shouldn't Elon Musk have immunity for his Acts too?
is it accurate that, despite all the impediments to building in general, when a disaster destroys a person's home, a right to rebuild what was lost is grandfathered in?
if that is accurate, isn't it a terrible idea?
it’s not a sex robot it’s an automate.
is there any version of urbanity that could be built and would not burn in fire-prone areas of Southern California, or would any form of human habitation burn under the conditions nature presents (and humans exacerbate) there?
“platform corporations are structurally incapable of good governance, primarily because most of their central aims (continuous growth, market dominance, profit via extraction) conflict with many basic human and societal needs.” @kissane https://www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/
they deny it exists, but climate change serves an essential function for the right. it proves progress only makes things worse and we need to go back to their mythologized past. the disasters are caused by lesbians, they say. they have blessed themselves with abundant disasters.
one thing about canada, greenland, panama, the gulf of armenia — we’re talking about shit HE says again, rather than shit Elon says. which may be more important than greenland to him.
places i miss burn while i miss them.
a smaller mishap is called a kittenastrophe.
what if we did a *reverse* merger? we could sell ourselves to Denmark for, like, $1, then we'd have Greenland AND a civilized state.
when the US government finally realizes it has to arrange mass construction of new housing for climate refugees, my dream is @holz_bau leads the agency.
Europe has Ukraine as a bulwark to the east, and Greenland as a bulwark to the west.
"This is the baseline of everything to do with social media. You can’t really keep up with the all the bad things people do within the business model. Period. End of story. " #JoshMarshall https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-economics-that-define-social-media ht @timbray
// it's an inherently destructive business model that only pencils because Section 230 is too categorical
the main practitioners of post-materialist politics are a few heads of state, who are making territorial conquest great again because they are bored of stable maps and miss the glory of conquest.
wouldn’t it be more bigly to go for the American Ocean?
it’s just hard to reconcile the FX market and the bond market right now.
if the yield curve is foreseeing a US-specific Trump inflation while the dollar is sharply strengthening, that’s predicting a heck of a strengthening in the “real exchange rate”, US wages and salaries super high in FX terms, not so great for reindustrialization. 1/
i’m not sure i buy it though. i guess i explain dollar strength as a preaction to expected tariffs, so i don’t expect so sharp an import price change let aline inflation, but then i can’t explain the yield curve. /fin
i wonder what the chatter is like among servicemen and attachés stationed abroad, working among allies in NATO roles.
a remake of “Occupied” except with the United States and Greenland.