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subway stalinist

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@Fremond_ More of a German sensibility afaict

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@hopes_revenge Alignment by vow of poverty

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@atlanticesque Maybe moderates should try being fashionable so they can get elected and return the favor

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@SchizoLLC Extracting the lowest-quality housing stock in the developed world at the highest prices in America from boomer landowners with second homes in Marin, every year, for decades

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@daniel_w_owens Comparing SF to other municipalities on a $/service basis is confounded, public and private compensation is burdened by housing costs that you're well aware of. Need to find bloat on an FTE/service basis but that's harder to do so we never see tweets about it

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@T0dgerWaters @barakgila @PippengerHarlo Your question isn't relevant to San Francisco, the requirements are very generous. It's never been easier to look this stuff up: https://t.co/ryrEBg6HG2

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@PippengerHarlo How long do you think it took to show up in completions?

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Reflecting on this makes it clear that even embodiment is not enough, consciousness is a collaborative effort and doesn't arise independently

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I am pretty sure that if you put a human in a blank room with no input for long enough, they stop existing in a meaningful way.

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@isosteph Logical consequence of Reddit atheism. What it feels only matters if we like the vibes of its creator, and who created animals?

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@ChrisGPotts I don't subscribe to them, it's just what's written down in Lena

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@livgorton What of slave owners who afforded moral status and grew their holdings? Were they operating from a place of deep humility? Does history applaud them

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@tyler_johnston Seems like a lot of thought went into it. What would make this piece seem less "utterly incurious" to you?

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@guptaso2 @cis_female Personally I don't care for libraries. But the DOGE-caliber analysis all over this thread is duping well-intentioned people into wasting precious tweets on the wrong issue, which I cannot abide

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@guptaso2 @cis_female Yes, it is 6x. Chicago metro's median home price is almost exactly 1/6 that of the Bay Area. Other goods and services can be nonlinear in this, but not when they're 60% labor (like libraries)

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@guptaso2 @cis_female It's not https://t.co/AddfAYbBdH

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@cis_female @NathanpmYoung @nonmayorpete @ChainZenit I'm glad you listed these numbers because it shows that you're just measuring regional cost of living, not relative service efficiency. Many SFans willingly pay more for groceries, transport because labor inputs are expensive per unit, no reason to believe libraries are special

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@cis_female @NathanpmYoung @nonmayorpete @ChainZenit I'm glad you listed these numbers because it shows that you're just measuring regional cost of living, not relative service efficiency. Many SFans willingly pay more for groceries, transport because labor inputs are expensive per unit, no reason to believe libraries are special

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@PippengerHarlo You're confused because you're looking at old 2023 data. The tweet is referencing 2026 data:

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@BonesawMD This is observation bias. The ideas big enough to code by hand weren't waiting for coding assistants. We're getting the long tail of small use cases that are not even worth publicizing but are still narrowly useful

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@elaifresh @kerwin65230 J and N operators have been known to apologize sitting outside the tunnel entrance due to "rush hour traffic" inside the market st tunnel