@visegrad24 Well, Spaniards insist on voting for governments that allow this madness, so let them enjoy the fruits.
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SquirrelBaby
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SquirrelBaby
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When I'm not gnawing through a trash bag in the Chili's dumpster, I provide musings about urban form, politics, and pop culture.
Tree in Chili's parking lot انضم Ocak 2012
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🇪🇸 In Riofrío, a 45-year-old Moroccan migrant who had recently arrived in the town went into the street early in the morning armed with an axe and attacked people at random.
One man and two women were hospitalized. One of the women, airlifted by helicopter, is in serious condition.
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@saltytunafish1 @ElliotCohe74430 @elonmusk @Tesla @teslaownersSV Bro, do you just choose not to read the data that proves FSD is infinitely safer than human drivers?
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@ElliotCohe74430 @elonmusk @Tesla @teslaownersSV An actual human driver would have been slowing down the second they saw the nut job was going to walk into the road. The response from FSD was late so all it could do as swerve. PS it didn't perform bad all things considered but not up to par of an alert human driver.
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@ForsakenCrown @aarmlovi The backlash would be worse, and actually credible, if this was just another generic, EIFS-clad pile of crap we usually see.
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@aarmlovi Idk why people actually think traditional design is a silver bullet to stop NIMBYs. They'll always come up with a new reason to oppose new development. It's an irrational position that is impossible to counter with anything other than "this is happening and you can go kick rocks"
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Huge bummer that this traditionally-inspired architecture isn't mollifying Kansas City NIMBYs who support a 45ft (!) height limit instead
Retail vacancy in the neighborhood is 30%, this rescue plan brings back foot traffic...and the NIMBYs are still mad about 7 stories 🤷♂️
Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸@aaron_renn
NYT: New owner pitches a $1.5 billion recuse plan for Kansas City's Country Club Plaza nytimes.com/2026/04/05/bus…
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@aarmlovi If you think the NIMBY backlash is bad now, imagine if someone tried to plop a typical glass cube building in Country Club plaza, instead of this 1920s-inspired work of art.
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@esaagar That’s amazing that the NASA administrator is checking your janky twitter account. Love it.
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Is there a reason that Artemis II doesn't even attempt to get into lunar orbit and will be 4k miles from the surface?
Apollo 8 in 1968 got within 60-70 miles
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@the_transit_guy Brightline West and North Carolina’s S-Line are the only things I’ve seen them not outright against.
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What evidence is there that the “Trump administration is in favor of high-speed rail”?
60 Minutes@60Minutes
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy says the Trump administration is in favor of high-speed rail, but the California project has “wasted billions in taxpayer dollars yet delivered nothing…” cbsn.ws/3NJdmCU
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Michael Bay/Peter Berg furiously calling screenwriters at midnight.
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
US forces have rescued the second crew member from the F-15E downed in Iran -Axios Special forces were deployed on the ground in Iran on Friday and again on Saturday as part of the search and rescue mission; all are now out of Iran.
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@mattyglesias We’re done with bail reform. It’s failed miserably everywhere it has been applied because restorative-justice dipshits abused it. Good job everyone!
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Robbery-murder in my neighborhood committed by a guy who was out on pre-trial release and I guess didn’t realize the surveillance would pick up that he was wearing the victim’s watch
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/…
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Iranian military has deployed significant amount of troops to find downed US pilots-FARS
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@champtgram Fall off? More people are living in Austin than ever. It’s insane. They just finally built enough housing to meet demand.
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@mattyglesias Huh? Why couldn’t you just place a tax on any new land created?
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This is why land value tax won't work.
Amazing Maps@amazingmap
Most of Boston was built on land that didn’t exist in 1630
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@HayDawg2006 @billortiz123 @TVDadsdotcom @ok_post_guy You’re thinking zero new jobs/industries would be created with sustained space travel?
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@SquirrelChat @billortiz123 @TVDadsdotcom @ok_post_guy The Economy thrives on building new rockets. If reusable rockets become the norm there will be economic shock.
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Worth pointing out that this is easily the most impressive space mission of the last 30+ years and the prime contractors for the rocket and crew module are Lockheed Martin and Airbus
But hey I'm sure spaceX is getting to Mars any day now
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Artemis II lifts off
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@billortiz123 @TVDadsdotcom @ok_post_guy Economics gives “a fuck.” In order to -sustain- future trips to the moon and mars, you need reusable rockets, which only one company is able to deliver en masse at the moment.
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@TVDadsdotcom @ok_post_guy Dude who gives a fuck, we are trying to go to mars not catch rockets, you’re obsessed with details not the destination
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Breaking: new plans revealed for Amsterdam Royal Palace renovations.
The proposed design by MVRDV features an observation deck that will include a bar, an ice bakery shop and a casino.
If all goes according to plan, it will be accessible to the public late 2029
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@mattvanswol Why are judges and magistrates in Charlotte obsessed with terrorizing the public with dangerous shit stains like this gentleman
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🚨#BREAKING: Khaliya Burney has now been charged with misdemeanor de*th by vehicle after footage from a doorbell camera captured the moment he hit an 8-year-old girl with his car in Charlotte NC.
His bond is set at just $20,000.
He was out on a $5,000 bond at the time he hit 8-year-old Nyomi Summers with his car for driving with a revoked license and felony conspiracy, a charge he received just 39 days ago.
If he was kept in jail, Nyomi would be alive today.
He has been arrested and released from jail multiple times.
Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol
🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting in Charlotte NC as man who was CAUGHT ON CAMERA revving his car, speeding, and then smashing into and k*lling an 8-year-old little girl who was riding her bike... ...WAS JUST LET OUT OF JAIL ON A $1,000 BOND!!!!! WHAT????!!!!!!!!!!
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@the_transit_guy Pathetic. Why do they even bother at this point?
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California HSR just released an interim plan to connect LA once the SF-to-Central Valley alignment is finished, rather than waiting to complete 28 miles of tunnels. The interim connection takes nearly 2 hours via Metrolink, compared to the 26 minutes in the original plan.
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@mattyglesias @ContrarianSaver And it’s made the city great by dispersing the density along street corridors, rather than giant towers on top of podium parking. Which has more active ground floors, Miami or DC?
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@ContrarianSaver No, in DC it’s illegal to build any taller than that
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Love it.
But each of these highish rises was a lost opportunity to have a basically similar but somewhat taller structure that would have generated more housing, more jobs, and more tax revenue.
Things people don't like about an 10-story modern building is no worse at 22.
Eat DC@eat_dc
May 2012 vs Today. Florida Ave and 4th St NE.
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@mattyglesias Hot take: Assuming a finite amount of demand, I’d rather have three, ten-story buildings line a street than one, 30-story building.
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@ValueInvestor @Geiger_Capital Jim Clyburn basically forced Biden to appoint her or risk losing the southern black caucus support. Nobody actually thinks she’s qualified.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson is once again on the obviously wrong side of an 8-1 ruling…
She has had the most lone dissents since joining the Supreme Court. She seems to believe that she is voting for things she personally supports, instead of the law.
Greg Price@greg_price11
🚨 BREAKING: The Supreme Court just ruled 8-1 in Chiles v. Salazar that Colorado's law banning "conversation therapy" for sexual orientation or gender identity is unconstitutional. Jackson was the lone dissent.
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