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by washbrain 4y ago
Shit, all those queer black women who have been telling me that intersectionality is important because they experience unique struggles because they are at the intersection of multiple sets of traits have been doing so because it's p
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by washbrain 4y ago
Hmm... So thinking out loud, this zoning change is being considered by the city council, right? Who are elected representatives of the area, right? Wouldn't that indicate there's at least some YIMBY attitude in this location?
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by washbrain 4y ago
This quote is hilarious to me. Sell it to who, Ben? Sell it to who? "Want to buy my land?" "Sure, why are you selling?" "It'll be literally devoured by the seas soon and totally worthless." "That soun
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by washbrain 4y ago
And even if you could get a bus, people like Robert Moses designed parkways and bridges such that it was difficult or impossible to route buses to places where wealthy people gathered. See: hostile architecture and architectural exclusion.
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by washbrain 4y ago
People are saying YIMBY. There's a whole YIMBY movement.
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by washbrain 4y ago
What you are saying is, "convert farmland to housing and highways." It's an inefficient use of space, it socially isolates us, and it has devastating ecological consequences.
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by washbrain 4y ago
There's a bunch of this in Seattle too - where neighborhoods are raising upzoning, despite the fact that building mixed use creates walkable neighborhoods, increases character, brings in new businesses, and generally improves things. T
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by washbrain 4y ago
It's just greed. Past a certain point it's purely "my pile of money is too small to satiate my ego."
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by washbrain 4y ago
Socialism doesn't even mean central planning either. Most socialists are just interested in, "everyone who wants a home should be able to get a home." Not necessarily a big fancy home with a three car garage, but somewhere t
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by washbrain 4y ago
Peopleperson is trying to dodge around saying they don't want to live near people who are lower income. Often this is a way of saying, "I don't want people with different ethnic, racial, or cultural backgrounds near me."
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by washbrain 4y ago
Arguably, the US still has a system like this. Redlining didn't end until what, 1980ish? Getting rid of the explicit, codified practices of discrimination doesn't remove the discrimination itself. And until we've paid back
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by washbrain 4y ago
Caste is the wrong word for what you describe. Yes, those are cultural markers that clearly identify a person belongs to a certain group, but it's not nearly the same thing as caste.
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by washbrain 4y ago
You don't think there are folks in India interested in discussing DEI with respect to caste or colorism? What about in the EU? You don't think there are people there enthusiastically discussing DEI?
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by washbrain 4y ago
I disagree. Coming to work is about starting your work day. If I was loafing around playing videogames, and I work from home, and my boss texted me, "You coming to work?" I would absolutely interpret that as, "are you logging
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by washbrain 4y ago
"I won't work at company because...." Is a useful signal for other folks. I have a long list of companies I won't work for thanks to people sharing their individual experiences and opinions. So maybe if you don't fe
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by washbrain 4y ago
250 total comp is a fairly junior engineer offer. College grads can easily pull down 120k in salary alone. Then there's equity, benefits, 401k matching, signing bonuses, etc.
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by washbrain 4y ago
Won't be that way forever, which is why we should be using our strength to unionize now rather than later.
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by washbrain 4y ago
People are already coming to work. You mean "come to the office".
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by washbrain 4y ago
It is the flagship.
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by washbrain 4y ago
AWS has lots of engineers in Seattle, but control plane is distributed. I'd personally expect a long delay in getting any fixes to things, but that many sites would be just fine.
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by washbrain 4y ago
Red Mars is an all time great . Absolutely worth a read. You'll fail out the first attempt, but come back and try it a second time. The next two sequels have some of the best socialist-without-calling-it-socialist storytelling of the
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by washbrain 4y ago
> there isn't much you can do against people drinking alcohol, having their phone on speaker or just urinating in the middle. What? Nothing about public transit is different from libraries, restaurants, cabs, or any other public spa
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by washbrain 4y ago
Sure, but if your chemical can enter the hydrosphere and never break down, we should maybe study it for a long long long time before applying it to everything.
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by washbrain 4y ago
If only there had been solutions to heating and cooling, or ride comfort. Sadly, we as a species never got around to inventing heat pumps, springs, or cushioned seating. LOL. Cars were popular post war, so were suburbs. But surely GM had no
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by washbrain 4y ago
Many cities had "streetcar suburbs", developments on the fringes of town serviced by street cars that took people to work. Sadly, they were largely decommissioned and replaced with buses or nothing. We badly need to get more train
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by washbrain 4y ago
Well, up to 8lbs could be water weight. If you have excess calories, your body will retain water. If you disrupt that excess you'll rapidly lose 8 to 10 lbs. Weight loss often has great results in week one, then levels off, so a portio
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by washbrain 4y ago
There exist armed officers in the IRS. They are called "special agents" in the "criminal investigation division". They are federal law enforcement, like the FBI, who seize assets in criminal tax fraud cases. They are not
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by washbrain 4y ago
Interesting, source on the amendment? Was there a poison pill in it?
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by washbrain 4y ago
I mean, I'm a Marxist and I think lots of stuff is political, but even I can't figure out what that poster was trying to say.
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by washbrain 4y ago
I'm aware, I'm pointing out the hypocrisy in these specific cases.

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