No response, lol
No response, lol
Austin simply changed its zoning laws in 2022 and rent has dropped 7.5 each year since.
It's 2025, they dropped even more from the 2024 price. Anyway you've dodged the question, how are you getting the power to implement your dream?
With nothing but a policy change Austin rents have dropped 7.5% each year, they're now below pre pandemic levels. Unlike your fantasy that you have no way of accomplishing
Cool let me know when you get the political power that would let you nationalize housing and "abolish landlords". Meanwhile in the real world cities like Austin have allowed more building of units and rent has fallen
Yup. The best way to make landlords have less power is by reducing the scarcity of their assets. You'd think leftist inclined people would be all over this.
"Hey this policy is actually bad for everyone, all the experts agree" *unhinged ranting* it happens everything you discuss rent control
Literally every economist, slat water, freshwater, etc agrees that rent control is the second worst thing to do to a city after bombing. Yet it won't die
A Hallmark of leftism seems to be screaming that the guy 1% to the right of you is actually a conservative.
One of the big reasons I'm a YIMBY is they're one of the few groups on the left that have managed to actually achieve some goals the past 5 years.
Do I think it's cringe? Yes. Do I think it brings a good chance of winning? Also yes.
If the American public did not want to be treated this way they should not have voted the way they did the past decade.
Lol this comment on the Yglesias index immediately proved it right.
He's still angry tweeting about Biden despite Trump being president for half a year now.
Nate is the premier example of how rich Americans had never had any authority figures limit their lives for decades, and thus went nuts when the government said "hey, real bad plague out there, maybe stay inside for a bit".
something that happened to low class girls who were "asking for it" . America only finally started to clamp down on sexual harassment / assault when they realized the middle / upper class "good girls" were constantly dealing with it from men from the same classes. (2/2)
Having posted some negative comments about meToo, I'd now like to start that meToo was absolutely warranted and Zoomers cannot conceive of the pre meToo world. Probably it's biggest accomplishment was making people aware harassment was not just (1/?)
One of the takeaways from me too was that Hollywood was the exception in harassment, not every industry was that horrifyingly bad.
It's why almost all dating has moved to apps. Those are the one and only place where you have absolute consent to flirt.
Again I am not supporting work place harassment. But also Americans need to loosen up a bit.
There's something i call the Yglesias index. MattY wrote multiple articles to get people to vote for Bernie. IRL he is left of 95% of Americans. On here he is a fascist conservative. The Yglesias index states that anyone incapable of admitting mattY is left wing can be safely ignored.
Even if you successfully ask your coworker out for dinner and they are happy to be asked and interested, there is a risk someone else saw and is not happy. Risk reward ratio means this never happens anymore.
The much higher social cost of a misstep + everyone has a camera in their pocket are to blame for the decline: bsky.app/profile/midn...
Anyway I'd like to assure leftists that liberals did try and do things like improve rural healthcare and Internet access. They have not become left wing overnight and in fact hated us even more for doing so.
You can get all sorts of things to poll. well when you ask basic questions "would you support universal health care". When you ask questions with nuance, that's when support collapses "would you support universal health care being paid by your taxes"
Probably the biggest disconnect American leftist seem to have is not understanding rural conservatives are this dysfunctional and not one philosophical conversation away from supporting land back and UBI.
Lol I got in trouble at the school library for reading that version. Had to get another copy to find out how it ended
But this is also why dating has moved over to apps, the one place where you have undeniable consent to flirt with someone. The risk reward of flirting with someone in your office, your friend group, your run club, simply isn't worth the chance of your prospects being slashed.
To be totally clear the pre meToo world had a lot more workplace harassment and abuse than we would tolerate today and its removal is a good thing.
This corresponded with the rise of "cancel culture", previously you had to do something pretty bad for damage to occur to your career, now you could be recorded at any given time straying slightly over standard colleague interactions and find your professional prospects diminished.
Not to blame everything on phones, but I think you can see an increase in the middle class exhibiting "proper" behavior at all times once everyone had a good quality camera in their pockets at all times.
