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Puerto Rican Paradox Games Enjoyer I got here after cold-DM-ing @sadwaffle to buy a craft for my mom

10-car BART train full of people
Side of a Marin Transit bus, marked “Operated by Golden Gate Bridge, Highway, and Transportation District”
What are you gonna do, stab me? - quote from man stabbed
Pausa de hidratacion at El Barolito
Walter White saying “you’re goddamn right”
Kurzgetsagt thumbnail saying “GERMANY IS OVER”
Estrella Galicia 0.0 in the continental United States, as requested
Blades ‘68 cover art
SF City Hall lighting schedule
Saikat, Scott, and Connie seated onstage
Large line of people at 198 McAllister St
Fictional poster for a YIMBY Hallmark movie: “Yes, In My Backyard: She never expected love to be this close to home”
Sign saying “Express Men”
People often say they hope their deceased pet dog is chasing squirrels in doggy heaven... what did all of those squirrels do to deserve an afterlife of torment? Dog heaven is also squirrel hell it's a very efficient system.
Sign reading “Video Games Cause Violence: Ban Hearts of Iron IV”
Lava lamp box, referencing CloudFlare’s use of lava lamps for random number generation
Map of six line BART service, with orange line reoriented towards Antioch and new purple line from Richmond to Dublin
Beya Alcaraz “knows how hard it is to run a small business in San Francisco”
Cover for Paul Sabin’s book, Public Citizens
Daniel Lurie, captioned “if you don’t know, now you do”
Daniel Lurie, dressed for tennis, captioned “I’m getting warmed up”
Vote yes on Prop 50!
John Brown with laser eyes
having newsom as your governor is hard be one week you're like i will destroy that sadistic devil may he be tortured for ten thousand years and then the next week you're like yes go my sadistic devil torture them for ten thousand years and i will win you the throne of hell
Honey Bucket portapotty promotional image showing a man smiling and giving a thumbs up from a portapotty
“Zingsters Halal, Nashville Chicken, Burger’s & More” sign above a strip mall
Sign for Mayan sports bar called “Chac Mool”
Pigeon whose perch features a whole pizza and two loaves of bread
James Medlock: Interesting take on why libertarians are mostly men Quote: Every so often, people opine on the question of why libertarians are mostly men (Jeet Heer, Kevin Drum, Brink Lindsey). As someone more interested in the philosophical debate, not the sociological debate, I generally stay out of these discussions. However, if I had to speculate, I'd say that the reason libertarians are mostly men is that men are not as good as women at logical reasoning. This is not to say all men are not as good at logical reasoning as all women. It's just to say that the logical-reasoning bell curve for men is to the left of the logical-reasoning bell curve for women. This means that there simply are more men in the bottom 10% of ability to logically reason, which accounts for their overrepresentation in libertarianism, a philosophy that is internally incoherent and operates mainly through tautology and begging the question on entitlement. Reply: Is there any solid evidence on the idea of a female superiority in logical reasoning? James Medlock: One piece of evidence I've noticed is the relative lack of female libertarians
Malcolm Harris with laser eyes next to his book, Palo Alto
Me watching some high fantasy shit: I would simply not be corrupted by the magical object. If it is actively harming you why don't you just put it down. Idiot Me receiving psychic damage 23 hours a day from my phone: [sounds of anguish that I will spare screen reader users from hearing]
WELL I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN, WHERE AT LEAST I HAVE AC AND I WON'T FORGET THE BRITS WHO DIED, IN THE HEATWAVE OF '03 AND I'LL GLADY SIT DOWN IN MY ROOM, AND ENJOY THAT SWEET COLD AIR THAT HOT HOT SEETHE AND EURO COPE GOD BLESS MY FRIGIDAIRE
Mr Beast over the scene from Beast Games that used the same elimination rules as Sednaya Prison (apparently)
Deep-fried “The Libertarian Party candidate is unlikely to win the seat”
William Tecumseh Sherman (not the Gen. Sherman mentioned in the post) looking disappointed
ME: "Trick or bear?" NEIGHBOR: "Bear?" ME: "HE HAS CHOSEN THE BEAR!" [distant roar and sounds of clanking chains]
Map showing how all the Gulf States voted for a president who appointed a director of the hurricane response agency who doesn’t know how hurricanes work
Proposed pictogram warning of the dangers of buried nuclear waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
2022 TIME headline: Taliban Militants Fed Up With Office Culture, Ready to Quiet Quit
The Museum of Failure, home of the World’s Largest Collection of Failures
SF City stacking up in front of the Project 51O goal
Ilike corn because it allows dabbling in a pernicious type of commentary: The Theory of Everything. Given corn's outsized role in American 20th century life, almost any social scenario can be viewed through its lens. Industrialization, chemical, government, politics, health. You've got government market subsidy, political weight of low-population states, energy insecurity, environmental issues, agribusiness consolidation, hyper-productivity despite decreasing labor, food basket dynamics in world wars, 20th century chemical revolution, obesity, etc I'm convinced that someone with the right information base and communication skills could compellingly frame every important inflection point in 20th century America as ultimately being about corn somehow.
