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This is the best article I've read about the Austin housing market and the most accurate/cohesive thesis on the fundamental issues affecting housing prices in cities like Austin.

@mnolangray Opposed to the perfect record of truthfulness of Bass and Raman

In my experience, if someone lies to you about small things, they're also lying to you about big things.

@TexBlonde05 He's a perfect fit for Ole Miss

People in glass houses really shouldn’t throw stones… Arch Manning committed 6/23/2022. 2/3/2022 DUI Mugshot ⬇️

@sam_d_1995 NYC is probably the only US city where the transplants collectively look down on the natives, right?

ironically, there is nothing more authentically New York than being a transplant and moving to the city for a better life

@divinethree333 I will never understand atheists' contention with miracles. The big leap is believing in God. Everything else is downstream of that. Obviously an all powerful, all knowing being that created the universe could keep a guy alive in a fish for 3 days.

Seriously? A picture of Jonah just chilling in the belly of the great fish like it was some luxury boat cruise? Looks like ur the one who needs to grow up and stop reading the Bible like a childrens picture book flipping past the cute illustrations. If youre gonna mock it at least get the story right. The text doesnt say Jonah survived in the great fish…it wasnt a refuge; it was a tomb. You atheists love to pretend that Jonah was just hanging out in the fish….maybe even taking a nap or two to pass the time. Utter nonsense. Jonah prayed while he was still on the boat, as the sailors threw him overboard and he continued praying from inside the belly of the fish…until he drowned. Read his own prayer from inside the fish: “I called out to the Lord, out of my distress… From the belly of Sheol I cried and you heard my voice… The waters closed in over me to the point of death; the flood surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head; I went down to the roots of the mountains; the earth with its bars closed upon me forever… Yet you brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God.” (Jonah 2:2–6) He prays from Sheol….the Old Testament place of the dead. He says the waters took him “to the point of death.” Seaweed wrapped around his head and the earth barred him in forever. Thats not a guy whos just uncomfortable….thats a man describing his own death. So yes…..Jonah died in the belly of the great fish. The miracle wasnt that he survived underwater for three days. The miracle was that God raised him from the dead after the fish vomited his dead body onto dry land. And thats exactly the sign Jesus pointed to: “But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation craves a sign; and so no sign will be given to it except the SIGN OF JONAH the prophet; For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” (Matt 12:39-40) Jesus didnt say “as Jonah lived in the fish…” He pointed to Jonahs death and resurrection as a sign of His own. Jonah died. God raised him. Jesus died. God raised Him. Thats the parallel…not a three day aquarium stay. The sign of Jonah isnt survival. Its resurrection. Full stop.

@AngryVoter2024 🤓

“Langley” …they don’t even try to hide it!

@YIMBYLAND Opening twitter after a Pratt quote tweet

I was busy celebrating my wife's first mothers day while this blew up yesterday, but I want to clarify a few things... 1) The "run away with this thing" was hyperbolic, but I absolutely underestimated Spencer Pratt and many of you still are. Basically every Millennial and Gen X woman in LA know of Spencer and Heidi. 2) He's clearly hitting on things (public safety, fire preparedness, general incompetence) that are resonating with folks. If you think he's doing well on twitter, you should go see his instagram... his campaign launch video got nearly 4x as many likes on there. 3) I've spat with Pratt on his opposition to SB79 publicly on here and remain highly skeptical of his housing/development policies, so this wasn't some endorsement. 4) This is yet another example of Democrats' vulnerability when it comes to public safety. If Dems want to legalize increased density and build more transit, they have to convince the public that they can be trusted to maintain public safety and order. If they don't, they will continue to leave the door open for a disruptor to attack from this angle. 5) I will always be open to a conversation with the Pratt campaign to talk about the legal barriers to building more housing and I know lots of amazing LA YIMBYs (much better versed in LA development than I) that would be more than willing to show them the ways of the YIMBY.

@aakashgupta Correct. Anyone who doesnt understand this design is telling on themselves

Let me explain exactly why Apple ships the Magic Mouse charging port on the bottom, because no one seems to get it. This is not an oversight. Apple has shipped this exact design since 2015. They updated the mouse in October 2024 to USB-C and kept the port on the bottom anyway. They actively block the mouse from working when it receives power, which kills every third-party case that tries to move the port to the side. Apple watcher John Gruber has said Apple designers tried front-port versions and rejected all of them because every one looked worse. Ten years of memes. A decade of competitor mockery. An entire cottage industry of accessory makers trying to fix this. Apple held the line on every single attempt. The reason is the entire Apple thesis. Every other hardware company asks "is it usable?" Apple asks "is anything visible that I wouldn't put on a museum shelf?" When usability and visibility collide, they hide the usability. iMac power button on the back since 1998. Headphone jack deleted in 2016. Every port stripped from the MacBook Pro for five years before they admitted defeat. Touch Bar replaced function keys for a cleaner look and died after five years. The Magic Mouse is the purest version of the discipline. The cost is a few minutes of charging downtime every couple of months. The benefit is the mouse looks beautiful 100% of the time it is in your hand. Apple ran that trade in 2015 and has refused every chance to renegotiate it. Run the math on what this aesthetic discipline buys them. Apple sells a $99 mouse that has to be flipped on its back to charge. Logitech sells better mice for $40 with the port in the right place. Apple is worth $4.3 trillion. Logitech is worth $15 billion. A 280x gap on the same category of product. The trade was never even close.

@GoodPoliticGuy This post is about his assault rifle stance. You idiots are so dense

Shifting right on policy to pull conservative voters: bad Using populist rhetoric to convince conservatives of leftwing policy: good

@rfkenmore might be worth doing with an F91-W

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@noisycontrarian @Steven_Hyden You dont know ball

@Steven_Hyden Soil? Sounds like something to speed read/skim. Editing can be an author ‘s friend.

Started reading the first volume of Robert Caro’s LBJ biography this weekend. Never thought I’d be so riveted by an extended discussion of the soil in the Texas hill country of the 1870s.

@jonkentcomrade This is about Graham being in favor of Assault Rifles. Is that left wing economics?

Liberals still don't understand there's a difference between convincing Republican voters by presenting left wing economics and moving right on social issues to try to recruit those voters.

@kendrictonn That was actually Vrabel waiting to link up with Russini

No one has explained what the bear was seeking at that altitude

@jbillinson They mustve taken this the day after game 7

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@xurbanxcowboyx Data center backlash is driven by anti AI sentiment, the environmental and aesthetic complaints are just window dressing

This data center backlash is crazy and entirely preventable -- you just need to invest a bit in aesthetics and vernacular architecture and nobody bats an eye. This is a data center in Austin!

@beeple Your "art" is bad

RUBIO SZN

@YIMBYLAND Home runs into town lake, walking to a game at 2pm on a friday is all I want. Is that too much to ask?

@atxguy1839 Yea we need both for real

This is insane. I want to see some museums, private libraries, parks, and institutions built with this dough. Austin’s a blank slate when it comes to these things and someone could really build a legacy for themselves.

@jbarro just like regular banks but sounds populist

Local banks? Why is everything always about community banks, who cares?

@mattyglesias @jameshohmann You actually could. Moderate left politics aimed at people wanting to feel smart has a wide audience.

@jameshohmann I definitely cannot

You can earn a billion dollars washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

@iowahawkblog Almost no one is actually from Austin (except me)

What's so confusing? I'm a Texan who's ethnically Iowan x.com/GGerstman/stat…