@ArmandDoma NIMBYism a big part, but so is air conditioning. There’s a long term migration of people from colder to warmer places now that air conditioning makes living in hot places during the summer bearable.
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Jacob Alfieri
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Jacob Alfieri
@JacobAlfieri
Some have told me I’m too “controversial” to have an athleisure line.
Katılım Ekim 2011
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NIMBYism is killing the Democratic Party
Josh Kraushaar@JoshKraushaar
Trendwatch: “California is on track to lose four congressmen and electoral votes. New York will lose three, Illinois two, while Oregon, Minnesota and Rhode Island are each going to be down one. Solidly Republican states will get most of the gains” realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/…
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@nikicaga When everything is counted, even 2% better would have probably meant winning the presidency, the popular vote, a very narrow majority in the House and the PA Senate seat.
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If Harris did like 3% better across the swing states she'd be hailed as a generational talent and Biden's decision to step down would be seen as a pivotal moment in American history
Xenocrypt@xenocryptsite
51-49 vs. 49-51 is hugely different in a democracy of course (ideally!) but it's funny that it's such a small difference in absolute terms. But you know it's the difference between being "the voice of the people" and "an out of touch faction", emotionally.
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@philipaklein It clearly thinks harris refers to “Harris County, TX”. You get a very similar result if you put in travis instead (as in Travis County, TX). Also works for county names in other states. I tried Cook (IL), King (Washington), etc.
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Just tried it myself and replicated this result, so not a one off.
Emma Morris@EmmaJoNYC
What is this? @Google
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@skyzyks @asymmetricinfo @charlescwcooke The Founders envisioned the Electoral College as a deliberative body of individuals who pick the president. Today’s Electoral College doesn’t work like that at all. Most states have banned faithless electors and there would be outrage if they voted contrary to their state vote.
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I'll stan for the filibuster and lifetime SC appointments, but think the electoral college creates a legitimacy problem when the result differs from the popular vote, and the only argument for keeping it is that we'll never get enough small states to ratify an amendment.
Charles C. W. Cooke@charlescwcooke
Just to lay down a marker by which you can judge me, in case everyone does indeed switch sides: The electoral college is an excellent institution, and my arguments for it are wholly independent of who it temporarily benefits. Same with the filibuster, Senate, and Supreme Court.
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@MarketUrbanism How does proof-of-payment work in other systems that allow open payment with a credit card? This seems like a solved problem.
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Not only has Janno Lieber paused (given how long it’s been, I’d argue “scrapped”) Andy Byford’s citywide all-door bus boarding plan after all of the back door OMNY readers were installed, but they seem to be losing the capacity to do proof-of-payment even on existing SBS routes
Dana Rubinstein@danarubinstein
Congestion pricing opponents say the governor could replace some of the foregone revenue with a fare evasion crackdown. But the MTA -- several months after this @HellGateNY piece ran on the topic (hellgatenyc.com/the-mtas-fareb…) -- continues to struggle with how exactly to do that.
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@brtrnkng @north0fnorth Very neighborhood dependent. I know people living in cool/transit accessible neighborhoods in 2 bedrooms where the total rent is under $2000/month. That is way cheaper than NYC/SF/Boston.
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@north0fnorth I just checked rents and was surprised how expensive Chicago is when people discuss it here as “affordable”.
Sure it’s cheaper than New York but that’s a pretty low (or high?) bar
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cta isn’t doing great postpandemic but chicago is still a very good option here
Nat-scape Nat-vigator 🇲🇾 🏳️⚧️@Natcromancer
Life really is like - Relatively affordable city - Good public transit - Good on LGBTQ rights Pick 2
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@nilocobau I see similar takes about people moving to Chicago and given the pension situation in Illinois/Chicago (among many other reasons), we definitely cannot afford to be picky.
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@Ian_Gay_briel One of many compelling reasons for DC statehood is that residents should have more say over local issues like this.
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this has been a huge problem for so long and it's actively making dc a worse place to live. transfer all the parks to the district. also fire whoever decided that the c&o should remain a shitty ditch because that's more historical.
