Nick Smith

PhD candidate @UCSanDiego political science studying threats in international politics. Kings basketball 🟣🔦🦁

[Nick Smith @nms_ucsd]

@alexolegimas @notanastronomer @MarthaF_F It was only 2 months for me! Lucky for me I got accepted one week Covid lockdowns.

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

Jeff is if anything underselling this

[Sammy - #NomoreNBA #NFLfc #Goodellfc @ShebaSZN]

So we can all agree these are the only real contenders in the NBA right?

[Nick Smith @nms_ucsd]

@quantian1 You forgot Hungary.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

The more I think about it, the more I think 2013-era morality is pretty much correct:

* free speech good
* starting companies and making good products good
* monopolies bad, vendor lock-in bad
* democracy good
* greed bad
* trying to achieve national security through oppressing people bad
* cosmopolitan humanitarian values, caring about faraway people, etc good

Things we've "learned" since then have been harmful more than helpful

[Nick Smith @nms_ucsd]

@swipathefox Thanks for the memories De'Aaron. Hope you find more success in San Antonio than you did in Sac.

[Nick Smith @nms_ucsd]

Very sad day for Kings fan.

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

BREAKING: Sacramento is finalizing a trade to send De'Aaron Fox to the San Antonio Spurs in a multi-team trade that moves Chicago Bulls' Zach LaVine to the Kings, sources tell ESPN.

[Nick Smith @nms_ucsd]

@StewMama71 @Noahpinion "taken adequate steps" 👍👍thanks that really clears things up

[Nick Smith @nms_ucsd]

@conksresearch 0% tariffs = very bullish

[Nick Smith @nms_ucsd]

Serious question, but has Trump indicated anywhere what it would take for tariffs to come down? #TrumpTariffs

[Nick Smith @nms_ucsd]

@mattyglesias loving my tl

[Nick Smith @nms_ucsd]

@Bobakkabob37 for rents to come down in california this can no longer be a meme, it needs to become a reality

[Bobak Esfandiari 🥑 @Bobakkabob37]

I swear to god I'm going to become the joker one of these days.

[Nick Smith @nms_ucsd]

Boy oh boy I might have been wrong about the firing of Mike Brown. Solid win. #ltb

[Sacramento Kings @SacramentoKings]

W

[Nick Smith @nms_ucsd]

@ethanbdm Trying to access the link but I keep getting a 404 error

[Chris Elmendorf @CSElmendorf]

Theory of CEQA: Consider alternatives before doing something big & risky.

Practice of CEQA (via today's Executive Dir.): Expedite massive rebuild of sprawl in toxin-soaked firelands.

No study, no alts: E.D. applies only if you're rebuilding same structure in same place.
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[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

It is kind of insane that the explicit public policy of California is “after a massive horrendous fire, we will expedite building the same exact kind of fire prone structure in exactly the same fire prone area but NOT fire resistant apartments in non-fire prone areas”

[🅱🅔🅝 @ben_mathes]

The twin plagues of California: price controls and subsidizing demand

[mottsmith @mottsmith]

For all the normies out there, this post is good because it calls out the defining fallacy of California's ruling anti-housing, Not-In-My-Backyard Democrat class (the "Left-NIMBYs").

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