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The Mercury News thinks slavery should be legal
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The libs are cooking omg
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Absolutely impossible to overstate the degree to which california high-speed rail is a real thing that is happening, my god
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Hillary Clinton could say "don't jump off this bridge" and I swear to god half of you would jump off out of spite
This graph literally shows it doesn't matter who you vote for.
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It's kinda crazy that "nothing happened when net neutrality ended" because California de facto runs the internet and Scott Wiener wrote a law codifying it
Net neutrality is the foundation of an open internet — and an open internet is key to a strong democracy. I’m thrilled the
@FCC
restored these critical protections today, including allowing CA to continue enforcing the nation-leading net neutrality law I authored.
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Why are they so weird about Barron
If Barron Trump ever decides to run for president. I’m Voting for him.
What about you?
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It really speaks to the democratic will that California voted for this thing and despite all the hiccups we're now actively constructing the largest public works project in the US
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This isn’t a coup lol it’s a vote of no confidence
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“oh I’m so cool for putting up with drug users on transit” is such a weird superiority complex. Like it’s great that you’re personally, like, hardcore but if that’s what it takes to ride transit only the virtuous and desperate are gonna ride
In some ways it would be a lot easier to shepherd out of town family around Philadelphia via transit, but I just don't know how to explain to them that free-basing is just one of those things you have put up with at stations.
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Honestly the anti-vexillology circlejerk has gone way too far. These are all fine.
Any retrospective of this decade is not going to be “in the 2020s the flagmakers were TOTAL DORKS with STUPID RULES” so much as “oh and here’s where people actually started giving a shit”
This generation of uninspired vector flags is going to feel so unfashionably dated, "of the 2020s" in 15 years. A sample of flags adopted in 2022:
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> making suicide and murder 10x easier
> making every interaction with the cops 10x more likely to escalate to violence
> cops literally patrolling schools and patting people down
> no other liberal country allows this
> safety impact of “stand your ground” overwhelming negative
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You heard it here first folks: Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act reduced the cost of crayons for working class-families
Wait when did crayons get so cheap. 120 crayons is $8. I remember being so excited and grateful for getting a box of 64 because I knew they were expensive!
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Researchers gave homeless people $750 per month for a year, no questions asked. The recipients spent the money on food, housing, transportation, clothing, and health care. And after six months, only 12% of those who received funds were still homeless.
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You hate Elaine Chao for jacking up grocery prices
I hate Elaine Chao for playing politics with federal support for Caltrain electrification
We are not the same
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@worsematt
“They country is literally falling apart (which we should do neutral to negative things about)”
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It’s funny how this guy thinks he can shit on the inherent prestige of US institutions when his entire career is based on licking the dirty dishes of the US culture war to see if there are discourse scraps left
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The median Amtrak long distance rider is an insane baby boomer with absolutely incoherent political views. We’re talking trump guys who want to increase immigration and libs who won’t take the vaccine
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Senator Warnock is so fucking good at this holy shit
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If you’re one of those people who thinks San José is too dismal and suburban going to any Central Valley will probably kill you. Like you’ll make it to Modesto and straight up die
still thinking about the skyline of San Jose, the tech capital of the world
I was expecting futuristic utopia vibes and instead got, like, Plano Texas vibes
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Honestly Star Wars could do with fewer fighter/bomber runs and more big cruisers/destroyers ripping each other to bits with the big guns
Space battles where it's just enormous warships throwing literally everything they have at one another will never not be awesome
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"oh i don't understand the plot she didn't explain it to me i'm so stoopid"--you are deranged. this is a derangement syndrome. please
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You’re not a civil rights icon for thinking we antisocial behavior on transit is “normal,”—I would argue that that normalization is ultimately rooted in the idea the (poorer, less privileged) people who ride consistently don’t deserve nice things.
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So they just have a trove of these that they submit whenever Trump has bad news right
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@HegelwCrmCheese
The Empire bureaucracy was just so siloed that guys who had worked there for five years had never heard of Darth Vader
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I know CGP grey has cringe opinions but I’m telling you “Flags need simple iconography to be seen on a flagpole” isn’t just “break up the massing” for flags. Most of these “stupid rules” have a real effect on how the flag can be perceived. Design isn’t a meaningless profession!
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"oh but the fact that i'm deranged against her means she's a bad communicator" - many such cases!
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This ad broke Microsoft’s brain in the mid-2000s and it still hasn’t recovered from the consequences of that
Apple’s ads have a reputation for being high-concept productions (“1984”) but their most successful campaign ever was two guys looking into the lens saying “Macs are cool and Windows is boring and lame”
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If you’re going to post this you lose all aesthetic credibility in my book. Nobody knows what these seals are, they can hardly see any of the details. Nobody gets merch with a state flag seal on it—people hardly even sell it
I'll bite the bullet and say: no, this isn't a meaningful improvement. There's a story in the seal. I guarantee you no one will be able to tell the new flag from any given Midwestern suburb's flag in 2033.
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Not to be “oh look how bad men have it” but these marvel movies really do kinda suck on body image representation. Like what business does ant man have in having washboard abs
Paul Rudd says he had a “horrible” and “restrictive” diet for playing Ant-Man.
