Arjun Kavi

@realBurhanAzeem And yet only 97 net units in 2025 (post rezoning). What's the poison pill?

Never let anyone tell you politics doesn't matter. Change is unimaginable until it's inevitable.

Hmm okay what if we mamba residuals then

@jdcmedlock @PeterJAngel Kulaki delendi sunt.

@PeterJAngel I think the short answer is farmers

Semi tangential question: basically everyone supports getting rid of the step up in basis— why haven't we got rid of it yet?

@taydotfun depends on where you're trying to go. W 4th station is pretty goated.

the real size of new york is "30 minutes from your apartment" williamsburg is hard to beat

@RyanRadia @HistoryBoomer @lavadolphins Obviously biased, but I've never had injera that tasted better than a mediocre dosa for that fermented taste

@HistoryBoomer @lavadolphins I really like the sour fermented taste of injera, but I can see why some people might not like it

Deleted because it was attracting some racism. All I was saying is I don't like Ethiopian food! I wasn't commenting on immigration or calling anything "slop." I love most ethnic foods, just not Ethiopian. Can people just not like food without it becoming a culture war topic?!?

@celestepoasts I see the same thing with new grads interviewing at my job. I think 20 $/mo is just a real psychological barrier for some people.

@ryxcommar @compound248 For example, a failure to ship a single new feature in over a decade

@compound248 PagerDuty is not egregious with SBC. PagerDuty has many other issues.

PagerDuty joins the ranks of once high-flying SaaS companies that now trade for <1x 2026 revenue. $PD These management teams MUST get serious about both treating SBC as an expense and absolutely decimating their cost structures, or new leaders will. Now.

we really should just rename avemetatarsalia to dinosauria and create a new name for the current clade called dinosauria

@Lola_lmao7 Also I don't think "ವಳಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ" is a real word? Though my vocab's pretty weak

@Lola_lmao7 60 million people (including most of my family) would probably be surprised to be told they're speaking a 5th century language in day to day life

my copilot agent started thinking in Kannada, a 5th century Indian language. Apparently ವಳಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ means 'they have bent' or 'they have curved/turned'

@i_am_remy_bot @sfchronicle ...why should that be the yimby position? The yimby position is people should have the right to do what they want with their property, be that turn a SFH into apartments or apartments into an SFH

@sfchronicle surely the yimbys all support enforcing compliance here right?

Tenants rights groups are calling on San Francisco officials to make a North Beach couple fix a problem they did not create and revert their home to the four-unit complex. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/nor…

@elisabet_bakari @Yeenie_Mcbeenie No.

@_akavi @Yeenie_Mcbeenie Bae (I think)

Is Laser the only time this has actually happened

@TheStarspill @Yeenie_Mcbeenie #Origins" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simp#Orig…

@_akavi @Yeenie_Mcbeenie Please enlighten me on the origins of Simp

@Yeenie_Mcbeenie ...wait, there's actually quite a few, now that I think about it: * yolo * yuppie * dink * fomo * awol * fubar but still, fairly rare, all things considered.

@Yeenie_Mcbeenie "thot" is probably one of the only non-technical/non-brand name ones.

@Romy_Holland Bay area housing policy is the one thing that makes me understand the urge to become a dictator. Most political issues, there's just no simple "fix everything button", but SF housing has like, 10 or 12.

I got one shotted by trying to understand what's going on with housing in Berkeley and I went from "wow maybe I should get involved and try to improve my city" to "wow maybe I should leave" in under an hour. there are so many layers of bad policy and wrong thinking I actually think this mess is too big to fix. the funniest thing I found tho is that developers are now eagerly volunteering to build affordable housing because of a loophole created by the state that allows them to bypass a bunch of insane mandates Berkeley established in collusion with construction unions. the California law was intended to bypass local density restrictions, but developers in Berkeley are successfully saving millions on union wages, healthcare, and even "bird-safe glass" mandates. affordable housing mandates are obviously dumb but I'm amused and appreciative that California seems to have stumbled backwards into an otherwise actually good policy.

insane sequence of statements buried in an Alibaba tech report

@kirstentheodos @1Andrew_J @raclinton @JohnAdelman6 @GVSHP Wait, they’re giving them away for *free*??? I’ll take one! …oh, you mean their price is *merely* one million dollars a pop

@1Andrew_J @raclinton @JohnAdelman6 @_akavi @GVSHP Um yeah, I am familiar with Queens. You said "Because there are so few new buildings so the price is bid up" So I brought up LIC. If you want a Manhattan example One Manhattan Square can't give away those luxury apartments even with their 421a.

That thing is hideous. Can we all agree that luxury towers should not be erected on city owned land? The city wants to build a "600-ft.-tall apartment tower on city-owned land on Little West 12th Street in the Meatpacking District — which they call “Gansevoort Square” via @GVSHP

@TahraHoops not just in nyc, in MANHATTAN

"tall building in NYC bad" are my favorite NIMBY posts