Sascha Segan

'A nerd from the 80s,' according to my daughter. PR guy for Qualcomm. Also some X-Men stuff. Opinions mine, not Q's. Also on Threads.

[Sascha Segan @saschasegan]

I'm on Web6 and 8G

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Metropolitan (1990)

[Amelia Metters @amelia_metters]

Big vibes

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@sabinathegreat My family is ethnically Hunter College

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@signulll I had called it too expensive and blocked from much of the market by its AT&T exclusivity contract. Both of which were true at the time, of course.

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@matt_knee I love that Hasids just say AMERICAN

[Sascha Segan @saschasegan]

I was on an FB thread about this. It isn't an option in part because Jewish-American leaders in the 1950s-60s fought to get it removed, as 'counting Jews' was considered a very bad thing to do then, given the recent history. Also, there was a mid-20c movement to designate us as a 'religion' rather than an 'ethnicity' for various reasons. (Other religions are also not acceptable answers on this survey.)

https://t.co/eDT2lTDioE

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@vodkasnowflake There was no social media or "new CBS" with Obama. Totally different info ecosystem on the national scale.

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@vodkasnowflake A young, urban base can win NYC and even NY statewide but not national, not even national primaries.

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@vodkasnowflake I just really doubt it, but I guess we shall see. I think the information ecosystem would make her look like the second coming of Stalin, and older voters would be too afraid. National elections are really dominated by over 50s

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@jasonwoodmansee Salute these great Americans by watching my video about Shaolin: https://t.co/5nDX5X3CRv

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@PhilSustainable We haven't had elevator or boiler service for a few days now. Not because of something breaking - there just isn't enough power. This is doing more damage to my YIMBYism than anything I've experienced before.

[Sascha Segan @saschasegan]

Got an update on our building's power problems: ConEd says there's nothing we can do, nothing's broken, they literally do not have enough power to give us. At least that's what ConEd is saying: NYC has run out of available electricity. Wow.

I like to think of myself as a "build more" guy, but we can't build more if the power company is saying it literally can't supply power.

(And no, the mayor has nothing to do with this private electricity provider managing a swathe of the metro area. If anyone, I blame Governor Andrew Cuomo for shutting down a major power plant without making arrangements to replace it.)

[Sascha Segan @saschasegan]

We fa'ed, now we fo. I'd love to know why Manhattan isn't suffering the way the rest of us are.

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@mweinbach @sonicwave It's installed in some very high-traffic areas of NYC, too, like the plaza down the street from me.

[Sascha Segan @saschasegan]

Adolescence of Utena (1999)

[grace spelman @GraceSpelman]

she got turned into a car before her wedding :(

[Sascha Segan @saschasegan]

@sonicwave @mweinbach It's in sports stadiums and other event venues throughout the United States.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it: American exceptionalism. 

American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free, is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West, is why children in far away lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here.

And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional.

For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshipping the wrong Gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants for whom power was something someone else had.

We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else.

The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence-that work endures, my friends, and it belongs to us all.

It belongs too to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel— the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too.

[build mixed use taco-houses 🌐🥑 @yimbyism]

My final comment on 78-degree-gate: if Indian Point were still operating, there would be no electricity rationing necessary in New York City today. That is all that matters.

[Sascha Segan @saschasegan]

You know I also do videos about unbuilt public transit lines, right? Did you know there could be a TRUE (grade-separated) BRT line on ... Staten Island? Come with me and see who it'll serve! https://t.co/5nDX5X3CRv