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@UncommonSap @ThoreauBklyn @snuppydogg I think they're asking for individual-level data for each potential match in the app, not aggregate stats across all men.

@ThoreauBklyn @snuppydogg You mean like this?

One time I was complaining about the apps and my female friend offered to "show [me] how it's done" She looked at a girl's profile for a couple minutes, then typed out a thoughtful message and handed the phone back with a smug look on her face A few seconds later I watched the life drain from her eyes as the girl unmatched me

@ExTerMINater267 @CuriousBunnie12 How does telling parents to have their babies sleep on their backs make moms less likely to kill their kids?

@CuriousBunnie12 SIDS dominantly happens only with the mother…. Never in public…. And never with a father. It’s just moms having mental breaks and killing their kids.

no one who shouts this “fact” can explain why the back to sleep campaign reduced SIDS rates

@TismTimeGG @MAngelechio @Kadotttt This is not the case basically anywhere in Canada. Rent is like half of what a mortgage payment would be in major cities, and they're at best roughly equivalent when you look elsewhere. Mortgages haven't been cheaper in years.

@MAngelechio @Kadotttt Literally anywhere in the world… the average mortgage is less than the average rent.

We need a new law stating that if you can pay $2,000 a month for rent banks must acknowledge the fact you can afford to pay a $1,400 mortgage

@mak3333 @alphafox But then you'd have to live in a suburb.

@alphafox A million dollars? That gets you 3000 square feet in a decent suburb…

Imagine spending a million dollars for a NYC apartment with this view - and then this happens: 😭

@echolanistan @Qagggy I don't have rigorous data, but anecdotally about half of the bikes I see on the streets are e-bikes. You don't need to be fit to bike up a steep grade if you have a motor helping you. I bike to my house at the top of Queen Anne all the time thanks to that electric assist.

@Qagggy Some bike lanes are great. Others, not so much. The ones on Columbian Way/ S Alaska Street are never in use because they travel along a very steep hill. No one ever uses them. If the grade were flatter, I’d be all for it, but it’s way too steep for all but the fittest people.

Bit by bit, Seattle is remaking its streets for the better.

@clarkycogitates @YIMBYLAND Ehhh, the "happy ending" involves the steam shovel settling down to become a furnace and never building anything ever again. Her other book "The Little House" has much stronger NIMBY vibes.

@YIMBYLAND Was reading this to my 2yo recently and realized it’s arguably one of the very few children’s books that leans YIMBY. A vast majority of them focus on saving various snail darters from the greedy evil developers.

One of these days, I want to spend a year doing nothing, but writing children's books about cities, transportation, and just building things. It's important to get them on the right path early.

@ParkerFoxtrot @Cary_Bleasdale @StatisticUrban @fuckyouiquit So you're saying your grandparents didn't pay for their daughter's college?

@mezentius_II @Cary_Bleasdale @StatisticUrban @fuckyouiquit My mom paid for her college tuition herself working as a camp counselor in the summer. In three months, making minimum wage, she was able to save up enough money to pay for tuition, books, and housing through her school year.

This is because Americans can’t afford to have children

@ParkerFoxtrot @Cary_Bleasdale @StatisticUrban @fuckyouiquit What percent of parents do you think paid for their kids' college tuition in the 1960s? It's nice that you intend to do that, I do too, but that's clearly a matter of expectations rising faster than incomes, not an example of parents actually being poorer.

@Cary_Bleasdale @StatisticUrban @fuckyouiquit If you feel as I do that in order to be a responsible parent, you should be able to pay for your child’s college tuition, then you have must account for the fact that college tuition has risen 1500% since the 1960s. 300% when adjusted for inflation.

@Isle_of_dog @liberal420lol69 @PrincipleTribe @mattyglesias Women with college degrees are about 50% more likely to get married than women without college degrees, so empirically yes.

@liberal420lol69 @PrincipleTribe @mattyglesias Are any of them marriage material?

@JoeDotAverage @alyssaleann @SolArdenti "he loses all sense of time and is liable to spend way more time gaming than *he says* he wants to" It's not (just) that it doesn't benefit her, it's that it doesn't seem to benefit *him* either.

@alyssaleann @SolArdenti This isn’t an accusation just a question, I like your open exploration in public. But do all your husbands other hobbies benefit you in some way? Even if it’s really small? In my house it’s my wife who can’t stop gaming btw.