“My reward was sparkling water. That’s how horrible that diet was. I was like, ‘Alright, I can have some sparkling water now, I’ve earned it.’”
(via: )
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San Mateo County and Santa Clara County absolutely needs to be coerced to opt in to the BART system
We often get asked about fares.
We are required to pay $2.5M annually in rent to the airport for 50 years.
We also subsidize operations into San Mateo County by ~$35-40M per year.
We look forward to continued discussions about funding sources and transit investment.
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He’s not even the oldest, this is cult of youth shit
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Basing all my opinions on SF downtown/transit recovery on Pelosi knowing ball
BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi just bought into an LLC that buys commercial office property in San Francisco
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Every city that grows without embracing transit-oriented density is on a course to become Los Angeles in a few decades.
Y’all…it’s Houston.
EVERYTHING is 45 minutes away.
“Down the road" is a 45-minute drive.
“Around the corner” is a 45-minute drive.
“Over yonder” is a 45-minute drive.
In order to date in Houston, regardless of wealth or social status…you must drive a MINIMUM of 45 minutes.
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This is just “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” but for cars
OPINION: “It seems the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s answer to all traffic issues is to restrict, block or even ban cars, even as the city begins a huge parking crackdown.”
— Jim Pollak
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If she retires under a Republican President, rest assured her replacement will not be a “wise Latina”
Justice Sotomayor’s decision to retire will be made as a wise Latina, in conversation with her doctor, her family, and her faith, without the interference of politicians who have no idea about her health condition.
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The thesis of Strong Towns is basically “how your town would be 100x better if it were Palo Alto,” and while this is basically correct for 90% of towns in the US, it’s notably not true of Palo Alto itself
strong towns is at its best when you don't try to apply the stuff to San Francisco or New York (where so much demand has been pent up that you obviously need massive growth) but instead apply it to smaller cities and less popular metro areas
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Not to go full Resist but she’s like definitely a Russian asset right
🚨New: Tulsi Gabbard will headline a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago for President Trump on March 7th.
@TulsiGabbard
~ The Hill
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This is idiotic. More homes in Menlo Park and Mountain View is not “new company towns” springing up out of nowhere—these cities are high resource and have plenty of amenities already. People want to live there!
Google is building multiple massive developments with 9,000 homes.
Facebook is building a development known as "Zucktown” with over 1,700 homes.
Elon Musk is laying the groundwork for a town called Snailbrook on thousands of acres.
We’re entering a new era of company towns.
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Fridges from 1963: somehow not a product of capitalism
“capitalism breeds innovation” is so interesting to me bc I feel that capitalism actually just breeds uniformity.
we find the “most efficient” design & make it, not to last, but to be as cheap as possible intentionally so it only lasts a few years before it has to be replaced.
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“I agree!”
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Roses are Red 🌹
Violets are Pretty 😲
What if we kissed 😳at the
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Kinda funny how crime in SF went from “thanks chesa” to “oh yeah things just suck now”
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Yeah I mean Dune is orientalist that’s kinda like the whole point
The problem isn't that the music for the Space Islam Movie "sounds Middle Eastern", it's that Zimmer, like lots of European and American composers before him, knows dick-all about actual music from that region and relies on several flattened Orientalist tropes to achieve the vibe
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The idea that BART’s fiscal cliff problem is about DRUGS and CRIME is ignorant of the fact that CalTrain has the same fiscal cliff problem. The issue is clearly San Francisco office vacancies and work-from home
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I’m still gonna have a functioning back in 20 years
What’s so so great about your desk job that we gave up this for that
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It’s underrated how much degrowth NIMBYism has a basis in car brain. People don’t want growth and they think we’re overpopulated because they see traffic on the highway and can’t envision getting places any other way
@rsomething
LA’s problem is that while it has density it’s car-oriented density and so all the roads are full of traffic all the time. Houston’s relative lack of density means it probably hasn’t reached the same limit yet, but any growth it pursues will bring it closer
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@worsematt
Fantasy: subscribe to security security for the cost of a Netflix account
Reality: Either you pay mob-affiliated private security or you join a gang mostly against your will
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Totally deserved. Making CHSR a "blended system" on the peninsula defanged NIMBY opposition to high-speed rail while delivering immediate benefits to thousands of riders
🚝 All aboard the Anna Eshoo train! 🚝
@Caltrain
has named one of their first electric trains after
@RepAnnaEshoo
because of her longtime advocacy for safer, quieter, faster, and zero emission trains. 32 years in Congress! Thank you so much for all you have done, Congresswoman!
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I’m just saying if you’re defending La Sombrieta at this point it’s probably because you have a vested interest in the survival of the professional-managerial social justice nonprofit grift. It’s class solidarity with people who write proposals for a living.
