@nguyenhdi The actors staring in the most Hollywood slop have obscure art house film as their ‘favorite’ when prompted. Visionary and bold directors often have much more conventional tastes. One is performative, the other is functional
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ChumpChange
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ChumpChange
@Chumpychange1
Born too late to explore the world, born to oearly to explore space. Born just in time to explore the void.
Sacramento, CA Bergabung Nisan 2022
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Part of maturing as a reader is to realise that great books are considered great for a reason, that's how a canon is formed, & it's foolish to fear appearing conventional or boring for naming some of the greatest books as our favourites.
🇵🇸i have never heard of philosophy@dimitripilled
Are most great writers pretty conventional in taste?
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@elaifresh IPAs aren’t good until you are in your late 20s anyway for most. Why do people shit on beer? Its good?
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Sorry but axe throwing, IPAs, and those burger restaurants are a Gen X phenomenon
They started in the mid 2010s, millennials still too young to really make up the business owner class. They were the CUSTOMERS, sure, but who do you think was selling it to them?
LT Jonathan Kendrick@PlisskenPatriot
Inherently millennial phenomena: • axe-throwing • cards against humanity • self-deprecating jokes • drinking IPAs • breweries instead of bars • “we are young forever” slop music • those burger joints (we all know) • curse words on menus • saying “adulting” What else?
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@the_transit_guy Davis California just voted down a build of 2000 homes in marginal ag land IN BETWEEN two other developments. It’s borderline evil. They are smart university people that make up all sorts of things like “well it’s not affordable housing” while they have million dollar homes.
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The reason these counties are some of the most anti-housing places on earth, is because it pays extremely well to block new housing in your neighborhood.
scott budman@scottbudman
#New: California hits record for home prices Median by county: San Mateo: $2.4 million San Francisco: $2.2m Santa Clara: $2.1m Marin: $1.8m Orange: $1.5m Santa Barbara: $1.4m Alameda: $1.4m Santa Cruz: $1.3m San Diego: $1.0m Source: @CAREALTORS
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@sam_d_1995 I get the sentiment - but also shouldn’t you be wary of fundamentally changing a place whose current state results in exclusivity, and in such is able to concentrate a very specific caliber of person? SF has given us so much, why change it? Why not do that in Oakland?
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SF should be going full Shenzhen and building hundreds of skyscrapers but instead they’re arguing over 6-story buildings and letting all these new millionaires jack up the prices of existing single family homes in the sunset
Beni@ben_issen
The 10,000 San Franciscans who are about to become millionaires in 2026 are going to fund a new generation of art, architecture and ideas that will shape the world
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@mamboitaliano__ I don’t care about this. It distracts those people from going to explore more unique and undervisited spots.
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Social media trends have turned the world’s most beautiful places into endless bathroom lines at a concert, where everyone waits for hours just to take the same photo to show to people who couldn’t care less 🌎📸
Nothing captures the shallow decay of our time better than this
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there’s not a bigger gap between the best and 2nd best in any sport than between messi and whoever you think is second best
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@Chris_Said All apps should have a downloadable version that does not include short form video
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These ideas for social media regulation are all reasonable (except #5) and not any more authoritarian than how we regulate drugs, gambling, and other mediums of addiction.
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@PatrickHeizer Millennials and Gen Z will eventually be the richest generations in human history. Will it be the job of younger generations to support us when that happens?
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The working people of America must unite to stop this lunacy.
It is neither the job nor the responsibility of working families to support the richest generation in human history.
Russ Greene@GreenPlusAnE
89% of senior citizens support raising taxes on younger workers to maintain their benefits. The median primary voter is 65.
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It's absurd how much the average person is leaving on the table by not just asking more from life
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@bisondele_ @devahaz There wasn’t really any excessive flopping in the WCF either. FT numbers didn’t seem crazy.
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@devahaz The hate OKC received these playoffs seemed very forced and manufactured. Not exactly sure what is everyone’s problem. They are a likeable small market squad not unlike the spurs.
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If western conference finals next year end up OKC vs SA again I wonder if people will actually root for the Thunder
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@TheNerdJesus @Jack_Raines People working at Elon companies are exceptionally well paid
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@Jack_Raines Which you wouldn't have to do under a system where everyone makes a comfortable living wage, because almost nobody would be stealing. This is very easy stuff to understand if you try for like 7 seconds
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I have to ring a buzzer to get mouthwash at CVS
Ally Sammarco@Ally_Sammarco
Elon Musk is a trillionaire but it’s def the people on SNAP ruining your life
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@SFHTUnion Your homeless tenants are extracting while shitting on the streets
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All the techies have ever done with their tech wealth is extract from San Francisco. They never give back to this place, and there’s no evidence they are about to start.
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The 10,000 San Franciscans who are about to become millionaires in 2026 are going to fund a new generation of art, architecture and ideas that will shape the world
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@Boenau Well the thing is that a large majority of road funding comes from taxes and fees on cars and fuel and tolls, but only a small percentage of public transportation is funded by fares
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An awful lot of people insist both of these are true:
🚌 Distributing wealth to pay for transit infrastructure is communism.
🚗 Distributing wealth to pay for car infrastructure is capitalism.
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@Johnjoecrva @TheOmniZaddy @TastelessAlex So what does a new young teacher do? Why are the older incumbents more important?
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@TheOmniZaddy @Chumpychange1 @TastelessAlex I have rent control in San Francisco, everyone I know with rent control are teachers, nurses, social workers etc. I only see the positives, that’s how we survive here
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This is why San Francisco is one of the most affordable cities in the world
Harlo Pippenger 🥕🛠🎀@PippengerHarlo
rent control is unambiguously a net good for renters. some building that was built in 1960 having rents set at reasonable levels is not blocking any new housing but is keeping someone housed
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@Johnjoecrva @TastelessAlex They have price controls that new incumbents have to unfairly compete against.
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@Chumpychange1 @TastelessAlex I don’t even know where you’re getting at, do you think that only rich boomers have rent control?
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@nyknicks They deserve to be losing and will lose again because of their fucked up fans and politicians l.they won 2 away and can't win at home because NY fucks up everything they touch
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@Johnjoecrva @TastelessAlex Hmmmm what type of policy might disincentivize such behavior…
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@Johnjoecrva @TastelessAlex Do you also appreciate when old people prevent new housing builds and pass prop 13 so they pay less for homes they own? Why do you want to give incumbents an advantage?
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@Chumpychange1 @TastelessAlex Yeah because that’s overwhelmingly the situation for people with rent control. This narrative disingenuous and unserious.
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