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"Open-Minded-Urban-Cosmopolitans" are my "Dull-Hometown-Hicks-I-Grew Up-And-Escaped".
The god of deer offers a different gospel than the god of wolves. Yet God is father to both deer and wolf.
This posture of protecting the "innocence" of fellow adult citizens seems like a major component of how we came to be so deluded and infantilized as a society. Exposure to the brutality and tragedy of life is supposed to be part of the coming-of-age for all people. Social norms…
Very few people understand why there are things that can't just be fully released for the general public to see. Firstly, it encourages copycats. Also, I worked as a photofinishing engineer for a decade and had to process and print evidence / crime scene photos. Things you'd…
There's a Women In Tech conference in the building, so I'm stealing their pizza. Listened to two talks so far. Discussion of tech so far: none. Lots of sharing personal journeys though. Voices are also being heard.
Every woketard's origin story is hating all the other kids at school
every fascists origin story is hating school
Student loan forgiveness, but only for women with >1 minor child and no independent income who file "married filing jointly".
"Elite overproduction occurs when a society produces too many people who feel entitled to high status...and try to form alliances with genuinely marginalized populations in order to depose existing elites and install themselves in their stead." press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…
Whenever passenger rail is discussed, remember that this aspect at least is historically contingent. We're one train bombing away from rail being just as bad as airport security.
The airport experience is inferior to a train station experience. Walk in with your bag and ticket -> arrive at the city center. VS Check-in, take off your shoes, throw all liquids, arrive in the middle of nowhere.
High speed rail is great over a very specific range of distances in areas that have the right population density. Most of Europe meets those criteria. Most of America doesn't. Everything else about this debate is pure vibes
Rail is best used for freight while humans should fly through the sky at 500 miles per hour because they value their time.
To understand the digital surveillance framework (of which the Online Safety Act is a part), it is essential to recognize that it is deliberately incoherent and nonsensical by design, as it awaits the final piece to slot in, which will be Digital ID. Like this.
At the national level I’m a fanatical xenophobic nativist but at the planetary level I’m a fanatical multiculturalist hippie so I suppose on balance you could say that balances out to being a moderate.