Not to blame everything on phones, but I think you can see an increase in the middle class exhibiting "proper" behavior at all times once everyone had a good quality camera in their pockets at all times.
i'm basically approaching 2026/28 as the Left's United 93 election. if we don't try to take the plane back they're gonna crash it, and a lot of the stuff you have taken for granted for basically your entire life (e.g. the civil rights acts) will go away. if that's not enough to convince em....
Glad to hear a commercial for pants is on the top of the esteemed senator priorities
If you said you were an atheist you got looked at like you had three heads even in blue states! No one got married by their friends or at the public library, it was done via a priest!
this can be filed under exhibit number 400 of Zoomers. not understanding just how conservative America used to only 25 years ago. Our 2025 world is much less religious than the 2000 world. Going to church every Sunday, getting married in a church was far more common.
A crazy stat I read about Victorian Britain once was that if you lived in a city you either had a servant(s) or you were a servant.
Hell not just the wealthy. The US middle class got mad that they had to start paying their burrito taxi drivers real wages.
Ken is the master of "Mr Trump Who I Do Not Support" (Mt WIDNS) posting.
It never matters because they only give a 2 minute "my bad" talk the next day after 6 hours the night before talking about "has his brain melted". If only they kept up that energy for the current president
As someone who has had a military VIP treatment, VIP means "hey you don't have to hot rack"
And his daughters still (rightly) blame him for 2016
"No you don't understand! I told a lefty liberal to kill himself because he wasn't a socialist like me, and I'm the victim here". Imagine saying these words out loud and expecting the world to treat you normally.
Incredible potential pfp btw
One day later service has resumed but no announcement or explanation. Very odd
likely*
These files are auto download, and I only see blank spaces for a day max (also like where my auto downloader failed).
Just looked at a file I had of past bulk TLEs downloads. Nothing like this before (though I suppose it's possible past pauses occurred and TLEs were published later, obviously an observation blackout would be even more serious).
Seems like it's still down, 72 hours later, very odd
can someone explain to me why these guys are so obsessed with Biden’s decline to the point that they’re ignoring the even-more-severe decline of the current president?
What I like about this essay is that it forthrightly disclaims any interest in electability concerns or political pragmatism. This is how I remember politics being done in my youth — progressive intellectuals would say stuff and people engaged in electoral politics would ignore them.
At this point he's probably gonna win
Pelosi and Schumer saving the economy in spring 2020 was probably the biggest political blunder of the 21st century. Hae they let it fail the myth of "Trump the money man" would finally have broken.
How do you beat a guy who says "here's my plan to shoot a kitten" but when you say "that guy's gonna shoot a kitten" the newspapers go "why are you lying about the threat to kittens"
The fact that the Media immediately went "oh project 2025, let's run articles on Dem fear mongering" was an early sign that things would go badly in November.
This is assuming she's come down from her post Dobbs ketamine high
Evergreen
Having a servant be even implicitly disrespectful to their station causes acute psychic damage to American rich people and I think that's a really underrated dynamic in why they went so insanely off the rails under Biden's economy and worked to tank it.
As I've said multiple times I think the ruling class's distress at the 2021-23ish economy was really reliant on that last category. You're super rich but suddenly you have to hire the immigrant nanny instead of the white au pair. The country club has to start hiring waiters with tattoos. Etc etc.
On the one hand if Zoomers want to be this stupid that's on them. On the other hand I have to live with these people. Every generation says this about the next one, but Millennials truly seem the final group with life skills.
A issue of the 21st century will be "how much are corporations allowed to take advantage of very stupid people" who are incapable of doing 20 minutes of Google research.
I'm not sure how sympathetic I feel when you can literally open Chase / Capital One accounts online. If you're dumb enough to store all your money in venmo that's on you.
Yeah I'm all for fresh blood but not living in said district (or near it) and not running cable ads makes me think this campaign is dead on arrival.
As much as I want to believe the midterms are 21 months away. That's plenty of time for meemaw to find another reason to blame for her lack of social security check
I say this is someone who wants left Wing policies to be passed, all those people who say "I would pay more for a burger if the employees were treated better" - they will not want to pay more. That is critical to understanding any left-wing policies in the future.
