allowing the most wealthy people to control land use and housing decisions is not a progressive position. This is what both YIMBYs and actual NIMBYs are advocating for

This is a common cognitive bias. When you let anecdotes stand in for data you are always looking for the data that proves you anecdotes

Just like self-driving cars are always five years away, the evidence that tons of people regret their transition is always at another clinic that hasn't been studied yet

Iris van Rooij 💭 Visla, Marcille Enjoyer Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ Which is why we probably see so many Mechanical Turk situations coming out lately with what businesses claim is AI/ML, but it's just an algorithmicly-enhanced human worker (looking at you Amazon...)

Some TikToker in Toronto made a video and was like we found the perfect house! One problem! The poors and Crips live across the street!

WTAF.

There aren't examples of children getting bottom surgery

the range of trans *adults* that get bottom surgery range is ~5-12%, so a % of a % of a % is what you're saying here

If you're going to disagree, at minimum understand what's true and what's dishonest bait

You never know who you’ll run into in NYC. Tonight it was Mayor Eric Adams and lots of top NYPD brass where the mayor popped down into the Times Square subway station, recorded a video about safety, then went right back up to his car

Very unwise to use LLMs for this. Use instead a carefully designed algorithm that is developed for this specific purpose with a transparant specification that is legally validated and provably correct.

I don't understand why YIMBYs insist on being so dense and annoying on rent control when, generally, the public supports rent controls and it would have no impact on their precious construction. But they instead like to die on hills and alienate organised tenants

The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled that priests have an absolute 'property right' not to be sued for sexually abusing children buff.ly/3Ubj1lm

California tried to do this in the 90s and courts shut it down

Transphobes are doing a bizarre victory lap over a review of gender-affirming care in the UK.

The only thing it found is what we already knew:
- Tiny number of kids transition
- Comprehensive assessments before receiving medications
- Vanishingly few detransition

Again, SFPD's budget for 22-23 is 761.9 Million

In Police per capita, they have the 8th largest in the US, and the highest in California

What, specifically, are they going to do with more police that they can't do now? How is it going to help?

It's already illegal for undocumented immigrants to vote in federal elections. It's so illegal that it's a felony, a ground of deportation, AND a near-permanent ban to receiving any future immigration benefit.

‘Angry’ Biden not changing Israel policy after deadly strike on aid workers ow.ly/l48H105olOI

Even NYT isn’t buying it

To be explicit, Shai Davidai, who I have criticized for being a genocidal maniac prof who slanders, threatens, harasses, and endangers students, is calling me an antisemite (he also liked the post calling me a Hamas lover, similar to terms he uses for student protesters)

It's funny that Elon is giving journalists blue checks they don't want lol

The transphobic bigot crowd is also pro-genocide fyi

I also think he’s a dick