The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story.
Video of hundreds of people on temporarily pedestrianized Valencia Street
Two Waymos stuck on Valencia St, representing the chaos they’re on track to bring to Market St
Malcolm Harris, author of “Palo Alto,” with laser eyes
Official White House website post correctly calling Andrew Cuomo a failure
Picture of a crab under a drone, captioned with “behold, the Maryland Air National Guard”
Headline saying “San Franciscans are having sex in robotaxis, and nobody is talking about it”
Flag of the New California Republic, featuring a mutant bear rearing its two heads
Genuine tweet of rapper and pop musician Nicki Minaj saying “Show me the data”
“MOLON LABE,” Greek for “come and take it,” with an avocado replacing the first O
Screenshot of the skeet this is in response to, with the text “as long as the FDIC continues to exist you’ll be fine” highlighted
I have written before about my own fantasy for consumer securities regulation, which would solve all of these problems but which would probably face some political hurdles in getting enacted. It goes roughly like this: 1. Anyone can invest all they want in a diversified portfolio of approved investments (non-penny-stock public companies, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds with modest fees, insured bank accounts, etc.). 2. Anyone can also invest in any other dumb investment; you just have to go to the local office of the SEC and get a Certificate of Dumb Investment. (Anyone who sells dumb non-approved investments without requiring this certificate from buyers goes to prison.) 3. To get that certificate, you sign a form. The form is one page with a lot of white space. It says in very large letters: "I want to buy a dumb investment. I understand that the person selling it will almost certainly steal all my money, and that I would almost certainly be better off just buying index funds, but I want to do this dumb thing anyway. I agree that I will never, under any circumstances, complain to anyone when this investment inevitably goes wrong. I understand that violating this agreement is a felony." 4. Then you take the form to an SEC employee, who slaps you hard across the face and says "really???" And if you reply "yes really" then she gives you the certificate. 5. Then you bring the certificate to the seller and you can buy whatever dumb thing he is selling. 6. If an article ever appears in the Wall Street Journal in which you (or your lawyer) are quoted saying that you were just a simple dentist, didn't understand what you were buying and were swindled by the seller's flashy sales pitch, then you go to prison.
Monkey photo used to mark someone as a “pedocon” - see @reg_monkey for more
@reg_monkey’s former profile picture, notable because of their work popularizing “pedocon” theory, an explanation for why so many Republican elected officials turn out to be pedophiles
The foundation for space-settler prosperity, the cellular unit of postwar sub-urbia, was the house. As he did with agriculture and electricity, the Chief set the pattern for the Roosevelt program. Beginning in his first term at Com-merce, Hoover applied his associative model to the real estate industry. His first task was establishing standards for city planning. He assembled a small committee of industry representatives (as was his wont) and they drafted a model zoning law for states — it was technically the minimal amount of power the federal government could exercise, but their pamphlet was very influential. What they established under the Chief's vague authority is that municipalities under their delegated police powers could, "for the purpose of promoting health, safety, morals, or the general welfare of the community... regulate and restrict the height, number of stories, and size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of lot that may be occupied, the size of yards, courts, and other open spaces, the density of population, and the location and use of buildings, structures, and land for trade, industry, residence, or other purposes."! States took up the language, and it helped permanently lodge a tremendous amount of authority in the hands of local governments and the landowners who ran them. They in turn shaped the lifeworld of postwar America. In particular, zoning became a powerful weapon in the retrenchment of residential segregation.
Hoover had to watch his plan work from the sidelines, justifiably chagrined as FDR got credit for the suburban home boom. During the 1940s and '50s, Californians increased their homeownership percentage from the low 40s to the high 50s.° Hoover lost the presidential battle, but his faithful servants in the real estate industry took off through history like an army of flying mon-keys. As the shock troops of white reaction in California, they wrote and enforced segregation rules until the feds made them stop writing it all down, though that hardly ended enforcement. The "taxpayers' revolt" that began with Prop 13 in 1978 and never really ended was part of the Hooverite solution to the threat of economic democracy. Leading the movement was seventy-six-year-old Howard Jarvis, a retired businessman and press officer for the 1932 Herbert Hoover presidential campaign. It took almost 50 years, but Hooverism was back on the march. The New Deal coalition fed itself a poison pill, basing the boom on a private housing system that, as we've seen, made a mint out of segregation. By financing the expansion of property, the state expanded the constituency for property rights as a counterclaim to the linked social democratic demands for racial equality and tax revenue to redistribute. The more white people who owned homes, the more who could be mad about the government giving their property tax money away. Emboldened, a new cohort of California Republicans picked up where Bert left off.
Meme of a sad Russian army wojak saying “noooo you can't just vaporize my entire armored division, we had such a manly recruitment ad,” to which queer they/them wojak responds “omg integrated fire support?? go off queen sksksksk, JDAMs are such a gemini thing”