Who would’ve thought those Arkady Martine books would be so prescient?

So this is just binary red/blue? Seems iffy given how diverse states are (eg there are about as many Republican voters in “blue” California or in “red” Florida because California is way larger). I wonder what this would look like at the county level…

Nobody in that coalition wants to think about their shit real life pulling in social security and living in a ticky tacky detached shitbox off a stroad in a suburb; they all envision themselves as temporarily inconvenienced mega millionaires whose biggest problem would be the capital gains tax rate if only those dang immigrants, brown people, women, and purple-haired hippies would stop repressing them. It’s e the American way!

Cory Booker’s response speech is pretty incredible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4_H_KNAakE

Apparently the House is now considering a motion to censure… Padilla… Fucking Mike Johnson

The Cheesecake Factory is somehow a nationwide tourist trap — go somewhere exciting and then eat at the same overpriced trash faux-destination restaurant you could’ve eaten at back home.

Maybe Kobo will finally make an API for loading articles so we can send them from Instapaper/Raindrop/Pinboard/etc…

Until they actually publish the policy, who knows, right? Just because that was the “high risk” list last time doesn’t mean that the new FDA won’t declare that the only risk factor is having a golf handicap above 3…

This appears to be the relevant place to leave feedback, FWIW. I posted a comment this morning!

Why wasn’t there a generation between Boomers and Millenials?

/s

This is a niche one for US companies that do stock compensation with ISOs, but supporting employees to file 83(b) elections. It’s annoying paperwork for the company but saves the employee tons of headache down the road.

Focusing on airbag-deployments and injuries ignores the obvious problem: these things are unbelievably unsafe for pedestrians and bicyclists. I curse SF for allowing AVs and always give them a wide berth because there’s no way to know if they see you and they’ll often behave erratically and unpredictably in crosswalks. I don’t give a shit how often the passengers are injured, I care a lot more how much they disrupt life for all the people who aren’t paying Waymo for the privilege.

Gotta love a company that will sue you if you benchmark their software…

The companies that run these residential proxy networks are sketchy as shit and in a better world would be criminally prosecuted. They’re tricking random low-information users into installing VPNs and other software with backdoors that turn them into a veritable botnet.