New Google search is apparently just a bot that can skim old Google search badly on our behalf.

Egan's recent short story/Novelette 'Understudies' is *all* puzzles! clarkesworldmagazine.com/egan_10_25/

Not so much that they aren't relevant, but the 2-norm is general enough it can always do the job: any hypothetical p-norm probabilities can be emulated w/ some mixed state using the 2-norm (consequence of Gleason's Theorem). Scott Aaronson has a related note www.scottaaronson.com/papers/islan...

And that's strategic to try to get what I want on issues, the things that matter. I don't think we can beat the right in the long run on issues if we don't start actually changing things, so voting strategically in the way you suggest is lose-lose (more fascists after a Newsom term is not a win).

Some PR wins that amount to aping 2016 Trump do not make a good president. I may or may not vote strategically when the time comes, but Ds do not get to count on it in their strategy: they need to come up with a good candidate instead of counting *again* on any warm body who isn't Trump being enough

There's *zero* strategic reason to need to be lining up behind Newsom as a serious candidate so early - and he's an awful candidate (funny how that goes essentially undisputed if the only argument for him is to "be strategic" years ahead of that being relevant).

Been voting strategically for at least 3 candidates now. How's that been working out? Voting strategically, picking the lesser evil has been *the* losing strategy on issues for a decade now - stop tone-policing people who want to demand real change. We can do better and it's reasonable to try.

If it follows World War rules it'll be renamed Depression I and the new one will be Depression II.

Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents are pretty spot-on in that way.

And if part of the point being made is to reject incrementalist solutions as insufficient, then knowing these actual numbers in greater detail doesn't really help (an order of magnitude argument can suffice) - they're irrelevant to the starting point being argued for because so much needs to change.

It's not reading a lot into the graph, it's being aware of context in the political/activist landscape wrt. housing that Bernie is in and reading the graph as a piece of media instead of a piece of data. Media literacy instead of graph literacy. Politics isn't always/just a science (unfortunately).

In which case the goal is not immediate (at least not realistically) and the graph isn't aiming to be strictly quantitative - the point is to reject the framing that fixing housing for all is just a numbers game on these axes and instead start a conversation about real structural changes.

There are plenty of corners on the left that make arguments like this - e.g. "Abolish Rent" and "Homes for all" union movements. Bernie pretty consistently pushes the idea that housing should not be commodified - what else does a long-term vision on completely de-commodified housing look like? 1/2

That depends on how radical a statement you want to read it to be - if owning housing were to be treated as a nearly literal right (destroying the notion that large numbers of people should be renting), _median_ home (distinct from house) prices should probably be comparable to a few weeks wages.

Isn't the point here not to literally read the chart but rather to *illustrate* (via the illegibility as a literal chart) that these things are on very different scales... Seems like a fine rhetorical point to make as-is.

The problem is that *they don't care about their own hypocrisy* and us harping on it isn't a successful way to call them out - it doesn't *do* anything to stop the building of a gestapo. They say what they want to get a gestapo, being made fun of doesn't matter after that because they have a gestapo

Or literally 8h ago: bsky.app/profile/rbre...

What are you talking about? He's made several comments - e.g. youtu.be/J8cBTLGAasM?.... It's not his area of expertise so the bulk of his content isn't on it, but his stance is far from silent.