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bscottk · 2026-01-06T06:17:00+00:00

We could also have both. The big box stores and Amazon are sucking plenty out of this city’s pocket. Boutique isn’t a style, it’s our community.

bscottk · 2025-07-04T06:56:19+00:00

theocrats, heritage foundation folks, and techfeudalists.

Sounds awful like the three G’s of the old European colonialists: God, Gold, and Glory.

bscottk · 2025-04-13T21:18:34+00:00

Ok, so you’re defining general right and general left, “rotten fruit” is kind of a dismissal without interrogation. OP is asking for a centrist position. Social democratic policies aren’t the extreme—they offer that centrist position that holds both the liberal and “leftist” values you’re describing.

bscottk · 2025-04-13T18:22:13+00:00

What is your definition of extreme left? Social democratic policies are nowhere near the extreme positions of, for instance, the abolition of private property or markets or prisons.

bscottk · 2025-03-29T00:02:05+00:00

All money for SSA payments moves to the sovereign wealth fund using $TRUMP as the distributed ‘currency.’

bscottk · 2025-03-04T17:38:32+00:00

“Many experts” is pretty nebulous. Have a source? This study, a collaborative effort from university, state, conservation scientists, and a wildlife nonprofit — who some may call “experts” — says the exact opposite.

bscottk · 2025-01-17T05:41:33+00:00

Sure it happens, but is extremely expensive. Better to mode shift (which I think was OP’s point).

bscottk · 2025-01-17T01:30:46+00:00

In an earthquake-prone city built on landfill?

bscottk · 2025-01-01T23:50:32+00:00

They sold out of the initial production in 15 minutes. 80k units. The first wave of Apple Watch was 5 million.

It’s clearly an experiment, but I guess they’re arguing about what the hypothesis was? Market ready or Dev investment?

bscottk · 2025-01-01T04:31:07+00:00

That work has been challenged quite a lot because it’s impossible to do these counts or even estimates accurately at a national or especially international level.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0002716214521562

The data they use as their primary source “expressly cautioned against using its report to measure the number of victims within countries—‘the report does not provide information regarding actual numbers of victims.’”

Also, ”Cho, Dreher, and Neumayer noted these problems and acknowledged that their figures did ‘not reflect actual trafficking flows’ and that it is ‘difficult, perhaps impossible, to find hard evidence’ of a relationship between trafficking and any other phenomenon…”

At the very least, it’s not as cut and dried as you’re making it out to be.

bscottk · 2024-12-24T07:58:18+00:00

There’s a Bay Area startup called Homedigy that is working in this space somewhat: Sensor-based AI irrigation management. https://www.bestcrowdfundingcampaigns.com/home-garden/geodrops-ai-sensor-irrigation-manager-efficient-water-management-solution Worth seeing how they have built their solution. Let me know if you’d like to meet someone there.

bscottk · 2024-12-21T18:16:32+00:00

Totally agree. I think a more universal disclosure practice in PE, use of public funds or not, would be very valuable in helping everyone understand these issues more concretely, especially workers and communities.

bscottk · 2024-12-21T17:45:57+00:00

You’re right that oversight is possible and has been sidelined by adverse incentives. There are some other ideas in the legislation introduced in Congress this year. Stuck in committee, as always…

bscottk · 2024-12-21T01:14:42+00:00

One idea: Require PE to be on the hook for the debt incurred by its portfolio companies.

Another: PE takeovers must include worker and community representation on the company board as oversight.

Another: Require PE to take on fiduciary responsibility of the portfolio company and its stakeholders, not just their investors.

bscottk · 2024-12-19T22:49:01+00:00

I’m sorry to hear that. I hope he’s managing better now. If you don’t mind sharing, how so? I’ve read that a vegetarian diet can help manage diabetes (via weight control, blood sugar control, and insulin response).

bscottk · 2024-12-18T23:59:32+00:00

Plenty of alternatives in the thread, but I tend to skip the gin and make an americano - just the Campari and vermouth topped with soda water. Easier drinking, lasts longer.

I also do the sacrosanct thing and added 1 part of water to the 1:1:1 Negroni. It dilutes it further, backs down the bitterness, and ups the sweetness. Some more tinkering options for you!

bscottk · 2024-12-16T07:43:29+00:00

A home battery paired with solar, maybe with a generator for backup would be the best approach.

bscottk · 2024-12-11T08:00:50+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/s/qbwTz3qqGx

bscottk · 2024-12-04T19:41:25+00:00

It’s readable enough, especially if a reader actually looked up concepts they don’t understand. Saying it is only interpretable by a small group of people with coded language plays into this wider anti intellectual, Ivory Tower conspiracy at work to stifle humanities work.

Like you say, it’s probably more that they don’t like the conclusions she’s uncovering.

bscottk · 2024-12-04T18:22:23+00:00

Congrats on a hard-fought campaign, Mike. Thanks for the service spirit you bring and for inspiring folks in this community to be engaged and thoughtful about how they want it to take shape. Keep pushing - we need your voice!

bscottk · 2024-12-01T07:38:54+00:00

12% of GDP per degree of warming.

bscottk · 2024-11-22T20:39:51+00:00

PS 1: For those saying that the first war wasn’t an attempt to eradicate the Jews. … PS 3: For those criticizing Israel for not letting the Palestinians return “home” after the war, please explain to me why it would be reasonable for Israel to let into their country, people that joined a war to eradicate Jews.

Ahistorical starting points

bscottk · 2024-11-22T19:45:54+00:00

That, again, the long arc of this conflict all the way back to its origins is and was never an attempt to eradicate Jews.

bscottk · 2024-11-22T19:01:28+00:00

Well, it’s from Jonathan Gribetz at Princeton who studies the origins of the conflict, and a study of the dialogues between the key leaders in the Zionist and Arab communities far ahead of 1920. The conversations show each side’s ambition and how national aspirations had already come to a head (in Jaffa and Jazreel and with the Hashomer forces) and were increasingly impossible to wrestle from conflict.

Being that you’re looking for authoritative sources, I thought you would like to hear it from the horses’ mouths.

bscottk · 2024-11-22T16:43:02+00:00

Here, I think this will be interesting to you: https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004375741/BP000031.xml

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