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wow_yes··on San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses
Population essentially doesn't matter - people are talking about density here. For example, Phoenix is essentially an enormous suburb with giant malls, and you never hear of despite its population numbers. Boston is a small city with rich urban life that occupies an outsize role in the American psyche.
wow_yes··on Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
We are on the right side of history - progress always is. People like me are much more trustworthy because we're not motivated by greed, but for the desire for a better world.
wow_yes··on iPhone 12 Pro so costly in India, you can fly to Dubai to buy it and save money
Property is theft from the commons - and here this is doubly untrue: the taxes are a reasonable level on a global mega-corporation with millions of people in near-slave conditions.
wow_yes··on To Save the Climate, Give Up the Demand for Constant Electricity
Dictatorship of the proletariat, of course. You see left wing ideas rising in the discourse, media, and world - the fire burns within, Capitalism will fall soon
wow_yes··on Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for
Take the bus
wow_yes··on Palantir Admits to Helping ICE Deport Immigrants
We must defund and destroy not just ICE but the paramilitary system that it is a part of (FBI/DHS/etc).

If you buy into the IPO, if you work at Palantir, or if you financially gain from this ecosystem you are profiting from the racist deportation of people who just want a better life.

I've never heard of a downside to having a large talent pool - how could there be?

wow_yes··on DHS Flew Two Surveillance Aircraft over Breonna Taylor Protests
The idea of Federal police acting in states is unconstitutional on the face of it - especially paramilitary organizations like DHS/ICE
wow_yes··on Los Angeles hid power plant methane leak for a year
Going to need a source - most corruption is corporate, unions represent Labor and thus don't have a corruption incentive (only Capital does)
wow_yes··on Hungary's researcher Roska wins award for procedure that could cure blindness
None of this is true - we must defund the military, reallocate the spending to true social equality and social reprogramming.
wow_yes··on Why Karachi Floods
Sounds like Silicon Valley in America, especially with transit and housing.
wow_yes··on Git-Based Wiki
Based?
wow_yes··on On the Delaware, a promising new era in cleanup of an urban river
Philly is a very poor city though, modest increases in COL hit hard.