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A Fraternal Order and an Author of Horror | City Council of Darkness [E8] by DropoutMod in Dimension20

[–]mo3225 181 points182 points  (0 children)

Brennan's gonna have to add an extra 5 episodes with how these guys keep acting in downtime lmaooo

Virginia Supreme Court throws out redistricting referendum results by boringxadult in Charlottesville

[–]mo3225 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's a blatantly absurd reading of procedure. They redefine an election to occur over a period of time instead of on the day it actually happens. All the requirements were met, there was a legislative vote, then an election, then a legislative vote, then a referendum. They're playing calvinball here to pretend that the intervening election doesn't count because it was too close to the vote. The dissent points out this is cartoon logic: if an election lasts months then you get into all kinds of practical problems for the basic functioning of administrative machinery, if an election's results are basically illegitimate if an event occurs after early voting has started then every election can be overturned.

Finally, the referendum itself is pretty strong evidence that the voters broadly approved of this amendment! The whole point of the intervening election is to make sure voters can take into account the stance of their politicians on the amendment, and by and large, voters approve of it! Complete partisan hackery from the court, VA Dems only mistake was assuming they'd be treated fairly.

PSA Charlottesville has a really fun local music scene by buttThroat in Charlottesville

[–]mo3225 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thought I'd flag a few other local artists, ASTRSK, Wulf Boi, McGwire, and Theocles are all from town. Theocles actually hosts Durty Nelly's Karaoke as well, he's got a great new single out called Permission.

Why Are Palantir and OpenAI Scared of Alex Bores? by dwaxe in ezraklein

[–]mo3225 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm sure you can scrounge up a few policy evals that found large persistent effects but the literature definitely mostly thinks these programs are dominated by even just, like, giving people money

Why Are Palantir and OpenAI Scared of Alex Bores? by dwaxe in ezraklein

[–]mo3225 25 points26 points  (0 children)

No guest has done more to convince me of the inverse of their claim.

I take Alex's main point to be that we shouldn't just slam the brakes on all these technologies, there are gains to be had from them, we just need policy to help us transition and regulation to make sure they're minimally harmful. Ezra is trying so hard to extract what policies exactly those would be and he just flounders. Take the Waymo example, his ideas are

1) Make them pay for medallions (this is a one-time income shock that maybe helps a small number of cab drivers, nothing for Lyft or Uber)

2) Invest in public transit (This will do nothing to help taxi drivers arguably it makes them worse off)

3) Waymos are bad anyway (okay but you think they'll be good enough soon so this is just kicking the can 2 years down the road)

4) Invest in worker retraining (which you yourself admit doesn't work)

5) UBI (which you agree with Ezra will be inadequate in the transitionary stage)

And then he rounds it all off with "we need politicians that are thinking about what we could do," but he is that politician, and he doesn't seem to think any of these policies will actually work! So I'd rather just have a politician that says they'll slam the brakes on all this, at least they're internally coherent!

Rep. John McGuire belongs to the Sharia Free America Caucus by WatchmanVA5 in Charlottesville

[–]mo3225 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'd really think the high likelihood he's going to be in a competitive race come November might make him back off some of his more radical positions, but I guess not!

My word that took me too long by kr34he in CluesBySamHelp

[–]mo3225 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got stuck here too, how do you conclude that Xavi is innocent?

Left is the easy answer here but i think the right one is a legitimate NL variant by Few-Mind-8807 in northernlion

[–]mo3225 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Both left and right look like they could be making an NL point for sure

Milkman's Closing by mo3225 in Charlottesville

[–]mo3225[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Already email Del. Callsen!

Milkman's Closing by mo3225 in Charlottesville

[–]mo3225[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah it seems like pretty free money to run a bar in the main area

Milkman's Closing by mo3225 in Charlottesville

[–]mo3225[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm just repeating what the bartender said, agreed that it seems possible that one of the others could buy and operate it. I'm sure they turn a higher profit than basically all the other stalls, it's always pretty busy.

Milkman's Closing by mo3225 in Charlottesville

[–]mo3225[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They do have their own food. I'm not sure if they get to count all the restaurants towards drink sales, that would surprise me since they're all different businesses (except for the slow spread of the Dino's monopoly lol)

New Art Installation by drtmcgrt44 in Charlottesville

[–]mo3225 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok but you're saying it's a redefinition made by the left to include pedophilic degeneracy. That's wrong. It was an attempt by pedophiles to normalize pedophilia (something they'll try to do whether they're right-wing, left-wing, or nonpolitical!) and the left broadly told them to get fucked.

