@bdomenech At least he did a pretty fair job of saying what percentage each side had. Haha
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Nathan Steiner
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@CollinRugg Typical Califorina cycle... People get fed up with cops handing out $200+ tickets for Jaywalking so they press the legislature to pass the Freedom to Walk Act. Cops shift to ticketing drivers for not stopping for Jaywalkers.
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NEW: The LAPD is setting up drivers by having someone walk across the street in an "unmarked crosswalk" so they can then give tickets to people who don't stop.
"Recently, LAPD Van Nuys division conducted a Pedestrian Enforcement Taskforce," they shared online.
The LAPD says the trap was made to "promote education" after they've "had a string of accidents that have resulted in fatal or severe injuries related to pedestrians."
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@billybinion If they spend 50k on a bougie daycare, I have a feeling they will not be very happy with the free prekindergarten program the city will be offering
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I’m not trying to be unfair to this couple, who should spend their money the way they want to. But expecting taxpayers to subsidize your life when you make half a million dollars is wild to me. Just make some different choices.
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This article is a great reminder that a lot of the affordability panic is self-imposed.
This couple wants to live next to Central Park, “tries” to cook dinner twice a week & spends $50,000+ a year on bougie childcare when the NYC average tops out at half that. These are choices.
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@S___Elliott Big Fish (and it's not even close). Even the author says the movie is better
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Movies are that are better than the book:
No Country For Old Men
Goodfellas
The Godfather
Strangers On A Train
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@politicalmath Captain Planet is an example of taking propaganda so far that it actually works against its original message. It made environmentalism seem as ridiculous as Thanos and the Avengers
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The Captain Planet show was founded in part on Ehrlich's anti-human nonsense
I'm one of six kids & I remember Captain Planet saying that families should be small & I wondered how many of my siblings he thought should not exist
KanekoaTheGreat@KanekoaTheGreat
Paul Ehrlich in 1970: "The FCC should see to it that large families are always treated in negative light on tv." If that doesn't work, then the government should "legislate the size of the family" and "throw you in jail if you have too many" kids.
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"That's thousands of dollars back in people's pockets. It will help them not need social supports and social programs"
That's a nice line, but unless they also lower the income levels that qualify for those programs, it won't reduce the number of people in CA using them.
Katie Porter@katieporterca
0% state income tax for California families making under $100,000. That’s thousands of dollars back in your pocket where it belongs. As Governor, I’ll work the issue at both ends—lowering taxes for those who are struggling and raising them on the biggest corporations that can afford to pay.
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I don't understand your point. It isn't my job or yours to determine his sincerity, which is why I used the word "if". But he knows his own heart which would allow him, or anyone asking forgiveness for sin, to speak with confidence as to how God responded (which is the part people seem to be surprised about as a general principle)
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@NathanSteiner @ChrisCillizza “If he truly repented”. Moot once you hit that clause.
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This quote is underratedly amazing: "I've asked God to forgive me, which he has."
Molly Ploofkins@Mollyploofkins
GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales admits to having affair with ex-aide who burned herself to death: 'I made a mistake... I've asked God to forgive me, which he has.'
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Only a Californian would think "stayed below $5 for nearly two years" is a win.
Governor Newsom Press Office@GovPressOffice
Average gas prices in California have stayed below $5 for nearly two years. Trump’s new war is already rattling markets. We’re watching this space. Closely.
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@LindsayJS Of course you end up paying much more for everything you buy since every grocery store is small and basically has bodega prices.
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Can the 40% of people who’d prefer not to drive have a small part of the city to live a pedestrian lifestyle?
What about drivers rights!?
A: They don’t live here. They get the other 95% of the city.
How will shops survive!?
A: We just added about 10,000 shoppers per mile in the form of housing above the shops.
How will people get groceries home!? Or Costco runs!?
A: Same as everywhere else - there’s 3 grocery stores within 3 blocks, and everyone also uses a bike or golf cart or walks home or gets them delivered. Plus you don’t need a lifetime supply of olive oil in the walk-in pantry of your suburban home because you shop every day. It’s a walkable lifestyle.
Giulio Mattioli@giulio_mattioli
That's often the thing about cars in cities: you often think you need them but you don't miss them when they're gone.
