This rocks and super happy for you comrade!

Just curious, were you not particularly spiritual before transitioning? Sometimes I feel like there’s a cool witchy person in me but the less cool annoyling pessimistic and atheist side tends to win out. also both sides feel oddly gendered for whatever reason.

NGL I feel like I’m on a similar trajectory but still at the “still cis tho” phase, and have been for a long time now. Not really sure how to get started on trying out different elements of transitioning tbh, but I just bought a new dress that I really like so I guess I’ll start there. No idea where to go after lmao

Had the exact same question lol

This was a weird way to find out thats he’s a transphobe

Not doubting you, but wasn’t able to find anything from a quick search. Could you elaborate?

I generally appreciate this channel but agree this video was particularly lib and included a lot of cherry picking regarding Europe.

He also tends to over emphasize small businesses in his analysis, but that’s not surprising considering he doesn’t seem to be a leftist.

Are there any actually leftist urban planning channels?

Which one?

Years ago I blasted through the original DMC in a weekend. My expectations were low and it cleared the bar , didn’t really wow me but I enjoyed it enough to try the second one. Bounced off it and never really checked out the series again.

Are you saying its worth it to check out the other games in the series?

I wasn’t going to go as far as to say its intellectual masturbation, but I see your point. I think once people start decomposing the world through a materialist lens (intentionally or not, usually just through exposure to new ideas or there own material conditions) its easier to spot the gaps in the ideology running through media. The fact that the gaps can be so glaring can make them seem intentional, maybe even radical , when the consumer is looking for that.

I guess that’s my masturbatory way of saying its projection.

As someone who doesn’t consume much media in the way of shows or movies I hate this pattern. I’ve been disappointed by a number of them this way: the substance, squid game (haven’t watched s2), etc. They’re still enjoyable on their own but its another way to overhype content. Its fine to just enjoy the show even if it doesn’t teach a radical message.

the neediest people are developing the deepest parasocial relationship with AI

It’s not parasocial, it’s a chat bot.

I’m too lazy to look for any of their documentation about this, but it would be pretty bold to believe privacy or processing claims from OpenAI or similar AI orgs, given their history flouting copyright.

Silicon valley more generally just breaks laws and regulations to “disrupt”. Why wouldn’t an org like OpenAI at least leave a backdoor for themselves to process API requests down the road as a policy change? Not that they would need to, but it’s not uncommon for a co to leave an escape hatch in their policies.

Same, the post doesn’t mention Costo workers directly.

Not saying it wouldn’t happen, but isn’t this only new or unique because it’s a big box store and not a small shop?

I gotta say, the C02 number seems very high to me too, just got that from a quick search and saw that a couple of times. I haven’t investigated it closely tbh.

I wasn’t aware of the mining differences between uranium and thorium, that is encouraging.

Regarding the waste, that’s a fair point as well. Thanks for the response! Interesting points.

I used to be very pro nuclear energy. Besides the waste and the occasional meltdown it seemed like a no brainer as a renewable supplement. After learning a little more about it though it just seems like we have more runway for positive growth with wind and solar than nuclear, but I’d be happy to be proven wrong.

From what I understand nuclear in general is (at least now) a dead end as a climate change solution.

1. From planning time to turning on the reactor is something like 15 - 20 years (note, that’s longer than the global average of 7 years for construction, because construction is not the whole picture)
2. It’s difficult to have more than 1 plant project ongoing simultaneously due to the scale and complexity
3. Nuclear plants take a lot of C02 to construct and maintain. The fuel has to be mined, resulting in emissions, and the amount of concrete required massive. 1 ton of concrete creates .8-.9 tons of C02, and a nuclear power plant has hundreds of thousands of tons of concrete in it.
4. We still don’t have a good answer for handling nuclear waste.

Maybe at some point in the past nuclear could have resolved many climate change issues, but between project time, initial emission cost, and waste, it just doesn’t seem viable anymore.

Wtf, what do they try to entrap people with?

Whatever gets Americans to demand more trains.

Do you have a source for that? I’ve only ever seen questionionable speculation. Not saying you’re incorrect, just haven’t seen actual examples of why people think they’re CIA.

Speaking of Grapes of Wrath, has anyone read Whose Names are Unknown ? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/forgotten-dust-bowl-novel-rivaled-grapes-wrath-180959196/

I’ve read in at least 1 place that it’s the better researched book, but haven’t found the source after a short search.

Gotcha, all that makes sense. 6 years seems like a good sign. Thanks for the info, definitely checking the org out.

Are you a member? How is it?

He’s definitely not often coherent, but this really let’s Biden off the hook for all the damage he’s doing on the way out.

Even if he is 100% incoherent he should have stepped down when his mental health took a down turn. Obv no one can see the future but he’s had years to do that when he was at least partially in a good mental state.