@wesamo__ It’s precisely that you care enough to even be bothered by it that makes you a transplant. We can smell you from a mile away.
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NYCWelfareStatePolitics
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NYCWelfareStatePolitics
@3stddev
Documenting the terminal decline of NYC.
NYC Beigetreten Aralık 2014
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Yes I moved to NYC from small town Canada
Yes I work in tech and live in Brooklyn
If that makes me a "tech bro gentrifier" then so be it, I'm tired of worrying about so called "real New Yorkers" who do nothing but hate and judge others that come here to make New York a better place
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Transplants from suburbia and low density cities want to transform NYC into their playground of suburbia and low density just with all the playthings (aka restaurants, bars, venues, etc.) NYC has.
It’s literally an exercise of suburban transplants trying to suburbanize NYC while pretending they love “city life”.
Nothing they do will work because the places they want to live in NYC are some of the densest and most transited neighborhoods.
There are plenty of places in New York City that are very suburban like. These clowns would rather kill their own mother than live in them.
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This absolute disingenuous lobbyist who owns a car, has made life difficult for low and middle income souls by removing thousands of parking spots low and middle income New Yorkers rely on to support their livelihoods.
And now she plays ignorance.
Elizabeth Adams@ElizabAdams
Incredible work by @PatrickDCleary — 1 in 5 Manhattan bus stops is blocked at any given time. Faster buses require getting people out of the bus stop/lanes!
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@BolourNoah @feelsdesperate So a 5% reduction in traffic is worth a taxpayer transfer of $695 million to the government?
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@feelsdesperate Nonsense disingenuous framing. Right wing opposition To congestion pricing just cause it’s coming from democrats is pure cope. Theres nothing left wing about congestion pricing.
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Congestion pricing forces some people to take public transportation so that some people can drive marginally faster, all in service of feeding more money into the maw of a bloated, corrupt MTA that no one has will or interest or ability to reform.
That this is celebrated as a major victory just reveals how sorry the state of technocratic progressivism is right now.
Amanda Litman@amandalitman
That congestion pricing is working -- like, really really working! -- is important for the larger effort to restore faith in govt. Take big swings, get big results that people can actually feel.
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They told us traffic is down 10% which really means it’s down less than 5% as leftists always cook the books on stuff like this.
So a 5% reduction in traffic is worth a transfer of $695 million from taxpayers to the government.
This is a perfect encapsulation of leftist politics in blue cities/states.
Leftists politics in blue cities has become a racket. They’re just a mafia organization skimming money off of the productive economy.
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@SamoBurja Relax. This is how markets operate. You know what happens after every oil price spike? An oil price collapse.
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The Lesser Struggle with Iran is waging war on Iran.
The Greater Struggle on Iran is permanently obsoleting global oil through technology so petrostates can never dictate U.S. stock markets again.
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@chamath You’re assuming most people want that. Most just want confirmation bias.
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TBC, this is likely a good feature flag for a chat or a skill vs an entire product but my point still stands.
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Product idea:
An app that takes today’s top headlines, run @karpathy’s iterative argument/counter argument loop, summarize both sides and send it to me so I can read both sides and come to my ow conclusion.
Andrej Karpathy@karpathy
- Drafted a blog post - Used an LLM to meticulously improve the argument over 4 hours. - Wow, feeling great, it’s so convincing! - Fun idea let’s ask it to argue the opposite. - LLM demolishes the entire argument and convinces me that the opposite is in fact true. - lol The LLMs may elicit an opinion when asked but are extremely competent in arguing almost any direction. This is actually super useful as a tool for forming your own opinions, just make sure to ask different directions and be careful with the sycophancy.
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@LahavHarkov @DovCarpe This is standard war stuff. The Arabs are the weakest link because they’re incompetent but this version of Irans strategy will only work for so long.
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The White House said Iran’s missile capability is “functionally destroyed.” Israel says Iran can no longer produce ballistic missiles.
