yeah I guess I was making an only tangentially related complaint - not denying that various bad nerds have real power or that they’re really nerds, just that there’s a flavor of reaction to newly powerful shitty nerds that I think is overgeneralizing/overcorrecting

yeah we’re several years into “nerds suck actually” being a common talking point in online spaces, and at least at first that was 100% “I, a nerd, can recognize the nerd-specific forms of sucking” and now I’m like… maybe some of the people saying this are football players and cheerleaders actually

people may be tempted to choose sexy murder poets over boringly pleasant bureaucrats, but I think they are unlikely to spring for not-very-sexy murder engineers

I don’t know anything about what works for running in particular but Scissor Sisters “Ta-Dah” is my album rec for any and all purposes

whaaaaaaaat this is basically erasing every Sunday school teacher at my temple growing up lol and this was at the largest congregation in the Bay Area? Not someplace you’d have to go out of your way to find!

there should just be an impact fee to fund affordable (or public) housing that is uniform across construction types! or ideally, in a world without Prop 13, an ad valorem tax)

I really hate IZ requirements that only apply above a certain number of units. It encourages sprawl and reinforces classist assumptions about where low-income people should live. I understand why midsize projects are exempt but IZ is a flawed policy to begin with

yet another for the “forgetting gay people exist” file:

I blame Frank Lloyd Wright, who was a weirdo utopian and also his buildings are mid

Glee is the millennial generation’s equivalent of the concert at Altamont Speedway: it captured the ethos of a generation but also it was a terrible idea executed terribly and people died