@hahussain No one else is gonna do anything about it though.
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Ben McIlwain @[email protected]
@CydeWeys
Inside every car is a person crying out to be set free.
New York, NY Katılım Şubat 2009
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Greg is right. The unhinged way Iran handled the war convinced the world that regime is too crazy to reason with. Everyone now believes this is a regime that should never get its hands on anything nuclear or ballistic because it has proven that it will use them without reservation against anyone.
Gregg Carlstrom@glcarlstrom
At the start of the war, America, Israel and Gulf states had divergent aims. Trump might have done a quick deal with the regime; Israel wanted to shatter it. The Gulf was worried about chaos. My piece this week @TheEconomist looks at how Iran is pushing them all into alignment by making this a war over energy and the global economy. The Iranian strategy is meant to impose costs that induce Trump to end the war and deter him from launching another one. So far, though, what it has done is drive all of Iran's foes toward the same conclusion: that the war cannot end until the regime is crippled. economist.com/briefing/2026/…
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@CartoonsHateHer It's where trad incel loser ambitions collide with the ambitions of actual successful people. I know plenty of the latter in NYC and *none* of them have a stay-at-home spouse. That would code as low status! Instead you hire people to help with childcare as necessary.
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A lot of people are telling her she's obviously lying about them wanting the woman to have a career but it's fairly obvious that even if they don't care about ambition (big if) they want some evidence against the idea that she could be a gold digger
Blaine Anderson@datingbyblaine
Dating criteria I hear often from wealthy matchmaking clients: • Thin, pretty, natural look (e.g. no obvious facial fillers) • Fit, healthy relationship with food & gym • Has an actual career (specifics rarely important) • Warm, playful, feminine energy • No extreme political views
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@nickythegood @Chris_Smith202 You should really try visiting a city some time to see what it's actually like.
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@Chris_Smith202 Yes they do.
If you’re 35 and going to bars every weekend you’re hanging out with people younger than you.
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Weekends don’t exist once you’re in the burbs because kids dominate. It’s just time. Days don’t matter.
However, 35 year olds who still live in the city, getting hammered at bars are just as confusing.
Not that it doesn’t sound like fun, but your friends aren’t at the bar with you, they’re in the burbs at soccer practice, with me. So who are you getting hammered with?
Murray Hill Guy@MurrayHillGuy1
How do people in the suburbs genuinely look forward to Friday night on the couch, Saturday morning at Costco, and call that a weekend? Like you really moved out of the city just to LARP as your parents at 34?
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@constans Occam's razor says that he's simply wrong.
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That is insane. How can that even be real?
Kyle Potter@kpottermn
NEW: In a letter to employees, United CEO Scott Kirby says the airline is prepping for oil to hit $175/barrel & “doesn't get back down to $100/barrel until the end of 2027.” United is shaving 3% of off-peak flights - “think redeyes, Tues/Wed/Sat flying” - this spring & summer.
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@m0ldilocks He was talking about malaria. We understand this stuff now much better than they ever did in the ancient world.
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Caesar's engineer figured out in 25 BC that damp buildings make people sick.
Let that sit.
Not a doctor. Not a scientist. An engineer. With a chisel and a scroll.
He looked at swamps, looked at the people living near swamps, and wrote it down in De Architectura:
'The neighbourhood of a marshy place must be avoided… fogs and mists charged with unwholesome effluvia will diffuse over the bodies of the inhabitants and render the place pestilent.'
He even described how excess moisture entering the body 'introduces disproportion… the virtues of the mixture dissolved.'
That's immune dysregulation from environmental exposure.
Written in 25 BC.
With a quill.
Meanwhile, I spent 45 minutes in a doctor's office trying to explain that my building might be making me sick and got referred to a therapist.
He didn't have air quality sensors. He didn't have ERMI dust testing. He didn't have a single peer-reviewed citation.
He just looked at the evidence in front of him and connected the dots.
We have satellites. We have HVAC. We have the entire internet.
Vitruvius figured it out with observation.
We are not smarter than ancient Rome. We are just Rome with wifi and worse excuses.
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@Markus7Red @moultano Actually, increasing the price of oil is good for fighting climate change.
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The American west is currently seeing all time record temperatures for March, temperatures it doesn't typically see until the middle of summer. The Sunrise Movement has not posted about climate change in weeks. Nearly every post mentions AIPAC.
Sunrise Movement 🌅@sunrisemvmt
BREAKING: Rep. DeGette gets heated with a constituent pressing her on why she voted to send bombs to Israel: "If this the only issue that you care about is this issue, then you should not vote for me" DeGette, who's 68, is facing a primary challenge from @MelatKirosCO.
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@nico_andretti_ @BCalusinski The AI finally figured out that people have five fingers!
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End of times stuff here
There was a guy on this app who tested a bunch of similar ai UGC ads and realized if the thumbnail showed the woman’s armpit that the views would oftentimes 5-10x
He was dumbfounded and had to try and figure out the causal reasoning for it and figured out it had something to do with how humans don’t lift their arms unless they want to feel more exposed/vulnerable (like hugs for example) so a bunch of guys would be more likely to click the vid
Most people will literally have the same value as sheep a decade from now if this keeps up at scale
Dead internet theory is correct - agents are the only way to extract signal without the mental clutter
Miko@Mho_23
here's another AI UGC video from our new system our new system is extremely good at details: > handles accurate product placement > realistic voice > stable/controllable movements > infinite length can make them at scale & FAST if you know what you're doing best time to be alive ngl..
