2024 after credits scene

Or, in terms DC staffers can understand, the 17th and R McDonalds vs the 14th and U McDonalds.

What’s happening

#thebanksareoutofmoney

Is this because most of the rich areas aren’t in City of LA, and under ED1?

It’s China under Mao. All Meta needs is a Deng and they’ll become the worlds largest company off their user network

We had social media in 2019, and short form video. I think it’s the post-Covid malaise

Every federal employee is in one of those analog horror videos now

There’s something here as well about the egocentrism instilled by our technological setting, such that any witnessed (even remotely) act of violence is personalized and experienced as representative

This whole crisis is because the speculative nature of housing incentivizes building less housing to drive up the cost of housing. The new class of speculators (SF homeowners who bought their house for $50k) vote in the policy changes that restrict housing!

(Marketable) ideas ran out

I’ve talked to a lot of people — Republican, Democrat, and leftist — all of them wanted Biden out near the end, and none of them wanted him out because of “populism”