
The NIMBY War Against MicronFeb 27
a chip company wants to bring 50,000 jobs to syracuse. but mountains of paperwork, 'endangered bats,' and nimbys from literally california have added years to the timeline
Mar 21, 2025

Thursday, DoorDash announced a partnership with Klarna, which will allow its customers to pay with Klarna's Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) option. Predictably, the discourse exploded online, immediately organizing into two camps: communists convinced the deal was essentially one of the four horseman of the Trump/Elon/Techbro apocalypse — shrieking that the collaboration was a “uniquely terrifying proposition” in a “dystopian capitalist hellscape” (I'm quoting this verbatim) that would essentially usher in an unstoppable wave of debt slavery — and on the other side, shitposters who thought it was funny.
Look, we know — normally this is where you'd get 2,000 words on startups working on supersoldier tech, exploring a stablecoin bank, or why founders should get their companies out of Delaware (like, yesterday). But it’s Friday, and financing burrito limousines with Klarna is inspiring meme artists at a historic level. We’d actually be doing you a disservice by not sharing them.