@Pandora_Delaney @Glawk_40 Having around 20% of the market is brutal.
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I like to talk to people from all around the world!
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@Glawk_40 Interesting data on this here
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Jake Kozloski@jakozloski
Everyone has a take on dating-app height dynamics. Here's what 219k Keeper users actually said they'd accept: 5'0" man → 5% of women 6'0" man → 93% 5'5" woman → 92% of men 6'6" woman → 16% The curves cross at 5'9". Luckily, all you need is one.
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I’m 5’9” but I’m still a massive proponent of the 5’10” boyfriend
Jake Kozloski@jakozloski
Ladies, set your minimum height to 6'0" and 86% of the field is gone before anything else.
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fell for it again + most humble award double winner
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Coolest Dem ad I've seen in a while!!
Senate Majority PAC@MajorityPAC
The Devil went down to Georgia.
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@JoshGlickenhaus @FairweatherPhD @farmhouse77 Every person I have ever met who has rented from an large Institutional never had a anything bad to say about them. Mom and pops on the other hand horror stories.
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@FairweatherPhD @farmhouse77 Mom & pops often have a longer investment horizon bc they’re looking to pass the stepped-up basis to heirs, not exit after ~5 years. Not saying better or worse, just different.
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I'm confused about why people are mad about this. Who would be an acceptable owner of an apartment building?
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Private equity firms now own 1 in 8 American apartments — according to a new report from @PEstakeholder.
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The instant he lost his seat, Cassidy began standing up for things he’s known all along were right. Profiles in cowardice, through all the ranks of the GOP.
Nancy Vu@Vu_Reports
Since losing his primary *three* days ago: - Cassidy stated he'd vote against the $1B ballroom project -defended his vote to convict Trump back in 2021 -signaled he'd look to hold RFK Jr. "accountable" -called Paxton a "felon" after Trump endorsed him - and has now voted in support of Dems' war powers resolution on Iran The senator is entering his "Cassidy Unchained" era
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"but sir I voted with you more than 99% of the time" is so sad
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Trudeau in particular took over a party that was in third place, won three elections, governed for ten years, and then passed the torch to a broadly aligned — but someone what more moderate — same-party successor.
Can’t do much better than that.
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@ReptilianLvl94 @BarneyFlames @sp6runderrated I am fine with subsidize demand. Students loans are not a problem in America. Americans are not really in debt. Poor people being able to go into higher education is just good!!
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@BarneyFlames @sp6runderrated I was about to say. Education is just like housing. If you stop subsidizing demand, institutions will adjust. Any non executive MBA below M7 has bad ROI, but even T20 will cut prices before seeing their median GPAs and GMAT or enrollment free fall.
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This is why I support price controls for higher education.
Price controls are usually a train wreck. But in health care and education spending it seems to lead to better outcomes.
GBR@GayBearRes
Guess the school. Only pay full price for M7.
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I haven't seen anyone mention that El Salvador ditched Bitcoin as an official currency because no one was using it and it was costing them hundreds of millions
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@Senjigo I think you guys can fight the cringe better the Americans can by the looks of it.
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feels like politics is getting much more optimized: donors realized they can spend way more, state legislatures are writing much more aggressive maps whenever they want, and meddling in primaries happens all the time now
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Ngl this should be the sole official redistricting method
Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban
If you just took a computer algorithm and made the country's maps compact, ignoring all else, you arguably end up in a healthier democracy than we have right now.
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@Ashley78186050 I think the New York Mayor has been pretty good so far. But what he did to the deficit will blow up in his face. He raided the pension fund this always blows up in government faces and puts them into crisis at least in the United States.
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I lived in Ireland this just wasn't true they mostly talked about Ukraine USA and Russia.
Rachel Moiselle@RachelMoiselle
In Ireland it is omnipresent and always explicitly negative. One can argue the merits (or lack thereof) of this fact, but it is nonetheless a fact.
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The algorithm isn't showing me any of the people a regular talk to.
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@benbawan I think better results would better be viewed by sort of extreme surgeries not life span our healthcare system can’t get us to stop being burgers. That's not want it is for.
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5/ Healthcare is the empirical test of his claim. The US spends 2–3× more per capita than Europe. Yet Europeans get more output (see doctors more, more hip replacements etc.) and better results (live longer). The largest US non-tradable sector directly contradicts his argument.
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A thread responding to @luisgaricano’s post on US vs. Europe. Some valid points on tech and equity.
