If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Back in 2017 Kelowna pre-approved quadplexes on a few hundred lots with fast approvals and pre-approved plans and got hundreds of homes.
It was a revolution for small builders who previously could only build single family homes.
Now they have released their new set of 12 pre-approved designs
🧵
Feel the same way about Maui. They literally paved paradise and put up a parking lot. 🚕
Yes, what is an “unevenly applied rules based order” anyways?
Carney went to Davos and said the rules-based-order was not only over, but had never truly existed in the first place. This seems of a piece with that positioning.
My favourite AI prompts: "look at this code and tell me how it works", "why is this broken", "how should I use this API", "show me an example that ..."
Sessions focussed on learning both feel 1M times better than "code this for me" they more often lead to results I am proud and confident of.
"Last month, Justin and Amy Miller packed their vehicles with three kids, two dogs, a pet bearded dragon, and whatever belongings they could fit, then drove 2,000 miles from Wisconsin to British Columbia to leave President Trump's America."
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#never51 #nokings #elbowsup
Also, everyone knows the last 10% of any system is the final 90% of effort … corner cases, surprise inputs, reliability under strain. But no, everyone is going to vibe code and operate their own CRM. They already have that option with OSS alternatives and by and large … they don’t.
Stoopid physics.
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Worth remembering that the "charming" neighborhoods we cherish were largely built pre-zoning. Builders built designs they thought people would like, in locations they thought people would want to live. More demand here? More density! Simple market forces.
One you submit to the demon of incrementalism your feet are already on the downward path to the black pit of moderation.
Increase taxes on everybody. We all live here.
So you’re saying you’re a splitter, not a lumper…
Looking forward to my time in the torture nexus.
Please, sir, may I have more batteries?
A "thing I was once told" was to note that many predictions are cued up as "state as of 2050" or "state as of 2100", while the actual effects of a given CO2 regime could take 500 years to play out fully. So a "reasonable" state in 70 years could still be a furnace in 2200. True? False?
Honk if you recognize this.
Ridiculously clean and green future urban setting.
The world as it would be if @jmcelroy.bsky.social wasn't going around mistakenly accentuating the positive.
Riding the tiger. Guaranteed to end well.
Toad sat and did nothing. Frog sat with him.
Write the angry social media reply. Feel the burn. Edit it. Move the words around for better effect. Discard it.
You would think the proponents of 19th century global realpolitik in DC could have seen this coming. Almost like words and deeds have consequences, even for the biggest kid in the schoolyard.
I would never argue that you are entitled to punch Stephen Miller in the mouth and steal his wallet as long as you are bigger than him. But that is exactly what Stephen Miller is saying. The rule of the playground is no basis for peace.
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This exposes a construct from which mainstream journalists have struggled to shake loose since Trump’s first term: If the president says something, then it’s assumed true. After all his criminal convictions, civil penalties, an attempt to overthrow the government and a life-long track record of lies and fraud, because he was able to recapture the presidency, the tendency remains to paint him in the positive light possible. For some journalists and news organizations, leaning on that assumption helps create order during a chaotic situation. (It’s not that other presidents never lied to drum up support for war; they all did to varying extents, though typically made clear after the fact.) From a journalist's perspective, however, it’s much more challenging to figure out how to cover a president who you know is actively lying to you. But it’s a challenge we reject at our own peril.
This is, I think, the crux of it:
www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-vene...
International law crimes if necessary, but not necessarily international law crimes.
