I feel so exceptionally and specifically blessed by the universe these days I have to make a point to recall the 2010s and how grim everything looked. “This too shall pass” and all.
(“Everyone you hate has teamed up to push a meshed combo” had not yet progressed to “everyone you hate has teamed up to drop masks and bite off more than they can chew”)
Trans politician Zooey Zephyr is getting twittercanceled by the right for tweeting horny Genshin Impact fanart. This is in fact a real thing that’s happening. Say what you want about the Republican Party but they provide some absolutely mind-numbingly bizarre moments.
cannot truly describe the feeling that just came over me upon seeing this but the best estimation is a simultaneous need to laugh hysterically and also fucking die
Like after the personality change if I had been more active and felt less eating compulsion or even if my metabolism changed and I lost weight that way it would be one thing.
But the thing about having to take the creatine is I am losing fat several times faster than humans are naturally capable.
Just waking up, and having a normal diet with 3 meals, one bigger than the others, and going out to do some yard work every day, which half the time is just carrying armloads of things around for three hours.
And out of this it’s like “oh, yup, working overtime to give you the ideal body you always wanted, just cuz, no, you don’t need to do anything, we got it.”
Like, I know it must be kinda tedious from outside to see me keep gawping at my miraculous luck, but reorienting myself to wrap my mind around it is kinda the major project of my interiority rn, and I’m still gonna be mulling it over for decades.
Y’know about notorious housing costs and homelessness situation in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, the Pacific coast of the US? In 2023, Portland and San Francisco are both moving forward with major multi-million-dollar projects to outlaw “street camping” while opening “city-run mass encampments.”
The mayor, 14 April 2023:
San Francisco is site of arguably one of worst situations in the US, where thousands units are completely inaccessible, and people pay over $2000 a month to live in closets or dorm-style high-density shared rooms, and upscale coffee shops and restaurants require phone apps or payment receipts for people to access restrooms. The W!!pedia page “Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area” is over 120,000 bytes in size and 12,000 words in length.
In April 2023, the city announces its grand plan: A “five-year plan” costing $600 million to “cut the number of unsheltered homeless in halve” in five years. So not a plan to put people in homes, but just to get them off the street, qualifying them as part of the strange designation of “the sheltered homeless” (they will still be homeless, but they won’t be “on the streets,” and will be “sheltered” by a city shelter or camp).
Get them out of sight, put them out of the way on an island or something:
In 2022, the city estimated that over 20,000 people are homeless in a calendar year.
And that’s only within the formal city
limits of San Francisco and doesn’t include the rest of the Bay Area
(which contains millions more people in Oakland, San Jose, Richmond,
etc.)
The rest of the Pacific coast?
In late 2022, Portland, its mayor, and its city council announced a major initiative to ban and outlaw “street camping”. Portland will simultaneously by opening “city-run encampments” or “sanctioned mass homeless camps.” In early 2023, Portland begins this project:
March 2023:
Hmm.
One of the most popular homeless related questions on Q/uora, as if were a “valid question” about how “you must earn your existence through work”, and not a sickening disregard for life:
Hmm.
Like:
The context of this is that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the layer-under-the-Supremes court for the West Coast, has established that localities may not criminalize sleeping outside unless they have some acceptable place on offer for everyone sleeping rough, other areas under other circuit courts do not face this constraint and thus do not feel the need to build such facilities if they want to ban people from camping on the street.
(though other dynamics may exist – New York City recognizes a right to shelter, which underpins a system that serves upwards of 20,000 people nightly)
Even if she’s broadly senile and specifically out under treatment, stalling committees on which she sits (like judge-confirming Judiciary), the reason there’s no chance the Democratic Party will push Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to resign is that Governor Gavin Newsom would have to choose a replacement and thus show favoritism ahead of the California Democratic Party’s apocalypse war to replace her. The selection would be a big ol’ “to the fairest” golden apple.
Honestly weirder than the fact that more than half the groups of elementary schoolers walking home past my window are walking with parents is that those parents often have their own backpacks. What do they have in there?
Important politicocultural dynamic for the next decade and a half will be Gen X and the older Millennials positioning themselves as dutiful heirs to the Boomers such that they can be trusted to inherit things and defend them from the Zoomers and younger Millennials
Chinese Ambassador to the EU Fu Cong stated on April 5 that the Russian–Chinese joint statement declaring there were “no limits” to their ties released in February 2022 was misrepresented, calling “no limits” a “purely rhetorical statement.” Fu added that China does not support Russia’s war in Ukraine and is not providing Russia weapons.
there are no limits on their relationship up to a certain limit
Yes Minister moment
Refusing Putin’s load at the no-loads-refused cumdump
