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That's why they're yellow.

I say we just admit that R can be a vowel, and drop the E entirely.

This community is for open ended questions to prompt interesting discussions, like AskReddit, not for help or support questions.

Yeah, I fell asleep and had a great nap!

I thought it was about antivaxxers at first.

You can see the discussion here:

https://social.heise.de/@mho/113815044269036576

I couldn't figure out how to link to the relevant comments directly, but if you look for the comment from @woelkchen you'll see the exchange.

I learned recently that Neptune and Pluto have orbital resonance, with a 2:3 ratio of orbital periods.

I know some Japanese, and I can usually recognize Korean because it sounds kinda like Japanese but I can't understand anything.

I was excited to see the activity on that post this morning. So disappointing to see it deleted by a power tripping mod.

Yeah, it sounds much worse out of context.

Here's the full quote, from this transcript, for anyone interested:

Mark: Yeah, so I think that that’s quite possible. And I do think that there is this cycle that goes on where, you know, within a society, it’s not just the government that has power. There are certain people who, in these culturally elite positions— and, you know, journalists, TV news anchors— who are the people who people broadly trust? They’re not all in government. A lot of people in other positions— it’s like, who are the people that people look to?

I think that basically it needs to shift for the internet age. And I think a lot of the people who people looked to before, they’re kind of realizing, hey, they weren’t super honest about a lot of these issues that we faced. And I think that’s partially why social media isn’t a monolithic thing. It’s not that people trust Facebook or X; they trust the creators and the voices that they feel like are being authentic and giving them valuable information on there. So there’s, I think, going to be just this whole new class of creators who basically become the new cultural elites that people look at and say, “Okay, these are the people who give it to me straight.” And I think that that’s— that’s a thing that is— maybe it’s possible because of social media. I think it’s also just the internet more broadly. I think podcasting is obviously a huge and important part of that, too.

I mean, I don’t know to what extent you feel like you got to be large because of social media, or just because it’s the podcasting platforms that you used, but I think that this is a very big sea change in terms of who are the voices that matter. And what we do is we try to build a platform that gives people a voice, but there’s this wholesale generational shift in who are the people who are being listened to. And I think that that’s a very fascinating thing that is going on, because I think that’s what’s going on here. It’s not just the government and people saying, “Hey, we want a very big change here.” I think it’s just a wholesale shift in saying, we just want different people who we actually trust, who are actually going to tell us the truth, and not give us the bullshit opinions that you’re supposed to say, but like the type of stuff that I would actually— when I’m sitting in my living room with my friends, the stuff that we know is true. Who are the people who have the courage to actually just say that stuff? I don’t know. I think that whole cultural elite class needs to get repopulated with people who people actually trust.

This is so disappointing. I voted for her largely because of the things she said in this Urbanist article:

“To be honest, I would say for a while I was really reluctant to consider additional options besides single family housing, and this has been a real journey of education,” Moore told The Urbanist. “And, and so I’ve really moved away from that. And I’ve also been really glad that the state pushed us. So many people were really kind of NIMBYish in this regard. And we weren’t going to make any progress unless the state stepped in. So the passage of 1110 has created the ability for us to do the work that needs to be done.”

“The last article that I read was The Urbanist article about various options. At that point, it seemed like Alternative 5 was the one that had the most variety and integration and scale to it. But, you know, now people have been talking about an Alternative 6. And I certainly think that we ought to include the Alternative 6 in the comp plan for study. So I’m not in a position to say yay or nay, I don’t know enough. But I think five and six are certainly where I would be leaning.”

To clarify the last part, Alternative 5 was the biggest density increase included in the city's options, and Alternative 6 was a proposal by the public to go even further. Really sad to see her going full NIMBY now. I'll be sending her an email later today.