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@NikkiMcR I hate how funny he is.

Nothing could have prepared me for what he is actually trying to say.

@TrueSlazac If anyone has ever spent anytime in Russia, you’d know “love family” does not apply here.

New whiteness map just dropped

@boredjew @cyberbilly2 @TastelessAlex What about this site qualifies for any part of “middle of quiet residential neighborhood”?

@cyberbilly2 @TastelessAlex Right, you're comparing the redevelopment of a strip mall to plunking towers in the middle of a quiet residential neighborhood, which is obviously stupid. Where I come from, we call that a "Strawman".

This is a great example of why the NIMBY movement is a declining movement. The optics are terrible. The only reason it was successful in the past is because of discretionary permitting that allowed them to show up to townhall meetings and shout like psychos at city officials.

@imago_dei1016 @cremieuxrecueil Yes, because white people are multiple times the population of the next biggest group. So the proportions track.

@cremieuxrecueil So, white people marry white people 86-89% of the time, and everyone else marries white people about a third of the time over their own race. Interesting.

Here's a big chart of the latest data on interracial marriage in America. It's an ethnicity-by-ethnicity breakdown of who marries who for some of the biggest groups, counting just those born in the U.S.

@BabyStarE8 @cremieuxrecueil @VP Which one? Kamala?

@cremieuxrecueil @VP will make history as President for being in an interracial marriage.

@brocboy67 @cremieuxrecueil It’s more of a function of white women being the largest group. And having largest pool (by far) being white men. Fairly difficult to encroach more into the other pools of men

@cremieuxrecueil This is why I say miscegenation is an overrepresented issue in the modern right. Spend any time around white women, you will see they don’t have any romantic interest in non white males. They would never say this, because it’s racist.

@moonbeamer6 @ImNotOwned @DrewSav Similar to how SC inflicted Biden on us rather than Harris in 2020. Or Joe a similar primary electorate is responsible for Ossoff to begin with. Southern Democrats are perhaps the most strategic and pragmatic voting bloc of them all.

@ImNotOwned @DrewSav Unfortunately I think SC is going to inflict Harris on us.

Ossoff approval ranges from Fetterman to Hasan Piker. If the party could truly decide, they have an obvious pick.

@RichEllefritz @iowahawkblog This has been a thing for years.

@iowahawkblog Why, yes, please, since it was my idea in the first place.

Give this man immediate full tenure and all the endowed chair you've got

@MaxAnderson @levelsio The moment you have kids, a pool becomes the most dangerous thing you can have on your property for them.

As soon as you have kids, pool becomes one of the best features of the house Core childhood memory and gets used almost every day Plus your kids will become water-safe at a much younger age, which is a massive destessor and makes travel a lot more enjoyable Have to be in a warm climate tho ofc else makes no sense

Things I learnt after buying a house after 1 year and going through lots of shitty products and things and what I'd do know if I bought or build a house again: - home assistant + their HA Green (little box that's open source to connect all your devices with Home Assistant) - LG or Mitsubishi air conditioning in EVERY room, both cooling/heating, every unit should have its own outdoor unit, or you get annoying things like you can't cool one room and heat the other at same time! I think they're called mono splits - xiaomi air purifier in every room, big spaces get the big purifiers, smaller rooms small ones (most air purifiers are too small for the space they're in!) - a good smart lock, it's so good because you come home and your door auto opens (esp nice if you carry stuff) - matic vacuum (they gave me one so I have to disclose but it's GREAT, all the Roomba and Chinese ones suck) - unifi router with access points, outdoor extenders, cameras, doorbell, all PoE - starlink with local fiber backup - tesla dreamwall or other batteries sufficient to power for days (means like 4-8 batteries @ 13kwh per maybe!), then connect your freezer, fridge, stove, etc to it (heavy loads) so you can keep and cook food when shit goes down - related get a Weber Genesis gas bbq so you can always cook food, fun with friends too - solar panels actually sufficient to power (so like 30-50, crazy number but if you get like 15 it's just not enough?) - pool is honestly overrated, you'll almost never use it, also lots of maintenance (we had a massive water leak with a $10,000 water bill this month, so F that) - but u DO want a standalone jacuzzi, that's nice, with lights! - if you care about safety get steel doors with massive locks for other rooms, and make those safe rooms, so if someone comes in you have multiple layers of security - also get weapons to defend you and your family where legally possible! - garden should be permaculture kinda concept with vegetables, herbs and stuff you can grow to eat, like strawberries, rosemary etc - harvia dry sauna, and if outside, add a little changing room to it so you don't exit in the cold outside! - related, build a home gym, get a big power rack with cables, free barbell, smith barbell, everything built in, and then some dumbbells and kettlebells, and a gym bike like concept2, maybe concept2 rowing machine too, with that you can do almost anything to stay fit! then hire personal trainer to come to your house or you will never go! - ALL lights should be changeable to red at night, via home assistant, so you can make everything red at 10pm for sleep! - also get outdoor lights for fun and security (burglars hate lights) - ALL windows black out blinds on outside, for both security and just NO light during sleep - when you're not sleeping, get lots of sunlight, big floor to ceiling glass windows, it's great! - all doors to outside flat on floor level, no stepover edges (like in PT) - preferrably lots of land around your house so you're not close to any neighbors (neighbors are always annoying even if they're nice!) - fellow water kettle, fellow ode 2 coffee grinder - sofas, other interior, make sure to find natural materials, 99% of interior is polyester/plastic - LG makes the best TVs, end of story, but their software is shit and spies on you, NEVER connect them to the internet/WiFi, instead buy an Apple TV box and connect that, that doesn't spy on you and has no ads, then connect it with HDMI and you're good, also no annoying LG TV updates - re: TVs, people show these formulas of like blalba distance to sofa from tv is N meter so now you need 60", in my experience they always sell you a TV like 10-15" too small, we had 77" LG TV and it was like diving into the screen, beautiful, but then we followed the formula and changed it for 65", not the same! get bigger! - get a VERY big bed, 2m wide by 2m long at least, get natural bed sheets/duvet and seperate duvet from partner, the less you wake up when your partner moves the better - guest rooms are a bad idea, it's annoying to have friends and family IN your house for weeks or a month, good luck trying to have SEX! better get a small house or apt near for them or put them in airbnb!!! - add a delivery box outside ur house so delivery people can put packages inside without having to ring your doorbell 10x per day - get a $500 mini projector and big projection screen outside (or a white wall) so you can have movie nights outside w friends

