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From my heart and from my hand

Why don't people understand my intention?

Bed bug mating practices are probably up there too

A base 2013 Dart was $16K MSRP. At that rate it doubled once every 13 years or so from 1970...certainly not every year like dudebro said

This site explains absolutely nothing, it just shows a bunch of graphs with limited to no correlation and no reason at all to think they have any common causality

Sounds like they mostly exist miles deep in the ocean, where tiny scavengers are a more stable food supply. So like carnivorous plants, they evolved carnivory because they lacked alternative sources of nutrients.

Just one of the first 20 hits when I searched for "Palestine." I have to admit I'm struggling to find any pro-Israel content among those search results. Searching for "Israel" gives a more mixed bag, but still plenty of pro-Palestinian content mixed in

I just randomly selected this Channel 4 (3.8 million subscribers) video with 370K views on YouTube: Israeli soldier speaks out on war in Gaza. The next video it played was In Gaza now, it's worse than ethnic cleansing from Al Jazeera. Then it gave me another Al Jazeera video, Norman Finkelstein on Gaza: The US could have stopped Israel on day one. From where are you driving your accusation that YouTube is delivering you any more pro-Israel content than TikTok?

TikTok is a subsidiary of ByteDance, and that the Chinese government exerts significant political influence over ByteDance really is not a question

I just did a brief search on YouTube and found pro-Palestinian content posted over the past week with hundreds of thousands of views too. I'm not arguing about the quality of the platforms, I'm saying this has more to do with geopolitical corporate hegemony (aka money) than with any specific content, as evidenced by the fact that this has been on the table since well before the Oct 7 attacks

I think this ban is completely agnostic re: content. The issue is more fundamental -- it's fully owned and operated by people in China. This is a geopolitical battle that is currently playing out across many industries. Social media grabs headlines where less sexy industry battles do not.

I think Tom Nicholas gives a great overview.

Also, fuck Ted Cruz with a 20 inch dildo. Don't take anything that sniveling carcass has to say seriously.

Meanwhile, Texas is not a low-tax, low-service state, as is commonly held. It’s a high-tax, low-service state: we may have no income tax, but at least one study found that we have one of the ten highest total tax burdens in the nation, with property taxes making up most of the gap. The quality of state services, however, has not improved commensurate with the growth of state budgets. Older Texans feel squeezed in cities where they’ve lived for decades. Younger Texans go to too-often substandard schools, receive substandard health care, and then can’t afford homes in the cities of their birth. Texas politics has increasingly focused on managing the resulting resentment, and the easiest way to do so is to blame outsiders.

So utterly true.

All that said, property values in Austin and the population of Austin are both still significantly higher than they were in 2020. All this talk of an "exodus" from Austin is as much hyperbole as a "Texas miracle." Travis County lost something like net 1,000 residents over the last year (after yearly 5 digit increases for many years) while neighboring MSA counties continue to grow. Oh, and Austin startups were only able to raise several billion dollars in venture capital last year, such a pittance!