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“There is nothing more radical or counter-cultural at the moment than laying down one’s cynicism in favor of tender vulnerability.” - John Green
Be nice to each other, folks.
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Evan Van Cotthem
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Evan Van Cotthem
@evancotthem
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us
New York, NY Katılım Eylül 2016
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@aarmlovi What demarcates a plex vs a townhome? If there are two homes side-by-side sharing a wall, it's a duplex, right? But if I add 4 more in a row are they townhomes? (or rowhomes?)
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Chicago is the poster child for why "Plex" reforms—duplex, triplex, 4plex—fail nationwide
Plexes aren't just infeasible to build new: Most existing plexes are infeasible *NOT TO TEAR DOWN* (!)
Townhouses or midrises are so often the highest & best uses in most submarkets 🤷♂️
Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist@UrbanCourtyard
These buildings were once most 2-flats but have increasingly been converted into single-family homes. While it’s good that affluent families want to remain in the city rather than move to the suburbs, in high-cost neighborhoods, scarce and expensive land is being absorbed by $1M+ single-family homes. This limits the overall supply of family-sized housing and pushes prices even higher and pushing many families out
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@buildhomez I was going to contest that Houston has probably grown consistently as well, but it actually flatlined for a few years pre-pandemic.
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Some theories:
Huge Seattle bsky exodus (specific to X)
PNW cultural dominance peaked and diffused across the US ~2021
People care about changes in the rates of change, and Seattle has consistently changed
Boring mayor & governor
The Alex Nowrasteh@AlexNowrasteh
Why does nobody care about Seattle?
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I'm surprised that climbers all converged on unifying their toes into a single rigid point with a super tight shoe, rather than trying to strengthen them and improve their mobility to return to monke.
G-MA & G-PA@GPAIndiana
I am pretty sure this violates at least a couple of laws of physics! 🤣 That was Amazing
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@moultano I think this test shows just how difficult that would be:
youtu.be/Dh5S8jXq1OM?si…
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@StefanFSchubert @Afinetheorem Your other chart shows grants rising to offset loans, so that's probably a lot of it
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@StefanFSchubert @Afinetheorem Debt = tuition + living expenses - non-debt payments. Nordic students take more debt despite no tuition, so US students need lower living expenses and/or more non-debt payments (family, grants, work). Just curious where the bulk of the difference lies.
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Interesting fact: avg debt at graduation is higher in Denmark, Norway, UK, Finland, Australia, Netherlands than the US, almost identical in Canada. Some differences in income based repayment but...US university debt is dominated by "low value Masters" + dropouts. 1/2
Clifford Asness@CliffordAsness
Perhaps only the NYT could drop this in the middle of a story, spend not a moment musing about it, and move on.
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@StefanFSchubert @Afinetheorem Curious where the divide occurs as many of my friends used their student loans for living expenses in addition to tuition here in the US. Lower living expenses, more family help, more part-time work?
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@StefanFSchubert @Afinetheorem Is this due to debt taken out for other expenses then?
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@Afinetheorem Even though university is free in Denmark, Norway, and Finland
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@Empty_America Stehekin, WA is only accessible by 2 hour ferry ride or hiking. Famous stopping spot for PCTers. Kids eventually have to room with other families in Chelan to finish public school. Though homes don't come up for sale often (and the ones near the lake are expensive).
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>58% effective tax rate
>effective or marginal?
>marginal
S.A. Dupres@Susan_Dupres
Washington State TAXES IN WASHINGTON STATE March 4, 2026 ** 58% effective tax rate (not including property tax and a list of OVER 60 different taxes in WA STATE via WA Dept. of Revenue). taxfoundation.org/blog/washingto… @PNWForestKing Post by Tax Foundation:
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I love little phrases which you can drop in a conversation that is mostly over your head and there’s a good chance it’ll be considered a worthwhile contribution
“But consider the moral hazard”
“Might be subject to capture”
“It’s tough to know that empirically”
“Perchance” etc.
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@Duderichy Seems like the real key here was starting a successful company
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quit your job
Idle Sloth@IdleSloth84_
Asha Sharma | Linkedin Profile • Never held a postion for more than 4 years (climbing the corp ladder). • Her last postion was President of CoreAI Product at Microsoft. • Currently sits on the board of The Home Depot and Coupang (A major South Korean e-commerce company often referred to as the "Amazon of South Korea). • Previously COO of Instacart and Porch Group. • VP Product & Engineering at Meta. • First job was at Microsoft's marketing department in 2011 linkedin.com/in/aboutasha/
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@lymanstoneky Shocked South Dakota is so low on this given they have the highest TFR (and the longest roaming distance from the previous map)
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Where do kids have the most friends?
Hawaii and West Virginia!
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Where can you find the crunchiest parents in America?
Answer: Hawaii, but Louisiana and Alabama are close
Where are the most kids in religious schooling?
Answer: Utah, then New York
Where do parents put the LEAST restrictions on screen time?
Answer: Ohio and Michigan
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@buildhomez Gotta love replacing a stable, broad-based, difficult to avoid revenue stream for an essential service with one that will be much more variable and avoidable
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You'll never guess Washington's Schools Chief bold plan for income taxes is
Actually, you will. It's to give a massive property tax cut specifically to homeowners. The biggest state-level homestead exemption in the nation.
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Evan Van Cotthem retweetledi
26 cosponsors. WA Dems accidentally propose outlawing all manufacturing in Washington State because they have no fucking clue what they’re doing but want to virtue signal and reflexively hate technology.
We are on the dumbest timeline.
Alder@alder_riley
Hahaha oh no. New anti-manufacturing law in WA defines both additive and subtractive manufacturing as 3D printing. Anyone selling manufactured parts or equipment to residents of WA are subject to fines & imprisonment. Is Washington about to nuke its aerospace industry?
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@JHWeissmann Truly insane to change the themes from examining the development of mental illness/conspiracism after tragedy/loss to "The conspiracists are actually correct about everything but the manipulative cabal's genocide of humanity is just because humans are fundamentally evil"
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@GaryWinslett True though they are pretty much in the same relative position (about 10% lower than the national average)
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A number of people seem to strongly underestimate how much wages have gone up in parts of the South.
The South of today isn’t the South of 20-30 years ago.
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The US has two cities: New York and Seattle
Bryan Johnson@bryan_johnson
how china views the u.s. spotted in the chongqing airport what do you see
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Evan Van Cotthem retweetledi
@CHKFLA_if Read, write, walk, eat, live...? What does anyone do?
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