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A tale told in charts.
The average American household spend $12K a year on transportation.
But the lowest American income decile spends 30% of their income on transportation, whereas the European one only spends 8%.
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Kristoffer Nilsen
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Kristoffer Nilsen
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Energy & Commodities | Sit. Feast on your life.
Katılım Nisan 2020
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@kissphoria Every time I drink Coca Cola light I exclaim “bless your heart” after.
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really chuffed that in mexico Diet Coke is called Coca Cola Light. that's of course because drinking it makes you pure of heart
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@BayouBikeyBoi You’re telling me a man who never finished law school doesn’t understand basic accrual accounting and city budgets?
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Meanwhile whitmire is downsizing the city, and inadvertently making us more dependent on outside contractors, so we’ll see which one pays off
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
Government must deliver for working people—and every dollar in our budget should work as hard as they do. That’s why I directed every agency to cut waste and help close our budget gap. Here’s some of what we found.
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i bet if iran gives jd vance a nice persian rug to pair with his couch this conflict can end tonight
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@NoahMF The cost of coffee and meat has gone up more than the index inflation.
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@hugelycaffeine @BayouBikeyBoi Property tax is not a land value tax.
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@krobbn @BayouBikeyBoi Texas has one of the higher property tax rates in the US.
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@oldheadchud @BayouBikeyBoi There is, just remove all the inner city highways. Let’s start with the ones inside 610, and reconnect all the neighborhoods.
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@krobbn @BayouBikeyBoi Yeah maybe so. Bad thing about it, there’s no unskinning that cat.
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@oldheadchud @BayouBikeyBoi There would be less white flight if we didn’t displace 40K people by ramming highways through inner city neighborhoods.
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@krobbn @BayouBikeyBoi You think making the density higher would’ve curtailed the white flight out of Houston 1970-today? I think a sane immigration policy would’ve but too late.
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@oldheadchud @BayouBikeyBoi The demographic problem is caused by inefficient land use.
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@krobbn @BayouBikeyBoi That doesn’t fix the demographic problem that caused this in Houston.
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@Rory_Johnston You need to get a neuralink and directly connect to the matrix so you can write at thinking speeds.
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How much of an op-ed can I write in the 40 minutes I have in this Starbucks while I wait to pick up elder-intern at code camp?
Andddddd go
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@BayouBikeyBoi I don’t recall Austin St being this shit before he repaved it 3 times.
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Traffic's lights at Westheimer and Chimney Rock are flashing red yet again. Causing a big backup. Why does this keep happening?
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@YIMBYLAND No zoning but plenty of dumb planning requirements.
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@mightylzrdking Look at average car insurance rates in Houston vs NYC.
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so how much money do car crashes got the city per year and what does that look like per resident? the crash tax, how much is it?
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@c0mpl3x1ty1 Xi Jinping arrives at California shores onboard BYD Shenzhen and forces the Americans to take delivery of 9000 BYD electric cars. America finally enters the Meiji period.
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"We're also going to have our own American Sakoku period. Isn't that great? Our countries are so alike its crazy. They're calling me the Tokugawa shogunate. I'm not calling myself that its just what people are saying"
Acyn@Acyn
Reporter: Why didn't you tell allies about the war before attacking Iran? Trump: We wanted it to be a surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?
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