Conservatives don’t care about being correct or consistent. They say things for effect. They follow their feelings. Something inside them is broken and ruined. They project constantly onto others, because introspection would shatter their flimsy ego.
if he does, that’s pretty much ww3
So I don’t want to like die in nuclear fire but if a foreign power toppled the US government and tried+convicted all the Republicans of crimes against humanity, that doesn’t sound so bad.
Cars ruin everything. The primacy of cars is upstream from a surprising amount of problems with modern life.
prohibits gatherings of more than 20 people on open land where the music played consists wholly or predominantly of “a succession of repetitive beats”
This is a monstrous law and everyone involved in its passage should be barred from politics and positions with decision making power.
If americans could learn we wouldn’t have a 2nd trump presidency. We’re on average stupider than bart with the cupcakes.
Off the top of my head …
Sometimes the manual steps grow like weeds. Where I’m at now, they haven’t invested in automation much at all. Now deploys take all day. Making a code change is a sweaty manual regression search process. It’s bad.
Probably because all the horrible shit trump does takes up all the space.
My hot take has always been that Xbox was a stupid project. They had windows. People play video games on windows. They should have made steam and something like steam machines 25 years ago.
Maybe they could focus on delivering quality products that customers want, instead of investing all their time and effort into expensive AI widgets people don’t.
Well surely you can agree that letting men into women’s change rooms
If the idea is that that’s a no-no because men are sexually attracted to women, then I must remind you that gay people exist.
If the idea is that men cannot be trusted, then there are many other spaces where men have power that should be examined first.
Skyrim. It was at best “fine” for me. I really dislike level scaling. The combat felt unsatisfying. I don’t remember the story. It’s not weird like Morrowind. The magic and enchanting was over-simplified.
But for many people it’s their grand joy. So I guess that’s good for them.
Did not expect caves of qud to be on anyone’s list, as I thought it was pretty niche.
I also really wanted to like the game, but it felt oddly empty. I wanted less lost in the wilderness, less static quests, more dynamic stuff to do and explore.
I have much respect for “it’s not fun for me” and less patience for “it’s bad”. Totally understand why you might not find the games fun.
I remember playing it at a friend’s house and thinking “quake is better”, but the four player local play on one game and TV was an overwhelming factor.
Obviously tastes differ. I thoroughly enjoyed it and felt it deserved the praise.
i am too old to understand “hardcore” as a verb in that sentence. what?
Democrats aren’t especially left, so I’m not sure you can really look at states controlled by the democratic party as a fair comparison. The US doesn’t have much of a left. Many democrats are conservative, especially when its things close to home (eg: nimbyism, “i like black people i just don’t want to live next to one”, etc).
We have outliers like Mayor Mamdani who want to build more housing, but he’s notably a DSA member. He does have policies for housing which are more effective than “fewer regulations and the market will solve it”.
As such, if the argument is “Conservative controlled areas have fewer regulations, and thus more housing gets built”, that’s a very tenuous argument. The right wing ideology at play isn’t “We should build more housing” but rather the usual “No one tells me what to do” attitude endemic to right wing thinking.
Furthermore, conservative areas tend to be sparser, which makes for more room to build, with fewer restrictions New York City is already dense. Adding more stuff is going to be more difficult and complicated than adding another building to Tumbleweeds, AR.
Lastly, if you did somehow prove that “conservative solutions to the housing crisis are good, actually, and aren’t just deregulation and capitalist market solutions”, I guess I would have to update my statement to “Almost all right wing ideas are bad”. But as I’m not convinced this is the exception, I stand by my original claim.
Building housing isn’t a right wing idea.
Ars is weirdly pro-windows sometimes , in the comments. I don’t read them as much as I used to.