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You can recognize this without believing we should take some maximalist “tough on crime” position—enforcing the law here can be effective in the vast majority of cases without substantial penalties or armed confrontation. Enforcement just needs to actually happen
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“Public transit should be free” is one of those grand normative claims that makes a lot of sense from a grand first principles sense but is just not immediately helpful to the problems transit systems face right now
Something I've been seeing a lot from leftists is that public transit should be free! That's something I disagree with, for a few reasons:
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I don’t think people really understand how exceptional BART is. It’s definitely the best-run agency in the Bay Area and one of the best in the country and gets very little credit for it from local journalists
One homeless guy smokes crack or some teenagers do stupid shit on BART once a year and pundits lose their mind and we have this huge conversation about how BART cant be funded. Yet people every day die on our highways & pundits never question defunding Caltrans or CHP.
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How are both sides of this so out of touch? Just go with Kamala!
A polling memo circulating among Dem party officials argues that the best chance to defeat Trump is with a new nominee independent of the incumbent admin.
In other words: not Kamala Harris.
Playbook has more ⬇️
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@batwingdings
They have just totally internalized the criticism that she’s an unlikeable person who can’t win when in fact the opposite is true and 2020 was just a crowded primary
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bayesians vs frequentists
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Midcentury cities really just gave up on their own urbanity huh
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Me when a new star war comes out
Are you going to give the new Rey Skywalker movie a watch?
I most certainly will. All I want to see is fresh new ideas, a well written story and a completely new threat we have never seen before.
A New Jedi Order ✨
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This is a product made by a company known for its search engine
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The hollowing out of newspapers in favor of social media has been one of the worse trends for the US, politically IMO
The dominant reason that media narratives about the economy lean negative is just because bad news outsells good news
But another reason is that the news industry itself has been in perpetual recession for years so media workers have much worse "lived experience" of the economy
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Historical movie (1985) vs historical movie (2015)
Lol the backstage photo on the left looks better than the actual movie
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@LinkofSunshine
Incel memes will say anything—“twinks aren’t attractive” No. That isn’t true.
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Wow looks like we earned some fucking media
CNN, Fox News and MSNBC are all carrying Harris's Milwaukee rally live
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I get the sense that the people most viscerally enraged by “AI Slop” aren’t like high-status artists, but people most dependent on Slop content for their personal income
Case in point
74k likes for this AI slop. Should I just kill myself
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So, uhh, when do they learn about World War II
This is what a serious high school education looks like. This is why the Chesterton Academy network is one of the fastest growing networks of schools in America.
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One thing that Jordan Neely’s killing really really solidifies for me is that the post-covid erosion of social trust has been a two-way street. Yes, we have more people being a nuisance in public spaces. But otherwise “respectable” people also have less tolerance for this
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There were people with “ready for Hillary” signs and bumper stickers in *2013*
Literally no one was hyped about Clinton in 2016, let's be 100% real about that
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Honestly disappointed that Project Liberal isn’t just a bunch of teenagers that met on r/neoliberal rather than grown-ass libertarian thinktank guys who’ve decided to “reclaim liberalism”
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I hate this “Guns protect us too” argument because it’s so clearly false - “we” predominantly do not own or use guns at nearly the same rates! Guns are far more likely to be used against us than by us in self-defense!
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Filing “Why aren’t our models having enough anorexia” into the cursed Gen X discourse pile, along with “why aren’t our teens having enough sex and doing enough drugs”
On the right you can see a picture of the Victoria’s Secret angels that I had as a reference while growing up.
On the left you can see a picture of the current Victoria’s Secret models. Young girls are looking forward to have diabetes and being weak.
Out society is in decline.
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Some buildings should be ugly it’s fun
This is L.A.'s latest "creative office tower".
Why do they do this to us?
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Fundamental flawed thesis. Kamala Harris’s first run succeeded tremendously, it’s why she is where she is now
See: They're going after her already. The Post, like The Times, keeps demanding that Biden step down and they can't wait to next journalistically harass Harris.
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Search “this tweet has been deleted” in your camera roll and post your favorite
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It’s interesting how this passage takes a very “recollecting aloud” sentence to say “oh yeah he forgot”
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My gut reaction to this was wow he really went all in on America-hating Russia surrogates
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If you told me in 2019 that in 2024 Ezra Klein would be evil and Will Stancil would be good I would straight-up not believe you. What a weird timeline
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“people are pollution” but leftistly
YIMBYS: WHY IS HOUSING ILLEGAL??
Everyone else: Housing, like cars, is legal. You just can't roll coal, drive 90mph on the sidewalk and toss beer cans out your window. So we'd like to build some public transportation before more of that happens.
YIMBYS: WHY ARE CARS ILLEGAL??
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@CaltransHQ
@CA_Trans_Agency
@Tony_CTDirector
@ToksOmishakin
@CAgovernor
@ENERGY
Hydrogen isn’t green. Electrify please
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r/bayarea has such a derangement right now that they’re afraid of going outside in places that basically have no crime
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I’d like to chat with the editor who thought that this change in headline was somehow more informative
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@sam_d_1995
Yeah it’s priority number one for elites (checks notes) to save on gas and not put too many miles on the car?
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Thinking about the “bike safety advocate” in Palo Alto who thinks there shouldn’t be bike lanes on El Camino Real because it would induce too much cycling demand.
Something about being a local advocate for too long gives people the worst kind of brain worms
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