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Michael Bates 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺🇳🇿🇮🇪🇮🇱

@BatesLine

Conservative blogger covering local politics, urban planning, and, frequently, western swing. Anglospherophile. Israelophile. צִיּ֖וֹן בְּמִשְׁפָּ֣ט תִּפָּדֶ֑ה

Tulsa, Oklahoma Katılım Ekim 2008
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Martin Skold@MartinSkold2·
Because the people who want them built told them they would be used to create a machine species to replace humanity. And because they are already dealing with the more immediate social and economic side effects of AI. And because they want to send a message the only way they can that they want the trend stopped. “Why are you opposed to mask mandates?”
Burt Macklin@BurtMaclin_FBI

Why are people so afraid of data centers?

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Gabe Guidarini
Gabe Guidarini@GabeGuidarini·
It can’t be understated the extent to which our progressive gerontocracy has put normal young people into an open-air prison. I just graduated from a college located on the boundary between an urban and upscale suburban area. For four years it was the same story: Affluent suburbanites called the cops on campus bands and local bureaucrats relentlessly sicced the cops on students partying. Meanwhile gangbangers (often with multiple existing convictions) from the city would come onto campus, commit shootings yearly, and usually get away scot-free. This got worse with every year that passed. Local bureaucrats and school admins deemed any meaningful response that doesn’t also punish innocent students as “inequitable” and “unfair”. So they would simply crack down on student festivities. Local news broadcasters would label campus violence/vandalism committed by encroaching non-students as “student riots” and local older suburbanites would eat it up. Whatever culture Americans grew up in and believe their children are experiencing is being systematically sacrificed upon the altar of state-enforced politeness.
John Carter@martianwyrdlord

"privacy on a date" Dating is illegal now so zoomers don't do it, or anything else, because everything fun is also illegal. They sit in their rooms and rot on their phones because they're serving a life sentence in the gerontocratic prison state for the crime of being born.

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Mason Home Builder
Mason Home Builder@bankertobuilder·
Just designed the perfect strip mall that will get exactly zero visitors each day
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Michael Bates 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺🇳🇿🇮🇪🇮🇱@BatesLine·
The bold assertion here has much in common with the arrogant claims of the theorists of the 1950s and 1960s who dismantled the heart of what we once called America's Most Beautiful City. x.com/the_transit_gu…
Hayden@the_transit_guy

Barcelona is denser than all but four cities in the USA, and yet pedestrianizing even a few blocks in every city is seen as an impossibility. I’m sorry, but I think places like Tulsa, Miami, and Wichita can adopt superblocks too without excuse.

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Michael Bates 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺🇳🇿🇮🇪🇮🇱@BatesLine·
An awful lot of stupid urban planning amounts to imitation of aspects of places that work while omitting the elements that actually make them work. If you don't have enough pedestrians moving at all hours of the day and night, pedestrianization produces dead zones.
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Michael Bates 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺🇳🇿🇮🇪🇮🇱@BatesLine·
In the 1960s and 1970s Tulsa made superblocks, following a 1959 plan by Richard Neutra. It killed what was left of downtown retail. The pedestrian mall became a hangout for vagrants. We reopened Main Street in 2000, but too late for the businesses.
Hayden@the_transit_guy

Barcelona is denser than all but four cities in the USA, and yet pedestrianizing even a few blocks in every city is seen as an impossibility. I’m sorry, but I think places like Tulsa, Miami, and Wichita can adopt superblocks too without excuse.

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Josh Daws
Josh Daws@JoshDaws·
Episode 3: Mary Sue Doesn't Want Kids
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Adam Johnston
Adam Johnston@adamkjohnston·
Assimilation is a myth. Just ask the kids. My parents were teachers in urban schools outside NYC, within walking distance of the Hudson River. Every year, as schools approached their long breaks, my parents would ask their students what their plans were for the extended time off. Those who had immigrant parents would routinely say “I’m going back to my country.” My parents would then ask, “Oh, were you born outside the United States?” They’d respond, “No, I was born here.” “So, this is your country then. You were born here,” my parents would respond. The students would laugh at the assertion. What was so hard for these silly teachers to understand? But to them there was no confusion. “Their country” was not America. Their “home” was where their family came from.
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Max Williamson
Max Williamson@MaxXWilliamson·
@nxthompson Just like this Jake Sullivan quote:
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nxthompson
nxthompson@nxthompson·
This is an amazing quote from Lindsey Graham about when he realized how politics works. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/…
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Visegrád 24
Visegrád 24@visegrad24·
An American transsexual man who applied for asylum in the Netherlands due to “oppression in Trump’s America” has been placed in the infamous asylum center Ter Apel famous for Islamist extremists and knife violence. He says he regrets his decision…
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Michael Bates 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺🇳🇿🇮🇪🇮🇱@BatesLine·
This was true 40 years ago for middle-middle class families as well.
Financial Dystopia@financedystop

Upper-middle-class families are in a weird dead zone with college. They make too much to qualify for meaningful financial aid, but not enough to casually write $100,000 checks every year without it completely changing their life. So the kid looks rich on paper, gets little help, and the parents are expected to absorb the cost of a house down payment every single year. College pricing has also obviously become absurd.

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Mary Harrington
Mary Harrington@moveincircles·
I find it so odd the way people have started talking about "my brain" as though this is separable from themselves
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Livinday2day02
Livinday2day02@Livinday2day02·
The “science” that drives schools changes every 5 to 7 years. Then school districts buy all new curriculums that say the same thing with new buzzwords and teaching methods. The districts then spend hundreds of millions of our tax dollars to buy into the “New” methods. Teachers are forced to relearn everything they’ve been doing, new buzzwords and procedures to get good scores on their observations. Just about the time teachers have learned the new curriculum…..surprise…. “science” shows them they’ve found a better way and the cycle starts again. Reading has been about money and who our tax dollars get to go to next. Ive seen this play out over and over during the course of my career. Now 22 years. It’s a racket and it’s terrible for children, and retention of teachers. The old teachers can see through the BS and call it out. Then they are targeted which makes them leave the classroom or leave education all together. Then you bring in a brand new teacher who doesn’t know any better and do whatever they’re told. This is what they want when they talk about teachers…..someone who does what they are told. Not someone who knows how to teach children.
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Gigiljane
Gigiljane@gigiljane·
@JohnStossel @NielsHoven There are great reading tools available. I used Hooked on Phonics with my children and Bob’s Books with my grandchildren. The Bob’s Books sets very are reasonably priced and available on Amazon. Still work on the system, but be proactive now.
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John Stossel
John Stossel@JohnStossel·
Teaching reading "became this holy war!" says reading app designer @NielsHoven. One reason is that George W. Bush pushed phonics. Teachers said "if George Bush is telling us what to do, we aren't going to do it." Seriously.
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Bob Zeidman
Bob Zeidman@BZwriter·
@JohnStossel @NielsHoven Why is it people have the need to find something better, something modern, when the tried-and-true works and makes sense? Does it really take scientific studies to show that sounding out words is the way to read?
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