So why are Israelis running for shelter multiple times a day?
And is missile capability the right prism through which to examine the war?
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@RealSKeshel This is a favorite with this tactic nowadays. Manufacture an issue and they just “argue” about it amongst themselves.
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Then why are you having your staged fits?
No one will remember this toad 5 minutes after she leaves the Senate.
Senator Mazie Hirono@maziehirono
Donald Trump is not, never will be, and has never been a king. #NoKings
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@B52Returns @PolicyEngineer Even the non LE jobs. Most won’t be able to find that in the private sector when you account for benefits and pension.
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@3stddev @PolicyEngineer Go read my post again, dumbfuck.
I specifically said "jobs that arent law enforcement".
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Part of why NY police unions are pushing to gut the state's 2009/2012 pension reforms: they want to bring back unlimited "pension spiking" where employees would rack up overtime strategically to inflate the pay on which their pension is based. It's a problem at the MTA too.
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@B52Returns @PolicyEngineer This is laughable. For the average Joe, city and state pay , benefits, and pension far outweigh what they could get in the private sector.
You think people are choosing between being a cop or a doctor?
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@PolicyEngineer You do realize many people take these jobs for the pension benefits?
Especially city jobs that arent law enforcement.
Good luck retaining and hiring anyone worth a damn after the pension benefits are shit and the pay is shit
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@smfox @PolicyEngineer @nicolegelinas Most NYC workers make significantly less than they’re worth in the private sector?
Is this a joke?
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@PolicyEngineer @nicolegelinas I mean, the overwhelming majority NYC workers make significantly less than that, and less than we are worth in the private sector, and simply want to retire at a decent quality of life when we end our decades of civic service
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Little-known fact: NYS has about 10,000 state & local public employees who make >$250,000/year. A growing share are Tier 6, meaning they contribute to their pension (unlike Tier 4 folks).
They want to "Fix Tier 6" because they would immediately pocket $7,500/year! #progressive
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There is no adequate (aka 100% full proof) air defense against saturation strikes yet. Never has been. Lasers will probably solve that but are a few years away.
I will agree that there may be some physical , non kinetic, countermeasures available.
The US lost 63 aircraft in the first gulf
War with more than 200 damaged and the US military was arguably in tip
Top shape and size to fight the USSR back then.
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Technology has changed since 2001 and 2003.
The U.S. military finds itself with a "high tech" but obsolete assembly of hardware for fighting modern wars.
Ælþemplær@Aelthemplaer
Shit like this never happened in the Iraq or Afghan war.
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Yes. In war, one takes damage. Major revelation.
The fact that people pretend to expect zero damage is another form of anti-American third worlderism in X.
The IRGC getting degraded week after week= IRGC winning
The US sustaining minor damage in the scheme of things = all is lost. We should pack up and go home.
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@SamoBurja Agreed but we need events like these to push us along. That’s generally how human nature works. Desperation breeds ingenuity.
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We have to build more of every type of energy (coal, nuclear, solar, natural gas) while also reducing oil consumption.
China has figured out that it has to escape the oil trap. The United States needs to do the same.
Forget carbon neutral, this is national security.
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@ornithopter16 @AlbertoMiguelF5 @Nadav_Eyal Show us one legitimate article about significant damage to a critical installation in Israel? Even one?
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@3stddev @AlbertoMiguelF5 @Nadav_Eyal They are accurate enough to strike & penetrate air defences.
You think dimona is less protected than desal plants!?
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Al Jazeera English@AJEnglish
Iran strikes Dimona, near Israel’s nuclear site, hours after a strike on Iran’s Natanz facility. And US President Donald Trump sends Iran an ultimatum. Al Jazeera's @MarahRayan has the latest developments in the war on Iran.
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"But it is impossible to ignore the trap. Iran has taken the global economy hostage; to free it requires a strike on Iran, one that would deeply harm the global economy. The meaning of the trap: the war began over the nuclear issue but is now being fought over Hormuz."
