@ReadThinkTweet2 @akpwoiw27 @zachweinberg If housing were cheap there would be no need for affordable housing programs. The root of all problems is unaffordable housing.
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Cesar Rodriguez
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@AlienDNA2020 @akpwoiw27 @zachweinberg It’s not individuals who will buy it. They will buy cheaper property and rebuild, get tax incentives for affordable housing, etc. in the end they pocket the profit while your grandma is forced to move from her 1 bedr so that she can pass $ on to you instead of the gov cronies
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All this does is push rich old people to move outside of NY as they get older, so we lose their tax revenue completely.
Does anyone think through basic incentives?
Bloomberg@business
Zohran Mamdani is proposing to raise NY's estate tax to 50% and have it kick in at $750,000 instead of more than $7 million bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@ReadThinkTweet2 @zachweinberg Right now the model is to collect from the working class via taxes on salary income way higher than investment income. It should be the reverse.
Lower or even eliminate taxes on salary and increase taxes on investments and assets.
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@AlienDNA2020 @zachweinberg Yeah, sure. Collect from the .05% who hold most wealth. Mamdani is fleecing middle class workers out of hard earned little they have. Property gets distressed and mega rich buy all of it. You will work to eat. Despite your parents sacrifice to give you a chance at upward mobility
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@ReadThinkTweet2 @akpwoiw27 @zachweinberg Why would billionaires buy an asset that gets taxed out of oblivion at 750k? Billionaires will not touch NYC real estate if you make it a terrible investment. Real estate will be just shelter for average Joe.
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@akpwoiw27 @AlienDNA2020 @zachweinberg But it’s what will happen. Billionaires will buy all the distressed property from middle class they are artificially deflating before swooping in. They will own everything, and Mamdani is trying to make it easy for them. Your kids will work to eat. 750k is middle class.
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@ReadThinkTweet2 @zachweinberg How old are you? And how much real estate do you own?
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@ReadThinkTweet2 @zachweinberg Far from a commie. The reality is young people have no chance because everything is skewed to cater to the old who hold most of the wealth.
Something has to give for the young to survive.
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@AlienDNA2020 @zachweinberg Yeah, commie. It’s a land grab for sure, but not to make life affordable for you. You will work to eat. Tax base departs - no more welfare. You will be dictated what type of housing you are allowed to occupy. While someone will own most of it and control it. It won’t be you.
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@enforcelawsNYC Cars can’t double park and pick up a cake.
Should we run over cyclist so people can double park?
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Bike lanes are bad for business.
News12BX@News12BX
PARKING PROBLEMS: Gladys Grijalva, who has run Sugargirl Bakery in Kingsbridge for 17 years, says sales have dropped about 60% since the city installed a two-way bike lane along the corridor in November. READ MORE: bit.ly/4sJNiX7 #Kingsbridge #News12BX
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@CaryKelly11 Those numbers are not impressive. If true I wouldn’t bother cooling the food.
The mantra of resistant starch sounded more interesting than reality.
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I thought resistant starch was bs so I did some experiments:
Fresh rice → 150 mg/dL
Next-day rice → 120 mg/dL
Fresh pasta → 164 mg/dL
Next-day pasta → 135 mg/dL
Fresh potatoes → 122 mg/dl
Next-day potatoes → 110 mg/dl
Shining Science@ShiningScience
Food scientists have studied how cooking and cooling certain starchy foods can change their chemical structure. When foods like rice, potatoes, or pasta are cooled after cooking, some of the digestible starch converts into resistant starch. Resistant starch behaves differently from regular starch because it passes through the small intestine without being fully digested, functioning more like dietary fiber in the body. Because it digests more slowly, resistant starch can lead to smaller increases in blood glucose and insulin levels compared to freshly cooked starches, which is why researchers study its effects on metabolic health. Cooling and reheating rice does not dramatically change the total calories listed for the food, but it may slightly reduce the amount of starch that is rapidly absorbed, altering how the body processes it. Nutrition experts generally emphasize that overall blood sugar control depends on portion size, balanced meals, physical activity, and long-term dietary patterns, not just a single preparation method.
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@EndWokeness Seems pretty decent. Half an hour of that two times a week will help you from losing muscle mass.
They need some advice with the diet.
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@Mike94663851870 @ZohranKMamdani @SpeakerMenin @LincolnRestler @NYPDnews Same thing with jaywalking.
Or cars double parked.
Or cars running a red light.
It’s not the bike.
It’s the people.
Register people to walk on the sidewalk and have a plate while you are at it.
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Unregistered.
Unlicensed.
Unidentifiable.
Dangerous e-bike and on the sidewalk.
We need Priscilla's Law NOW
@ZohranKMamdani
@SpeakerMenin
@LincolnRestler
@NYPDnews
Please repost!!
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@Zeraora_Speed @shahbazyours It’s not fire?
Then, why is acid reflux called heartburn?
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@AlienDNA2020 @shahbazyours Stomach acid is not fire. Hope this helps
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@aakashgupta “Food diaries expose that nutrition science operates on vibes and then reverse-engineers the statistics to match.”
Don’t we do that with everything?
