Zoe

It is true that living under a liberal political regime will not, as such, automatically give you meaningful connections with other human beings, strong community ties, or a deep sense of meaning and purpose in your life.

The strength of liberalism is recognizing that no political system will do this , but we can at least have a political order... See more

I liked the two of them together despite the fact that one of them was a person and the other was a sort of vague gesture towards a hot guy.

Joseph

Joseph

3h

I want to push back a little, because of course I do.

There is a certain type of person (who is, incidentally, temperamentally inclined toward our little online community) who applies an "if you see something, say something" mentality to politics. For this type of person, if you see something bad happening and you don't say "this is... See more

City Of Trees

City Of Trees

11h

The first thing that needs to be established before going all in on building mass transit is a use fee for motorists, with coefficients applied for weight and congestion as appropriate. That gets you a steady funding base for maintaining the roads, and better balancing away of rush hour traffic. Once that's in place,... See more

Presidential aide John Hay was also an admirer. Hay wrote to a friend in late 1863, “The town is dull. Miss Chase is so busy making her father next President that she is only a little lovelier than all other women. She is to be married on November 12th which disgusts me with life. She is a great woman & with a great future.”

Like Sam Altman cracks me up, right? Because he wants to be Steve Jobs, but he is Steve Ballmer. He just kind of got the wrong Steve.

Ethics Gradient

Ethics Gradient

21h

For movies the argument is usually a combination of audience shifts (simpler, action-heavy, non-writing dependent plots play more easily overseas), lack of DVD sales meaning that the optimization pressures have to be specifically for tentpole releases that make their money in their theatrical runs, and extremely... See more

Sharty Sharty 8hMan experiencing whiteness-privilege through adjacent demography

Kenny Easwaran

Kenny Easwaran

6h

I want majority parties to either put up or shut up. The filibuster means that the majority party can pretend to be an opposition party, throwing out bills that please their base, but counting on the filibuster to shut it down. I want them to actually have to vote - either pass it and show us what you really believe,... See more