@BlueCheese608 @StatisticUrban Maybe some formula which also considers media market size. For example, if Georgia was a tipping-point state, it gets pushed down to the list of 10. So that only swing states with smaller media markets are prioritized in the ranking

@StatisticUrban Dems should rip up the playbook: make it rules based. Tipping point state in last election is 1st. Next 3 closest a month later. Then the next 10. Then the rest all at once. This would allow for who’s best at retail politics, who can handle setbacks, & who can win swing states.

Neither NV or SC are my preferred first state, but if we're choosing between them, NV makes much more sense imo. It's an actual swing state, it's more demographically balanced, and, while far from perfect, it's much more representative of the coalition Dems need win nationally.

@sensiblemoderat @StatisticUrban I think it’s more that the SC Dem electorate are more moderate than NV’s Dem with more affordable media markets.

@StatisticUrban The Dems prioritize identity politics over economic populism or winning elections — I expect it to be SC

Wild that we’re 26 years into this century and still can’t casually refer to the 00-09 decade without confusion. “The 2000s” = ambiguous and technically the whole millennium so far. “The aughties” = sounds made up How did this happen?

@theaichbee @RichardHanania Not true for most business owners I know, including myself.

@RichardHanania Nothing will turn you into a Republican faster than owning or running a business.

The most Republican leaning blacks and Hispanics are those with a HS degree or less and earn at least $200K a year.

@credealjunkie Next are the closets. With only the kitchen as the shared common space. The only upside is that home arrangements like that lead to very close knit roommates and memories folks wouldn’t change for anything

We’ve reached the point in the San Francisco rental cycle where roommates are converting living rooms to bedrooms. 3 roommates in a 2BR, 2 dudes sharing a 1BR. Can’t believe how fast this has happened.

@nikolaos_polk @Sines_tra @ContraPoints I think Nolan was thinking of the “most beautiful woman in the world”, and landed on Lupita. It’s not that hard, even though 1-3% of the Twitter verse voiced their disagreement.

@Sines_tra @ContraPoints This is what I mean. I honestly couldn't give two fucks, but you're an abject fucking moron if you don't think Nolan explicitly cast Zendaya and Lupita because he wanted to be subversive. No one on the planet's first thought when looking to cast Helen of Troy is a black woman.

So, The Odyssey. Lol. It’s good, maybe Nolan’s best, and not even slightly “woke.” The right-wing hysteria is amazingly detached from reality. It’s a relentlessly masculine film, visually similar to Troy (2004) at times, but starker and bleaker, less flamboyant and less feminist. Circe, Calypso, Charybdis etc. are classic Nolan female chaos dragons. Penelope’s weaving is not dwelled upon. The costumes look good. The soundscape is relentless roaring and clanging that rings in your ears when you wander out of the theater feeling slightly overwhelmed by three hours of torchlit Mycenaean brutality. The brief presence of several black actors and one transsexual feels utterly natural in a mythological setting of seafaring travelers, and the fits of neurosis over it are extremely embarrassing for champions of the Master Race, whose ideological fanaticism and general hostility to aesthetic values has now exceeded the wildest excesses of left-wing media critique.

@MechGunz @Quintonleo @ContraPoints Yes

@Quintonleo @ContraPoints So the backlash against J.K.Rowling for being 'transphobic' is also from bots, which is evidenced by sales of Hogwarts Legacy?

@DariusJack82514 @Quintonleo @ContraPoints I think you have it backwards dude. “Woke bullshit” sells, and that’s a part of why the Oddessy will perform so well.

@Quintonleo @ContraPoints Its the fucking Oddessy dude. The only way to sell woke bullshit is to crame it into already established IPs or shoe horn it into thousand year old stories that people are interested in seeing. This film proves nothing.

@kingkhieu @CoreyWriting I don’t know man. It debuted with a 98% RT score and the Letterboxd score was similarly high. This “anti-woke” freakout is incredibly fringe and cringe to everyone else.

@CoreyWriting Conservatives only? Dont be disingenuous “Anyone who complain: about this movie or video game is a nazi” doesnt work and horrible gaslighting

Conservatives mocking a movie that's about to shatter records and make $1 billion is certainly a choice.

@JohnShock1999 @davidslosttt @Ericrse37986 Vermonters and Upstate New Yorkers are highly self-selective populations. You can see this stark divide on many other types of demographic/political/ideological maps.

@davidslosttt @Ericrse37986 Why is there such a stark contrast right at the Vermont/New York border?

Trump's approval in the northeastern corridor is generationally ass

@maxdubler What are your thoughts on cities building more public, fee supported parking structures to address this apparent “quality of life” issue where urbanites would rather depart the city, than ditch their cars?

Truly wild how much American urban policy coddles people who live in dense walkable neighborhoods and want to park their cars on the street for free. If you can afford an Upper West Side apartment, a car, and *a weekend home,* you can afford to pay for parking.