FEMA has a website of searchable flood maps. Although as climate continues to change, and as long as Republicans are de-funding climate modeling, those maps will be less accurate.

Jesus - this article shows that New York media isn't really much at self-critiquing it's own milieu 🤮

There are some programs that are able to depict other economic classes in dignified ways - Reservation Dogs and The Wire come to mind. Those shows came so much out of the personal experiences of the creators, and that’s a rarity in Hollywood.

There are real limits to how much of life is appropriate to try to simulate for the purposes of entertainment.

While that seems annoying and unfair and not reflective of the reality many of us live, the truth is if you tried to make a program with “real” people or in a “real” place, very quickly you would see limits in people not being good performers or stories that seem exploitative and just plain sad.

Do that really well are pretty well educated, or have had the ability to become practiced in it, which in itself points to a certain level of privilege.

I’ve noticed this problem as someone who actually works in film and production and there is a genuine quandary involved. Making really interesting watchable programming usually has to come from the minds of people who are able to envision and communicate those interesting ideas. The people who …

(And no, don't just bring us your data centers :-P)

out in America that will actually contribute to the wellbeing of the community. Not everyone wants to move to New York! New York is fucking overcrowded! Stop encouraging gentrification that destroys everyone! Contribute to other geographic areas!

...To Cincinatti, to Indianapolis, to places in Alabama and Mississippi. When Amazon was having that competition about a decade ago about where to locate their massive new campus, and they looked only at New York and Virginia -- these massive companies never bother to think about how to build...

It's insane that big American business leaders still haven't figured out that they could absolutely stop fighting these battles by bringing their companies to other cities, and that the labor talent both exists and would follow them to those locations -- to St. Louis, to Kansas City, to Cleveland..

I think he rose in prominence in the era of hipster sleaze, where there were still strong elements of racism and misogyny in popular youth culture (Vice magazine)

I met someone in Boston who was friendly with him from growing up in Louisiana and had to work to extract myself from her after that 🤮

We should definitely base our entire economy on this technology.

Beautiful!

Oh sweet jesus, that just sounds...too real.

The cognitive twists that Republicans use to rationalize these wild beliefs and their associations with other nutjobs are truly something to behold.

So- Republicans completely falsely blaming their own rhetoric on Democrats, Liberals, and The “Left”.

Posts have said the Robinson kid was probably a Groyper. On their Wikipedia page, it describes a history of trying to disrupt Kirk events.