Unemployment makes some voters mad at you inflation makes all voters mad at you.
The next sane president will be terrified of inflationary policies, the next recession will be a Larry summers style recovery, better to damage the careers of a generation of Americans than risk inflation.
The most depressing part of Biden's loss is that he pursued the most left wing agenda possible, his economy increased wealth for the bottom quintile like no one has ever before. When this resulted in private burrito taxis getting more expensive, Americans rage knew no bounds.
I don't think judges will boil over until one day one of them is handcuffed and dragged out of their court room by DOGE. And even then only 50 / 50 odds.
An LLM is a powerful tool if you already are a good developer, it's kryptonite if you're new to programming.
Unfortunately the TRO was denied
The important thing is we told Holocaust Harris that Gaza was speaking now
update: it happened
the Republican party benefits from the existence of self-censoring facts: things which, if true, would require the press to abandon partisan neutrality as immoral. as this would offend the publisher's sensibilities, they cannot be true.
Me looking at my fidelity account this morning before market open
It's still two years till the next election. If Trump and Elon turn off Medicare / SS tommorow, meemaw has 21 months to forget / find a way to blame Dems for the checks she no longer gets.
PMC?
Too communist, best we can do is oligarchs
You see this with business insider and Bloomberg, wall street wants to make money so they need something that gives non partisan facts (and they'll pay for it).
I was told Holocaust Harris would be terrible for Gaza
Egg prices were just too high, we had no choice. Now to take a big sip of coffee and check what a dozen eggs are going for.
Yeah, the decline in marriage/ childbirth is driven by women with no college education not getting married at the rates they used to.
We did all these things and it made Americans hate Biden even more. The next Dem president (assuming we have one) will be a total inflation hawk.
Also housing costs have gone through the roof in the last 15 years.
To be clear it's your God given right to fuck around in your free time, leave the second the clock hits 5pm. But there is an opportunity cost here.
"My dad got promoted to X in Y years" Okay so you do what he did right, burn the midnight oil, learn new skills on your weekend, network and schmooze, you don't just fuck around your free time, right?
Not the first time I've posted about this, but a lot of the dynamics we see come from upper middle class kids who thought the universe was formed with their parents in their current positions. The thought that their parents grinded in school, at work, in their off time, simply does not permeate
Don't get me wrong, Americans work too hard! But you want a boat? Vacations to France? You're going to have to grind, it's how your parents got where they are.
There's a category of downwardly mobile americans who came from upper middle class parents. They aren't failsons, but they never grasped that their parents grinded to be in their current position. This group is overrepresented on social media so their opinions are overrepresented.
When some AP reporters post go fundmes after being arrested by ICE on dubious chargers I hope everyone remembers they got us into this mess because the Biden white house wasn't juicy enough.
It's a well dead horse, but can you imagine the media feeding frenzy if Clinton had a team who was following Nazis and hooking up servers to government computers.
It's helped by the fact that there are large parts of the government that the average person does not know of / see, and effects of their removal will not felt immediately. Means it's hard to stop them attacking USAID and the like.
In light of Elon's boys setting up email servers, something the NYT thought was very important back in 2015
Remember the time Trump's crew got in a fistfight at Arlington National Cemetery? The NYT doesn't either, they decided that wasn't an important story
Unfortunately the antivaxxers won
Also it was the final sign that Trump could do no wrong in the eyes of the media. Joe Biden stuttering in a debate was a month long feeding frenzy, Trump melting down ranting about eating dogs was a 36 hour story.
In all seriousness this is what might actually cause a DOGE / Trump fallout, when they finally get their mitts on a critical system and break it.
In hindsight social distancing kept hospitals from getting overwhelmed and we managed to work out the correct steroid cocktail to give people. The vaccine was delivered in record time. But things could easily have been much worse! If COVID has been a touch more deadly or we didn't isolate until May!
Also the federal government has fairly limited powers before you throw in the fact that it's half made up of Republicans with oppositional defiance disorders. The reason schools were closed for months, but bars for two weeks is simply the scope of federal powers.