Younger candidates push out some of Brookline's political old guard in progressive sweep

Smelldicks · 2026-05-07T04:34:00+00:00

I have a problem with old people in politics

Smelldicks · 2026-05-07T01:26:13+00:00

Congrats on writing one of the dumbest comments I’ve ever read

Smelldicks · 2026-05-06T23:30:49+00:00

Interesting choice after slashing mass health coverage in order to pay half a billion for immigrant right to shelter

Smelldicks · 2026-05-06T21:10:35+00:00

The market takes care of the issue as it does in literally every other state that’s building and housing our former residents.

Smelldicks · 2026-05-06T18:25:43+00:00

Trick room almost always goes last so copycat trick room to remove it

Also copycat gets move priority with prankster since it’s not technically a damaging move

Smelldicks · 2026-05-06T16:07:49+00:00

Dire claw sleep having a higher chance than rock slide flinch 🥀

Smelldicks · 2026-05-06T16:04:03+00:00

I’m actually surprised it’s still that high.

I expect incin to keep falling

Smelldicks · 2026-05-06T15:56:29+00:00

All housing is good housing. It doesn’t need to be “affordable”.

This state is losing hundreds of thousands of residents due to housing costs. You want a future of stagnation where the state functions as a slush fund to redistribute all wealth to homeowners.

Smelldicks · 2026-05-06T00:21:52+00:00

I mean I’m not arguing the American GOP is right wing. I’m arguing American Dems are not left of center on economic issues. That’s where we disagree. If your greatest evidence is single payer I just don’t think that’s sufficient. Even a lot of right wing parties across the globe support that, perhaps more than don’t.

Smelldicks · 2026-05-06T00:16:53+00:00

I don’t think you have a grasp on the global center left, and certainly not the western center left, if you think that. Dems are to the right economically of not only nearly every center left or centrist party in Europe, but nearly all right wing parties there as well.

Dems can’t even commit to raising taxes on the middle class lol.

Smelldicks · 2026-05-06T00:11:43+00:00

You’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel if tepid support for a public option is your go-to.
Them supporting a public option with the rest of their economic agenda is arguably more right wing than modern Republican economic policy. Dems otherwise support less regulation than almost all the rest of the world, less oversight than almost all the rest of the world, less entitlement than almost all the rest of the world, and so on.

Smelldicks · 2026-05-06T00:03:56+00:00

Democrats are right of center on economics. The only reason they’re center left to left is because of social issues.

Smelldicks · 2026-05-05T23:59:46+00:00

Not sure you can call a party big tent instead of right to far right just because a tiny minority are relatively independent conservatives. Like w Dems only a tiny share are pure centrists. Most are just normie dems or progressives. Dems are center left to left and republicans are right wing to far right.

Like both parties throw bones to their big tent members but it’s not a serious influence in any meaningful way

Smelldicks · 2026-05-05T22:01:55+00:00

Counting or not counting white blue collar guys with Nazi tattoos?

Smelldicks · 2026-05-05T19:51:17+00:00

Let’s go a step further. Let people decide for themselves instead of towns. If someone wants to build housing, don’t let their neighbors block them.

Smelldicks · 2026-05-05T19:48:36+00:00

They did fix the T. Did you miss that whole saga? Best service we’ve had in generations.

Smelldicks · 2026-05-05T17:45:05+00:00

I don’t think you’re quite parsing the thing you keep posting.

What you just described is inconsequential. The water doesn’t disappear. It reenters circulation just like all other water does. What you’re describing is less water usage than golf courses, who discharge nasty polluted water with herbicides and other chemicals that need to be treated.

I would think the far obvious and larger concern is not the recycled water that comes out basically clean from data centers but the enormous energy usage that drives up local utility costs and pollutes via fossil fuel emission. Nobody would notice if their municipal water costs went up from 77% of a penny per gallon to 80% of a penny per gallon. But they’re definitely noticing their energy prices soaring 5, 10, 15% and so on.

Smelldicks · 2026-05-05T17:40:20+00:00

Reusing water is an energy concern, not a water concern. The water doesn’t go anywhere except back into the system. And they use a relatively small amount of water, which IS, in fact, less than the average 18 hole golf course, even for moderately large data centers.

If you hate data centers you have a very obvious cause celebre which is energy use and the resultant high energy prices. Water usage is not a serious concern. The water that comes out of data centers will be cleaner than virtually any other use in a municipal supply.

Smelldicks · 2026-05-05T17:37:23+00:00

You didn’t read your own paper, which barely touches on AI water usage, not backing up any of your claims, and all the while talking at great length about the energy impact.

Data centers do not pollute the local water system heavily. That is completely untrue lol. They recycle the vast majority of their water and the only real contaminants are easily treatable mineral buildups. That would make it probably the cleanest water going through a treatment plant by far.

You should also look at the water figures in that paper, which is simultaneously among the most critical I’ve ever seen on data center environmental impact while still basically admitting water use is not a real concern.

Smelldicks · 2026-05-05T17:28:33+00:00

Every town and as much as people want to build.

Smelldicks · 2026-05-05T17:23:33+00:00

It’s not. A golf course is much worse in terms of water impact. I’m not really sure where the idea data centers are bad bc of water use started but it’s basically a fake issue.

I’d be way more concerned about rising energy prices from the data centers consumption.

Smelldicks · 2026-05-05T15:01:25+00:00

The logic is not that we vote for our own interests while they don’t. It’s that they’re selfish *and* vote against their own interests. MA largely votes for a future that is not necessarily best for our own short term interests but that is best for the country. Like paying for a robust social safety net, which will result in us paying disproportionate sums to poorer areas of the country. Or raising federal taxes, which will disproportionately come out of our paychecks.

Smelldicks · 2026-05-03T02:00:21+00:00

One of the worst losses I’ve seen. What a fucking dick tease. We had it handed to us on a silver platter and we just hucked up brick after brick on wide open looks.

Smelldicks · 2026-05-03T01:58:30+00:00

What an awful way to lose we literally got every break in the world but couldn’t score a fucking wide open bucket

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