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https://twitter.com/LizzyStarrrdust/status/1962995191893393756ie perhaps the *removal of the desire to fuck women from public life* is what allows men to build civ: if we already have wives at home & can’t fruitfully seek extras, then we have no reason to let women into these clubs or cater their competitive outputs to women’s sensibilities
https://twitter.com/CEBKCEBKCEBK/status/1961102214497534238The Pentagon was only built at the end of WWII & even still the National Mall was covered in simple big War Department buildings through the 1950s as action-oriented power-seeking bureaucracies exploded (unlike the passive red-tape self-flagellating bureaucrats who replaced them)
https://twitter.com/GodCloseMyEyes/status/1958576312764768377Distance becomes poorly defined below the Planck length, bc the energy required to precisely probe this gap would necessarily produce a *black* hole larger than it. & same with time: you can’t clock anything shorter than how long light takes to “walk the Planck.” Same basic idea.
https://twitter.com/aaron_leib/status/1945112835492602086In 2008 CA promised it’d have SF-LA HSR open by 2020; now the projected opening’s already been pushed past 2045, & it may never even get there, but official projections are still optimistically estimating its likely inflation-adjusted price at ~$275M/mile (ie it’ll be way more)…
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1932951391628313082
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1929499253996724695In fact, the *only* person who *should* be surprised by this is Hanania: his hypothesis for the past few years has been that EHC types (eg Ezra Klein & his readers) are uniquely suited for *both* adopting objectively good policies *&* popularizing them among the blue tribe. Oops!
https://twitter.com/Kounkuey/status/1659256781305171968
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https://twitter.com/robkroese/status/1898876844021096566In both, a turning point when colored kids at Hudson’s edge & audibly notice that it flows both north & south, bc they’re at exactly the point where it changes direction. Etc. & Obama wrote it at Ayers’ dining table, after Ayers began mentoring him—1st thing by O with *any* style
https://twitter.com/Slatzism/status/1896318921285706119“Wow they were able to work for a living & they were willing to move around & they partnered with an enlightened empire & other third worlders were ‘tricked’ into staying in same old poverty by their lies like ‘money’ & ‘property’ during good-faith attempts at development—so sad”
https://twitter.com/johnkonrad/status/1895147694248656947
https://twitter.com/Awwrnold/status/1893485891324117355What happened in the Germanic lands during the 1600s? Basically just the 30 years war, as far as the modern world is concerned. About 50% population loss over three decades. Total upheaval of all relations. If you were there would you back local leaders who twiddled their thumbs?
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