נדב איל Nadav Eyal@Nadav_Eyal
Exclusive- Israeli officials I speak with admit Iran’s core perception may be decisive: Tehran believes it is winning this war. When Iran agrees to a “gesture of goodwill” in Hormuz, it doesn’t see a concession- it sees recognition of its control. They say the leadership- operating under pressure and isolation - has only a partial picture of the damage inside Iran, reinforcing that confidence. Some now argue only a sharper escalation, including energy targets, can reset that calculus. This view has been presented to both American and Israeli decision-makers. Read my latest here, (and sign up to my substack): nadaveyal.com/p/irans-danger…
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@myer80066 @CliffordDMay These assholes are literally
Just peddling third worlderism at this point where the US is always losing. If you told cretins that the Nazis literally fought until the last day even as they were decimated, they wouldn’t believe you because “only America sucks”.
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@CliffordDMay It’s telling how shooting 10-15 missiles a day and striking a target every 1-2 days, most relatively unimportant, is viewed as maintaining a strong military
If any other military historically was subdued the way Iran is this wouldn’t be a question
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Perhaps she's right and the U.S. assessment have overstated the degree of degradation of Tehran's military capabilities.
Or perhaps Tehran's military capabilities were underestimated prior to this conflict.
Either way, it stand to reason: Good that this conflict is taking place now, not a year or two from now when Tehran's military capabilities (and nuclear weapons program) would be significantly advanced.
Nicole Grajewski@NicoleGrajewski
My comments in this @Reuters exclusive: Even after weeks of strikes, Iran continues launching from sites that have been heavily targeted. That suggests U.S. assessments may be overstating degradation.
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@TrentTelenko The best way to punish aggressive foes over the ages has been to take away their land. Thats the only way these MFers learn.
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Almost as if this was a planned US outcome to cut off China from any access to Mid-Eastern oil in the event that it invades Taiwan. 🤨🤔
Anas Alhajji@anasalhajji
⭕️I wonder how Iranian monarchists feel about President Trump returning the three islands (Abu Musa, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb) to the UAE. ⭕️The three small islands sit right at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz. The last Shah ordered the Navy to occupy them in 1971. ⭕️The UAE has claimed them ever since, especially since Arab tribes inhabited the Greater Tunb and the others. ⭕️By returning them to the UAE, the US can establish a military base there and control the Hormuz Strait for decades to come.
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But you don’t understand. China is the only one that can build anything anymore and we all must bow down to it.
Weapons are like statues. They’re there to be admired and not used. If we do have to use them it’s only when there’s a great power conflict so if there’s something wrong with them we only find out when we’re in really deep shit.
You just don’t get it.
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So what? Iran is one of maybe three countries we’d use them on and we aren’t going to war with China anytime soon. And if we had to, we could convert other capacity and ramp up military production.
Kelly Grieco@ka_grieco
Yikes. The US has burned through ~850 Tomahawks in 4 weeks. That's roughly a quarter of the inventory. At ~600 produced/year, that's ~1.5 years of production gone in a month. Hard to see what long-term political goal this buys. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
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@myer80066 @ratlpolicy Regular MIL standard are the Russo -UK war where RU couldn’t achieve air superiority even with a 10x larger Air Force and against their own self designed air defense systems.
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@ratlpolicy Exactly. Argue geopolitical strategy if you want, but don’t pretend that this is anything other than a military ass whooping
We’ve just gotten so used to dominance that we forget what regular military standards would feel like
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What about the past month has convinced you that American military technology "doesn't really work?"
Please, be specific.
Academic Agent@AcademicAgent_X
I am now more convinced than ever that the huge US military budget has been a kind of gravy train investing in overbloated tech that doesn't really work and acting as a sort of make-work scheme. I no longer see it as an unbeatable military.
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