Most of these require taxes, which the mayor doesn’t really have a lot of control over. I think he has a lot of power over rent control I think?

The heads are mostly 3d printed these days!

Thinking about Scott Alexander talking about “making a safe haven from witch hunts” involves making a forum with about 3 principled libertarians and a few thousand witches

You gotta be absolutist about being against misgendering — in part because people still interpersonal respect, but mostly because inviting conditional misgendering invites a lot of people who want to be doing misgendering regardless

It’s pop culture common knowledge at this point but it’s very funny how upbeat this song is for the subject matter being human extinction as a result of nuclear false alsrm

Ugh the share timestamp didn’t work. It’s at 1:13

99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Hielt man für Ufos aus dem All

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They say “oo-fo,” it’s said a few times in 99 luftballons

It was very amusing because no one really understood that basically all database technology can create read only databases

Wolfram’s been good at math homework for a very long time now yeah

Tbh also The Single Growth Industry right now is subject to all sorts of tariff exceptions because Trump likes it when S&P 500 go up

For me it’s that Japan supposedly has some of the highest national iqs in the world while struggling to match Italy on labor productivity

Tbh anglophone suburbs are bad by the standards of developed world suburbs, but American suburbs are bad even by anglophone standards. Australian/Canadian suburbs can support decent bus service in a way American ones can’t!

Oh wow, thank you for the in depth answer!!!

The much bigger problem is that their population drop is gonna be gigantic relative to the population of the world. Even if they wanted to fix their problems with immigration, there’s just not enough people that exist, period!

I want to be sympathetic, obviously they went through something extremely painful and traumatic, and I think Trump’s anti-establishment rhetoric would be appealing with such experiences, but same time, his relationship with Epstein wasn’t some sort of state secret!