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by lux-lux-lux 3mo ago
They gave notice, and supplying guns to criminals sounds like an immanent threat to me. I don’t think you’re being rational, here.
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by lux-lux-lux 3mo ago
> executed He was shot after opening fire, unprovoked, on federal agents performing a search of his home under a lawfully obtained warrant.
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by lux-lux-lux 3mo ago
Why not just ship him to CECOT? Official acts bro
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by lux-lux-lux 4mo ago
Reminder for any ‘houses used to be smaller’ rationalizations of home prices that the median homebuyer is now in their late fifties; these are rich people with decades of inflated wealth buying rich people goods, not a shift in preferences
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by lux-lux-lux 4mo ago
Really? Because in practice DSA candidates seem very focused on bread and butter issues like affordability, housing, and M4A. Like, Mamdani was the only NY Dem not talking about Israel, your description is seriously baffling.
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by lux-lux-lux 4mo ago
Given the costs of defending a federal case start at the five figs and the typical naughty tweets style offense nets community service at worst, I’m not so sure.
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by lux-lux-lux 4mo ago
> similarly long sentences Enrique Tarrio got 22 years for masterminding an attempt to violently overturn the results of a Presidential election. Daniel Sanchez-Estrada got 30 years for moving some magazines. The median Jan 6 sentence wa
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by lux-lux-lux 4mo ago
Given the shift in attitudes among the public and especially the Democratic voter base, a candidate’s willingness to go against Israel is a superb proxy for whether they will prioritize voters over donor interests. It’s also effectively a
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by lux-lux-lux 4mo ago
> if I replace ‘internet access’ with ‘crack,’ then that sure changes the argument! Damn dude really makes you think
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by lux-lux-lux 5mo ago
You also rebalance your principles when you rot your brain with vast quantities of fearmongering slop on your screens, and that’s way more common.
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by lux-lux-lux 5mo ago
It’s actually the arbitrary whims of police officers
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by lux-lux-lux 5mo ago
The actual vacancy rate is many times that, as properties are kept off market for a variety of reasons (one of which this tax directly addresses)
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by lux-lux-lux 5mo ago
If words don’t mean what they mean, absolutely
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by lux-lux-lux 5mo ago
New Ukraine aid effectively ended with the current administration, if you were unaware
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by lux-lux-lux 5mo ago
No one thinks non-profit work is ‘high-status.’ People do it because making the world better in some way is more personally motivating than figuring out how to put video ads on refrigerators or whatever.o
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by lux-lux-lux 5mo ago
That percentage only includes the openly listed units; NYC has a massive shadow inventory of rentable inventory deliberately kept off-market for various reasons. 1 Wall St, for example, kept 85% of its units arbitrarily off market in orde
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by lux-lux-lux 5mo ago
It’s mainly an odd one out because bluechecks have access to monetization and get pushed to the top of replies. It’s basically a wishlist for bad actors.
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by lux-lux-lux 5mo ago
It’s being dated is actually quite fatal to his thesis, as not only did McDonalds significantly underperform the market over the past few years but mid 2024 was also the exact time their attempt to pivot to higher income brackets stumbled a
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by lux-lux-lux 6mo ago
As another commenter pointed out, this also works for Christianity. So I doubt it.
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by lux-lux-lux 6mo ago
It’s less ‘AI guys’ in general and more the politics of a specific subset of AI guys who have regular need of getting popular AI models to do things they’re instructed not to do. Notice how the demos for these things invariably involve meth
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by lux-lux-lux 6mo ago
See also: not having to take your shoes off at airports, killing the penny.
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by lux-lux-lux 6mo ago
It’s “exemptions from state and local sales tax on materials, services and equipment used in the construction, renovation and equipping of the Project” and that includes a whole lot more than local construction industry stuff. Most of the c
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by lux-lux-lux 6mo ago
They’re also getting a property tax abatement until 2044, so nope! This is 100% a screwing of the taxpayers, and that’s before you consider all the more productive ways that money could be spent.
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by lux-lux-lux 6mo ago
42 employees and a legion of contractors.
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by lux-lux-lux 6mo ago
Strange how I never see this line deployed against the mortgage interest deduction or health care for wealthy retirees, both of which are considerably more expensive. Subsidizing college education, at least, has a reliably positive ROI.
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by lux-lux-lux 6mo ago
They don’t do that kind of stuff on BlueSky either and do better there, and BlueSky doesn’t have the audacity to demand a paid subscription. Also, I don’t think the kind of engagement X’s algorithms reward would be good for the EFF’s image
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by lux-lux-lux 6mo ago
Lower is better. 1.0 means one housing unit per person.
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by lux-lux-lux 6mo ago
> I personally know no one who uses Threads Real ‘I don’t know anyone who voted for Nixon’ energy here.
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by lux-lux-lux 6mo ago
Threads is extremely ‘normie-coded,’ I don’t think there’s much overlap with HN demographics.
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by lux-lux-lux 6mo ago
Interactions on X are notoriously low-quality and botted to hell, so “not all impressions are equal” might not be a great point to push here.

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