Shoegazer

Like one guy prioritizes housing the homeless and transportation, but the plans are vague. Whereas another guy has very specific transportation goals, and that's it. And maybe another guy wants to create more affordable housing and healthcare, but also wants to give a bajillion more dollars to cops.

Perfection is the killer of all joy and all that, but this is shit is annoying.

If the easement is extinguished and the plan goes through, Westside could create more than 3,000 homes in Northeast Park Hill, 75% of which will be market rate, and the rest will be income-restricted. The area would boast the fourth largest park in the metro area, and the developer would fund that. Buildings could be between four and 12 stories high, depending on their location on the site.

If this measure does not pass, it’s possible that Westside would sit on the land, and it would remain vacant as it has since 2018. The company could also run a golf course on the site, essentially making the land inaccessible to all but fee-paying golfers.

Keyword is here "could" create more than 3000 homes. But the article states

This second part of the measure doesn’t actually do much. It’s basically a way for the architects of this measure to communicate to the public what Westside plans to do. There is nothing for voters to allow, beyond the city extinguishing the easement.

Looks like another case of capitalists trying to use progressive language to trick the public. There's no clause in the vote that mandates the developer build anything.

Also, the city and developers are saying the land must be primarily used for golf if the contract is preserved, but the opponents say it's a lie and it can be used for anything as long as it sticks to the "open space" principles of the contract

Most bizarre shit ever. I don’t think I’ve ever listened to a homily from this guy where I didn’t come out like :jesse-wtf: at the end

He said that Jesus being hungry could be seen as the devil trying to tempt him with the sins of gluttony, sloth, and lust because Jesus is thinking about his needs and want to eat

He then said “sometimes we’re compelled to eat otherwise we become hungry or get sick, and we think we know everything about ourselves which is pride.” He then equated being starving and eating to going on social media and wanting to be popular

The biggest drawback is that you have to rely that the manufacturer is ethical and isn't loading your shit with bloatware/spyware, which, lol. I suppose one benefit is that, theoretically, they can spend more time and resources on designing a laptop instead of licenses for windows, but I remember reading somewhere that Microsoft eats up market share by providing their OS for free for PC manufacturers. Is that still true?

I'm not currently looking for one, but I am curious about them. For my use case, it would be mostly light programming, web browsing, movies and videos, photo editing, and light gaming. Doesn't make sense for me to shell out $1000 for some spyware linux junk when I could just buy some used 2015 windows laptop and install a distro on it

It’s never celebrated/observed on the same day unlike your birthday or Jesus’ birthday (I know it’s not really the 25th of December, but it’s always celebrated in the 25th).

People are just mourning Jesus’ death on a random day just because it’s Friday lol