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constans
@constans
hard scrabble, yet privileged, NJ flotsam. “pedantic plonker”. GenX hegemonist [email protected] if you need to find me elsewhere
New York, NY Katılım Mayıs 2008
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@varadmehta It must be hard where you desperately try to pretend a person said something other than what he said
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Apparently no Democrat has ever ordered alcohol in a restaurant, bar, or club.
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@mattforney You don’t sound like you have much experience with the outside world. Have you never had a corner grocery store or a grocery store within a 5-10 minute walk?
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@mattforney If you live walking distance from a grocery store, you can just swing buy and grab a bag if groceries.
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How exactly does being able to walk to a grocery store help me, asshole? I can't carry eight bags of groceries on a mile-long walk.
R.@RizWanKenobi_
American suburbs are incredibly stupid. Can't even walk to a local grocery store.
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@jbf789 @RenContessa @emilykmay After 25 years experience, I wouldn’t get out of bed for that salary. It’s basically a salary directed at college graduates who can’t/wont leave their local community for better opportunities.
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@RenContessa @emilykmay Name another profession that gets 2 months off in the Summer; a week off at Thanksgiving; 3 weeks off at Christmas; and another week off in the Spring.
You can't!
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@jlrizzoii It’s a stipend for food that can be spend on most any kind of food available, freeing up money people already make to spend on other things
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@constans It's nothing like a UBI.
UBI gives people money to spend as they wish.
SNAP is a targetted welfare program. It obsesses over who gets benefits and what benefits can be used for.
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SNAP is good in principle because it’s like UBI without having to worry that people would spend all the money without covering their need for food, leaving us back where we started having to feed someone. But the we obsess over which groceries are and are not allowed.
The Homeless Economist@HomelessEconomy
UBI supporters deserve an apology. A simplified cash dispense program that allows consumer choice and is cheaper to fund than highly selective welfare programs gets maligned as a crazy idea while Congress votes on rotisserie chicken
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@eaconner The mayor isn't saying the development is a problem, the fact that a historic business is being pushed out is the problem. He said he wants to work with developers to find a solution.
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Our new NIMBY mayor’s whole political philosophy is spineless pandering.
This development is not a “problem.” It is bringing 800 homes and a much-needed grocery store.
The beloved Boulevard Drinks plans to move to a new space much like Ercalano’s did.
Strong businesses adapt.
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These anti-homeschool arguments always compare homeschooling to to a perfectly functioning public school system that only exists in their imagination.
Meanwhile in the real world, 54% of American adults read below a 6th grade level.
Jill Filipovic@JillFilipovic
Right, if homeschooling is actually super high quality, then homeschooling families should not object to being evaluated, tested, and checked-in-on to make sure their kids are actually learning.
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@J_adoreDiDi @Turquoisism You already live in DC. Why do you need a home in a new development that other people want to move into?
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@Turquoisism That’s the wrong question. The question is why can’t any and everyone affected be offered a home in the new development?
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We like cars bc many of us have families here unlike some transplants who are running away from theirs. Also, don’t build housing that will displace people who already live there and have lived there for generations. Context matters.
lady of misrule@ablata_at_alba
DC transplant discourse is ridiculous, even disregarding the city's reputation for being full of itinerant young professionals at least New Yorkers do it for a deranged love of NYC's idiosyncracies; every time it comes up here, it's "we like cars" or "please don't build housing"
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Washington DC is as not originally conceived as a metropolitan city and 20th century settlement of DC came with people who saw it as the opportunity to experience a suburban lifestyle that wasn’t available to them in VA and MD suburbs. So they’re hostility to “urbanist” advocacy
lady of misrule@ablata_at_alba
DC transplant discourse is ridiculous, even disregarding the city's reputation for being full of itinerant young professionals at least New Yorkers do it for a deranged love of NYC's idiosyncracies; every time it comes up here, it's "we like cars" or "please don't build housing"
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@J_adoreDiDi It’s funny you think that housing displaces people rather than allows more people to live someplace
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@sharghzadeh The coop fee on this ($1144/month) is very reasonable. Though it’s hard to understand who would have $185k in cash unless someone is arranging financing from elsewhere (like borrowing against their 401k) or is downsizing after the sale of a previous home
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I don't understand why Americans are incensed by HOA fees.
Do suburban homes not pay taxes? Do you not landscape and do repairs?
Maintaining a ~125 year old building and paying taxes isn't free!
شرقزده sharghzadeh@sharghzadeh
There is a housing crisis, and NYC is the most expensive city on earth, but you can also own an apartment 1 block from Central Park for $185,000.
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@WaynesWhirled Well it involves kids. And it’s supplemental so they’re working and SNAP is a supplement.
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@constans Eh, I worked in grocery for a year in college and it wasn't fun watching people buy stuff with food stamps that none of us who worked there could afford to buy.
"SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION Assistance Program" 🤔
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@AllPaperedUp @SaladBarFan The concept was always that Baltimore should benefit from being part of the “greater DC region” with much lower prices.
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Me thinking Baltimore was going to take off in the late 00s/2010s, watching it decline in population, and then thinking that Baltimore is hopeless, only to see it take off in the 2020s is a perfect example of how I am incapable of predicting and recognizing trends
Patrick Heizer@PatrickHeizer
What's happening in Baltimore is slowly suffusing into the American consciousness. It's a genuinely great development that should be receiving more attention.
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I don’t think I have been carded at a restaurant once in NYC. Nightclubs, yes. Restaurants, no.
Stephen L. Miller@redsteeze
I lived in NYC Brooklyn for 12 years. I think I got carded every single time I sat down at a restaurant at a bar because the legal penalties in New York City are so insanely stringent. This is an East Coast "not a democrat I'm a journalist" apparently texting a 15-year-old about not getting carded at any restaurant in Times Square. The Bulwark has become more parodied than Salon.
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The next thought in this chain is:
"How much GDP growth have we, as a society, given up by retarding agglomeration effects in our most productive cities?"
And the answer to this is "a material amount"... in other words, we're all poorer bc we prevent our cities from accommodating more and more productive people.
Patrick Collison@patrickc
I'm interested in "trapped buildings": those that couldn't be built today (because of zoning and code changes) but also can't be substantially modified or demolished (because of historic protection rules). One of those phenomena that really makes one wonder what exactly we're trying to do. Has anyone ever estimated what fraction of buildings in major cities fall into this category? When I asked Claude about San Francisco, it concluded: "If forced to give a single number with a single confidence rating: roughly 100,000 buildings — about two-thirds of San Francisco's physical structures — sit in the trap as a practical matter. Confidence: moderate. The number could be 70,000 or 130,000 depending on how strictly you operationalize "can't be substantially modified.""
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We just need a few quickly fixes
nazzo@nazzobetweeting
i love having to go through manhattan to go from brooklyn to brooklyn
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Fees for paying rent online should absolutely be banned. In my experience, most of the companies doing this make it extremely hard to pay rent either by mail or in person so it’s essentially a mandatory fee on top of your rent.
Ross Barkan@RossBarkan
Management company now charging me an extra $2.49 to pay my rent online via e-check. Tiny amount of $ but should absolutely be illegal. Tenants should not be paying these fees. I'll be mailing checks in the future.
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