I haven’t seen anyone with my take, so at great personal risk, I’m wading in: - I have this ick - I have played & enjoyed video games in the past - I adore my husband, he’s the best - I’m a lib I want him to have fun and relax, but playing video games is a massive ick, (and I struggle with this!) I think it’s because it’s a total waste of time, and it means he’s not doing something else I *know* he wants to be doing: the workshop sitting unused, the language learning app he bought a lifetime membership to, the books he wants to read, the walls he wants to climb, etc. If he’s playing with friends, they don’t talk about anything other than the game (he says he doesn’t view it as bonding; it’s just like… a thing to do). If he’s playing by himself, he loses all sense of time and is liable to spend way more time gaming than *he says* he wants to. And that lack of control is a big turn-off for me With almost any other leisure activity, there’s some upside, and when he does those things I think it’s extremely hot. When he plays video games, it’s ick. Not permanently. Just until he does something hot again The only notable exception is that he brings his Switch when we travel. My libido/brain feels entirely neutral about that, presumably because you can’t really waste time on an airplane (?) [If you’re tempted to make big pronouncements about our marriage, please search my tweets for “my husband” before replying]

@VulgarMarxist Yeah everyone knows old apartments don't exist. The invisible hand always appears and demolishes apartment buildings on their 10th birthday.

I love watching people flatly concede that markets will never produce enough to meaningfully lower costs.

@Twig407 @stevemur I enjoy taking my kid to the library, but for $30/visit I could just buy him new books every time instead.

@stevemur Could be better but seems OK actually.

As noted in the replies below, that's a per-visit cost of about $30, going up to about $46 per visit if the record-setting half a billion dollar Seattle Public Library levy passes.

@jasonc_nc @PatrickHeizer People who are completely incapable of deferring gratification. They want to spend $1M now, they don't want to wait a whole 3 years for it, and they can barely register the money they'd get after that.

@PatrickHeizer 100 a day is $365k a year and you literally have no other job. Who is picking $1M here?

If you're an able-bodied male under 50, you'd better pick the push ups.

@Xamoxlis @jasonc_nc @PatrickHeizer It's $10 per pushup. 100 pushups makes you $1000. Do that every day and you've got $365k a year.

@gwoyeuromatzyh This is a bit, right?

"herr judge ve zimply could not avoid slave labour, paying germans vould have been 2.2× more expensive"

you literally are though... YOU set the prices. you can simply eat the loss and not have a fifth yacht

@dugmartsch @theburningmike @echetus He lands it successfully the first time, with the "ATC" over the radio talking him through the steps of making sure the autopilot is enabled. It's only when he intentionally does it without autopilot that he fails.

@theburningmike @echetus haha would be fun to test I would love to see someone do this in a simulator with different atcs trying each time. youtube.com/watch?v=AbTDzP… but tom scott couldn't do it with prep and flight sim time. basically 0% chance for a normie in an emergency.

What’s the male equivalent? A straightforward factual issue where men are far worse informed than women.

@CarrieMyHart @micah_erfan @MichaelH_MN Why do you want to make it easier to commit voter fraud?

@micah_erfan @MichaelH_MN That is the sorriest excuse I have heard all day or ever for leaving DEAD PEOPLE on voter rolls!

☠️ MN Senate Democrats just voted unanimously to OPPOSE removing dead people from the MN voter rolls. It’s time to pass the SAVE America Act.

@colinokeefe Yeah congestion pricing would make driving much, much less of a pain.

This is the *only* thing that might improve traffic. Transit and bike infra will help but this is the only thing that will make a serious dent.

Drivers in Seattle gotta come to understand driving a car in Seattle will literally never be less of a pain than it is right now. It will only get worse for the rest of your time in this city and on Earth. The ability to move throughout the city will improve. But not in a car.

@ronrule @TheWealthMill @EPM108 Sport shooting seems like fun. What's the point of it being collapsible though?

@TheWealthMill @EPM108 Most guns like this will never be pointed at anything but clay and paper targets.

@YesternightPost @tunak @jazzmankyle @constans @mattyglesias Great question, why haven't the Republicans introduced such legislation?

@tunak @jazzmankyle @constans @mattyglesias Democrats wanted to pass an 800 page expansive bill reforming democracy in its entirety. Why not just pass a clean bill outlawing gerrymandering?

The Roberts-led Supreme Court and congressional republicans have fought every day to ensure states can redistrict to their liking. Trump called upon states to redistrict this year Now Virginia has a referendum to redistrict, and Republicans are angry. It makes no sense