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I live and work in Encinitas, and I like to talk about housing a lot, transportation and biking from time to time, California and Encinitas politics, and cannabis.

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An Iranian girls school that took a direct hit on the first day of the war had a colorful presence both in satellite images and online, a Reuters investigation found reut.rs/4dgaRC6

12.03.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

I see he's just saying this out loud these days.

12.03.2026 15:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Putting a bunch of meth addicted freaks in charge of everything is not turning out great for those of us that aren't meth addicted freaks. Honestly I don't know how much more you could possibly advertise outright evil than this and be more proud of it, it's nuts.

12.03.2026 15:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The mainstreaming of cage fighting over the last 2 decades has never sat well with me, and I take this as yet further confirmation of my ongoing hostility to it.

12.03.2026 15:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The sound of a few hundred monkey paws all curling at once.

12.03.2026 15:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Extraordinary and prolonged March heatwave to break records and decimate mountain snowpack across U.S. Southwest, including much of California - Weather West March 11, 2026 - Daniel Swain - "Winter" 2025-2026 warmest on record across most of Western U.S., including SoCal & Sierra Nevada Well, now it's official: Winter (Dec-Feb) 2025-2026 was the warmest on record across the majority of the American West, and a top-3 warmest winter nearly everywhere that it didn't quite cinch the record. That includes nearly all of the Colorado #

Weather West update on a prolonged and very likely record-breaking March heatwave in the western U.S. that will begin Thursday in some areas & actually not reach its peak for another 7-10 days in some spots. This forecast is truly extraordinary for March.

11.03.2026 21:49 πŸ‘ 173 πŸ” 83 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 16
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We study pandemics, and the resurgence of measles is a grim sign of what’s coming The US eliminated measles in 2000, but the disease is once again circulating.
12.03.2026 14:34 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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Puuuco.
Fishback is tapping into an increasingly radicalized generation of Republicans. In December, the conservative Manhattan Institute found that 31 percent of Republicans under 50 identify their own views as racist, and 25 percent say their views are antisemitic.
For those over 50, it's only 4 percent for each.
The same survey showed that a majority of Republican men under 50 think that the Holocaust either didn't happen or was exaggerated.
Last week, College Republicans of America appointed a new political director, Kai Schwemmer, who is a Fuentes crony and Fishback admirer. "James fishback has trustworthy physiognomy, Byron Donalds' on the other hand is deceitful and suspicious," he posted on X. Fishback doesn't represent the mainstream of the Republican Party today, but he's showing us one vision of a post-Trump Republican future.

Share full article Puuuco. Fishback is tapping into an increasingly radicalized generation of Republicans. In December, the conservative Manhattan Institute found that 31 percent of Republicans under 50 identify their own views as racist, and 25 percent say their views are antisemitic. For those over 50, it's only 4 percent for each. The same survey showed that a majority of Republican men under 50 think that the Holocaust either didn't happen or was exaggerated. Last week, College Republicans of America appointed a new political director, Kai Schwemmer, who is a Fuentes crony and Fishback admirer. "James fishback has trustworthy physiognomy, Byron Donalds' on the other hand is deceitful and suspicious," he posted on X. Fishback doesn't represent the mainstream of the Republican Party today, but he's showing us one vision of a post-Trump Republican future.

12.03.2026 14:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’d argue the straits are dire.

11.03.2026 23:55 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
Map of the bab al-mandab

Map of the bab al-mandab

Can't remember who, but someone on here was saying they didn't know of many "Straights", and there is another one nearby, the bab al-mandab. You'll never guess which country has allies on it's northern tip.

12.03.2026 01:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

its only been like a week and this is already one of the stupidest things anyone's ever posted

12.03.2026 00:03 πŸ‘ 3852 πŸ” 540 πŸ’¬ 80 πŸ“Œ 23

another thing Trump has done is completely fuck up counterterrorism efforts. got a piece on this @prospect.org coming tomorrow

12.03.2026 00:40 πŸ‘ 731 πŸ” 81 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

tough look for a man with a line of antiperspirant deodorant

12.03.2026 00:31 πŸ‘ 7279 πŸ” 1121 πŸ’¬ 287 πŸ“Œ 84

HUGE.

11.03.2026 22:32 πŸ‘ 4631 πŸ” 910 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 17

Sometimes I see people on here complaining about zoning that allows for hotels or vacation rentals, and IDK, I do understand the competing resource usage of tourism being a problem. But also, I like for my family to be able to visit once in a while, would be great if that could happen reasonably.

12.03.2026 00:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I am guided by the light of the stove

12.03.2026 00:33 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Automobile prices!

12.03.2026 00:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

releasing oil from the strategic petroleum reserve to cover the easily foreseeable consequences of my actions

11.03.2026 23:28 πŸ‘ 645 πŸ” 88 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 0

Turns out it is also not an effective strategy against viruses.

11.03.2026 18:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

me and the other scheming viziers are wearing shoes gifted to us by the king that are way too big. we look ridiculous. the whole court is laughing at us behind our backs. honestly this is a pretty low point for us, the scheming viziers

11.03.2026 15:18 πŸ‘ 4266 πŸ” 816 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 10

New paper showing that much of the apparent success of protein language models in predicting mutational effects is a mirage: These models mostly memorize sites. 1/
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

11.03.2026 15:18 πŸ‘ 143 πŸ” 58 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

As Sun Tzu said, you must waste your ordinance on pointless expeditions to prove to the enemy how hard you are.

11.03.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We thought we had it beaten, and we did! Until we collectively decided "You know what, maybe measles deserves a win. Maybe our kids deserve terrible things, I know, I'll start listening to RFK Jr."

11.03.2026 07:18 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Reading the wikipedia article about this disease almost brought me to tears. And at a population level, it's 100% preventable.

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"I understand the meaning of the words you are saying but it doesn't make any sense" is such a brutal statement from a judge.

10.03.2026 20:36 πŸ‘ 177 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

Just in case people know, Kobe Bryant's defense lawyers are responsible for inventing the "this rape victim only accused him so she could become famous" defense, which has continued to plague our society in the decades since. Plus, you know, he raped somebody. Fuck Kobe.

11.03.2026 02:25 πŸ‘ 760 πŸ” 96 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 12

Schiff!

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