Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 38mWell you can't blame him, he's a Republican, and as we all know only Democrats have free will. 010
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 23hYeah, Northeast electricity is no joke. Of course doesn’t help that, here in MA, Trump killed 3.2 GW of offshore wind that had been procured (along with a $300 million dollar electric cable factory) and the Hydro Quebec broke contract on our GW power deal bc of Trump’s trade war. So really f**k DJT 250
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 23hI’ve been on the “Susan Collins’ pain is coming” ever since Trump failed to extricate himself from Iran by heating season. There is only so much you can do vs your constituents’ hearing costs have tripled. 030
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 23hThe American Revolution was successful because of Washington’s preternatural ability to run away without getting caught and live to fight another day 050
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026We ditched our oil furnace for heating in 2023 and for hot water in 2025. We’re now 100% heat pump baby. 110
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Kemper Development is owned by the guy who said "I was a chemistry major in college so here is how climate change is wrong". They were also Tim Eyman's principal backers, so its safe to say they will always be on the wrong side of an issue. 2211
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026And in a sense Neoconservatives are very much Rawlsians, in that they believe in Maximin and the concept that economic freedom follows from political freedom and personal rights. The O.G. neocons, like Scoop Jackson, were big Labor/Trade Unionists. 2130
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It’s also ideologically consistent with like true old-school Neoconservativism. The ideas that personal conduct, virtue, and being the vanguard of human rights and democracy all align with his party realignment and goes with their history as right-Trostskites informed by Hannah Arendt. 2211
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026What infuriates me is that there is quite literally nothing more American than lots of immigrants cheering their a**es off for a college football team named the Texas Longhorns. And this is coming from a Buckeye who is very salty about that game. 120
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yeah, he’s not Chris so I think Pappas has this but he is still considered more “New Hampshire” GOP rather than national GOP which carries weight. 100
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026How is there anything more American than cheering for your college football team that is literally the Texas Longhorns? (Even though I’m salty about that loss as a Buckeye) 010
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Sununu name carries a lot of weight in NH and he’s considered fairly moderate. 130
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yes, but also rising expectations. My wife talks about babysitting babies when she was like 14 but that is unimaginable now (I am perhaps modestly salty about this, but it’s also bc my kid does not sleep - like 10:00 pm is a *good* night) 060
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Honestly (I think you have kids?) I’d look at the South Coast around New Bedford. Commuter rail into the city and you can school choice into like Marion or neighboring districts for your kids. And much much much more affordable housing while being on the upswing 020
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The NH Senate race has been giving me heartburn bc Sununu is a very strong recruit. But yeah, Ayotte is all talk little action. Mostly just keep on sucking off the unwillingness of Boston to build housing to fuel NH’s growth. 120
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Notice how all these failures are administrative and human-centered failures and have nothing to do with the utility and usefulness of ALPRs? We need MORE automated traffic enforcement to make our streets safer. 000
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026NH has been the race that’s been giving me heartburn. Sununu is the best GOP recruit this cycle, just thankfully he’s running in a non-helpful year and Pappas is moderately popular. 190
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I both agree but also think a perhaps better approach is a vehicle weight tax, particularly a progressive one, e.g. $1/lb below 4000lbs and $2.50/lb 4000 - 6500lb and $5.00/lb above 6500 lb. 060
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Ohhh can you elaborate/fill me in a bit? I love messy hospital about these sad little men. 010
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It’s like they prompted AI to make Ken Paxton propaganda in the Soviet Style. 060
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Well, that and because California made non-competes very difficult to enforce compared to Massachusetts, hence why it’s Silicon Valley and not Silicon Rt. 130. 370
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It’s amazing that I both (1) think this is a bad tax and bad idea and (2) that it should happen bc Tech owners all went crazy right-wing and need to be punished. 000
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Tbf, replacing workers with robots in most cases under most circumstances results in everyone having more money and free time. A robot is a tool, and tools are why we can build robots instead of scavenging dead animals on the savanna. 040
