Wow it appears I’m on solidly on Center Left but very pro free speech and thinks the private sector should be able to build housing easily!

Ghent was, essentially, the New York City of Medieval Europe. It had spires and church bells and towers everywhere. It had a population of 65,000 people, rivalled only by Paris in terms of population and far exceeding London. It was the centre of industry and finance.

Will highlighted the key sentence. Scott thinking AI is dangerous is defensible. But being gung-ho for its development despite believing it could destroy humanity because you believe current society is "childhood" is psychotic and authoritarian.

Hottest take is that if we go band for band in Ohio, Alaska, North Carolina, Iowa, and Nebraska, Schumer and Gillibrand deserve to stay in leadership positions. The guy recruited candidates that put crazy states on the board and in Coopers case took NC off it

Twenty years ago

anyone who thinks it’s possible to cook for 30 people with one hour’s notice has never cooked anything worth eating in their lives

Super interesting that as late as the 1780s, Latin was the general lingua Franca and language of government and administration in Hungary (and to a lesser extent Bohemia), until the Hapsburg emperor Joseph II tried to impose German. (Same guy abolished Serfdom).

Call me superstitious or whatever, but I feel like attempting to execute someone after they survive despite the odds is tempting some higher power to randomly strike you down with an aneurysm or something.

Actually the vast majority of Western countries have no blasphemy laws and even those that do, capital punishment is not used to enforce them.

Ok, let’s put it this way. East Asian countries have shockingly medieval views on drug use. So let’s assume some hapless American tourist decides to 420 blaze it in a Taichung hotel, as I’m sure a few do every year. Let’s assume the Taiwanese government books him, deports him, and blacklists him. Nobody would care. Let’s now assume they put him in prison for a year, and then do the same. Now people will assume this is a bit backwards and harsh, but nobody will care too much. Let’s now assume they are going to publicly behead him in Taipei. Now you’re going to have an international outcry, and people calling Taiwanese society barbaric and retrograde…and rightfully so.

Wow, if he’s lost the Maoist Communist Union it’s really over for Mamdani

shot/chaser

Abundance New York endorses both AOC and Ritchie Torres for Congress

I would bet money that if AOC gets the Democratic Nomination in 2028 that a higher percentage of dues paying members at @CNLiberalism will vote for her than dues paying DSA members.

Going down to Blink? Take @cincinnatimetro or @tankbus to get downtown and the @Connector_Cincy to go in between the zones. The official site didn't have transit options listed on their map, so I've added them below.

Guy who took tackling the debt seriously by loving tax cuts that exploded it

He was jailed for texting an image of Shrek's dick to a politician. The trial starts tomorrow. Brush up on one of @TheFIREorg's most ogre-the-top cases of the year. fire.org/news/ohio-man-jaile…

Look mom, my anime dolls are gonna save Western Civilization, I even got them pretty dresses

My favorite are the people who add you to *several lists,* because it’s like, dude, just admit you’re a fan.

With all due respect to @magi_jay if you have any understanding of what the tweet below is referring to you are in the top 0.2% of Democratic Primary voters engaged in intra-factional discourse regarding the Michigan Senate Primary.