Hannah Woolf

@MiriVinni @number_pizza111 I think that was really only an attainable goal for a short period of time and still only for a smallish segment of the top quartile of middle class. This is just regression to the mean in some ways

This is one of those feel-bad realities YIMBYs don’t have an answer for. The reality of a rapidly urbanizing world is the SFH on a quarter acre in easy commuting distance to the urban core is no longer an attainable middle class comfort but a professional class mini-fiefdom.

@dhaaruni They might come back to work later, could just be that choosing to stay home when the kids are young

The Democrats’ BUILD Act will allow developers to bring apartments to single family neighborhoods. They would be allowed to do this by right … ie no public hearing. Local authority will be tossed aside and suburban mayors are furious. What say you? Are you ok waking up tomorrow to find an apartment next door? See example below.

@SirCumference98 @Poi5onrational @d33pBleu71 @JakedChinatown You understand that this is what she meant by endlessly critiquing power rather than seeking to wield it, right?

@Poi5onrational @d33pBleu71 @JakedChinatown Why didn’t Obama completely lift restrictions on Cuba? Such a typical libshit response. Not interested in ending evil, just committing acts of evil to a slightly lower order of magnitude.

You’ve got to be fucking kidding me lol

@ImNotOwned I have the same, but I know the company is based in Boston (patriots day is marathon day)

@Paul_Melman @_giacomo_volpe_ @LinkofSunshine I think it is hard to disentangle motivated reasoning from sincere belief here

@_giacomo_volpe_ @LinkofSunshine It's both tbh. A lot of left leaning people just fundamentally don't believe market forces are real

After 2021, Portland raised the IZ requirement from 10% to 25%, requires developers to set aside 25% of new residential units for affordable housing As a result, affordable housing fell almost 99%

@JeremiahDJohns Jonathan the (not dead?) tortoise

Who's the main character today? What's the main topic on your timeline?

@ThatchEffendi @RexKwonDo92 Fear cuts deeper than swords is definitely a nod to fear is the mind killer

I'm not sure Dune inspired Game of Thrones. I think what happened is that both GRRM and Herbert are eccentric hyper-horny autodidacts who had their childhoods ruined by Catholicism and made it the world's problem. They're similar people, even if GRRM is better at plotting and Herbert is better at world building and vastly more intelligent.

@OPinDC @theycallmekg2 I can’t make it to these, but I attended the previous workshop. Many people were talking about how they wanted increased density, especially around transit corridors. Respectfulyl, this new map is insufficient for those goals.

@theycallmekg2 We encourage you to come to our in-person workshops this week to share your feedback. For those who can't make it, keep an eye out for an online survey that will be coming soon. 🗓️TODAY! March 18 (6-8 pm) or March 21 (11am - 1 pm) 📍MLK Library RSVP: dc2050.dc.gov/pages/get-invo…

To keep housing prices from rising relative to inflation, OP estimates that DC needs capacity to support at least 460,000 households by 2050. Through DC 2050, we're planning to add capacity for an additional 15,000 households. Read more: dcgis.maps.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/c…

@vivian39_ I want to be able to “collect” them on my phone and then I can switch the display to any of the ones I have collected.

wmata should just replace the default smartrip design with a year round cherry blossom one tbh

@blewis1103 @latkedelrey The way she looks happier here than any scene from the movie

I will always contend, as much as I enjoyed the film, that Lucy should’ve initiated a throuple so that she could live rich with two boyfriends and John could live his broke actor dreams and all he had to do was kiss Harry a little. Hell, the promo pic clocked it!

@MariGO2thepolls @_giacomo_volpe_ And they say we don’t have a theory of mind for conservatism…

Every conservative commentator “let me get this straight librhul, you married your college sweetheart and both got white collar jobs. Yet you go to Wendy’s without scolding the cashier for not hitching her wagon to a felon with face tattoos and a draftkings problem. Pretty hypocritical no?”

@2may2equinox Every great house has a unique eye color/hair color combination, so it’s safe to infer genetics work differently there

the most magical part of asoiaf is that 25% of the population seems to have red hair

@hecubian_devil @KelseyTuoc It’s weird because in DEI trainings I’ve been in, rejecting zero sum thinking was explicitly part of the program. But I think you are right that the natural instinct for Malthusian thought urges us to interpret privilege like this