Michael Schaffer@michaelschaffer
I wrote about a local-yokel DC controversy that's weirdly not so local-yokel... politi.co/3TpMO8t
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The endless takes about the value of Ivy+ schools miss the key tension:
1) There are a small number of very high pay/prestige jobs that require Ivy+.
2) The majority of Ivy+ grads don’t get those jobs and do the same generic white collar jobs as the good state school grads.
Nietzschean Bugs Bunny@whiteracemvp
@BoeufEtLiberte @Empty_America Old data
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@cruickshank @ArmandDoma @bellachu10 These are absolute population changes at the county level. A significant factor that Bay Area counties aren’t on the list is that they are each smaller area wise and have a much lower population than Orange or LA County.
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@ArmandDoma @bellachu10 Especially notable to me that it's SoCal that is losing the most (in CA at least). The Bay Area's housing crisis is well known, but now it's SoCal that is hemorrhaging people.
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this is just an absolutely damning indictment of blue state governance, and every Democratic politician who runs those states ought to be deeply ashamed of it
Derek Thompson@DKThomp
New Census report - of the top 10 counties for population growth, 8 are in Texas - of the top 5 counties for population decline, 4 are in California and New York
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@Ian_Gay_briel @RyanRadia Anecdotally seems like there’s a lot more influencer types in Phoenix than Chicago. Seems to be mostly about being a huge city sorta near LA that is significantly cheaper.
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@RyanRadia oh huh maybe, that interpretation does make sense but i don't think it would be correct relative to phoenix?
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i'm pretty sure everyone dumping on this is getting matt's point exactly backwards?? like your interpretations make no sense, matt is aware that chicago is the third largest city that's the point he's making to conor?
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
@conorsen I don't even think there's that big a delta, who is living in Chicago?
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@codehawkfalcon @macsquirelera Yeah and that was a terrible decision by the VTA and an attempt to lock in this design. Don’t see why the FTA should reward them with billions in grants.
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@Ian_Gay_briel I don’t know why Chicago surprises me here but it does … despite all the new buildings there needs to be more housing in the central areas
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@DanielKayHertz Is this, at least in part, due to the weird shape of Chicago’s density? There’s basically a strip of high density along the lakefront, but not inland, so measuring radii from downtown is not going to capture that well.
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@Pvelkovsky This article mentions that the officers had such a machine, but it wasn’t working, so seems possible to solve, but I have seen similar stories about this exact issue since the EAGLE team was rolled out.
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@Pvelkovsky Their payment verification system makes no sense. If you tap a credit card, they ask you to open the credit card app to show the transaction. If it’s not there yet, they fine you for not paying. They need a machine that scans your card/ApplePay/etc to check it against a database.
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If you have a "fare cap" but your cops treat it like you skipped the fare, you don't have a fare cap. You're just lying to poor people.
Liz Wolfe@LizWolfeReason
This woman used OMNY to pay for the bus. Once you hit 12 fares paid within a 7-day period, you get free rides. Cops boarded bus & forced riders to prove they'd paid didn't know how to handle this, threw her off, & hit her w a $100 ticket. Is this city a joke or what?
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@mattconvente @ArmandDoma It doesn’t matter if medical students are rich when they start, because they are guaranteed to be rich after graduation. Average doctor pay is around $300k and even lower paid specialties make over $200k.
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@ArmandDoma Why are you assuming that medical school *students* are affluent? Also, this medical school has a lot of underrepresented people as its students and patients.
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I would not have phrased it the way Ben did—I’m glad she spent the money on something positive besides a private jet and cocaine—but if you have a billion dollars to give, reducing the tuition for some of the most affluent people on the planet is not optimal
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@AndrewDettmer @ArmandDoma @Tyler_The_Wise Even the lower paid medical specialties, like primary care, can expect to make over $200k a year, which is a ton of money. Not really comparable to lawyers where there are positions like public defenders that can earn as little as $50k.
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@ArmandDoma @Tyler_The_Wise It’s the same issue we have in law where there are shortages in critical areas of practice and the country but more than enough law grads technically to fill those slots. But the problem is the debt to earnings conundrum.
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