Politics

yearly reminder everything looks exponential from the middle of a sigmoid

one of the basic challenges of local governance is that it is structurally tilted to the preferences of a small group of busybodies and cranks who will show up to every meeting against the preferences of the vast majority of sane normal people

At the risk of making twitter really mad, I think “no ethical consumption under capitalism” means stuff like no matter how you get your produce, someone in the supply chain was exploited not like “fuck it - $500 SHEIN hauls”.

What I think is a mistake is to inconvenience the public merely for the sake of inconveniencing them. If a big protest incidentally blocks traffic, that's ok. But a small number of people blocking traffic *in order to* inconvenience the public is a tactical error.

The “male loneliness epidemic” is sociologically real and societally detrimental but the notion that it’s somehow caused by women or women’s problem to solve is absurdly hilarious.

Europeans aren't poor. They are illiquid. Much of Europe's wealth is stored in safe streets, nice parks, public transit, "free" healthcare, etc. which, it turns out, are too socially expensive for Americans to maintain. Americans take the money instead. The rest is only natural.

It's so sad that this AI movement never even considers solving problems for humans. They solve problems for companies.