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@rachellapides I once saw a German woman in a university coffee shop try to give step-by-step instructions to the student barista on how to make a German macchiato.

Has anyone else encountered the phenomenon of ordering a macchiato and then the barista asking you if you understand what a macchiato is

@RaminNasibov The people who staff the museums want to go to the club.

Museums should stay open until midnight. I don't want to go to a club. I want to look at art.

@michelletandler More nutty rightwing economics. Rent control is what allows landlords to charge $7000 on non-controlled units. They wouldn’t have such elevated values in the absence of rent control. Anyway, cities can’t operate effectively if low-wage workers can’t afford to live in them.

Last weekend, I met a guy who is living in a two-bedroom apartment at 70th and Broadway for $2380. That would cost ~$10k on the free market. So the man essentially gets $7k/month from his landlord, mandated by the state government. Rent control is why the rent is so high.

@MorosKostas I’ve always found it both supremely amusing and obnoxious that the justices claim to deicide cases on basis of law, and yet whenever a political or ideological case comes along, it’s always decided along party lines. Now, How could popular politics be legal scholarship?

While it's true that people's perception of SCOTUS as a constant series of 6-3 or 5-4 rulings on strict party lines is wrong, this sort of data saying they agree most of the time is also misleading. Yes, they agree a lot because they take a bunch of boring cases that do not have a clear ideological component. That's part of the problem with this Court actually; they take a record-low number of cases, and then of those few cases, a giant share are technical bullshit that should have been either ignored, or decided per curiam. But on the sorts of high-profile cases that affect the lives of millions of people or present important constitutional questions, splits along partisan lines are quite common.

@LocasaleLab You are not fit to be a scientist. This is the worldview of a college freshmen. Oh dear, why don’t biologists just establish a clear chain of causality? Because cells are the most complex machines in existence. You can’t run the various systems indepedently of each other, fool.

Philosophers have debated what it means to prove causality for thousands of years, and it’s still not resolved. I think scientists would benefit greatly from engaging more seriously with the distinction between cause and effect versus correlation. My concern is that different scientific fields and scientists operate with very different views on what constitutes evidence for causality. What a geneticist, biochemist, cell biologist, physicist, or chemist considers sufficient proof can vary widely. This gets even worse in peer review, where it often comes down to the views of a few reviewers making yes-or-no decisions, typically based on the norms of their own experience rather than any consistent standard. At this point, the boundaries between fields should be much more blurred anyway. Knowledge has been diffuse and widely accessible for decades. But the standards for causality haven’t kept up, and that inconsistency shows.

@LocasaleLab Which one do you think is more likely, that all these professional scientists are detached from reality, or that the whiney bitch-ass dude who does nothing but complain about other people every goddamn day is divorced from reality?

Another Nature piece that is completely detached from reality. This isn’t about preventing misconduct. It’s about expanding administrative power. Universities today are already so risk-averse that even the hint of an allegation can end a career—no due process, no meaningful standard of evidence, and deliberations that are far from fair or transparent. Now the proposal is to formalize that system across institutions—effectively allowing administrative bodies to coordinate and blacklist individuals they deem unsavory. This has nothing to do with truth or protecting anyone. It has everything to do with consolidating power inside bureacracies. As usual, there’s no mention of the falsely accused. Institutions are treated as infallible, even as they operate behind closed doors and face no real accountability.

@emlawcatmom @See_Andreas Markets generally aren’t priced this inefficiently. There has to be a reason for it. Maybe you’re being vastly underpaid where you are due to inertia. Maybe the other firm has a competitive motive. Maybe there’s something else that makes the other job more demanding or insecure.

@See_Andreas Exactly my struggle. Yep same practice area! I'm going to take my time to think about it!

Should I consider leaving a law firm I absolutely love for almost double my salary and less billable hour requirements????

@preset_2m3 I once borrowed a book from the law library and returned it a year late, pleading with the guy at the desk to waive my $50 fine. He did. Years later, this same guy called the fucking university cops on me because I was quietly using the law library without proper credentials LOL

@ZyMazza These colors are rendered on a digital device, so no limitation. The palette was a trend then and our palette is a trend now. Same as various movements in the history of art that emphasized certain tones or palettes. Fashion.

Why can’t we do colors like this today? Surely it’s not a fundamental limitation of digital videography?

@shavnyuy This is the kind of thing that will rapidly un-scale in an earthquake zone.

They said brick can’t scale. Germany built a 574-metre railway bridge out of 26 million bricks in 1851. No steel skeleton. No concrete frame. Just brick, arches, and precision engineering. It is still the largest brick bridge on Earth. Trains still cross it today at 160 km/h. They chose brick because local clay was abundant and cheap. Sound familiar? Africa has the same clay. The same labour. The same sun to fire it. The excuse was never the material. Göltzschtalbrücke | Vogtland, Saxony, Germany 🇩🇪

@ItaiYanai I’ve seen people lose credibility by remaining too specialized. As a matter of fact, the obsession with their own narrow subfield led to ignorance more than specialization. Biology often comprises phenomena that have already been described in simpler systems in other fields.

Expert's Dilemma: the more specialized you become, the less open you are to creative solutions from other fields. But the more you explore other fields, the more you risk losing credibility in your home field. (Night Science recap, Day 3)

@architectmag Who cares. When you’re outside the building you look at the building. When you’re inside you look at the art.

Museums want to be everything—monument, community hub, gallery. That may be the problem. A new critique of NYC’s latest museum buildings reveals why architecture is overshadowing art. 👉 bit.ly/3O2vpnG #architecture #design #museums

@OttokarHochman Still works the same way if you’re in the know.

I really just don't understand how early modern law worked sometimes

@vividvoid This is why I consistently rank Radiohead among the literary postmodernists.

Someone just asked me if my Zoom background was real. I got up, walked over to a plant and shook the leaves to prove that it was. After my pride in having such a beautiful set waned, I remembered the plant was fake. I no longer know how many levels of simulacra I'm operating on.

@CharlestonArchi Frank Gehry has buildings going up right now that are designed with a sense of proportion.

@goueeik Oh, oh, a hundred years ago they studied proportion at the Bauhaus, cased closed then, you're so right, champ, kudos to you

Musicians learn harmony from the get-go. Meanwhile modernist architects don't believe in proportional harmony, or if they do, view it as completely "subjective" and therefore not worth the time to learn.

@CharlestonArchi LOL where did you ever get the idea that “a contemporary style” is modernism? This is a commercial developer style. Everything is so damn superficial with you people.

@goueeik Oops, looks like you are WRONG

There is a consensus of 80-90%, as demonstrated repeatedly in poll after modernist-ignored poll.

@CharlestonArchi One of the foundational ideas of the Bauhaus was the graphical and spacial relationships of forms. This has already been “proven” for 100 years.

@goueeik Prove me wrong then.

@IrishCowboy13 @YIMBYLAND You know, most of the Sunset is built on alluvial deposits. How will that work out with a skyscraper in a 7.5 on the San Andreas?

@YIMBYLAND Even for SF, most of the land is single family homes. It’s illegal to build up the Richmond and Sunset to look like the beautiful parts. And they scream and cry when someone wants to make a gas station into a condo building.

This is actually an amazing point. SF should've built way more housing over the years, but I can be sympathetic because it's genuinely a beautiful historic city. But it's absolutely insane that San Jose, in the literal Silicon Valley, doesn't look like a Chinese mega city.

@ClubCalvinist The real WASPs do Hepplewhite, not Italianate pastiche.

Visited my buddy’s apartment for the first time and now I want to pitch a new show called “WASP Hoarders”. (Yes, he’s Episcopalian)