Nato Powell

Food manager and bike escort for furry quadrupeds [email protected], same handle on threads

[Nato Powell @hardwarehuman]

@SFMTA_Muni You should get on Bluesky. Not only are a large fraction of San Franciscans migrating there now, there’s also at least one person acting like they’re you, which is easy when the real SFMTA isn’t there yet.

[Nato Powell @hardwarehuman]

@KamalaHQ What are you doing? You act like this is a gotcha but this is basically defending Trump. It says “oh, he talks like a murderous fascist but don’t worry, he doesn’t actually mean it.” Except he does, of course, and only brave and diligent people managed to resist him last time.

[Nato Powell @hardwarehuman]

@KathrynTewson Looks like a law office to me!

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@ArmandDoma Istanbul? Ahem, I think the spelling is always instanbul.

[Nato Powell @hardwarehuman]

@openthegreathwy Lots of assertions in here that I don’t think are meaningfully true and for which no evidence is cited, e.g. the traffic claims, and saying that GGP is “right next door” which is only true at the far north end of the proposed park. I’m a local excited to vote yes on Prop K.

[Nato Powell @hardwarehuman]

@Gold_blooded5 @openthegreathwy I do live there and am excited to think that we’ll end up hosting one of the City’s most iconic parks.

[Nato Powell @hardwarehuman]

@substack I just got a new phone and even though I logged into my account it’s still asking me about my “favorite topics” On my old phone I’d gotten it so I was mostly seeing the things I’d wanted to see and this implies I’d be starting over. It made me not want to go further.

[Nato Powell @hardwarehuman]

@ArmandDoma Is this one of the people excited by the idea of a global collapse that kills most of the population due to the fact that tech loss means a massive reduction in the number of humans who can be supported? Or is he one who doesn’t grasp that we can’t all do 19th century cosplay?

[Nato Powell @hardwarehuman]

@chai_sapien @TakeThatLaw @AkivaMCohen Everyone is bound by the laws of war, but guerrillas/insurgents don’t have the protections from prosecution (e.g. for murder) that uniformed service members do. This conversation is from a long time ago so I’m honestly not sure if we even disagree.

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@Spelt_D_o_n_a_l @sam_d_1995 @GermanyDiplo No generation method is without its externalities, and the only one I can think of with externalities as low as an already-built nuclear plant is geothermal, which isn't practical most places.

[Nato Powell @hardwarehuman]

@ricci56347 @AliceFromQueens If you think you just got lucky or had friendly moderators then you don’t want another debate because the next one will likely go worse. It’s either when you underperformed or if you think your opponent is incapable of beating you that you try for more debates.

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@vasilina_orlova @RALee85 And in fact, it can continue to be true in that same sense if they continue to provide the same intelligence as part of a general practice rather than in order to aid the Kursk offensive specifically.

[Nato Powell @hardwarehuman]

@vasilina_orlova @RALee85 The sense of “to” here is ambiguous, but it would most narrowly imply intent. That is to say, they supplied it for other reasons but not for that reason. So, I think the statement is still true in that sense.

[Nato Powell @hardwarehuman]

@SomeTwitYouNo @NateSilver538 He created the FiveThirtyEight model used up until he left. Since then ABC rebranded it as 538 and got a new modeler: G Elliott Morris, with whom Nate has a contentious history.

[Nato Powell @hardwarehuman]

@GreenBrarian07 @maureendowd Having said that, it would appear, based on the DC indictment, that Trump took some actions that went far beyond the legal form of “challenging” to attempts to subvert the election results via various illegal means. So both illegal and norm-breaking. 2/2

[Nato Powell @hardwarehuman]

@GreenBrarian07 @maureendowd We were talking about “democratic norms,” not what is legal. Trump could have said that everyone who voted against him is a traitor who should be shot, but as long as he didn’t do anything to make that happen it wouldn’t have been illegal. 1/2

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@metalorange12 @maureendowd What in either one of these sources conflicts with anything I said?

[Nato Powell @hardwarehuman]

@GreenBrarian07 @maureendowd I dunno. It would be quite a stretch to call me a leftist, and anyway I don’t think there’s anything controversial about noting that no democratic norm is more genuinely core than accepting when one loses a generally fair election.

[Nato Powell @hardwarehuman]

@GreenBrarian07 @maureendowd ?

[Nato Powell @hardwarehuman]

@MsKeitaSan @maureendowd If it only fits that second definition, then basically it’s just saying that the Democrats managed the transition decisively and very well. Which, yes, indeed, but that would be a weird thing to complain about in an editorial. 2/2

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@MsKeitaSan @maureendowd That’s not the first definition in the dictionary, which is the original, specifically political-governmental definition that also implies illegitimacy. The derived secondary definition you cite is not specific to politics and doesn’t carry any negative connotations. 1/2