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@omgsidewalks They have. Capitalism's just a framework for understanding aggregate economic behavior. Market behavior occurs everywhere, regardless of economic "system." They formalize and justify the inputs and outputs in different ways. So long as living requires energy expenditure, we pay

Capitalism is only a couple hundred years old. Humans have not been paying to live and survive on this planet for thousands of years. Please understand this

@aravosis Respectfully, addressing coverage before pricing was the wrong way as national policy. After that, DC more or less washed its hands and said reform was done, it made addressing prices harder. Dealing with the price inflation first would have made coverage reform after easier. 🤷‍♂️

For starters, I wouldn’t even have health insurance if it weren’t for the ACA. My pre-existing conditions would’ve guaranteed that no one would’ve given me insurance as someone who’s been self-employed since the late 1990s. Second, republicans have repeatedly hobbled the ACA to make it more expensive, starting with the individual mandate that Republicans killed, which caused prices to increase. So if you want to have a discussion about whether we’re better off with the ACA, and who’s responsible for prices going up, happy to have it.

@Aella_Girl What's the significance of the altered color-coding for dom/sub clusters?

I made a map of ~500 kinks, based on a huge amount of data on how correlated kinks tend to be with each other. Interactive explorer linked below

@BradPilon The premise is wrong, that wasn't true in the 80s. And your body doesn't do just the one thing with the protein. Your body can and will convert protein into many things besides muscle. Turning it into energy stored for later is just considered suboptimal use.

Every one please remember, since 30 grams of protein was the most we could fit in a scoop of protein back in the 1980's, and despite the decades and decades of research suggesting otherwise, 30 grams is also the exact amount your body can absorb in one meal ;)

@stefanoscalia Dev-bot account. The open space isn't the issue, much of which was/is carved out of spots which were gonna be problematic to develop anyway. It's the zoning and the obsession with low-density housing (and general near-freeze on development)

I'm so tired. I don't want a single new park in San Francisco. We don't need them. At all. I just want housing. Market rate. BMR. Whatever. Just housing. Retail. Transit. I don't care about parks or open space. We have so much in the bay. We're drowning in it.

@Jimmy55544 There are sub tops. Myself, I trend toward faggot but there are regrettably a few limits

A bottom is a gay man who likes dick up the ass. A sub is a bottom who likes to be controlled during sex. A faggot is a thing that needs to be controlled by men 24/7, sexually & non-sexually. Which are you? Comment below.

@caranthirs I didn't really get that sense from Martin. I did get it from Tolkien. I was a lot younger than and more apt to feel that way but Tolkien's material demonstrably WAS grounded and less fake

“what makes the invented words and names from tolkien and martin feel more grounded and less fake than other fantasy” is an interesting question because there is an extremely obvious answer but i don’t think that answer is actually what most readers are feeling (or not entirely)

@Scaramucci It's true for a free democratic society where you achieve the goal by maximizing growth. They DON'T want that. They want a feudal society with them on top. Way easier to stay on top with less competition that way.

Henry Ford was generally a racist and a bad person, but he understood something our current broligarchs have completely forgotten. He said: I have to pay my workers enough to afford the products they’re building. Give them a house, decent schools, reasonable healthcare. If I do that, they’re not descending on my Dearborn mansion with pitchforks while I eat my caviar. We’ve lost that plot entirely. We have broligarchs who want to be trillionaires and they’re missing the lesson that a deeply flawed man figured out a hundred years ago. Capitalism works, but only if people believe the game is worth playing. Right now they don’t and history is very clear about what comes next.

@davidslosttt Well, you magats wanted to turn the entire state into something even worse, so. . . We're familiar with the sort of people you elect in Shasta and the coercion and suppression you already use on dissenters.

I didn’t realize people actually want the state of Jefferson lmao

@lillianemallow Tell them your safe word

whats the best way of saying no to something in a "but please still force me to do it anyway" kinda way

@itskostyn I dunno. I believe that balance has to be maintained. If you're gonna clean my house, I need you to make something else equally dirty and messed up.

Can I clean your hoouse? x.com/itskostyn/stat…

@hecubian_devil Because they reserve that attitude for people who say they're from Los Angeles but are from the greater area

Why does NYC have their weird “who is REALLY a New Yorker?” discourse but in Los Angeles you can call yourself an Angeleno after living there for 9 months and no one cares

@robertgraham They have absolutely no need for tax breaks and they should not be getting them. They are corruptly influencing a few to get massive discounts so they can build where most don't want them in the first place

Facebook/Meta got a $3.3 billion tax break to build this data-center, which some media has reported as putting a huge billion dollar "hole" in state finances. Nonetheless, it still pays more in taxes than it receives in benefits from the government. That "hole" is just theoretical numbers, the real numbers is that data-centers add to government revenue. Facebook's/Meta's huge tax break was from state sales taxes. They paid all sorts of other taxes. In this case, a county 1% sales taxes on the billions of hardware they purchased. Just because they got a state-wide tax break doesn't mean they got a local county tax break. The point is that most reporting is biased against data-centers. They pretend the missing theoretical taxes are somehow bankrupting local governments, when in fact they do the opposite, and are a net increase in revenue. They consume fewer increased services than the increased taxes they provide.

