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28 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The way cats react to newly opened space reminds me of Lex Luthor in the Superman movies saying that land is the only real form of wealth because it's the one thing they can't make more of.
I love the fact that in two of the Superman movies he appeared in, Lex Luthor's actual evil plan amounted to a genocidal sci-fi real estate scam. Like, just casually kill millions of people to make a killing in the real estate market.
...I guess three of the movies when you consider that in II, he was trying to trade humanity's freedom for Australia.
It's a weirdly consistent piece of characterization.

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30 Oct
...reading this, I'm struck by Ken Williams's latter-day defenses of Walter Forbes, saying it's hard to believe he was guilty of deliberate fraud when he was "a Wall Street hero".

Like, what do you think gets valorized on Wall Street, Ken?

My father works in finance and one thing he said after Bernie Madoff's fall was that the numbers Bernie promised, the returns he supposedly showed, didn't make sense and had never made sense. They were literally too good to be true but too good (for some) to pass up.
And Forbes's dealings, per the linked QTed article, also had the "too good to be true" hallmark, always *just* beating Wall Street expectations.
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29 Oct
Most of the people confidently predicting a Trump landslide are going to be wrong no matter what because they're specifically predicting "another Trump landslide" or "a second Trump landslide", when he barely eked out a win in 2016.
A piece of logic I've seen echoed around is "How is 320 electoral votes not a landslide when you only need 270?"

And it's like, take your pick:

1. Most winners get more.
2. You can't assemble them 1 by 1 so it's hard to get exactly 270.
3. Most people voted against him.
And as soon as you bring up "How can you call it a landslide when he lost the popular vote?" then that just triggers the automated reply of "THE POPULAR VOTE DOESN'T MATTER UNDER OUR SYSTEM, THE WINNER IS WHOEVER TAKES THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE."... but we're talking about landslides
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29 Oct
The one legitimate takeaway I think we can get from the "Biden corruption" story is: basically everybody in the professional orbit of Hunter Biden wanted to exploit his connection to the White House, and they all failed.

That's a pretty nice endorsement for Joe, isn't it?
It's like, "Oh, this strung-out loser's dad is the vice president. He's the president's best friend. We cultivate him and the world is our oyster."

In Trump World, this would be excused as: yeah, duh. Obviously. That makes you smart.
But then... nothing came of it. No favors for Burisma; in fact, the opposite - Biden personally pressured for the firing of a tame prosecutor that was going easy on them. Whatever anybody did or didn't think they were "buying" when they hired or did business with Hunter Biden...
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28 Oct
Ash, the City, and Summer: Chapter 9 is up! With Summer's true nature revealed to her, Ash opens up about her past, her mother, and the nature of the birds and bees for fey spirits that never grow up.

patreon.com/posts/ash-city…
Oh, I should post my customary notice that this week's chapter of Ash, the City, and Summer will be free to read for everybody at around 4:00 PM eastern, next Wednesday.

The preceding eight chapters are all already unlocked and free to read, here.

patreon.com/AlexandraErin/…
A lot of my fantasy writing starts with me wanting to explore fantasy worldbuilding tropes... pick at them, poke them, explore why they are what they are and what the implications of them would be.

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28 Oct
"Open borders will destroy this country. You can't have a country if you don't have a border."

If we have open borders, we have borders. It's in the name.

"You can't have a country if you can't CONTROL your borders."

So we can do whatever we want with them? Okay. Open them up!
The "it's about sovereignty" people insist that there's only one and exactly one thing we're allowed to do with our borders and still be a country, and that doesn't sound very sovereign to me.
Of course, the reality is that no one ran for president on open borders, much less did our actual Democratic nominee do so. The GOP just calls *any* whiff of immigration reform "open borders" in order to make it sound scary and extreme.
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25 Oct
We're pretty lucky in that the pandemic isn't going to affect our Thanksgiving plans much, insofar as it was probably always going to just be our one household having a nice meal together.
Imagine if we had an actual functioning government with actual public health initiatives pushing a message like "Celebrate Thanksgiving apart so we can survive together." Commercials showing people having small celebrations in their own household and then calling their relatives.
We will probably be ordering our meal from Cracker Barrel, who back during Easter surprised and impressed us by sending us an email from like a director of HR or somebody like that saying, "We notice you've ordered holiday meals from us in the past. Your local store delivers!"
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