@jmoiron.bsky.social Been waiting to see this take articulated somewhere.
It's not even subtext, they are just straightforwardly saying that black women can't be beautiful enough to portray Helen, and appealing to their own flawed retvrn fantasies of antiquity as a figleaf.
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@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Sorry maybe it is clumsily made.
In the US there are minimum parking mandates that result in us building very sparse commercial sprawl with far too much parking. It's definitely a land use decision to do this but it's so ubiquitous that the decision is invisible.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I agree with you, and I know that we already have lots of parking lots ready to be retrofit, but the enormous empty parking lot in your example photo is definitely a choice that affects land use.
@jmoiron.bsky.social Went to Guangzhou a couple days ago and turns out the hotel was uhh pretty tall.
@jmoiron.bsky.social This is why one of the required courses for my Computer Science degree was an ethics class.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I am skeptical when it comes to the supposed inevitability of improvement for AI tools, but this does represent a pretty big shift from where we were last year.
@jmoiron.bsky.social This is what Bannon called "flooding the zone", a central pillar of Project 2025. If your lawlessness is brash and constant, institutions can't/won't keep up and you establish new norms.
Trump's own communication is the same, a Gish gallop of complete nonsense.
@jmoiron.bsky.social I'm seeing articles about how the narrative around Pretti's gun shows ideological inconsistencies on the left and right.
The only inconsistency is in who gets to enjoy 2A rights without the immediate threat of lethal government retaliation and who doesn't.
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@jmoiron.bsky.social To be fair, how is Tom Suozzi expected to know that his constituents have standards when they elected Tom Suozzi as their representative.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: You can always count on Schumer to do the right thing after he's tried everything else.
@jmoiron.bsky.social Huge benefit to spending January in Asia is being able to watch the Aus Open at a reasonable time.
@jmoiron.bsky.social 25% of Americans are fascists.
A further 23% of Americans conditionally fascist, depending on how white the people you plan to brutalize are.
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@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: "Worst Criminal Illegals in Minnesota" the rhetoric is really disgusting these days. The kind of thing you'd cringe at if you overheard it at a pub, that marks a stranger as someone to avoid, a headline broadcast by a "major news network."
@jmoiron.bsky.social I took the east rail line route to Shenzhen a couple days ago. You can clearly see the Wong Fuk buildings from the train as you roll into Tai Po station.
Very heartbreaking.
@jmoiron.bsky.social Restrooms in every subway station would go a very long way.
I'm tired of having to collect accessible bathroom locations like they're the knowledge of the ancients.
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@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Definitely necessary, though. "Record" gained some generic overlap with "album" during its heyday (we still call releases LPs and EPs), so after CDs became dominant and vinyl became niche we needed a new term that lacked ambiguity.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: If you can't find a way to lead a coalition of "fascist secret police are bad" after they murder a woman in cold blood and try and make off like she was a domestic terrorist, then whatever you are good for is not useful right now, and you need to get the fuck out of the way.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: But I can't help it. I want Chuck Schumer and Jeffries and other D leadership to eat shit over this.
Go and visit this murdered woman's wife, who saw her love's head blown apart, and tell her that these ICE raids are just a distraction from kitchen table issues.