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US Cities as inspired by 4th Age YIMBYS in Middle Earth:
1. Denver: Caras Galadhon, in Lothlorien.
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@SelectStarMan
Data sadist. High quality, high variance, galaxy-brained takes. Urbanism, rage against cruelty and inefficiency, scifi/fantasy, stats and programming.
Denver, CO Katılım Ağustos 2022
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@ramez We need Proportional Representation. Then if your party backs extremist pedophiles, it loses seats to other parties. Safe seat gerrymandered districts are the problem.
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The US primary process is broken. It selects for extremism over national unity and results that benefit all Americans.
Case in point: Trump continues to dominate the GOP and purge any Repbulican who challenges him during the primaries, even as he plunges in national polls of Americans as a whole. Bill Cassidy, Thomas Massie, Brad Raffensperger, the Indiana redistricting opponents, etc are gone from the party. These are people who stood on principle over personality, exactly the kind we need, on both sides.
If we want functional US politics, we need to do something about the toxic combination of "safe seats" that always go to one party (80% of Congress) and primaries that select for the most ideologically extreme voters.
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@SimplyKattoo @4k1tz @Kbyrne1980 Wool is actually great for those. The problem is wool tears very easily, especially when wet and not as thick as a chunky sweater.
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@4k1tz @Kbyrne1980 Now me personally, I would never work out in wool. For a bunch of reasons. 1) I live below the arctic circle 2) I like to exercise at least twice a week and I am too lazy to hand wash clothes that often 3) itchy. But everyone is different!
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People are so disconnected from the work of making clothing that they think basically any fabric can do any thing. Now I hear the phrase "this, but in cotton" all the time. That's not how it works. There is no cotton equivalent of this outfit for example.
rachel@rachcorrine
Leggings had their turn. We are so back. Workout wear / inspo for the girls. Keep it loose keep it cotton keep it cool.
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@ExistentialEnso I loved that Trojan elephant nuclear plant
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If you were obsessed with this book as a child, you will NOT become part of the permanent underclass
johnny v5@generativist
@paularambles if this book could become a place
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@puheenix As a man of culture, I enjoy interaction variable PROXY_FOR_REPRODUCTIVE_FITNESS_3 * PROXY_FOR_REPRODUCTIVE_FITNESS_4
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her tits or her ass? bro, her PROXY_FOR_REPRODUCTIVE_FITNESS_3
shellac@she_llac
unlike you shallow simpletons who gawk at PROXY_FOR_REPRODUCTIVE_FITNESS_1, I only care about the much more refined and sophisticated PROXY_FOR_REPRODUCTIVE_FITNESS_2
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@cube_flipper I was trying this out a few sessions last week, and whenever I got too I to the 3d position and which eye was seeing what I would get some head tension and a headache soon after.
But I enjoyed the interference patterning between the two "eyes" and it added a lot of energy.
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if you do fire kasina meditation but only open one eye while absorbing the nimitta/afterimage, when you introspect it, where does it "live"?
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@_space_punk_ How do you think the alms-money-givers obtain their money?
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@SelectStarMan How so? One respects the autonomy and free will of others and the other is coercion of things they wouldnt otherwise do
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Its been four years and I'm still so perplexed how the options for acquiring money in the material realm seems to be either living off alms or stuff like malignant narcissism level mind control of others/robbing a bank level violence...and most people seems to choose the latter?
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@SYNESTHEIZURE You can tell from the halos around objects that the HDR was cranked.
The only connection to Hindu temples is HDR can be useful when air pollution washes out an image
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@sam_kritch @animalologist Unfortunately the electorate lacks virtue and honor.
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@animalologist it turns out it is important to elect virtuous and honorable people, who surround themselves with the same, for leaders. Anything less is toxic to peace.
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@RealDianeYap "Looks" also includes how a woman moves and responds. Being fun, open, and physically confident does a lot.
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This interaction highlights the difference between male and female sexuality. We can understand each other better.
Women: he mainly cares about how you look. The rest isn't that important if you're hot enough.
Men: no matter how you look, you can make up for it by being good with words, by seducing her, by making her feel something.
Cartoons Hate Her!@CartoonsHateHer
Was talking to my husband about sex scenes in movies and we realized I'm turned on by the dynamics of whatever led up to the sex, but his reaction is entirely based on how attractive the actress in question is.
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@moseskagan @mateosfo This not only fixes the off-books nature of the cost of these sort of takings, it also puts the owner close to management. Much simpler than regulations on which type of windows are historically compliant.
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@mateosfo Cities that want to preserve specific buildings ought to have to buy them
Otherwise, what is the limit on this power to halt development?