@AndyMasley You're saying no one in the general public should read data center articles or bother forming any opinions about data centers. Because what you posted was deliberately obfuscation to the general public. Informing includes educating, offering context/explanation where necessary

My simple rule for data center articles is you should expect to be talked to as if you're a local planner. Someone comes into your office and gives you two identical stats on a new project. One says: "It uses 200 swimming pools of water per day." And the other says: "It uses 1% of the city's municipal water draw." Which gives you footing in how you should think? If you read something and it wouldn't give you enough useful context as a planner, it's a bad way of presenting the relatively simple info.

@7celo I don't hook up with barely overage or twinks anyway, but even if I did I'd keep another hard rule. "No exchanges". $/goods/services can't be offered for nsa sex or its not no-strings-attached anymore

If you’re 30+ and can’t host+uber a twink for sex, what are you even doing?

@HerndonforIdaho Protecting that large well developed property from fire, theft, etc. IS more expensive than doing so for the 1br down the road and you're trying to offload the extra costs onto everyone else

Three neighbors. Same road, same sheriff, same fire truck, same EMS. One pays $5,000 in property tax. The next pays $2,500. The third pays $1,250. Same services. Four times the bill. The only difference is a guess about what their houses might sell for. That is not a tax. It is a penalty for owning.

@academic_la The magat moron shouldn't have let Benyamin hustle him into starting this and Israel shouldn't have been stupid enough to push it in the first place. 0 sympathy. If the end leads to bad results for Israel they are well deserved

Netanyahu has decided to accept the Iranian deal. Security officials are despondent and see it as a disaster. Ynet brings some high level quotes from them: 1) A senior Israeli official said "Nobody is happy with this. We understand it is not good for us, and that it harms Israeli interests. What is troubling is that Israel cannot influence it. Its voice is not being heard." 2) The anger at Trump is palpable.: "Trump screwed us, we took the hit. We're no longer in the loop and can't really influence anything." 3) Israelis fear Iran will be economically revived: "They've blown money on the Iranians, who are getting everything they want. They'll build a missile corps, and we'll have to pour money into interceptors." Israel sees oil revenue flowing back into the exact capabilities the war was meant to degrade. 4) They don't believe a deal will adequately deal with the nuclear issue: "The real test of the deal is removing the uranium and destroying it. If that doesn't happen, the sense of a bad deal will turn into something more concrete." 5) They fear this will embolden Iran: "Iran has smelled that it can achieve things by force, and it will use that against its neighbors and against us." 6) The deepest worry is not military. It is perception. After months of direct fire, Iran is seen across the region as the side that took the pressure and did not fold: "the regional working assumption will be that it was signed under Iranian pressure and American capitulation, rather than the reverse." Israel is concerned that Iran will be stronger, the US will be weaker and that the future for it will be bleak in the region. This war has been a disaster for Israel.

@ChiefTeef8 If your Dad died in WWII you can't be a boomer. Boom was a post-war phenomenon

Silent gen: we ate dirt sandwiches during the great depression Boomers: my dad died in ww2 and I got drafted to fight in Vietnam Gen X: leaded fuel made us psychotic and we started smoking at 9 years old Millenials: my parents are divorced and im bartender with a PhD Gen Z:

@GOP_is_Gutless @allenanalysis That's nothing to do with a republic and everything to do with a constitution. Republic just means power is vested in some PART of the public, as opposed to divine right. Democracy means the whole of the public gets a say, not just whites, or men, or property-owners

@allenanalysis You’re just another constitutionally, illiterate moron

BREAKING: An Economics Professor Just Made A Pretty Stunning Argument About Elon Musk. According to the professor, Musk spent roughly $250 million during the 2024 election cycle. He claims that's just 0.025% of Musk's wealth. In other words, the amount spent was so small relative to Musk's fortune that he could theoretically spend the same amount thousands of times over. That's a democracy question, not just a money question.

@DJBCasa @allenanalysis $ doesn't buy elections, usually. It does influence them. A good candidate can handle being outspent 3:1. Being outspent 10:1 can leave you facing a competitive race even against a bad candidate. And in close races. . . there are a lot of factors, including $, which can tip it

@allenanalysis The fallacy is thinking money buys elections. It just buys advertisements. In todays world, info is everywhere. Spending ad money doesnt buy elections. Pratt: great ads. Didnt win