You want to be able to have fresh restaurant food on demand at cheap prices? This is how you make that happens—by building a fuckton of silly little delivery robots that anyone can rent the services of for a tiny fee.

I think markets are fine, just that outside of a few tankie circles this might be fighting the last war. Vaush identifies as a market socialist on some level, etc. so this doesn't necessarily come down on hard ideological lines nowadays.

I had to go through a Mormon seminary which while not a Catholic seminary is still fairly substantial.

I think that something about things being really old short circuits people's logic, like the time immemorial argument has some sort of reflexive advantage. I am mostly staring down Mormonism/Judaism here but all religions do this. Atheists even do this sometimes with like Epicurus.

I live in a not fantastic part of my city and I see a handful pretty regularly, each time I can't help but thinking "what life choices would someone have to make to end up with a Cybertruck _here_?"

The idea of being told yes is so comforting it makes anything else that much scarier. I have tasted hope, don't make me give it up again.

No one, absolutely no one, rushed to fill the niche left by Trump and Musk and Rubio murdering USAID, and that should tell us a lot about other governments.

Agreed, men are very interesting to look at and have plenty of subtleties to appreciate. I think it's evidence of the hardwired idea that everyone is focusing on dress and makeup.

Depending on how we measure this maybe Simon Rosenberg?

American Diabolism filtering down into Democrat Diabolism once the viewer decides that Republicans and their voters have no agency and therefore everything ever is the D's fault. If that wasn't the case then strategy would matter and they couldn't be a perfect pure smol bean anymore.

Dems have gotten every anti-trans rider removed from every bill that's come through this congress, something that's taken considerable political capital. Oregon, a blue state, is often ranked as having the most progressive trans policy in the world.