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@TaraBull I thought it was going to be him at first but by the end of the video it's clear she understands what he's doing far better than he does himself
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@the_transit_guy @Spikels *shows a math calculation that doesn't really say anything relating to the OP's point about costs*
The Tesla Loop would only need to transport ~1,500 riders per day to have the same per rider cost. That seems like a much more realistic usage number than 130,000
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The Sepulveda Transit Project would move 130,000 people with an automated train. If every Tesla carried three people, you’d need 43,333 car trips daily, or 700+ Teslas at any given time, a car every 100 feet, all driven by a human. Geometry is geometry.
Katie Miller@KatieMiller
The Nashville Music City Loop is about $20 million per mile. The LA Metro Sepulveda Transit Corridor is about $1.73 billion per mile. The @boringcompany project is about 95 times cheaper per mile. Boring FTW.
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@mnolangray Haha. There are 13 people in that shot shoveling snow and 2/3 of them aren't even doing anything because it's too many for the space. But hey, I've always thought it's a questionable that city's force private citizens to clear the snow from city property, so waste away.
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This does not look like an obscene number of people shoveling the sidewalk, and $35 isn't an especially crazy hourly wage for temporary, hard physical work.
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Literally everyone I know in New York City seems pleased by how quickly and comprehensively the sidewalks were cleared this year, so it sounds like they got the incentives and outcomes right this year.
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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@asymmetricinfo It probably could be viable, but as a niche market. There will always be some people who do it, but even if it was free, the number of passangers who would (or could) invest the time in that type of travel would be inconsequentially small (in terms of traffic/environment)
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At some price/cost combo that’s a viable market. But can they hit that combo?
Dilan Esper@dilanesper
going LA to San Francisco on the freight lines is about 13 hours. Nobody's gonna ride this but railfans.
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Micron’s $100B megafab in NY is at risk of delay due to just 6 “concerned citizens” and their frivolous lawsuit. (1/10) 🧵
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When I was a student 25 years ago it was the same problem. Everyone says "winning", but I don't think that's it. I think most students aren't even aware when there are games. Football is just a handful of home games on a relatively set schedule that the whole community is talking about. Basketball games have much more day/time varience and there are so many, that hardly any are talked about much beforehand and many aren't even talked about after they happen. (obviously sports reporting talks about it, but I'm meaning just general awareness on campus. I bet if you polled students today as why they didn't go, the number one response by far would be "didn't know there was a game")
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Even gave away free Taco Bell tonight for the first 300 students (which I'm not sure they got to).
Jeremy Kawika@JeremyKawika
@BJRains It's strange, the students show up for football. We've seen it. Where is the disconnect? It can't be all win-loss total.
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@sdamico @KernelArray Sure they have kept their real estate because there is no incentive to offload it and every reason to keep it. If Prop 13 was changed and there was a massive increase in their tax liability, that might change.
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@KernelArray They continue to expand real estate presence. Tax HQ is a diff story.
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Billionaires can move, Google’s Mountain View campus can’t.
If you tax *that* you actually extract wealth from everyone who owns GOOG, even if they live in Dubai, let alone Miami.
California’s political issues are mostly downstream of it being unable to kill prop 13.
Sam D'Amico@sdamico
@regulatorynerd @mylordcod @luke_metro as it stands now, the best way to do a big tech wealth tax is to tax the RE holdings of the big tech companies at present value
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@scottsantens It's not going to matter whether people "hate AI" or "embrace it". It's moving far too fast for any of that to matter in how it impacts society
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If you want people to not hate AI and instead embrace it, don't just on occasion mention universal basic income as a "maybe we will need this as a parachute" kind of thing. Push for it. Push hard for it. Insist that UBI is a dividend that we all deserve as our fair share of AI.
spor@sporadica
i’m still endlessly surprised by the fact that none of the ai superintelligence labs have an answer to “what happens when you build your superintelligence and automate us all away?” like the number one question on basically every normie’s mind and the labs just collectively shrug “meh we don’t know. but like don’t worry about it okay” and then they are surprised how unpopular they are becoming with normies
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@TVietor08 What problem exactly do you have with this clip? I honestly don't understand why everyone seems to think he's saying something he clearly isn't
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Glad these bloodless robot tech CEOs are shaping the future of humanity with no government oversight or regulation. Social media turned out great for everyone I’m sure this will be fine.
Chief Nerd@TheChiefNerd
🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”
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🚨 BREAKING: Authorities say an attempted terror attack targeted DHS and federal agents after a suspect stole an ambulance, filled it with gas cans, and rammed it into a federal building in Idaho.
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