There is an observation in reality, and then a story to try explaining it. Nutrition, stock market, weather, ….
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Nutrition science buried its most embarrassing finding for 20 years because it contradicted every dietary guideline they’d ever written.
Harvard tracked 190,000+ people across three studies starting in 1986. Half a cup of ice cream per day was associated with a 20% lower risk of type 2 diabetes. A doctoral student named Ardisson Korat later found the same half-cup daily was linked to lower cardiovascular disease risk in diabetics too.
The researchers tried to kill the finding. They ran every statistical test they could think of to make it disappear. Controlled for reverse causation. Stripped out data from people who changed diets after health diagnoses. The effect shrank but stayed statistically significant.
Multiple independent scientists confirmed the ice cream signal was as strong as, or stronger than, the yogurt signal. Yogurt got published and promoted. Ice cream got buried. Same data quality, same cohorts, opposite treatment by the field.
Food diaries expose that nutrition science operates on vibes and then reverse-engineers the statistics to match. When the data cooperates, you get a landmark study. When it doesn’t, you get a buried dissertation.
Ice cream’s glycemic index is lower than brown rice. That single fact should tell you how much of what you’ve been told about “healthy eating” is evidence-based versus reputation-based.
Brian 🔰@brianwut
harvard can't figure out why ice cream eaters are healthier. it's because ice cream is the only food nobody eats out of obligation or guilt. the food diary is an accidental personality test and "eats ice cream on purpose, reports it honestly" is just measuring internal locus of control
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@145k4 Put a fare enforcer in each bus all the time. Would pay for itself.
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actually i think zohran should do this with even more stuff. litter pickup. street sweeping. crossing guards. park maintenance. i dont even care. employ the citys citizens to do beautification. i think thats worth 35/hr and it benefits everyone.
signüll@signulll
zohran mamdani gave out $35 per hour to shovel snow to any person, so naturally each side walk intersection is now being shoveled by like 7 ppl. this is exactly how the government operates: without thinking about any second order affects & also because spending other ppl’s money (tax) is super duper easy. show me the incentives & i will show you the outcome.
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You two are commingling paying a decent wage for physical labor in dire need with a “job guarantee”for any sort of trivial job. Not the same thing.
They should use the same program to fix the city. Would be great if you could offer $40/hr to fix the potholes. But how many have the skills for that?
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@selise @StephanieKelton @AusMMT @ptcherneva @wgoggin They are even more open to it when they realize it promotes the transition from unemployment to private sector employment.
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More than ever, people are open to the idea of a job guarantee when they understand it is tied to socially useful work.
cc: @wbmosler, @StephanieKelton, @ausmmt, @ptcherneva, @wgoggin
alaska@145k4
actually i think zohran should do this with even more stuff. litter pickup. street sweeping. crossing guards. park maintenance. i dont even care. employ the citys citizens to do beautification. i think thats worth 35/hr and it benefits everyone.
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@DoctorTro How often do yo recommend getting a CAC score?
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🚨I have bad news everyone 🚨
After 9 years eating ketogenic, no processed carbs, no sugar, very little fruit but plenty of steak and eggs, I regret to inform you about my most recent heart scan and the ultrasounds of my arteries.
My most recent calcium scan was zero, and my carotids and femoral arteries are completely free of any plaque 😮
Why is this bad?
Somewhere, on some corner of the earth there is a vegan who will be suffering to see me thrive eating animals.
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@TheRealBirnbaum Looks like you are getting assigned pretty soon. Good luck.
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@TheRealBirnbaum If DUOL drops to 90 there is some major doo doo to climb from.
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Sometimes the market becomes so dumb it’s almost hard to believe.
The options market for $DUOL has hit this point. Complete idiocy.
Today I sold $90 strike puts expiring in January 2028 for $32.60. If assigned I would be paying $57.40 per share. At this point $DUOL would be valued at $2.66B.
They have $1.1B of cash on their balance sheet. That brings their enterprise value to $1.56B.
Their current cash flow run rate is roughly $300m. That would put their enterprise value to cash flow at 5X.
In the meantime they’re growing 37%. Their cash flow is growing even faster.
There’s zero chance that AI eliminates the desire to learn languages, let alone different subjects. We’ve seen zero impact to their business thus far.
That’s about as close to free money as it gets.
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@jackunheard Physical jobs need to pay at least double or triple of what adult day care jobs pay.
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This is X in a nutshell when it comes to investing.
$SOFI @$32. BUY NOW OR CRY LATER!!
$SOFI @$18. Sold puts at $15. It’s going to $9!! IDIOT
$HIMS @$50 IT WILL SHORT SQUEEZE to $100. I wouldn’t sell covered calls unless you HATE $$!!
$HIM @$14. Thinking about starting a position and playing for a rebound.
WHAT AN IDIOT. I AIN’T TOUCHING IT WITH A 10 foot pole.
$PLTR @$200. It’s going to a trillion market cap. It will grow into valuation eventually. BUY NOW. IN KARP WE TRUST.
$PLTR @$130. Ummmm let’s engage in a debate with Michael Burry bc he’s stupid and doesn’t get Palantir
Yeah…that just about sums it up lol
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