Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
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Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
you can have abundant free parking everywhere, or you can have a livable environment. you cannot have both; it is mathematically impossible. www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/01...
Housing being the theory of everything is so spot on, when many of my friends who want families, want to start that business, want to make art, want to get a pet, but they can't because they're worried about rent or where or how they'd live because finding housing is that difficult.
This is one of the most explicit examples you'll ever see of "the people who annoy me the most, personally, also happen to be the nation's biggest political problem." The quintessential reactionary centrist maneuver.
Twitterās gone. thereās a residual entity there built around crypto pumps and muscle memory and Elonās willingness to keep on shoveling, but as a vital force itās spent.
Its impossible to know what is happening exactly with Missing Trump but a reasonable interpretation of the available info is he had a stroke or mini stroke and is slurring his speech and doesn't want to be seen in public in that condition.
Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse š¤ āIt could happen at any timeā
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
It was a mistake to tolerate homeopathy and other forms of medical quackery
MAHAās central thesis is that modern medicine is bad, unless itās gear
there's a sort of complicated dynamic going on where it's both true that progressive groups and activists are unfairly blamed by a lot of centrists for political developments since 2020, and where said groups use said unfair blame as an excuse to avoid any kind of introspection.
I think itās so awesome this has broken containment
āAgent of the government empowered to use violence in its name to enforce its lawsā is a pretty old invention, actually. This is what Iām talking about, this is just like magical thinking: you need *someone* to maintain and exercise the stateās monopoly on force. Itās literally unavoidable, sorry!
(((Mexico)))
I think a lot of people would prefer the literal end of the world to a life of risk, uncertainty, and grave responsibility.
what if nativism, but leftisty
I derive enjoyment from getting generative models to break in hilarious ways, unclear if that qualifies as its own form of art
zero sum thinking pervades the entire political spectrum thatās what makes the abundance critique so compelling
Calvinists go to church instead of subjecting the rest of us to your guilt, thank you
itās kind of annoying how complaining about transplants has become the new hipster xenophobia
pain (I have no AC)
The Kant Car
I do think it's worth pointing out that housing policy wonks have long pointed out that in balanced housing markets you don't need subsidies for the 80% AMI band. It's somewhat frustrating to be proven correct on this with the clear negative impacts to non-profit housing orgs.
8 kids meeting up at Taco Bell after school. When this Taco Bell was remodeled, it triggered the parking minimums in force at that time, 1 car stall per 50 sf of dining room space. Thus, they had to shrink the dining area and become a drive thru. 5 drive thrus built in 1 mile due to this law
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a āvaccine skeptic.ā The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. Thereās video of him in 2023 saying that thereās no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
thatās right bsky.app/profile/theo...
This is America God damn it
not the first person to make this observation but its rules that the "i wont let my body temple be defiled by putting seed oils or processed food in it" people and the "let me go behind the gym to inject these steroids i bought from a guy i met here" people have merged into the same group.
Unclear how anyone can look at the totality of disadvantage MFH ownership has relative to rental MFH & ownership SFH ā financing, construction defect, building code ā and simply declare that the current production of MFH rental studios in double loaded corridor buildings to simply be meeting demand.
Congestion pricing is actually the perfect example here. Trump declared that ācongestion pricing is deadā (and that he is the king) Hochul and the MTA told him to fuck off, and now, more than 6 months later, congestion pricing is still alive and working exactly as planned
in other words, we are facing a nascent autocracy with many of the features of a collapsing autocracy. we can win. but we will need to win more than once to consolidate democracy in America. and we will need lockstep partisanship to do so.
Itās not new in Los Angeles lol
I think the more you try to use genAI to deliver work product the more obvious it is that your personal skills still matter, although not necessarily the same skills as would matter without genAI
Need people to understand that literally the only lever here is public opinion
This one is an absolute banger imo "Central Valley state legislators must support SB 79, to fix the broken system that allows wealthy coastal cities to pass off their responsibilityā and forces our Central Valley communities to be overrun with traffic, pollution, and sprawling developments."
Our operatives are everywhere. Vision Zero is no longer asking. Comply.
I think this take is generalizable to all modern social media tbh
Seeing the lead strategist for Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign saying Democrats need to abolish ICE and nationalize SpaceX should be a wakeup call to Chuck Schumer. But it won't be.
"I'm not dead! I'm not dead!!", I continue to insist as I slowly make fewer public appearances and transform into a ghost.
The āIs Trump deadā thing is amazing because it turns his health and frailty and physical degradation into a compelling meme
High-income neighborhoods think that low-income people moving in will lower property values. Low-income neighborhoods think that high-income people moving in will raise rents. We have a class segregation consensus.
A former mayor of Santa Monica says it best: gentrification is too much money chasing too little housing
magic money theory
They should make a chocolate chip cookie without the chocolate, which is the worst part.
Check back in 2027
the thing is that most of them are replacement level evil, if you got rid of them they'd just sub another one in, but RFK is genuinely incredibly dangerous in his own right as a pusher of an ideology somewhat separate from the admin though equally bad.
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sometimes I wonder if the political fight is harder, thereās more of a stigma around buses than trains IME
You have to physically separate the bus lanes to get the Sam benefits, which is still much cheaper, but basically the same political fight.
