@Lib_Development @nobodyknows2322 No service for 4 hours a day is better than delays + slow service. Deinterlining & automating >>> 24hr service.
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Patrick Spence
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@nobodyknows2322 If you think that “no service for 5 hours of the day” is better than the vast indignity of… seeing a rat on the tracks sometimes (?) then I mean I guess I’d deduce that you live in Phoenix and have never meaningfully relied on rapid transit service in an urban area before…
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I don’t know how much this feeling escapes the city but the MTA operates on literally world-beating levels of seriousness. The complete list of global subway systems is New York, Chicago, and Copenhagen. MNR and LIRR operate 99 and 97% on time.
Bird on Fire 🔥@nobodyknows2322
Ah yes the glories of the MTA, Philadelphia International, and Interstate 95! Truly state of the art cutting edge stuff that's all new and shiny Like me are you fucking serious bro?
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@MCCCANM Or more greenfield airports replacing congested old airports in the current biggest hub cities...like what happened with DEN in the '90s.
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I think we’ll eventually need new hub airports, or satellite hubs. Only a handful like DEN can continue to grow.
gary leff@garyleff
FAA Caps Chicago O’Hare Summer Flights — And Hands American A Win Over United - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/faa-caps-chica…
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@JacobAShell @MassJumbo Northern arc alignment via the Wilbur Cross Pkwy or an alignment taking 95 out of downtown via a bridge further south? 2nd option is nominally easier but then the junction with 91 gets difficult.
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@MassJumbo Yeah i'd go with rerouting, certainly. Like what Providence did.
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I mean 95 should’ve been built to the north of New Haven but like you absolutely need a highway connecting NYC and Boston. This isn’t a candidate for removal in a way a lot of urban highways are
Jacob Shell@JacobAShell
How, in this day and age when every 2-bit city is tearing down or rerouting ill-conceived inner-city highways, does New Haven with its fancy Yale design school still have a 4-way highway interchange completely cutting the city off from its waterfront?
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@KarlDr3ams @constans No, you’re not. Saving 20% total is wise, but putting it all in your 401k before homeownership, etc. is weird.
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@PatrickSpenceDC @constans I do 5%, that my employer match, am I doing it wrong??? The only people I know who dump 20% on their 401k are like in their 40s..
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It’s fine if your rent is less than $1000/month.
TJ Robinson ⚡️@Bitcoin_Teej
$75,000 is still a decent salary in real life. The internet is full of lies.
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@ApoStructura Usually the price drops closer to departure, and you can buy up for $40/hour-ish. At the time of booking, it's way higher and that's mostly corporate accounts.
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Who uses premium economy in planes ? It’s 4x the price of economy for only a marginally better experience.
Business is an actual step up, but premium eco feels like a scam
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@constans Put 3% into your 401k (with 3% employer match) and then save 20% after that for the down payment.
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@RyanLEllis @Mike_Arson @charliebilello The median age to have your first kid in the US is about 28 and rising. More generally...what's your point? Taxes shouldn't differentiate by age, they should differentiate by income. They have to deal with edge cases fairly and you can't just handwave that away as atypical.
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@PatrickSpenceDC @Mike_Arson @charliebilello I’m not saying that.
I’m saying the comparison is unfair.
It should be a typical 65 yo couple and a typical 25 yo couple.
The latter typically has a kid or two.
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A 25-year old married couple earning $150k will pay over $3k more in federal income tax for 2025 than a 65-year old married couple with the same income (note: assumes no social security - 65-year old couple is waiting to age 70 to get max benefit).
This is a fair tax policy?
Charlie Bilello@charliebilello
American households age 65–74 have over 10x the net worth of those under 35. The "Big, Beautiful Bill" gave a $6,000 bonus standard deduction - exclusively for taxpayers 65 and older. Is that really where the help is most needed?
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@WillBenjamin83 @charliebilello If the median SS payment is too low, then you can have a conversation about what to do about that--but it's a separate issue. Changing income tax rates by age is just a weird, unfair choice.
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@WillBenjamin83 @charliebilello SS is supposed to be income substitution in retirement. The tax system shouldn't care how you receive your marginal dollar, and the point of SS should be to give a retiree and a worker taking home 75k the same standard of living.
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@WillBenjamin83 @charliebilello In this specific example, 65-year-olds who are working (it is very normal to retire between 68 and 70) are paying a lower tax rate than younger people with the exact same income. This is about job income, not Social Security.
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@PatrickSpenceDC @charliebilello It used to be accepted that people who aren't able to work should get more help than people who are.
Anyway, Social Security should not be taxed, since it already was itself a tax. If the older folks are working I'd say they should pay the normal rate on job income.
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@atlanticesque Sure, but there are better options than commercial rent control. Just copy Japan: noahpinion.blog/p/secrets-of-j…
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heterodox economic opinion which I am not prepared to defend but which I suspect may be true:
commercial rent control is better than residential rent control
NYS Senator Julia Salazar@SalazarSenate
New landlord raised the rent for Gino's Pizza from $10k to $25k. That's a 150% rent increase. What small business owner can afford that? This is why we need Small Business Rent Stabilization. abc7ny.com/post/ginos-piz…
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@RyanLEllis @Mike_Arson @charliebilello Sure. But the point stands: on the merits, why should a couple of 25-year-old DINKs pay more in taxes than a couple of 65-year-old DINKs on the exact same income? Assuming that this 25-year-old couple is abnormal doesn't really mean anything.