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@KenjiCapital Lower rent is better because you'll save money on subsequent years as well.
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@MaxMiller8841 @kchoudhu I would guess Pakistan.
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@rahulcreates95 @datingbyblaine Because that's what happened?
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@datingbyblaine neither i support gold diggers, nor i am inclined towards pseudo feminism, but all in that guy’s story, why always the women are at fault ?
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Spoke with a potential matchmaking client who’s 6’4, handsome, wealthy family + cool pursuits of his own, zero problems meeting women, but usually the wrong women. Wild stories he shared:
• He invited a woman he’d been on 3 dates with to spend a weekend with him on his family’s yacht. Her response was to request the yacht brochure, because she said she “can get seasick on <80m boats”
• A different woman he’d been seeing suddenly ghosted him, then reappeared in his life a month later in a full-blown relationship with a wealthier guy on the periphery of his circle.
• While staying in Paris, a woman he was introduced to asked to use his room number to land a coveted dinner reservation at his hotel. He obliged, then she secretly billed €9,000 of spa services to his room pretending to be his wife. When confronted, her response was, “But it means nothing to you!”
My value proposition is shielding him from gold diggers 😭
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@Dada233591vkx8 @ChrisJBakke It looks like it's under a dish-drying rack, and the sink is a bit off to the right, mostly eclipsed from view.
But now we're entering a level of scrutiny that AI slop really doesn't merit.
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@CydeWeys @ChrisJBakke Not under the kitchen sink, they aren't.
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You will live in the AI slop apartment. Your clothes washer will be under your kitchen sink. You have no dryer. There's wood paneling on the walls for some reason. You will smile at the candle that is burning 4 inches away from your 24 foot tall curtains. You pay $20,000/mo and can't access the stairs up to your shitty loft bedroom. There is no bathroom. You will be happy.
HOUSE PORN@HOUSEPORN___
the absolute perfect starter apartment for living alone in your 20s
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Until a few days ago, advocates for the Iran attack like @zriboua argued we should ignore pessimistic pundit assessments in the news. Instead, they pointed to the declining number of missile attacks from Iran as evidence that Iran’s capacity to launch retaliatory attacks was severely compromised by the US/Israel and argued that the war was enter a “de-escalation phase”.
Now, focusing on the same line of argument, it seems that Iran may have been indeed conserving strength and re-consolidating attack plans. Their retaliatory attacks using both missiles and drones have both increased in intensity, going in the wrong direction, just like inflation trends in the US, putting enormous pressures on US policymakers. The Chinese idiom is 骑虎难下.
JaguarAnalytics@JaguarAnalytics
Iran’s offensive campaign thru Day 19 Red line = Missile attacks Green line = Drone attacks
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@t_NYC Some people like this exist, but yes, the best way to actually add a lot of housing is to have well-capitalized developers build many large apartment buildings.
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This policy is absurd, as if people have $200-500k to drop on building an entire apartment in a backyard or out of an unfinished basement
Mark D. Levine@MarkLevineNYC
One of the hardest fought wins in the big City of Yes zoning change was the legalization of “Ancillary Dwelling Units” (ADUs)—a tiny house in the back yard, home over a garage, basement apartment etc. This zoning change could unlock as much as 25k desperately needed new homes in NYC’s low-density neighborhoods…but only if homeowners take advantage it. Now @NYCHousing is launching new tools to help: find out if your address qualifies, access low-interest financing, see pre-made designs etc. All here: nyc.gov/aduforyou This is just one more way housing creation in NYC is entering a whole new era. Thanks to all who fought hard for this.
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@corbomight @ChrisJBakke At *best*, it's a lot of wasted space, at the cost of additional construction complexity for no obvious benefit.
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@CydeWeys @ChrisJBakke Fascinating implications for the floor above.
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@ja3k_ They'd be less salient if anyone EVER learned from anything that has ever previously happened and actually prioritized owning fuel-efficient vehicles (or even better, EVs that don't even need gasoline). I remember the gas price shocks from 2000 and swore efficient-only thereafter
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@beanerbastard @laymensman @Empty_America That's the thing about the desert though, it doesn't have natural lakes like Buffalo.
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The only weather in Phoenix that will kill a healthy human stuck outdoors without special gear are the rare winter cold snaps.
Buffalo NY probably has 250+ "deadly weather days" per year.
Phoenix might have 2, all in winter. You can ride out the heat by sitting in shade.
Colin@Colin_d_m
Humans were never meant to live in Phoenix and it's an abomination that we built a city in that hellfire
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@Ed_of_O @ChrisJBakke This is a studio apartment; I don't think it's the penthouse. I assume there's many floors above it still. I've just literally never seen a ceiling curved like that in an apartment, on any floor. It's the most clearly fake thing to me about this image.
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@CydeWeys @ChrisJBakke Most buildings are straight up rectangles, but I could imagine some curves if they had a fancy pants architect doing things to the shape of the exterior.
I'll just assume all the basic missing things are in the spandrel.
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@ChrisJBakke Also, the lack of handrails on the stairs in foreground is a death trap (plus there's way too many stairs in general for the pictured height of the loft; it makes no sense).
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@ChrisJBakke Washing machines in kitchens are common around the world. I assume this is a studio and it doesn't have a dedicated in-unit laundry room.
What really stands out to me as dumb is the curvature on the ceiling. What's going on there? You don't see that in apartment buildings.
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