Wallenstein Appreciator

I run a study group about 17th century logistics and economics. It meets on Sunday afternoons. @surcomplicated.bsky.social and @bretdevereaux.bsky.social are in it. Message me if you would like to be too.

Ugh, I dislike being accused of ascribing no value to community in urban planning. I in fact ascribe negative value to it.

Gawking and snickering in a DM please ignore

Yeah I’m sure the Mayor of LA will get right on that expeditiously. Gotta find time to talk to a bunch of nobody maladjusted nerds in NYC or wherever to explain her behavior. If she doesn’t, she will be kicked out of the heckin book club!!!

It's important for folks to be very thoughtful and caring about job displacement and changes induced by automation. At the same time "all jobs must remain frozen in amber, exactly as they are today" is an absurd position that folks often implicitly wind up at

Reporting on Keul's account: newrepublic.com/post/217159/...

Yeah, this is really bad. It's good that El-Sayed distanced himself from it, but I am in awe at how Cenk's left-wing PAC managed to combine antisemitism with transphobia and pitch it as *supporting* the Democrat in this race.

does anyone know if they won

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Seems dudes are mad Digger sees the end of the post-1945 liberal order as sad instead of dancing on its grave. Sorry, should’ve have had Tom Cruise to the camera and explain how Chuck Schumer is giving all your money to Israel.

two years without my decades old tetanus pull up bar that is crumbling to dusk while they install an identical brand new replacement 😭😭😭

It's pretty frustrating how NIMBY gets thrown around as a catch all by morons but Joe here is doing classic hard-M NIMBYism. guess the pod got to his head

They are sadists, op

It’s really quite funny that Iñárritu made a largely anti-America movie that names the president after The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, but all of the podcast leftist bros hated it.

IDK why But this art piece either makes me cry or comes very close to making me cry every time I see it.

I do love that 1) these animals are real 2) they look exactly like the cave paintings, and 3) they're still around looking exactly like the cave paintings

This is really beautiful in a way I can't put into words.

That's Me by Louie Zong

Nathan Fielder as Batman and he just keeps saying "ok" to the Joker until he fucking kills himself

Looking at recruiting statistics on the Baltic littoral like

Actually, positive change is slow, difficult and incremental by nature. Destroying is fast, building is slow. It is easy to bring misery to people - any idiot can do it, as Trump shows - but very hard to improve their conditions. Building a better society is slow, careful, patient work.

This is something I think a lot of people struggle with on here, because it's two separate issues that are often conflated, and they shouldn't be. To use trans rights as an example, you have to ask two separate questions: 1. Would this person be the 51st vote to expand trans protections?

I feel like I'm the only person on this site who read her book when it came out

I know some of that is that a lot of Bsky has a very, very, VERY unhealthy and, frankly, sort of absurd relationship with McBride, but also like....come on, man. You can acknowledge what happens in the US while ALSO fawning over your favorite global emotional support socialists or whatever

I'm not trying to bash anyone here, but it seems really weird how excited people are about Lula kissing a trans-Congresswoman on the cheek as a revolutionary show of support, when Joe Biden wrote the forward to Sarah McBride's book:

"Look, I disagree with them too, that's why I joined The Org, I knew I wouldn't have to make excuses for them & could change it instead. You should too. Anyway these folks are good comrades who have made some good points & really you've taken them out of context because they're right, actually."

Looks like we need to switch to "No, it's only the national DSA that's crazy, the local orgs are pretty good!" we'd been stuck on "No, it's only the local orgs that are crazy, the national DSA is pretty good!" for a minute there.

also I was told that we shouldn't pay attention to the national org because the whole thing is decentralized and this seems to contradict that?

The DSA invites you to disagree with them, there's no command structure here. They take this so seriously, in fact, that you will be fucking expelled if you imply the existence of such a command structure. Because there isn't one.

Yep, and "but the Crusades" and "medieval Islam was more civilized than Christendom" were weak arguments back then, too

he's a piece of shit and what he's saying in the clip is *still* both inaccurate and bigoted, but a lot of you are being rage baited by this caption a little tbh, literally in the clip he talks about how the islamic world used to be more literate than Europe, etc.

I see milwaukee has found the 'time to win' switch

This is probably just me being a casual, but I don’t think they have any real superstar players either. Like plenty of good ones but no one Shohei-tier. The team is just insanely good holistically

You know baseball isn’t rigged because this has been a surprisingly anti climactic series for a team that has never won the World Series. Like they’re just straightforwardly very good.

"We are going to endlessly politick over what our opaquely decentralized organization believes & does, & only deploy our resources in accordance with that politicking, & we have our own internal language to describe it all." That's cool, also people will never stop thinking you're weird & annoying

Oh look it's another drama inspired by DSA's peculiar definition of "endorsement"

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Okay, this is literally Stockholm Syndrome

God, that Cenk Uygur ad for Abdul El-Sayed about how his opponent is for “they/them” (meaning Israel) (sorry I mean (((Israel))) ) is so gross in so many ways, both scarily antisemitic and transphobic, and I’m judging everyone involved

eh go fuck yourself. "be neutral on [insert interest] when you run and then stick it to the industry when you win" is a time honored way of actually getting things done.