Liberal Arts and Crafts

Fuck it, I'm out, find me at the new version of the old version of this site with the same handle, and everyone should follow suit until this place becomes nothing but the fetid sewer of fascism it's clearly destined to become

@Articulatesthat @j3wls @BobiusPrime @PopCrave Are you privy to any data that substantiates the numbers you provided?

@j3wls @BobiusPrime @PopCrave Of course it's a guess because I'm not privy to all the data I would need

Donald Trump has rescinded Joe Biden’s executive order that sought to lower prescription drug costs for Americans.

@vazserox @elibellyjj @hsrgood @GoBrightline If it's true the gate's routinely malfunction it's absolutely a problem of infrastructure, not just poor decision making on drivers' part. Their options are limited in a scenario where gates regularly stay down indefinitely with no train, ESPECIALLY if it's for multiple gates.

@elibellyjj @hsrgood @GoBrightline lmao, these people are playing russian roulette. They deserve what comes to them.

From the Brightline Safety and Security Team: Railroad safety is a community wide effort. For everyone’s safety, never drive around crossing gates when they are down.

You can and should, it just requires a radically different idea of how a city should function, but in creating the infrastructure needed for cycling (and other micro transport) to be load bearing you make the lives of walkers and wheelchair users better too.

@NOTSHR00MS @drsuffy It's taxed differently? Where are you that income is taxed differently depending on OT vs normal?

@drsuffy Yeap and overtime/double time is taxes to hell and back.

Let's talk about working 80hrs a week and why I call bs for 99% of the dumbasses who call Americans lazy for not wanting to work 80hrs. I worked in a lot of fields, from a courier to oil field, retail to gov, from contracting floors to gas stations. I've worked 80+hr weeks for months at a time. It sucks. It's hell. You can't think. You're not "productive". You're a damn slave. The last year I drilled, I spent 21 days home. I spent the rest of the time in a "doghouse" on the rig. Now tell me, how is one supposed to have a healthy family relationship with this? Is this the American dream? Slaving for a tech bro to maximize returns? Tell me, is this the American dream? Never being home? Never seeing your family? And you stupid fucks have the audacity to question why people aren't having kids.

But sure, it was Harris winning that would have really hurt the pro Palestine movement, because of liberals doing brunch or something. This is exactly what The left should have expected, beating Trump was a necessary step, now there's fuck all protest and media can accomplish.

@HossainAhabar @metallifre63765 @Izengabe_ @celeste43_ @Redistrict Personally I'd create multi seat districts so power could be distributed in proportion to vote share.

@metallifre63765 @Izengabe_ @celeste43_ @Redistrict it has to do with partisan makeup. MI needs to split the Detroit vote in order to make sure the partisan representation is roughly even to reflect the politics of the state. Personally, I would just get rid of majority-minority districts and require fair and competitive maps.

Pretty amazing that the House (likely 220R-215D) would have flipped to Dems this year while the White House/Senate flipped to the GOP, had it not been for Rs winning a majority on the NC Supreme Court in 2022, allowing GOP legislators to redraw three Dem seats into oblivion.

@MowmowOwEn @the_ason @ArmandDoma Yup

@LibArtsNdCrafts @the_ason @ArmandDoma No

when did DoorDash become the defining bipartisan issue for Gen Z politics

@MowmowOwEn @the_ason @ArmandDoma It was usually a small number is restaurants that sold cheap easily transported food and focused on volume with minimal/no seating, stuff that could be easily done in multi stop runs. It was never the variety of restaurants we have now.

@the_ason @ArmandDoma Ask your parents how pizza and chinese food got to their house before 2011. 🙄 Other local restaurants, too.

@theREDtard @HappyPunch "I break, I fix."

@HappyPunch Can you imagine the girl waking up and seeing Shi as her doctor lmao

Shi Ming is a registered doctor and her parents have no idea she’s an MMA fighter She had this VICIOUS KO at UFC Macau today that sent her opponent to the hospital 😳

@logicForAll_ @MarkLevineNYC @NYCCouncil Things which destroy cities: Housing

@MarkLevineNYC @NYCCouncil You’re destroying the city or what’s left of it Enjoying parading on the ashes

This isn’t just big. It’s historic. It will lead to creation of homes for 80k NYers. There’s never been anything like this in the history of NYC or any city in America. Incredibly proud of @nyccouncil and everyone who fought so hard for this.

@kobedryman @LukeMcNamara625 @jbstenn @kenharris @daveweigel @DerekThorn Why am I so confident your response, if you bother to give one, will be effectively the same as "Gay people have the same right to marry people of the opposite sex as straight people, ergo equality!"

John Oliver's 2015 monologue about the "trans rights turning point" is a real time capsule. "We know how this thing ends. If you take the anti-civil rights side, and deny people something they're entitled to, history is not going to be kind to you." youtu.be/hmoAX9f6MOc?si…

This is extremely promising

What to purge them from the party? Give them a party that can win power in proportion to their vote share then work with them to pass legislation that you can both support.

@meow_zedong1 @eskiflo1 @ArtemisConsort @RoseAndGarden @razibkhan Lol, k

@eskiflo1 @LibArtsNdCrafts @ArtemisConsort @RoseAndGarden @razibkhan I can name an example: welfare. It is not in a market, but it is arguably a industry and the perverse incentives created probably make it negative-sum. Economically illiterate policies such as tariffs and price controls are also negative-sum, but they aren't industries.

@eskiflo1 @meow_zedong1 @ArtemisConsort @RoseAndGarden @razibkhan Well that'll do it, have a nice day, your definitions are pointlessly narrow

@LibArtsNdCrafts @meow_zedong1 @ArtemisConsort @RoseAndGarden @razibkhan This, of course, cannot exist in a market, only in game theory

@eskiflo1 @meow_zedong1 @ArtemisConsort @RoseAndGarden @razibkhan Name a negative sum industry

@LibArtsNdCrafts @meow_zedong1 @ArtemisConsort @RoseAndGarden @razibkhan You described something that is clearly zero sum, then called it negative sum…

@meow_zedong1 @ArtemisConsort @RoseAndGarden @razibkhan Gambling takes the effort of competent people and devotes it to a task of creating no good or service of value, but tricking vulnerable and desperate people into transferring funds to richer people in ways that are addictive and destroy communities. It's clearly negative sum.

@ArtemisConsort @RoseAndGarden @razibkhan To be fair, the overhead costs also transfer to high(er)-iq

@NickTerhaar1989 @ezraklein You STILL think Trump is an unusually weak candidate? How much evidence do you need to adjust your priors?

Trump is on track for a smaller popular vote victory than Hillary Clinton won in 2016. Democrats have work to do. They need to build a coalition that’s not always 2 points from losing to MAGA. But I don’t see Republicans internalizing that this was a narrow victory in a historically anti-incumbent year. Many presidencies have faltered by misreading an anti-incumbent mood as a sweeping ideological mandate.

If Trump wins, Harris supporters must accept his victory peacefully and without rancor. And if Harris wins, Harris supporters must be understanding about Trump supporters’ violence and rioting.