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@konichivalue @criticalurban What is the point of the bet? To illustrate that bikes are more time-efficient in Tokyo than cars? And that cars are more time efficient than buses and trains?

@citizen2891 @criticalurban Will you take my bet? Building to building, anywhere in Tokyo's 23 wards I will crush your car with my bike

Cars move people, and nothing else moves people more efficiently than cars because nothing else can take people between unique locations on demand. Mass transit is limited by fixed locations and schedules. Bicycles are too slow and exposed to the elements. They're a joke.

@jonbrooks You can rest assured that the buyers are there, whomever they happen to be If they aren’t, the companies building those homes will be out of business in no time

Florida has a wealth divide problem. We build $700k “luxury” homes… in a state where much of the workforce makes $15/hour. Who exactly is the next marginal buyer? That’s the only question that matters.

@dethwing @leedrutman I still think this is untenable. In this hypothetical system, it’s possible that the top 3 candidates will get 98% of votes because they are super popular in the State and the other e.g. 30 are elected with a combined 2%.

@citizen2891 @leedrutman There are many ways to do it. You're describing a closed party system. I can see some downsides to it. Here's another way. Switch the primary and the general. In the primary, you for a party. Those results are calculated and each party assigned seats. Then in the general (1/2)

How will you define gerrymandering? (This is not simple) Why not just file a national bill for proportional representation, to make gerrymandering obsolete?

@ElectionCenter_ Partisan interests are literally what the Legislative and Executive branches are intended to represent.

Just goes to show how little care for the law this Supreme Court has shown. Not to mention this part shows they put partisan interests first before protections for minorities. They basically say minorities can only have districts if they elect republicans or are 50-50 in partisanship.

@RajLakra You fail to see that the constitution ITSELF is intended to be a check on “democracy” It disallows Congress and States from doing tons of shit that they otherwise would based on simple majorities of the day

The Supreme Court is currently an anti-democratic institution that doesn’t respect the constitution they are sworn to uphold

@tomfgoodwin The great thing is all the folks in the bottom categories can switch tomorrow to do the stuff at the top

I mean in some ways it's a good thing, but the labor rates in Miami are nuts. - Person to use chainsaw for 2 hours- $300-800 - General garden laboring - $60+ per hour - Cleaning $50+ per hour -HVAC repair $150 per hour Meanwhile - Brand manager- $20 per hour - Qualified Architect - $30 per hour - Office manager - $22 per hour

@MappingFL As a parody account you’ve got a promising future 😄

I still say the best way America can make up for Jim Crow is to give all Black voters double votes. If you can trace your ancestry to slave and Jim Crow. 2x vote! “Oh that’s reverse racism” - yeah and I don’t give a fuck. Double vote! Double vote!

@dethwing @leedrutman This is untenable IMO. Vote for an abstract entity who then gets to choose the individuals who cast the vote on my behalf? That sounds like a terrible idea, just with the pretextual benefit that the party ratios will more closely align with the votes cast

@citizen2891 @leedrutman Right. You would vote for a party rather than a person. Then each party gets a number of seats proportionally to their vote percentage.

@MappingFL Fair Districts will be challenged (and should) for congressional districts. States cannot override federal law which as interpreted effectively makes it near impossible to draw districts considering race as a factor

Sticking with Florida for a moment The Callais decision is NOT what DeSantis wanted. He insisted the court would strike down the use of race entirely and hence invalidate Florida’s own racial protections That didn’t happen. Means Florida’s Fair Districts are still the law

@the_transit_guy We need as many lanes as possible

Instead of trains, what if we spent $13 Billion and 15 years to widen more lanes in Downtown Houston? Just one more lane bro.

@MappingFL To be fair they should have just banned the use of race in any “effects/outcomes” legislation

Weakens section 2 by how far it can go But does not eliminate section 2. Does not ban use of race.

@jacqmelinek @AmericanAir For the cheapest flight available I’ll even take the jump seat. If you want choice, pay for it

Airlines are such a scam. > I'm booking an @AmericanAir flight > I get a ticket that includes seat selection > Go to seat page > Only middle seats are free - window or aisle will cost more on top of the charge paid to pick a seat Can't make this up. Just ridiculous.

@opress57 @leedrutman Explain the criteria for achieving the so called “proportionality” in a way that completely disregards race and is still constitutional.

@citizen2891 @leedrutman You're a legitimate retard if you think that's what we mean

@dethwing @leedrutman With what criteria of proportionality within the state? It must be something completely disregards race to be even constitutional

@citizen2891 @leedrutman He means proportionally within the state

@konichivalue @criticalurban Great point. Keep riding your bikes and we keep driving our cars - the classic win-win

@citizen2891 @criticalurban Because the city isn't clogged by cars because 90% travel by metro, foot or bike... Also, I bet you $100 dollars I can get to any building within the 23 wards faster on my bike than you can with a car

@the_transit_guy For the population density in Texas, it makes a lot of sense to expand freeways instead of building mass transit for long distances

Could be any city in Texas but we actually need to widen I-45 and I-35 instead.

@konichivalue @criticalurban It is highly time-inefficient. Take a city like Tokyo. I can get nearly anywhere in a 5km radius faster by car than by train. Did it dozens of times, measured door to door not station to station

@criticalurban How is this efficient?

@MappingFL @jbello1969 As a policy matter, any and all consideration of race in districting should be categorically unconstitutional

@jbello1969 Florida’s fair districts amendments have their own protections for districts that are found to perform for minority voters. Districts don’t even need to be 50%. If a district has shown it performs for a racial minority group, it must be protected.

And let’s be clear. That is not the affect of the ruling. While the VRA is weakened, it is not eliminated And most importantly - this ruling did nothing on Florida’s own unique racial protection requirements. Those are still the law Which protects the Hispanic-maj #fl09

@bradncpa That’s the type of people who will max out credit cards to get all the miles and points. Brilliant strategy.

A client spent $500,000 to avoid paying $200,000 in tax. He bought a loader his business could use. But he bought it to depreciate it. So it sat in a field. Unused. I advised against it. He did it anyway. Bonus depreciation and Section 179 exist for a reason. But the deduction is supposed to follow the business need. Not replace it. If you wouldn't buy it without the tax benefit, the tax benefit isn't a good enough reason to buy it. Zeroing out your tax bill by burning cash on equipment you never touch is a terrible way to build wealth. All that does is move money from your bank account to a field. Spending a dollar to save forty cents is a bad strategy and never worth it.