You can resolve an unfair inequity 2 ways: help the worse-off group, or harm the better-off group. The Fairness value is satisfied either way This was a huge general problem in Woke 1, and a reason why we must abandon “privilege” as a framework, instead focusing on “harm” “Privilege” as a framework has TONS of flaws, but one of them is that it implicitly and unavoidably frames inequities as problems of better-off groups having something unearned, unfair, and unjust—privilege. Even if the “privilege” in question is something like “grace and empathy for their disability,” which is actually a good and necessary thing everyone should get, or if the “privilege” is “being served and protected by police, instead of occupied and assaulted.” Again, that’s just a good and correct state of affairs all should enjoy. There’s nothing wrong with it; the only problem is its *absence* among the oppressed and marginalized. The problem is not that some people get what they need, but that other people are *harmed*. But “privilege” as an analytic lens *unavoidably* suggests a resolution to the problem—removing the privilege! This is really unhelpful when the privilege in question is *something good that all people deserve*. It absolutely fosters zero-sum, race-to-the-bottom thinking. It implicitly endorses the ways in which the marginalized are harmed! It validates the harm, by narratively framing the *absence* of that harm as an unearned reward for belonging to an oppressor class! Privilege, in other words, necessarily implies that *what harms the marginalized is the correct and fair state of existence for all people.* Privilege *valorizes* racism, ableism, misogyny, and so on. It does so by locating the moral problem—the violation of the fairness principle—in *the absence of these kinds of harm* enjoyed by “privileged” counterparts. Privilege is a fucking psyop to make everyone worse off, to neuter and splinter liberatory coalitions. Privilege unavoidably implies that “when black people suffer, that’s good—we just need to make other people suffer equally.” Any “justice” framework that logically validates existing racist harm is totally unacceptable. And this is only ONE of the many analytic and practical problems with privilege. It is one of the most toxic, anti-liberatory, anti-solidarity theories ever devised. It should be seen as revolting and anathema on the left.

@normal_jake_ I just don’t see why we have to impose our idea of racial categorization onto a fantasy universe. The idea that they might see different groups as racial others than we would is important because it acknowledges these distinctions are arbitrary.

I would have been perfectly fine with casting the Dornish Targs as non white actors. Would have added texture to the universe But at the same time you guys are giving way too much “credit” to the culture war grifters. They are just saying anything for attention.

@OGmusical @RealiaAmelia @bdquinn Crazy how “he was registering dictator” is so similar to modern slang like “he was giving fascist vibes”

@bdquinn Hemingway on meeting Mussolini.

I know the comparison has been made ten billion times, but it's unreal just how much Mussolini and Trump share the same basic demeanor.

@LinkofSunshine *libel

3 days after this, Hasan publically tweeted complete obvious slander about me lol

@BrianCAlbrecht @scottlincicome Thinking fast and slow, basically

Populists across the spectrum, left and right, hate economists. I joked its some puzzle but I think there's a simple reason. It's not about liking capitalism or something. And the disagreement is almost always about how to reason about problems, not about values. Populists want solutions. Economists offer trade-offs. I'm not the first to point this out but its a huge distinction. A carbon tax doesn't solve climate change. It prices carbon so people make better decisions at the margin. To the populist, that sounds like accepting the problem. Same with manufacturing. A tariff doesn't create jobs. It shifts them, from the millions of workers in industries that buy steel to the 160,000 who make it. To the populist, "protect American workers" sounds like a solution. To the economist, the question is: which American workers? We can go down the list. Rent control intends to help renters. It produces housing shortages. The populist sees the economist opposing rent control and concludes: you don't care about poor people. As Sowell put it: "The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics." I think, not surprising, the economists are right. It's more than just two different approaches. Thinking in trade-offs forces you to trace each step: who actually bears the cost of a tariff, what happens to housing supply when you cap rents, how a carbon tax changes behavior at every margin. You can't skip ahead to the answer. You have to follow the chain. This is why economists spend careers doing exactly this and still argue about the answers. That's what it looks like when you take the problems seriously. The populist skips all of this based on some intuition pump. Think of the person on a group project who's so confident in the answer that they never bother learning the material. That's populist economic reasoning from inside the discipline. The confidence comes from not having looked at the trade-offs closely enough to see how hard they are. Stewart is the populist left. Oren Cass is the populist right, and he's more dangerous because he sounds like an economist, and plays one on TV, without putting in the work of thinking about trade-offs.

@LimitDoug @nikicaga How do they get around all the rape and incest?

@nikicaga its not even fantasy slop, its shitty Christian programming.

Comparing some daily wire fantasy slop to AKOTSK... have some shame

@alyssaleann @latkedelrey I’ve been trying to cook more this year and it really is so fun to transition between Italian to Mediterranean to Mexican to Thai during the week. Part of it is learning more recipes that help you make use of the ingredients you have on hand! But also, google is your friend

I’m so very sorry to continue with the cooking discourse, but this is maddening Fish sauce, chili oil, rice vinegar, and sesame oil are all pantry staples that last every bit as long as olive oil, apple cider vinegar, and ketchup! You don’t have to pick one cuisine and only stock your kitchen for that — it is entirely reasonable (advisable even!!) to stock for a few favorite regional cuisines It will make your cooking SO MUCH better, easier, and enjoyable, and you can do so slowly to match whatever your budget is