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Movies shouldn't have a "dreamlike quality". I'm awake for a reason!
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Goethe, my man: “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
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Silicon Valley’s final dream is a world without institutions. But what works for a startup doesn’t work for democracy theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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the audacity to dress someone playing CBK in a poorly fitted pleather trench when she wore yohji yahamoto, prada and calvin klein which was always tailored to perfection. her style is a major part of her iconic legacy. cancel the whole show if it’s gonna look like this.
Film Updates@FilmUpdates
First look at Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette in ‘AMERICAN LOVE STORY.’ Premiering February 2026.
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@dereklphillips No, it doesn't lol. You fundamentally don't understand capitalism.
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The birth rate decline is largely a good thing and something capitalism can easily adjust for.
The people ranting about it are politicians who need an ever expanding population to support their pyramid scheme of a government.
We don’t want teens and people who can’t support offspring having kids. We don’t want people who aren’t emotionally or mentally equipped having kids either.
Stop trying to centrally plan people’s intimate choices.
Rob Henderson@robkhenderson
A lot of people assume that declining birth rates are mainly due to college-educated women delaying motherhood. The idea is that they put off having kids for too long, run out of time, and end up having fewer children than they originally wanted. That’s why so many policy solutions focus on things like tax breaks and subsidized childcare—to make it easier for women to balance careers and family life. But that’s not really what’s happening. It’s true that college-educated women are having kids a bit later, but not by much. In the U.S., the average age at which these women have their first child has only gone up from 28 in 2000 to 30 today. And they’re still having about as many kids as their peers did a generation ago—just slightly fewer than what they say would be ideal, which has always been the case. The real driver of declining fertility rates in wealthy countries isn’t professional women—it’s younger, poorer women who are delaying childbirth and ultimately having fewer kids. In the U.S., more than half of the drop in fertility since 1990 comes from a sharp decline in births among teenagers. Part of that is because more of them are going to college. But even among those who don’t, birth rates are down. In 1994, the average first-time mother without a college degree was 20. Now, about two-thirds of women without degrees in their 20s still haven’t had their first child.
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Despite it being on the whole overwhelming and demoralizing to ponder, the main takeaway of the USAID stuff is a positive one: that leftism has no organic support or momentum and must be subsidized
Cheetarchus@cheatervision24
@annakhachiyan they were projecting the whole time bc they knew they could only exist with subsidies
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@LA_Multi_Fam @CordellDuToit you should not be renting out a property that you have a mortgage on. that property should be available for someone else to own and live in.
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@CordellDuToit 100%. They don’t understand or care how much money it takes to run these buildings.
Mortgage, property taxes, insurance, utilities, maintenance, $100K earthquake retrofit, $30K balcony and deck retrofit all don’t exist for them.
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every time people say “the trenches” “grinding” “practicing” “you can just do things” “build build build” they re exclusively talking about being on the computer
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At least on my feed XLeft almost silent on nativist Indian bashing lest they find themselves siding with Musk.
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One thing people do not like to hear is that there are acute problems to which capitalist society has no answer and if we want to solve them we have no choice but to abolish this society and reconstitute our social relations on a new basis.
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@sam_d_1995 @ok_post_guy is there a nimby in the room with us right now sam???
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@ok_post_guy very funny to see the worst guy in SF politics take his grift national after his NIMBY boss crashed and burned in the mayoral election
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Teamsters guy endorsed Trump, why isn't he out there
Lee Hepner@LeeHepner
Why aren’t Dem leaders joining the picket line right now?
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@eddiekimx People who are high on drugs and mentally unstable with nothing to use are extremely dangerous
If this is news to you, you have no business calling yourself a reporter
Go “center your feelings” elsewhere
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i am on my knees begging people to distinguish "sketchy" from "actually dangerous to me"
the hyperbolic victimhood from privileged people in SF is exhausting.
Ishan Sharma@Ishansharma7390
It breaks my heart watching this.💔 This is San Francisco. The tech capital of America. Home to the world's brightest minds. AND the biggest tech companies Is also the most unsafe place I've been to. Half of the streets are filled with: - homeless - mentally unstable - high on drugs or a combination of all gun violence and car break-ins are soo common. Theft at an all time high. Zombie-like people walking on the streets. It is the utopia of tech capitalism gone wrong. why can't this be fixed?
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@sonik0909 @PEWilliams_ merchants are often motivated by greed, "competitors" often collaborate to inflate prices, "economic factors" are often overstated as cover. there's nothing to debunk, you're just robotically repeating simple minded Econ orthodoxy, and I take pleasure in trolling you for that.
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@dereklphillips @PEWilliams_ Then I'm sure you'll have no trouble debunking my take. You have the floor.
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Isn't this the literal purpose and mechanism of tariffs? Producers raise prices on imported goods, which creates a competitive advantage for domestic goods. It is pro-competition policy, which is what I thought AELP was all about?
Lee Hepner@LeeHepner
Pretty incredible that corporations are openly planning to use tariffs as cover for price hikes the same way they did with inflation.
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@sonik0909 @PEWilliams_ straight out of my favorite chapter from Econ for the Clinically Dim
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@dereklphillips @PEWilliams_ You implied it. If merchants can just raise prices out of greed (and not because they have to), that means there are no pressures to keep prices low.
But that's not reality. Charge more than you need to, and you'll lose customers to whoever can charge less, probably Amazon.
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@dereklphillips @PEWilliams_ So... since merchants can overcharge as much as they want and never get undercut by the competition, I guess that's why none of them ever go out of business, right?
Oh wait....
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@sonik0909 @PEWilliams_ sounds like you've read a textbook and never met an actual merchant
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@dereklphillips @PEWilliams_ No it's not. If the merchant's expenses go up, due to tariffs or inflation or shortages or whatever, it often becomes necessary to charge more. Some might have wiggle room to avoid doing so, but groceries, for instance, are sold at low margins to begin with.
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@PEWilliams_ C'mon, don't you know that merchants just get off on raising prices to fuel their insatiable greed, and so-called "economic factors" are just, like, an excuse? 🙄
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