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@FirstClassDuck

an opinionated and jaded traveler

New York, USA Katılım Şubat 2013
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@chait76 @antoniogm Honestly, just work hard, save your money, support your friends and family, be a friendly and compassionate person, and avoid being bitter. Just avoid chasing women for sex, and you’ll live a happy and healthy life. Just keep some platonic friends for brownies. :-)
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@moseskagan @atlanticesque Nobody trusts the market because the market won't deliver charming brownstones at $200/month while paying upper middle wages to every white collar worker. They can't be artists, especially in a high cost city like NYC or SF, and afford market anything.
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Moses Kagan@moseskagan·
@atlanticesque The fundamental question is: Do you trust that the market will provide (with some reasonable guardrails), or not? There are very smart people who, for whatever reason, just can not understand that good things can come from lots of individuals acting selfishly.
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𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯@atlanticesque·
Republicans get *tons* of stuff wrong. Tons. But they tend to govern better because they get the basics right. Most smart policy people are Democrats, but because Democrats get so many fundamental aspects of governance wrong, they're fighting a wicked uphill battle.
Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban

Every single one of the 15 fastest-growing US major metropolitan areas is in the Sunbelt. All 15 are also in a state Trump won. Only 5 are in swing states. Dallas and Houston added an entire Wyoming's worth of people.

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𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯@atlanticesque·
@SukritGanesh If I were to be pedantic, I'd still hold that the last rapid transit *systems* was either WMATA or MARTA, both in the 1970s. A political eon ago, and the latter frankly nothing to be proud of.
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@taipan168 You can pry my gas car from my cold dead hands. :-) With that said, just as the 1970s oil crisis made Japanese cars into the standard for affordable and fuel efficient motoring in North America, this crisis could do the same for Chinese electric cars on a global basis.
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@nobodyknows2322 Hey, some of us live in a coastal city fearing hurricanes! With that said, the fact that the poorest in developing countries are the most likely to suffer fuels their idea that the West must sharply reduce carbon output for moral reasons.
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@ajlamesa @headwaysmatter In theory, Japan is probably the closest case for California, but the Japanese will sell CAHSR’s board on doing things the Japanese way which may lead to vendor lock-in… Otherwise, the Germans and Italians could consult on routes crossing the Appalachians…
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Anthony LaMesa@ajlamesa·
@headwaysmatter where would we need a serious base tunnel of this scale? maybe Phoenix to LA? Pittsburgh to Cleveland? The CAHSR critics claim that seismic issues in California mean their (hypothetical) tunnels aren't remotely comparable.
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Anthony LaMesa@ajlamesa·
Substantial progress being made on the new base tunnel that will link the French and Italian high-speed rail systems -- slashing journey times between Lyon and Turin (and Paris and Milan). youtube.com/watch?v=Q0NAE2…
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Alec MacGillis@AlecMacGillis·
High Point University in NC, which beat Wisconsin in basketball today, conducts campus tours on golf carts, offers wealthy students private housing for $40,000 per year and built an "airplane-cabin interior" so that students could rehearse sitting next to an executive on a plane.
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Joshua Mellin@JoshuaMellin·
Japan lost WBC so they kicked Ohtani off the tea for kawaii girls
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@JustAFamilyMan_ I think we’re going to discover that DoorDash was the access point for ghost kitchens that were unregulated restaurants that operated in people’s homes.
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@ajlamesa It seems that the district was looking for a four day weekend in April, and they found the perfect excuse.
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𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯@atlanticesque·
ADUs are basically a nonfactor in the housing market. This is true even in much smaller, less dense cities than NYC. That said, it’s insane that they even had to be legalized. This is something every property owner should be able to just do, without justification. Basic freedom.
Chris Goldammer@floor_per_area

And it's good to see: ADUs have already been taking off! Latest count: 107. Map shows proposed units. A map where Staten Island should definitely be included!

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