@chamath The marginal cost of solar energy at noon in July in TX says nothing about the cost of delivered kWh or therm in January for most of the country.
Priest is clearly using AI to write his homily a few weeks in a row and it’s insulting. He ended 10 minutes of perfectly metered AI catholic slop with the only off the cuff remark of the day: “and we pray that whatever is going on in the Middle East… isn’t really like a war.”
@ScottWGerber@JeffO773 lol both ramps are 4 lanes when the come together and not nearly that tall so yeah. I’m just telling ppl that he posted a photo from somewhere else and made some shit up. Believe me or don’t
Minneapolis never recovered from BLM riots which shook up white DFL establishment. Somali community seized on power vacuum and expanded power base outside of Cedar-Riverside to St. Paul and suburbs. Just a few Somali male local electeds in 2010s turned into 30+ state/local electeds by 2020s. The new crop are mostly born in Somalia but raised in Minneapolis (also more women) which makes them more approachable by DFL white libs and Somali reps are beginning to get better committee spots. This opened flood gates for state and local grants to Somalis. White DFL establishment has embraced this power shift in exchange for new voter base and campaign money, anointing Somalis as a privileged minority in MSP.
Somalians in Minnesota have been in the news a lot.
As someone who has lived in Minnesota my whole life I want to share my perspective.
First we need to separate groups.
A lot of people are saying things like we should deport all Somalians. That is wrong.
Many Somalians were born here or moved here decades ago and they consider themselves American first.
They raise families here, contribute to their communities, and see this country as home.
Treating them as anything less than American is wrong.
With that said there is a different group of Somalians that people in Minnesota talk about privately but are afraid to say out loud.
Starting in the late 2000s and continuing since then, large numbers of Somalians were imported here from Somalia who do not see themselves as American, they identify as Somalian only.
Many do not speak English, many do not work, and many do not support American law and norms.
People who live in Minneapolis or around have seen this.
This group has not been a net positive economically, socially, or culturally.
They have also gained a large amount of political power in a short period of time.
This is why you see Minneapolis politicians speaking Somalian instead of English, and why the Minnesota flag was changed to look almost identical to the Somalian flag.
People in Minnesota are not surprised by the recent fraud stories. The scale is shocking but the behavior itself is not.
Everyone in Minnesota has seen what Minneapolis has become, and it’s sad. Most people in Minnesota don’t say anything about it cause they know they will get in trouble if they do.
This does not mean every Somalian person fits this description, and we should not generalize in totality at all.
But Minneapolis is a fallen city, and anyone who lives in it or around it knows this even though most won’t say it out loud.
@aristotlegrowth Bottom 40% of earners saw real wages increase 4.5% faster than inflation 2020-2024 but cost of new debt is higher and nominal prices continue to give people sticker shock. People take on expensive debts with increased incomes and don't factor in increased cost of goods.
Let's just rip the bandaid off of Medicaid's non-medical support services and remove federal funding entirely. If states want to provide these services, let them pay for it. Also, better cost controls for medical device reimbursements.