@upstatefederlst This is an insanely insanely dumb question though. I think the point of the guys’ post is that there’s no way this person is intelligent, so how did she get a Rhodes Scholarship?
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Body Positive Baron
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Body Positive Baron
@BPDBaron
Interests include cheddar japaleño cheetos and other such obesogenic morsels.
NYC Inscrit le Mayıs 2023
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People who mock other people for asking questions they genuinely don't know the answer to are the worst kind of people, by the way.
Sam Rogers@RealSamRogers
Doctor, Rhodes Scholar, lower understanding of near space than my toddler. It's beautiful.
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@The_Suburbanist The population of the Bronx today is less than it was in 1950
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Wow, look at all that density and rail transit. Wait, that's the Cross Bronx Expressway! Didn't it permanently destroy The Bronx?
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@jonnychaffin @bronzeagemantis Always enjoy the beautiful trees when I drive through here. But it's only a few times a year and when I'm on a weekend trip
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@bronzeagemantis That’s one of the worst drives in America.
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When I lived in northeast USA drive often between Boston and NYC… I’d live in my car half the time sometimes get bored in evening drive up to a girl on street pull down window yell “white bitch!” at her then quickly drive away
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China thrived as it began to adopt capitalism, Europe and America struggled as they adopted socialism. A better question is in regards to democracy, which China definitely is not.
CAVEMAN 🪵🪨🪨🪵@helcaboyakh
Show me 1, just 1 country that developed this fast under capitalism?
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@helcaboyakh China. They literally have tech billionaires and government officials get bonus checks if their local GDP goes up. It's arguably more capitalist than the US. A better question is what country developed this fast under democracy?
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Show me 1, just 1 country that developed this fast under capitalism?
Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸@jacksonhinklle
🇨🇳 China is direct proof that Communism works.
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@JLopas Downtown Houston and Downtown Dallas are just office parks. Hardly anyone lives there
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Why are all large Texas cities 10x cleaner than in other states?
Houston:
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@centristmarxist @RichGaIIina and also would be insanely more expensive
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Fun fact: this cannot happen without a political revolution that overthrows the US Constitution
David@davidslosttt
Building this high speed rail line would be the best thing the US could do to increase its GDP
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@posty2 @davidslosttt Some (maybe most) scheduled trains could skip the less popular stops
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@davidslosttt Eliminate 2 of the NJ stops and the stop between dc and Baltimore and we can talk
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@SwannMarcus89 Reading this as a homeless man is having a meltdown at court square and scaring children and tourists
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New York is such a funny city because it’s currently the single safest major city in America on a per capita basis and literally everyone pretends it’s violent for political reasons
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos
In the 1970s "NYC urban noir became a genre of its own: The Incident, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Taxi Driver, The Warriors, New Jack City, Prince of the City, King of New York, Escape from New York, Death Wish. Even Miss Piggy was mugged in The Muppets Take Manhattan."
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@LinkofSunshine 9 years ago, so this is $35k. Still crazy though
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@maxdubler @GoodGuyGuaranty It has 31k people per square km. This is higher than Manhattan in general and only slightly lower than the Upper East Side (the city's densest). 10x or even 2x would make it an unbearable slum, the the densest in the world and quite possibly unlivable.
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@BPDBaron @GoodGuyGuaranty The west village should have 10x more residents.
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You think you’re brave - but are you brave enough to reject historic preservation on principle? To consider the entire enterprise a racist, classist caprice perpetuated by some of the most annoying people on earth?
Because there can be no middle ground.
Open New York@OpenNYForAll
Since 1966, historic districts have steadily expanded to cover much of Lower Manhattan. As more areas are covered, new housing is effectively banned there, driving displacement and higher rents.
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@ksorbs It looks like this now lol. Only thing different is the fashion
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Look at this video of NYC in 1975, see how peaceful it was?
Look at how everybody seems to be enjoying their lives, and not contrast it to today. Our country has been ruined.
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someone explain to me why we can’t see any form of human existence from space? like surely there’s areas in earth that we’ve covered in concrete that are large enough to see from space
Black Hole@konstructivizm
The ultimate view. Spying the boot of Italy and the stunning Mediterranean coastline from low Earth orbit.
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@GoodGuyGuaranty This is how you end up with the nightmare trash heap that is MSG replacing the original Penn Station.
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The zen that overtakes you when you stop caring about this or that pretty building - ‘maybe they can make an exception for that one’ - is unreal.
Repositioning Play@GoodGuyGuaranty
Historic preservation should be opposed on principle. When we make exceptions we should understand them as failures of sentimentality - reflections of the fact that humans are imperfect, that we are all in a state of becoming
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@EliMD101 @YIMBYLAND Beaches are actually pretty nice if you go 100 miles west/south of Galveston
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@YIMBYLAND The "beach" in question. All south Texas beaches are gross.
There's a reason no one ever says "let's go on a beach trip to Houston!!".
Nothing but a bunch of refineries and smelly, brown, oily water
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@JeffreyLuscombe They don't. They just hate that these projects (when done in the US) waste billions for decades and in the end have nothing to show for it
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Why do Conservatives hate this so much? Anyone?
Sharing Travel@TripInChina
A high-speed train is passing through the high-speed railway station at full speed. It looks cool.😎
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@alanthefisher This whole launch system is 1980s tech. Isaacman just got in there a couple months ago. Give him some time to cook.
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its almost like some idiot in the federal government laid off a bunch of government workers at NASA, many of them being media/broadcast related people
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt
Difference in quality between NASA and SpaceX’s launch livestreams.
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@PhaedrusAnimus @curtis_yarvin I'm not one for DEI but the Victor Glover is a very impressive person and more than qualified
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@curtis_yarvin First woman, POC, and Canadian, succeed on merit for a lunar mission…anything else is mental illness.
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The crew will not be going to the moon. They will go around it. Then come back. Unclear why humans are needed to do this but ok…
Wait I figured it out. The woman and person of color will shoot a video. The other man is the camera guy. The Canadian will make sure it’s ethical
Acyn@Acyn
FOX: Among the crew are the first woman, first person of color and first Canadian on a lunar mission. There's a lot of firsts happening.
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