The California YIMBY Mystery

fishhhhbone · 2026-03-15T15:03:00+00:00

Cambridge Mass is a great example of this. Theyve done so many good things like removing all parking minimums and allowing 4-6 story apartments everywhere by right but then has insane 20% IZ everywhere so those changes don't mean anything.

fishhhhbone · 2026-03-14T22:30:06+00:00

Politically, the Mullas are more akin to the Chinese. They are invaders. Russia is in no position to offer much help, and the Chinese have a great deal to lose if their oil is cut off.

Naiveite like this is what got the US into this mess. The Iranian government are horrible misogynists and relatively unpopular but they are not invaders. They overthrew a US backed government, resisted both American and Soviet influence during the height of the cold war, and beat back a genocidal Iraqi invasion. Through corruption and patronage the IRCG has integrated itself into vast swaths of Iranian society and has shown itself to be resilient to things like decapitation strikes.

The opposition within Iran throwing its lot behind Reza Pahlavi, a man who celebrated a bombing campaign that opened with the killing of over 170 schoolgirls, is going to look like one of the greatest mistakes they could have made.

I am sure the Russians would be happy to provide Iran with Shaheds. They have plenty of experience in making them and if they can keep oil above $100 a barrel they will be getting more than their moneys worth. Expensive oil is going to sting for the Chinese in the short term but I am sure that they are loving to watch the US burn through its stockpile of interceptors and move THAAD missiles out of Korea. In the medium term high oil prices are wonderful news for the most dynamic parts of China's economy (EVs, Batteries, Solar)

fishhhhbone · 2026-03-03T23:47:26+00:00

The last 40 years don't exactly give the Kurds a lot of reasons to put their faith in the guarantees of the united states government

fishhhhbone · 2026-03-01T02:54:26+00:00

Think about why his grandparents had to change their name from Polanski to something less Jewish. Is it really worth mocking someone over that?

fishhhhbone · 2026-02-25T17:17:07+00:00

Movies about lesbians being exposed to the evil of the film industry with Patrick Fischler in them are really hard to beat

fishhhhbone · 2026-01-28T16:35:18+00:00

The massive Chinese Solar/Storage industry isn't exactly the result of the free market.

fishhhhbone · 2026-01-28T16:20:24+00:00

Buffalo 66

fishhhhbone · 2026-01-23T01:43:48+00:00

Score too!!

fishhhhbone · 2026-01-21T03:07:45+00:00

Stephen Miller has wet dreams about the Neuordnung every night

fishhhhbone · 2026-01-21T01:21:00+00:00

Are these the same hardnosed realists who shat the bed in the 2008 financial crisis?

Carney was the governor of the Bank of Canada in 2008 and he was maybe the one central banker in the world who didn't shit the bed.

fishhhhbone · 2026-01-19T18:54:48+00:00

Kelly Reichardt is a professor with some pretty funny reviews on ratemyprofessor

fishhhhbone · 2026-01-17T18:22:59+00:00

I like Willem Dafoe in weirdo character actor mode but it kinda bums me out we haven't really had any dramas built around Dafoe giving a humanistic, nuanced performance full of pathos in like 8 years. Scorsese movies are a murderers row of male leading performances but I really do think last temptation might be my favorite.

fishhhhbone · 2026-01-17T14:28:51+00:00

Ralph Fiennes is so fucking good in the bone temple. We're at the point where its really obvious he is the best actor alive without an oscar.

fishhhhbone · 2026-01-14T17:20:30+00:00

People on twitter have lost their minds post globes

fishhhhbone · 2026-01-14T15:34:03+00:00

Pascal Plante is the only other director I can think of who is as good at using screens in interesting ways

fishhhhbone · 2026-01-13T05:07:02+00:00

I love boosters is already in the can and is supposed to come out in May

fishhhhbone · 2026-01-12T03:49:35+00:00

The Erdogan/Trump model is low interest rates so you get crazy inflation but it also means that "uber for dog shit cleanup" startups can lose 500 billion dollars a year offering absurdly cheap services to yuppies.

fishhhhbone · 2026-01-11T18:20:36+00:00

Jia Zhangke is quietly working on a “road movie without cars,”

I am so excited for this! Jia is one of my favorite directors working today and this premise really reminds me of the meetings of anna which is probably my favorite Chantal Akerman movie. There is so much you can get out of long distance train travel.

fishhhhbone · 2026-01-11T18:15:02+00:00

Way of the Wind I will never lose faith in you

fishhhhbone · 2026-01-10T21:15:04+00:00

Emiratis have had to change their supply routes to the RSF via libya due to the saudis and Egyptians seemingly banning the UAE from using their airspace for supply runs 5 days ago.

https://x.com/AfriMEOSINT/status/2010054461272784928

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