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perhaps more seriously, by transparently abusing the flawed system for historic preservation, Berkeley's NIMBY's are making the case to do away with historic preservation altogether and instead give city councils the exclusive power to preserve buildings and neighborhoods.
Kim-Mai Cutler@kimmaicutler
You know how reporters are supposed to be objective? I feel like given the quotations and structure of this paragraph, this reporter had some opinions.
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@decunningham2 @electionsjoe @StatisticUrban There is no theory supporting that. It's just a dumb system.
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@electionsjoe @StatisticUrban Lockouts are a feature of top-two, not a bug. The entire idea of top-two is to force moderation. A lockout race (in theory) leads to the more moderate option winning.
In practice, all it results in is 10-20% of voters sitting out and the rest voting incoherently
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I SWEAR TO GOD IF DEMS GET LOCKED OUT OF A HARRIS +3 SEAT...
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡@PollTracker2024
SurveyUSA poll | 5/8-5/14 US House 2026 | California 48th congressional district jungle primary (Harris +3 | 2024) (Top two advance to November) 🟥Jim Desmond 29% 🟥Kevin Patrick O'Neil 10% 🟦Ammar Campa-Najjar 9% 🟦Marni Von Wilpert 9% 🟦Brandon Riker 6% 🟦Abel Chavez 4% 🟦Corinna Contreras 3% 🟦Mike Schaefer 3% 🟦Eric Shaw 2% 🟦Ferguson Porter 1% ⬜️Luis F. Reyna 1% 🟦Stephen Clemons 0% Undecided 25% Link to poll: surveyusa.com/client/PollRep…
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@BerbarianWizard The MCTs that increase metabolism are c8 & c10. Coconut oil is mostly c12.
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During my yohimbine cut, before discovering Peating, my carbs were so low that I had almost no energy. I remember adding a small amount of MCT oil and feeling high energy almost instantly. It makes sense since MCTs are medium-chain fats, shorter than normal long-chain fats, so they go quickly to the liver, need little to no carnitine to be oxidized, and don’t spike insulin like carbs. They gave me fast fuel without blocking yohimbine’s fat-mobilizing effect, and I even noticed better fat loss despite calories going up from the MCTs.
Jamal Dinkoui@BerbarianWizard
Coconut oil is partly the sugar of fats but not in a strict sense. Only short- and medium-chain fatty acids up to C10 enter mitochondria without the carnitine shuttle and are oxidized rapidly, with kinetics closer to glucose. Coconut oil is mostly lauric acid (C12), which sits at the boundary. Part of it is handled quickly, but a significant fraction still requires carnitine-dependent transport. It is not equivalent to true MCT. Dairy fat provides short-chain fatty acids like butyrate (C4), and MCT oil provides C8 and C10. These are the fats that consistently bypass carnitine and are cleared rapidly. This matters for the Randle cycle. Rapidly oxidized fatty acids do not sustain high acetyl-CoA and NADH levels, so inhibition of glucose oxidation remains limited. Longer-chain fatty acids maintain beta-oxidation and keep inhibiting glucose oxidation through pyruvate dehydrogenase. The difference comes down to how long the fatty acids stay in the oxidative system.
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@StatisticUrban Why is this thread so long. His position is "GOP votes should count more because something about the geographic distribution"
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Lol, this is what you have to do to Colorado to get 5 barely red seats. These are all Trump +6 or less.
A "neutral" Colorado would not be 5R-3D.
SharkofPolitics@SharkofPolitics
@immabigborg @StatisticUrban @PeterGr329 @impostersyndrum Except not. The real map for Colorado should be 5-3 R advantage if it were properly in gerrymandered
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@trujillo80374 @evanwch Deregulate the housing sector
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Last time a Democrat won statewide in Iowa was in 2022. For Texas, it was 1994
Yet online progressives are angry Senate Majority PAC is investing $ in Iowa over Texas
These are not serious people
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@Birdyword City/suburb boundaries are designed to increase segregation and income inequality
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The fact that there are only 12 cities with a population of more than a million people in a country the size of the US is endlessly fascinating
KUT Austin@KUT
Austin has been teetering at the 1 million population mark for years. New census numbers show it’s finally there. From @_AustinCurrent: kut.org/austin/2026-05…
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The local elections in one chart. Labour has been squeezed between the Greens in young wards and Reform in older working-class wards
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2020 was a wild time, you'd be looking at magazines and it would be like Playboy's Hottest Bombshell of the Year: The Climate :(
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@Aella_Girl My moid ratings:
2.5: good job at the gym bro
2: healthy dude
1.5: lol what up with your dick
1: fats rolls like that??
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