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@PatrickSpenceDC @Mike_Arson @charliebilello If they don’t have kids, they weren’t the target of the WFTCs.
A household like you’re describing (six figures and childless) is a good proxy for 2026 white Democrats.
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@RyanLEllis @Mike_Arson @charliebilello Two 25-year-olds making 75k each and not yet having kids is exceedingly normal. If anything is abnormal, it's the fact that they're already married.
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@Mike_Arson @charliebilello My point is that it compares a normal senior couple and an abnormal 25 year old couple, in order to make it look like Zoomers got screwed in the WFTC. They didn’t when it’s a normal 25 yo household.
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@WillBenjamin83 @charliebilello Saying that people who earn the same amount of money should pay the same amount of taxes regardless of age does not equate to hating the elderly. Taking the opposite side of this and saying the young should pay more does, however, equate to hating the young.
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@charliebilello Why do you all hate the elderly so much? Bunch of commies.
They should have more tax breaks than me because they've paid their dues for decades.
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@ajlamesa I think DC winter is much more uncomfortable than DC summer, and very specifically the corridor between DC and Atlanta has the least bad climate east of California. Planting more trees is good, but DC summer isn't that bad.
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DC has one of the most oppressive summer climates in the world. Walking around the federal core -- or downtown DC -- in July or August is absolutely punishing. The Trump administration should be planting as many trees as possible around the National Mall and narrowing roads with pedestrian paths and trees -- not building a stupid arch.
Jacob Shell@JacobAShell
Nobody in DC in the summer is glad there's a wide treeless mall instead of this shady park.
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@billyez2 @JHWeissmann @KelseyTuoc She can and should win and it’s extremely frustrating to see her overlooked. That would have been the responsible + realistic endorsement from GG Wash.
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@JHWeissmann @KelseyTuoc Completely ignoring Rashida here who also had a great housing platform smh
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OK, let’s talk about @ggwash’s Ward 1 endorsement, which I think speaks very clearly to what they’ve become.
The mag could have chosen a progressive-YIMBY with @miguelforDC.
His platform isn’t honestly my personal cup of tea. It’s very, very similar to Janeese Lewis George’s…
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@lymanstoneky #2 seems overstated. I took my dad's last name, my mom kept hers, and it's never caused a minute of inconvenience whatsoever. It doesn't settle the question of passing down names, but a married couple doesn't need the same last name.
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I think what this position misses is:
1) Kids are gonna have a surname
2) Having the whole household share a surname really is useful for a whole lot of purposes and parents who don't share surnames with their kids often face administrative challenges
3) Making up a new surname for the whole household breaks ties with *both* sides of the family and also most people see it as kinda cringe
4) So it's either his or hers or hyphens
5) Hyphens are fine, many countries do that, but they do make it literally impossible to write your full surname on many documents for many name combos, so you're back at having a name that creates recurrent administrative problems
6) So the lowest-friction solution really is his or hers
7) There's no fundamental reason it has to be his, but either way somebody is gonna give. You can argue it should be the man, but the only argument for that is matriarchy, which is no more compelling than patriarchy.
8) On the other hand the argument for "this is just the convention, don't sweat it too much" is fairly strong
Jill Filipovic@JillFilipovic
I truly hate this argument, which assumes men simply have names but women’s are all somehow men’s. By this logic, it’s not your dad’s name either - it’s his dad’s. And not his either - his dad’s. Your name is actually your name. And yes of course women should have the legal right to change their names in marriage but let’s please not lie to ourselves that marital name-changing isn’t incredibly sexist and a very literal manifestation of patriarchal power. So is patrilineal naming for children, btw. One answer to “but it’s my dad’s name” might be to stop giving children dad’s name for a while.
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@TheColourOfHear @urbanistvc I think it's a bad mock-up of the town clock at Water/Pacific/Front. Which would put this building on the block between Knight and Bulkhead Streets--a really ideal location.
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@urbanistvc Not my favourite but I do like it. But what's up with that monument out front?!
Either do a proper obelisk or plant a tree.
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Can't believe this hasn't gone more viral — it's gorgeous
Dr. Jeremy Levine, PhD of city council meetings@JeremyELevine
NIMBYs have been using this 18-story 260-home proposal in downtown Santa Cruz as scare tactics about new state housing laws and I honestly hope they continue to do so because it is extremely based
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@ajlamesa 8th, 10th, D, F, and I seem more obvious. I’m not morally opposed to closing 7th and H but that’s certainly not the lowest hanging fruit.
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DC's Gallery Place-Chinatown area should be pedestrianized. One way to address "teen takeovers" is to provide all citizens with inviting public spaces where the expectation is clear: everyone comes here to socialize and gather civilly, with police enforcing the rules.
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