts it just kinda disappears imo

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 14h

The debate here really seems to be "we should completely restructure society in a reverse one child policy dystopia in order to prevent economic growth from going from 3% to 1.8%"

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 14h

Taking slack out of other parts of the economy (you could call this degrowth if you like, but like, a lot of it is just stuff like not doing 1000 hours of community review for everything) would be much easier economically and politically than trying to actually get more kids to exist

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 15h

I mean like the thing about this kind of threat is it's imo pretty idle. He made a similar threat against Newsom and never even tried following through

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

The original source suggests it's more a "I'm a bottom, I'm just a little guy, I couldn't actively plan treason 🥺🥺" type defense, which is hilarious coming from a roman centurion; like bestie you lead troops

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

YouTube message: Imagine using "but I'm a bottom" being a successful defense against, like, treason. How does that work

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"I'm so sowwy, I didn't mean it." Like that.

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone always says Boston is expensive, which is like, not true objectively, but is true relative to the amenities you get

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao I have a similar salary to rent ratio for *half* a 2BR in *Boston*

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I think that liberals have largely internalized that this is an error that people are making, but not so much with femicide

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

The indian number system names 10⁵ "lakh" and 10⁸ "crore", using these instead of million and billion for numbers in the order of magnitude range 10⁶ to 10¹⁰. It's commonly used for money, but in the same way people will say "this house is 3 million" to mean "3 million dollars"

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah sorry nonstandard term in the American context but all statistics are out of it for some reason

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

Society doesn't really know what to do with the actual femicide problem (driven by IPV) so we have displaced it onto a belief that women are under constant threat from strangers

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

Like this is an order of magnitude difference.

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

The numbers are such that I'm pretty sure this holds even if you exclude stuff like that. 29% of homicides of men are by strangers, it's 10% for women, which, multiplying through with the murder rate by gender, is 2.7/lakh for men and 0.26/lakh for women

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like I see this a lot from even fairly moderate or liberal people, there's this belief that women are like extremely fragile and constantly at risk in cities. Despite the fact that men are way more likely to be attacked by strangers (ofc some of this has to do with differences in behavior)

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder how much of this is unironically just sexism causing them to believe that men in general are orders of magnitude tougher than women in general and therefore cities are just no good for women

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

These are basically entirely unrelated. I don't really understand how you're connecting them at all. Immigration enforcement is carried out by different agencies, is not generally discussed in the same context as corruption, is not talked about by the same people for the most part, etc