@ThePhyscoDC@mattyglesias well that’s who it benefits. how can expensive hotels in a city be a good thing? you’re in favour of making a city unaffordable to visit or spend time in? There’s already rent controls for affordable housing, it’s not the same issue.
can't believe that just happened: Trump got a NASA question and deferred to NASA administrator Jared Isaacman, saying "the best man to tell you that is the man sitting right over here. You heard that question with those beautiful ears of yours ... He's got super hearing"
You’d think an immigrant who moved to California and earned unimaginable riches (scamming people along the way) would be more grateful to heritage Californians who made it possible. Have you even said thank you once?
Chamath not getting the joke here but being very mad that someone on the “other team” would do such a ridiculous thing is very funny and very on brand.
@CFCDaily Even pessimistic chelsea fans couldn’t have seen every single noteworthy signing being shit. Gittens, Delap, Garnacho all non factors and the random shit centre backs they sign.
How can anyone thing London is dirtier, less attractive and more violent than twenty or thirty years ago? I remember the London of the mid 90s and it was filthy, polluted, traffic-infested and genuinely felt a little dangerous.
We actually don't have especially good numbers for how often women lie about sexual assault.
But there are all kinds of motives to do so. Sympathy, revenge, remuneration, political payback.
We should exercise ordinary skepticism.
Javier Milei, the cartoonishly stupid Argentinian Trump who continues to be hailed as an economic genius:
"A company pollutes the river. And? Where is the harm? They can pollute all they want! There's enough water. We'll worry about it when there's a shortage."