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[Brugg @Brian_Rugg]

There is no greater evil than those that deny the existence of the Seattle SuperSonics. The Sonics will rise again!

[Jason Maples @jjmaples55]

This league does not need to expand

[Lucythegreat @lucythegreat123]

Imagine walking up to a random Muslim person at the grocery store and demanding they explain the human rights record of the Middle East or denounce the treatment of women in Iran before you let them pass. You would be called a racist lunatic. And you would be! Funny how that standard disappears entirely the second a Jewish person enters the room.

[Brugg @Brian_Rugg]

@CerbhalMac @yechielleiter

[Trinity Votes 🇮🇱🇺🇦 @TrinityMustache]

So Mamdani’s new policies are landlords can’t require proof of income or do background checks on renters and also can’t evict them when they fail to pay. This is not sustainable and will collapse the NYC rental market.

[Brugg @Brian_Rugg]

@brazCS2 @shevereshtus Real galaxy brain stuff. In other news spiders don't bite, bees don't sting, and rats just want to cuddle.

[shevereshtus @shevereshtus]

They don’t go to North Korea to protest.
They don’t go to China.
They don’t go to Iran.
They don’t go to Cuba.

They go to Israel because they know that the worst thing that might happen to them is not getting good enough footage to go viral on social media.

[Max ✡︎𓂆🇮🇱🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 ⚣🤍 @lilbuddymax]

One of Al Qaeda’s founders was Palestinian, all 19 hijackers were Arab Muslims, Osama’s manifesto called America the great Satan because it’s the largest free western country, there’s footage of Arabs and other Muslims celebrating 9/11 as a victory, people choose to blame Israel.

[Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana]

In 2008 South Korea made it so you had to have your name attached to posts online.

Can you guess what happened next?

Half the country's people were hacked—and that was just ONE hack in a series of them.

And nothing improved online.

@TheFIREorg @sarahemclaugh told me about this and I could not believe it!!

[Christian JB @christianjbdev]

Talked to a youngish adult about politics, and their only way of interpreting the world is through oppressor vs the oppressed.

Where the oppressor is the bigger richer country, and the oppressed is the smaller poorer country.

Really saves time having to think!

[Brugg @Brian_Rugg]

@zwooden_ @mnolangray What are some of the issues with the "faux clean 'supply' bill"?

[Andrew Jeffery @credealjunkie]

In what should come as no surprise, cities that don't build housing have high rent growth.

Virginia Beach, Chicago, Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose are the top 5 rent growth markets and are in the top 10 for fewest permitted units per capita in the last five years.

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

There is no such thing as a high-permitting, high-cost city.

If you have demand and you aren’t permit-maxxing, you’re rent-maxxing.

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

When housing costs start rising, cities face a choice: Will they sit on their hands and inflate the paper wealth for incumbents to the detriment of everyone else? Or will they build more housing and keep costs broadly under control?

[Adam Singer @AdamSinger]

Opposition to data centers today will look like opposing electrification in 1910 or railroads in 1855. Actually, even worse, given we already use data centers to power the world right now, illustrating how oblivious people are to how things work

[ShitlibSupreme 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @ShitlibSupreme]

Somewhere an unemployed white 30+ year old leftist with a PhD in sociology is raging about these working class traitors from the basement of their parent's gated community house.

[Gary Winslett 🌐🇺🇸 @GaryWinslett]

There are a lot more climate and environmental protection success stories than most people know. Ozone layer hole is shrinking, acid rain and smog are way down, water is cleaner.

I think it would help environmental advocates to focus on these more instead of always dooming.

[Conor Friedersdorf @conor64]

I would urge everyone to pay more attention to liberal versus illiberal, coercive versus non-coercive, and authoritarian versus anti-authoritarian as salient divides.

[Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana]

The NY data center ban happens because there are no political consequences for blocking new good things.

When politicians create an occupational license for hair braiders, block new unrealized technology, or act out of some other form of slopulism, their supporters love it because it feels safe. And opponents who understand the real consequences are usually fewer or aren't hit as hard because you can't see or feel the good things and economic activity that would have happened if they didn't do it.

There's no real political downside.

And by the time people realize the mistake - as with blocking nuclear power - they're out of office.

Nobody is immune to this impulse but wish we could select for politicians with foresight and backbone.

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

incredible that the political consensus of the city keeps being "we should never allow new housing to be built in the Mission, guaranteeing it will get richer and whiter over time" and that is somehow seen as Very Progressive

[Steve Everley @saeverley]

Every story about rising power bills blames data centers.

Very few mention *why* there is a shortage of power.

Data centers didn’t force baseload power plants to close without any reasonable backfill.

Activists and policymakers - who are now blaming data centers - did.

[David Aronchick @aronchick]

Everything is so fucking stupid. A) 264B gallons of water is MEANINGFULLY less than 0.1% of all water consumed (golf courses are 10z larger) B) the water isn’t “consumed in ANY WAY - it’s taken out of the source, applied to some heat, and handed right back! Often CLEANER.