You should absolutely do it because the ones who are mad will call them.
smh another elite professor sneering from the ivory tower
In a "lot of ruin in a nation" sense, it's remarkable the US took an undeniable ~1% GDP hit from tariffs, fell to our lowest year-on-year growth pace since 2022, & we're still growing faster than any other G7 country (tho more growth drags coming as tariffs & deportations worsen)
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
[BILL ALERT] AB 253, which will speed up the approval process for new homes by allowing home builders to hire a licensed and certified third-party reviewer, has passed the Senate Appropriations committee and heads to the Senate floor! Learn more here: cayimby.org/legislation/...
RFK Jr. taps his top deputy, Jim OāNeill, to be the new CDC director. Both men appear to wear skinny ties from Otaa. Otaa's ties are made in China from microfiber, a kind of plastic that, under the right conditions, can migrate to your balls.
What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.
my objection to AI and LLMs, such as it is, has far less to do with the actual technology and far more to do with the utterly ratshit ethics of the majority of AI corporate executives
Dem overperformance in Iowa has been higher than elsewhere, there may be a real shift on the ground there
His name comes up every other page in Middle Class Radicalism in Santa Monica
On or before September 12
I at once think city councils should have dramatically more members and far fewer powers. City councilmembers should basically be solely in the business of constituent services and city governments shouldn't have powers above naming streets.
[BILL ALERT] SB 79, which broadly legalizes more homes near high quality transit stops, has passed the Assembly appropriations committee! The bill now goes to the Assembly floor, then back to the Senate for concurrence. Learn more: cayimby.org/legislation/...
"how am i going to explain gay people to my kids" my man I was on a hike with my family and my wife mentioned "grizzly man," I had to explain grizzly man to my kids. you need to get onto my fucking level. we must have talked about grizzly man for forty five minutes and i felt every one
Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of the biggest scandal of the Obama administration.
Gotta say Joni deciding to pull her objections to Hegseth to spare herself a primary challenge only to not even run for re-election is incredibly on brand for a Very Serious National Security Republican
Let's get to the results. SF only issued warnings for the first several months of the program, along with putting up plenty of warning signage. This had a *huge* result! On the 33 speed camera locations, drivers traveling >11 mph over the speed limit fell ~75%! That was just with warnings!
Negatively polarizing oneself into a corncob
loser ideology stays losing
If you donāt like NIMBYs stopping California from building housing near transit, call your CA Assemblymember RIGHT NOW and ask them to SUPPORT SB 79. unlike in DC where the fate of bills is often pre-ordained, calls actually matter at the state level findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov
It also reinforced my conviction that degrowther environmentalism hasnāt reckoned with the possible futures that the solar revolution unlocks.
These calls *actually matter* and they very much can change state legislatorsā votes.
If "those districts/states are red no matter what," why are incumbents like Ernst retiring. For that matter, how did we get two Democratic senators in Georgia and (briefly) a Democratic senator from Alabama.
More retirement news: Conservative Wisconsin justice Rebecca Bradley will NOT seek reelection next spring. Liberals (as you all know now) have a 4-3 majority on this high-stakes supreme court. This is their shot to go up 5-2, in April.
I was on @podsaveamerica.crooked.com this week talking about housing near public transit, Californiaās housing crisis in general & our legislation to allow more housing near transit (SB 79). Go check it out
I'm glad that people are coming around to the fact that Democrats like these are just the Republican Party's unpaid interns. They're the reason your city is a punchline with your conservative relatives. They're the reason TX and FL get new Congressional seats while California and NY lose them.
Democrats picked up another Iowa state senate seat this week! Doomers follow @boltsmag.org and @taniel.bsky.social challenge
Doomers: The 2026 election doesn't matter, Republicans are just going to rig the whole thing anyway Various red state republican incumbents: I'm just going to quit now because if I run in 2026 I'm going to get absolutely killed
Goods prices are rebounding amidst the trade warāexcluding food and energy, prices are up at the fastest pace since the COVID inflation surge, and increases in durable goods prices are currently larger than at any point from 1995-2020.
Trump take LEGO www.404media.co/lego-stops-s...
You keep insulting people but youāve made it clear you donāt understand the policy tradeoffs that were in play. Those in glass houses etc. bsky.app/profile/maxd...
You: policy tradeoffs donāt exist, and if you think they do you hate the poor
I wrote about how Imelda Padilla accidentally told the truth about what "local control" over land use policy actually means in practice: replacing actual planning with capricious, case-by-case decision making by elected officials. www.maxdubler.com/blog/2025/8/...
more specifically I would like to know what quantum field underpins the second substance and how it interacts with the others
There is a VERY strong reason to think that moving from private to public insurance will lead to political pressure that keeps premiums artificially low and incentivizes building in the riskiest areas. (See federal flood insurance)
Nobody wants to come out and be the one to say that fast swaths of the WUI are uninsurable, or at the very least require incredibly higher rates
I love Hackers (1995) because the depiction is so laughably bad, backed by a quality soundtrack
relatedly: if youāre worried about this, i strongly encourage you to seek out and attend a rally wherever you live on labor day. it will give you a much better perspective on how many of us there are vs. how many of them in a way that isnāt just abstract math.
This WSJ article is wild for many reasons, but the funniest thing is the billionaire heiress complaining about her brothers getting a larger share of the family fortune when she is the most financially irresponsible heir
These people are risking their entire livelihood to do this.