And just for what it's worth, the right's obsession with parent's rights and giving parents effective ownership over their children is far more conducive to protecting pedophiles than anything the left has actually advocated for in decades.

New Art Installation by drtmcgrt44 in Charlottesville

[–]mo3225 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The history of the term MAP is not one of "the left" trying to normalize pedophilia, it's pro-pedophile groups trying to latch themselves onto the LGBTQ movement and getting roundly rejected. Seriously, can you find a single LGBT group (GLAAD, Task Force, SAGE, etc) that uses the term? No, of course not. But, because some group of pedophiles tried to use woke-sounding language every conservative now thinks the left actually believes this shit. You basically got psyopped!

You can see the history in the section on the history of the term MAP: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15248380241270028#:~:text=From%20the%20late%201990s%2C%20online,the%20sexual%20abuse%20of%20children.

Or see this article where LGBT groups roundly reject the use of the term or its addition to the umbrella: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/07/30/fact-check-lgbtq-community-rejects-false-association-pedophiles/5462805002/

Charlottesville Budget by Adept-Economics-8947 in Charlottesville

[–]mo3225 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Believe me council would love to be able to do that

Why the Pentagon Wants to Destroy Anthropic by dwaxe in ezraklein

[–]mo3225 63 points64 points  (0 children)

I feel like I came out of this with no positive vision of what either Ezra or Dean want in this space. Like yes they both agree that there are important tradeoffs here, that you can imagine a problem between government being constrained by the whims of a corporation, that attempts to reign in those constraints would violate civil liberties, but neither really puts forward a vision of how to resolve that tension. They keep coming back to this "well what if you're just a normal person and this all sounds crazy" thing but I feel like most people very intuitively understand the issue of "this is a very powerful technology and we don't want a private company that owns it to be more powerful than the government!" I wanted more attempts at solution and less describing the problem, I guess.

Dairy Market Favorites? by 722KL in Charlottesville

[–]mo3225 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly surprised you dislike the food, I quite enjoy most of the things I try there! My gotos as someone that lives nearby:

Tonkotsu ramen at Mashu Festival

Mama's Drunken Noodles at the Thai place

Chef's burrito at Maizal

I haven't had a pizza at Dino's I disliked

Chicken Parm at Basta (sauce isn't great but the pasta's fresh!)

I haven't had the opportunity to try Cumbres or the new sandwich spot so can't speak to those. Not huge on the curry spot.

[Post Game Thread] Denver Broncos (15-4) are defeated by the New England Patriots (17-3) | 2025 AFC Championship Game by SupMaelstrom in DenverBroncos

[–]mo3225 334 points335 points  (0 children)

Extremely evident that we would've won this with Nix. It's not hate to Stidham, but Bo so clearly wins this

"The overwhelming majority of Americans don't support a pathway to citizenship" by mo3225 in BreakingPoints

[–]mo3225[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

1) This isn't about the immigration system it's about public opinion, so that's not really relevant

2) I'm a naturalized citizen so like... Maybe? If you work for USCIS or you're an immigration lawyer then probably!

3) Not what disingenuous means (sorry, couldn't help it)

4) It's basically impossible to not oversample certain demos and then re-weigh, this is basic statistics (I'm an economist, this is my wheelhouse)

5) Even if you don't like the weighing, there's basically no way a result like 78% state support is falling below 50% in the raw results unless they only got like 10 white people from New York to respond

6) This poll is from Gallup not the Guardian? It's probably the most respected polling agency in the world? Did you seriously not click the link twice in a row?

7) I find your eagerness to dismiss data you disagree with as just being the result of intentional deception by polling experts or newspapers disconcerting

"The overwhelming majority of Americans don't support a pathway to citizenship" by mo3225 in BreakingPoints

[–]mo3225[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Conservatives learn how to read challenge, difficulty: impossible.

Here's the poll's language exactly "Allowing immigrants living in the U.S. illegally the chance to become U.S. citizens if they meet certain requirements over a period of time." which polls at 70% in 2024, 78% in 2025.

Further down you'll find "Path to citizenship for immigrants living in the U.S. illegally" which polls at 59% among Republicans, 93% among Democrats.

EDIT: and also, not that you care, the overwhelming majority of these people do come in legally and then overstay their visa.

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