When you’re the President, they let you do it. You can do anything.
@phillmv of course it wouldn’t be random. these people pretend like they are innocents seeking truth. their man Trump was, according to Epstein, his best friend for some time during his period of peak activity. Thiel wants to deploy a selective wrecking ball to harm his enemies, and call it transparency and truth. the “twitter files” is the template.
@phillmv how was he harmed? why the grievance? a thing we’ve learned is people who think the world is theirs to rule are remarkably thin-skinned about anything that resists them or withholds the adulation they are quite sure they deserve. Thiel lives under a theory of libertarian utopia, under which he is a world-historical protagonist. only villains would stand in his way. he has been viciously attacked. “reconciliation” is an act of profound generosity from this perspective.
@realcaseyrollins @BenRossTransit no. i think natural conditions (in part altered by human activity) caused the wildfires, but the kind of development we’ve been doing adjacent to those conditions doesn’t resist the foreseeable wildfires. so we should do a different kind of development, rather than reproduce what we know does not resist. zoning is only relevant as one factor forcing ill-advised reproduction. terms of insurance are another.
@realcaseyrollins @BenRossTransit yeah. you’d think a neighborhood burning down due to recurring circumstances would suggest you’d want to do things differently next time, not reproduce conditions as they were.
@laprice who he casts himself as in South Africa’s history is interesting as well.
you can burn down the court because you think it’s biased. okay. it may very well have been. but if you then mistake reversion to the justice of the lynch mob as corrective reform, well, then you are kind of an idiot.
absent institutions to adjudicate it, there is no authoritative truth, just competing contradictory claims. and that is quite the opposite of a recipe for reconciliation.
https://www.ft.com/content/a46cb128-1f74-4621-ab0b-242a76583105
what if instead of skeet or toot or tweet, we just called each post a treat?
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shouldn't Elon Musk have immunity for his Acts too?
is it accurate that, despite all the impediments to building in general, when a disaster destroys a person's home, a right to rebuild what was lost is grandfathered in?
if that is accurate, isn't it a terrible idea?
it’s not a sex robot it’s an automate.
@billseitz i’m for it! and of course it enables just avoiding those areas. but if for whatever reason (it’s not hard to think of reasons), people want to rebuild there, but would be willing to say build at higher density and use forms of construction density renders economical, are there safe ways to do it?
( https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/06/20/it-isnt-sprawl-if-its-dense/index.html )
is there any version of urbanity that could be built and would not burn in fire-prone areas of Southern California, or would any form of human habitation burn under the conditions nature presents (and humans exacerbate) there?
“platform corporations are structurally incapable of good governance, primarily because most of their central aims (continuous growth, market dominance, profit via extraction) conflict with many basic human and societal needs.” @kissane https://www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/
@dpp the truest affection derives from exchanges of fancy feast and cuddles. toying with annihilation is just icing on the cake.
@dpp sounds like a very cuddly way to die!
they deny it exists, but climate change serves an essential function for the right. it proves progress only makes things worse and we need to go back to their mythologized past. the disasters are caused by lesbians, they say. they have blessed themselves with abundant disasters.
one thing about canada, greenland, panama, the gulf of armenia — we’re talking about shit HE says again, rather than shit Elon says. which may be more important than greenland to him.
places i miss burn while i miss them.