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The optimal level of crime in cities is not zero. If you don't have drunk people doing stupid things or the occasional drug dealer slinging contraband, you probably live somewhere

Winning platform for Anglophone liberals in this decade:- No compromise on individual and community rights or agency- Move to social services organized by affinity pillar- Triple the housing stock- Modest

Some groups to familiarize yourself with as the Kenosha situation gathers steam:"BLM" -> Locals plus a large contingent of Chicago-area organizers, they may use some form of colored armband."medics" ->

Kamala Harris argued that California should be allowed to pack men in cages like livestock in front of the Supreme Court, so it's not really surprising to learn that running

A neoliberal approach to the CCP regime in China...Guideposts:- Put people who actually know things about China in charge of executing China policy.- Focus on information over commerce.- Work asymmetrically

You know what time it is?One like, one hot take time. 1. Any good definition of "people" includes great apes 2. Elephants and most whales are on the fence when

If you mass-arrest all the antifa people they will be running the entire prison system inside six months. If you send a bunch of left-wingers to jail they're going to

Everybody in the Western world is either already thinking this or will be in the next few weeks, and there's no guidance on what to do. I think the public

https://twitter.com/emily_hoeven/status/1249777564563804160 West Coast Economic Communityhttps://twitter.com/mattparlmer/status/1247192525590454273 They are walking a well-trodden path right now, and they're walking it quickly:https://en.wikipedi

Still stand by this. We need to start putting anybody who can't WFH in appropriate PPE and back to work. Even retail and restaurants can operate at a limited level

The political crisis that is coming to the US is utterly predictable and if you don't see a really bad version of in the set of plausible outcomes you need

I've been working on an N95 mask production project with a team for about a week now. We just got off the phone with NIOSH. They told us that approval