jackzilla retweeted
nithya raman's colleagues on the city council don't like her because she has correctly counseled them to not oppose housing developments that will win in court anyway
#LosAngelesMayor
Politico: Nithya Raman is facing “a full-on, multiple-person verbal assault” from her City Council colleagues, not one of whom has endorsed her.
If Raman wins, her ambitious agenda may depend on her ability to persuade a council majority to go along.
politico.com/news/2026/10/20…
I clocked this mid movie too
yes.
she is also very clearly anxious/codependent/devoted in a way that makes it easy for partners to take advantage of her
& she is an aquarius (i clocked this mid-movie) - which lends credence to her "it can run any test" wording being a consequence of her future-oriented mindset, not an intentional manipulation
reminds me a lot of the family visit episodes of 'the bachelor' in which the illusion of the show is invariably shattered by watching parents be absolutely terrified of what their kid is doing to themselves
(with the exception of 'the golden bachelor')
one of the achievements of 'survivor' is that every family visit is 100% enthusiastic, and i was shocked to find that 'love island' family visits dodge this too. they can follow along live, so they too can be seduced by the narrative the editors sell - about their own kids.
her running and getting wiped out is way better for the democratic party brand than her not running
her running and winning would also be good for the democratic party brand because there's no way for her to win w/o publicly reckoning with her failures (see: biden 2020)
if i was her i would not run because i think she will lose and losing sucks and she's already rich and can do other stuff. she could've run for california governor and saved us from that c-tier primary lmao
ive been saying this for so long it's a big reason i think i could never run for anything
im too militantly atheist to run the GOAT georgist rhetoric: "God made the land for the people"
jackzilla retweeted
Abundance usually gets explained as a list of problems: zoning, permits, licensing, slow approvals.
Here’s what we'd actually get if we fixed them:
Lunch costs $4, like it does in Japan and Singapore. Most US cities require three or four separate sinks, which makes a kitchen under 200 square feet nearly impossible.
Anyone can open an owl cafe or a vegan lesbian bookstore. Japan is full of tiny, oddly specific businesses run by one or two people. They survive because small spaces are cheap and enough people live close enough to walk in.
A room in a big city for $400 a month. These buildings housed millions of low-income and older Americans until cities banned most of them by the 1980s.
A three-bedroom apartment you can stay in after you have a kid. US codes require two staircases in buildings over three stories, so family-sized units only fit on the corners. Most of the world allows one staircase.
A new electric car for about $10,000. China sells these globally. Americans can't buy it.
A government so dependable it's boring. When a loved one dies, you report it once instead of to every agency.
We can decide to make it happen here.
The full list has 16 things, from taco trucks on every corner to no more pandemics. I wrote this to also announce that today is DC Abundance's official launch!
If you’re in DC, come celebrate and see the G.O.A.T. Derek Thompson speak!
jackzilla retweeted
Man I’m genuinely so proud of what we’ve accomplished with Lucky 7s
I wrote this loose project plan for the project in late 2023.
We’ve always believed that the community needed a central, trusted group that can execute in all areas: Events, technology, player sponsorships, and soon: content. A group that is independent, grassroots, and passionate about re-investing its success back into the scene.
The economics change when you have a group who truly enjoys this work and has no investors to answer to. The community does have money they want to spend, and when we learn there’s a group who can be trusted to multiply that value back into the scene, I do think we can become the first long term sustainable Melee org with S tier execution in all categories that can exist as a strong backbone for the scene for the good times and bad.
Thank you to everybody who’s trusted us and supported us, I don’t take the responsibility lightly. The community has been burnt so many times.
From early day discussions with @0degreewaveland and us chatting in 2022 about feeling we could do it, but thinking the barriers were too tall to climb and then @plushVG joining the team before we even really got started.
To @spotdodge_shine and @ossify37 letting us kick off the org by sending them to Genesis X and @Freezus304 being our first full time sponsored player.
To all of the Steven’s Melee supporting our grand efforts and participating in Breakfast’s early rendition Full House tournaments and @nycmelee for being such a supporting and innovative scene.
To the players from Full House 2025 who trusted a bunch no names to invite them to a mansion and host and intimate wildly ambitious invitational for a weekend @iBDWSSBM @moky_dokie @LiquidHbox @TempoAxe @ZainNaghmi @C9Mang0 @LilTrickshot @n0ned @TrifSmash @SaltSSB @s00nsay @jakedirado @arJunebug @AuraSSBM @KrudoKyle and especially @NotAklo and @DarkGenex for believing in us from the start and putting their neck on the line vouching for our legitimacy. And of course, to @g0shine @ssbm_Horde @findthatyeti_ @beta @josh_fti for being so so essential to making the event happen.
To all the fresh faces and VIPs and commentators @ViciousVish @epengu @jackzilla (and so many more)
And to the latest era of signing @s00nsay @Rap1238727 @kurothearbiter and our Lucky Stats users, subscribers, and all the devs who came before to build the foundations that make it all possible @Fizzi36 @UnclePunch_ @rwing_aitch @jmlee337 @startgg @iphone194629174
All these tags are engagement bait as fuck but I truly appreciate all the collaboration over the years. Thank you.
We have so much more planned and excited to continue this journey with yall. Long live Lucky 7s :)
Building management is a real job with real costs and labor associated that should be paid for. Even if these units sold or became public housing, these bills need to be paid. Constricting market forces via price ceilings is worse than simply taxing and redistributing wealth.
These NYC apartments are standing empty, not because the owners don't want to rent them, but because rent stabilization laws prohibit them from charging enough to earn back the costs of necessary repairs.
My latest for @WSJFreeEx