Berkeley’s economy works like this: every morning, the boba shop employees go to a coffee shop to buy coffee, and every afternoon the baristas go to the boba shops to buy boba.

Agreed. The frustrating thing to me was that Coates was clearly saying “it is my job to yell at you, and that is not an impediment to you and the people who you listen to winning power, the opposite in fact, please use this gift I am giving to you.” And Ezra being too in his feelings to get it.

I have confidence in the genius of the American people. Someone will figure out how to put this on a pizza.

I walk by the property all the time. It’s been vacant for years. It was falling apart in 2020 and still is today.

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Hello, I’m one of your neighbors in North Berkeley. It is hard for me to take your posts like this seriously when you help drive up prices by blocking housing in our neighborhood.

I mean the Cal game starts in five minutes, are we sure it wasn’t that?

It’s true that the bigger obstacles to implementing the policies are big liberal nonprofits, but the leftists are much bigger assholes about it online, so yimbys tend to mood affiliate with and court the libs instead. Perhaps there is a lesson to be learned here.

Golden Gate Bridge Claude but for Boers

It was a tic (or maybe flex?) of David Foster Wallace

Dudes of a certain age know that it’s fine to start a sentence with “And but so”

Dissenting opinion: I booked mine in advance, and regretted it because it turned into a scramble in Tokyo to get to the right platform on time, and I wish we could have just been chill about it. (Though the scramble was partly because we had two 9-year-olds with us, so ymmv)

Wins above replacement, good metric

True! Take it holistically and Washington doesn’t look too bad. Adenauer belongs in the conversation imo

Best founders of a democracy award gotta go to Nehru and Ghandi, right? Hard to beat.

The one time I saw them live was at a taping of the David Letterman show, with Howard Dean as the headlining guest. Moment in time.

I wonder if this is single stair

Double-secret Jones Act