But several key claims on living standards in particular don’t hold up or are at the very least cherry-picked. 🧵
Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦@lugaricano
We stopped everything to write an answer (link below) to Paul Krugman's two posts of today (one informal, one with a simple model) arguing that Europe is broadly not falling behind the United States. The change measured by the Draghi report, he argues, is mostly due to growth in the technology industry, which has distorted GDP numbers without actually leading to higher standards of living. We should believe our eyes when we walk around France and walk around Mississippi. Krugman is wrong. The measures he uses understate European stagnation. This matters enormously. Divergence with the United States is the strongest evidence for reform in Europe. 1. The growth numbers Krugman compares the United States, France, and Germany at purchasing power parity in current prices. On that measure, France's and Germany's position relative to America has been roughly constant since 2000. But current price comparisons miss productivity gains in sectors where prices fall. If America produces twice as much software while the price of each unit halves, the value of American software output looks unchanged even though the volume has doubled. Most economists therefore use constant prices, which fix the base-year PPP level and apply each country's real output growth on top of it. American output growth has concentrated in tech, where prices have fallen tremendously as productivity rises. In terms of the volume of things produced, America has pulled away from Europe. 2. Is it all the tech industry? Krugman concedes this tech divergence but says it is not welfare-relevant. The American growth lead is an accounting artefact of measuring more iPhones at base-year prices, not a sign that Americans are actually richer, because Europeans buy the same iPhones at the same world prices. This is not the right way to think about the world today, as an earlier Paul Krugman would have argued. His model assumes tradable goods, interchangeable workers, marginal-cost pricing, and no profits. Each assumption fails. Most of what households buy is non-tradable: housing, healthcare, childcare, education. When American tech firms bid workers from haircutting to coding, American haircut wages rise. Germany has no growing tech sector to do the bidding, so German wages stay flat. Technology is not priced at marginal cost. Apple's margins are around 40 percent. Anthropic's inference margins are at 70 percent. The major platforms enjoy network effects, switching costs, and lock-in that hold prices well above what a competitive market would deliver. A large share of the productivity gains in technology stays as profit. A lot of the value of American technology dominance shows up in equity, not in wages. Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon together are worth $21 trillion, more than the entire combined stock market value of all European stock markets. Around 60 percent of US equity is held by American households. The median French or Spanish household holds almost no equity. The median employee at Meta, a company with almost 80,000 employees, earned $388,000 in 2025. This advantage is not going to go away. Krugman's own 1991 paper, cited in his Nobel prize, showed that comparative advantage in modern industries is produced by increasing returns to scale, specialized labor markets, supplier networks and the agglomeration of suppliers, workers, and ideas in particular places. Once an industry concentrates somewhere, the concentration is self-reinforcing. Europe is being pushed away from the next round of technology industries (AI!). 3. What about inequality? Another retort is that GDP per capita hides substantial inequality, and so even if America is rich on average, this is mostly due to the super wealthy. But despite the US's high pre-tax income inequality, it also achieves higher median incomes than Europe, in part because of such a high base, and in part because it actually redistributes more than many European countries. The cleanest comparison is median equivalised disposable household income: income after cash taxes and transfers, adjusted for household size and purchasing power. According to the OECD's 2021 numbers, the median American earns 30 percent more than the median Dutchman, about 31 percent more than the median German, and about 52 percent more than the median Frenchman. 4. What about hours worked? Krugman points out that while American GDP per person is higher, most of this is because Americans work more. For this divergence to be an hours worked story, Americans must work more relative to Europeans now than they did in 2000. The opposite has happened. Birinci, Karabarbounis, and See in a 2026 NBER paper show that about half of the American-European hours gap that existed in the 1990s has reversed by the end of the 2010s. Americans work fewer hours per person than they did in 2000, while most Europeans work more. 5. Is America not a bad place to live? Walk around Alabama and France: surely the former cannot be substantially richer than the latter? American cities often have poorer centres and richer suburbs or exurbs. European cities preserve richer and more attractive historic cores. A visit to a city as a tourist in America compared with a city in France will leave one having seen different spots on the income distribution. Americans in Europe go to the nicest and richest European cities. Rather than a walking around test, do a driving around test. Go to the periphery of any modern American city and see a level of new-built material wealth that is extremely uncommon in Europe, with thousands of enormous four- or five-bedroom homes. In the South, in places like Nashville and Austin, drive around the downtowns to see hundreds of luxury apartment buildings springing from the ground. This construction boom is replicated virtually nowhere in Europe today. The other question is generational. Housing often costs more in Europe than in the United States, despite the quality of the housing stock generally being much better. Europe has nice city cores but these are inaccessible to young Europeans. Consider the salaries available to entry-level workers. The starting pay for a London police officer is $57,000. In Washington, DC, $75,000. The entry-level Deloitte consultant job in Madrid pays around €28,000, roughly $33,000 per year. In Charlotte, the entry-level Deloitte job pays $63,000. There are many things to dislike about life in America. But relative to 25 years ago, the gap in material wealth has shifted dramatically in America's favor. siliconcontinent.com/p/european-sta…
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@matrix07012 @miriodere @dimenpsyonal We overestimate how much Euros use public transit. When we travel to their cities, we mostly go to the tourist area areas that are super well connected most places in Europe people drive. We should improve our public transit. We exotizise how great other countries have it.
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I know that basically Americans drive everywhere so you feel fuel price changes much more, but I think that due to such a high purchasing power disparity it's a dealable problem.
Interestingly, European and US commute times are very similar despite Europeans traveling shorter distances. So in terms of idling, European drivers definitely idle more.
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