Conde Christina de Aguilera Munro

kāsu ñomklyu tsraṣiśśi śäk kälymentwaṃ sätkatär

[Conde Christina de Aguilera Munro @riyenakshi]

@nephew_jonathan @JacobAShell @BarneyFlames @obzhdam Rung is not generally accepted. Qiang is likely a wastebasket taxon unless very strictly construed. Naga just isn't a clade.

[absolutely nyet @absynyet]

the white Pieds Noirs leaving Algeria must be one of the least-known episodes of recent modernity: peace signed in 1962, Algerian paramilitaries went through white areas and put up posters “The Suitcase or The Coffin”, and a month later 10% of Algeria’s total population had gone

[Conde Christina de Aguilera Munro @riyenakshi]

@nephew_jonathan if you're asking for "a friend" I recommend going on a road trip to visit your rural mutuals and following the pointers they give you to random towns in the area

[Conde Christina de Aguilera Munro @riyenakshi]

@nephew_jonathan Half the point of OKCupid nostalgia is that it introduced rationalists to other rationalists. Of my top two matches when I tried, I had like 50 mutuals in common with one and the other was Aella. It's like the original purpose of Facebook, or decentralized arranged marriage

[Conde Christina de Aguilera Munro @riyenakshi]

@nephew_jonathan You ever asked someone in an arranged marriage about what the process is like? When it's done politely, it's like matchmaking, except your entourage knows the counterparty's entourage. It's iterated, so much less likely to call true crime podcasts to mind.

[Conde Christina de Aguilera Munro @riyenakshi]

@nephew_jonathan Interesting weirdos whose primary social outlet is phone. I lived in two out of three, moved out single each time, got engaged off a road trip down 81. Robert Putnam speaks of this

[Conde Christina de Aguilera Munro @riyenakshi]

@nephew_jonathan Who's the target demog of securitized dating apps? When you're 23 and don't have money, moving to a place people move to means being the only *that* on Malcolm X Boulevard. (The other option in my price range was worse.) Or you could live with your mom and work at the gas station

[Conde Christina de Aguilera Munro @riyenakshi]

@nephew_jonathan Those aren't even places lol. They're holding pits for strivers who don't organize themselves socially because that's a different skillset that's priced out, and are served by the other 80% of the population whose social connections and dating pool are their cousins in Karachi

[Conde Christina de Aguilera Munro @riyenakshi]

@tracewoodgrains Affordable housing, as opposed to unaffordable housing, which developers love to build. Developers love building housing that no one can afford. Without the government, all the housing would be too expensive for anyone to afford. It would be unaffordable.

[Conde Christina de Aguilera Munro @riyenakshi]

@CrispinSartwell Very American! It's clear that nations exist: stateless nations have existed. Some of them now have states. America, like the Parisian empire that calls itself "France", believes shared subjection to a state creates a nation & is the only thing that can. But this is silly.

[Conde Christina de Aguilera Munro @riyenakshi]

@BrianCAlbrecht The idea that Prince William County (pop. 482k) could have a housing shortage of 75k is absurd. That's DC outer suburbs. The sprawl is already goofy; the traffic is already unbearable. What are they going to do, put commuter high-rises in Gainesville?

[Jessica Sidman @jsidman]

Forget the Reflecting Pool. US Park Police say organized crime is operating on the National Mall, and no one's talking about it.

My deep-dive into the pirate food trucks wreaking havoc around America's Front Lawn.

https://t.co/emCHDxrNRC

[Jacob Shell @JacobAShell]

I would sometimes point this out last decade to socialist colleagues and friends: that unlike 20th century socialist states, which had lots of clearly defined long-term development plans (sometimes successfully achieved, EG in China or if we want to call them "socialist" then in Scandinavia), 21st century western millennial socialism is very armwavey and vague on all questions about long-term development.

Sometimes 2010s socialists would answer by pointing to a green economy or carbon zero or solarpunk or something like that as the long-term vision for development. But this was very half-baked since this "solarpunk" vision wasn't actually defined in a way that made development its core function; nor did it entail tariffs against carbon-dirty producer regions whose imports would obviously economically crush local "green" producers. And frankly, I think they didn't really mean any of that, that there was no development vision, and the "green new deal" / solarpunk thing functioned purely as a tactical thing to say in conversation, and that's it.

We're seeing more explicitly in the 2020s what was there all along in the 10s: this is not a developmentalist form of socialism, it's a redistributionist form. The outcome won't be Chongqing and it won't be Iceland. The reason intersectionality looms so large is it generates an easy formula -- implicit and unstated if the situation calls for that -- for calculating how the finite pot of wealth is to redistributed.

I think I can hear the retort: but NYC, SF and Boston are already tippity-top First World. There's no more "development" to be done. The only question that remains is a more equitable distribution of the benefits. But this response just reveals a kind of bovine lack of imagination. Life expectency could always be longer, transport could always be better, tech and the arts could always be more innovative. The world has become uglier, so solving that problem, the aesthetic one, is another frontier.

In many ways the Chinese strategy has generated certain kinds of futurist infrastructures and landscapes, which I've called "0th World," which are actually ahead of anything rich people in Manhattan experience. I don't want to exaggerate this (anyone who spends time in China knows that it's mostly 2nd world, not 0th), but the point is that while 21st century western socialists advocate that the West basically rest on its laurels, with the only key question being how to redistribute those laurels, in the meantime, the future is being imagined and built somewhere else.

[nephew jonathan @nephew_jonathan]

never forget that ‘70s environmentalism was the 20th century’s third-worst idea.

[Conde Christina de Aguilera Munro @riyenakshi]

@0K_ultra large-scale sturgeon farming https://t.co/KgUxxsJpAW

[Austin (Double_K_A) #EnemeyOfModernTech @Double_K_A]

@MinModulation I thoughts boys were supposed to like it when girls played dress-up with them; hence "get in her pants" and similar expressions

[Conde Christina de Aguilera Munro @riyenakshi]

@argyriou15 @cwrichardson @MorlockP It's a mint. Square stem, typical mint-family flowers. Edible - as long as there are no dogs around! I make tea out of it. Tastes like pine.