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It undermines fiscal situation while breading both resentment and entitlement. It’s why I like (alongside getting rid of small business deductions and 199A), among many reason, a VAT: if you want to cheat on your taxes, feel free, but you are still going to get hit with a tax you can’t escape. 020
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026And Tbf to MattY his pass-through (like lawyers, doctors, and other PMC type folks) don’t qualify for 199A and my bet is he probably pays into social security. 110
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026W2 earners by far carrying the heaviest tax burden. S-corps get the red carpet rolled: 199A, extra deductions, blatant cheating (e.g. why do so many pickups w/trailers at the boat ramp have a business name), avoiding payroll, etc. The IRS estimated 1/2 of the tax gap is cheating by pass-throughs. 181
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026And what is a story here? Is it something that happened and they are recounting, something they made up, an amalgamation? 020
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Unfortunately they then hire Rufo and Lehman guy (sp?/iirc) is “housing good, poor people bad, it’s your own fault if you get killed by police”. After Reidel decided to leave and she is about as economically conservative as you can get, I realized their modus operandi is right-wing social policy. 150
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I see you are not familiar with the deep lore bsky.app/profile/whst... 150
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026*A middle aged guy who enjoys Revolutionary Reenactment*: What did I do wrong? Someone needs to play the British! 010
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yeah but what if it was $1 million checks? The expected value says you should take it. *Quickly deletes my account as I get brigaded* 1170
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My reading here is that Verb and others are debating 2 different prospects: Verb is arguing for a contextual harm mitigation while others are arguing a deontological/moral case. 300
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Well duh grandkids are super-duper special cupcakes they love no matter what and you, their child, will always be that PITA who just wouldn’t go the f**k to sleep and smoked weed. 120
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I have a STEM degree and my life is writing emails (or tossing stuff in the ocean - I’ll let you guess which is more fun) 020
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Car dealerships delenda est. iirc about 1/2 of the tax gap is, according to the ITS itself, due to cheating by pass-throughs. 0120
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026His campaign both (1) definitely planted that article in Axios and (2) that is the most hilarious faceplant I’ve seen in a while. They thought they had Jack Smith dead-to-rights and instead they stepped on the biggest rake imaginable bc somehow Democrats got sports in the divorce. 021
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The evidence I’ve seen on campaigning effectiveness is the absolute best thing you can do is put out a yard sign, hand out yard signs to your friends and neighbors, and put them in public medians/right-of-ways. 120
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Making public education free appeals to the educated, urban, affluent voters who make up the Progressive movement but offers nothing to those whom choose to homeschool or the nation at large” See how stupid you sound? 131
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Jfc a real “so you hate pancakes” scenario. That is not what I said. I said Schumer is concerned about *winning control of the Senate*. There was never, ever any doubt Mamdani would win. The swing voter in Miami-Dade, or DFW, or AK doesn’t care about NYC. And that is what Schumer is focused on. 100
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026static.klipy.comWe'Re On A Mission From God Blues BrothersALT: We'Re On A Mission From God Blues Brothers 1150
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ah yes, bc intraparty contests over control of a mayorship (even an important one!) is the exact same as trying to gain control of the Senate. Oh wait, that’s sarcasm. 100
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Who do you think makes up “the DNC?” It’s all volunteers! I think everyone doesn’t understand the SNC is fundamentally made up of Evelyn Normielibs not scheming Rahm Emmamuels. 010
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026No, they don’t. They want as many Dems as possible in the House and Senate but Florida is fairly red and an expensive media market. Better to spend that money in TX, OH, hell even KS looks closer than FL right now. 6340
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026As a former denizen of LessWrong, something I found interesting about it epistemically was the “small-c conservative” nature of assuming you DONT know all the facts and could be wrong and then trying to address your underlying biases. Of course it became “well we are LESSWRONG this we are CORRECT” 010
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Oh thank god. Undoing one of their worst policies. Hopefully he’ll next announce an overhaul to the Town & Country Planning Act and enact the proposal that’s been floating around to rationalize Council rates to a uniform 1% property tax. 080
Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Don’t forget he ran a fake “mentorship” program to groom girls. He’s a sicko. 030
