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@allgarbled OK real answer you want to be able to feel the music in your body, which requires volume
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Many political commentators take it for granted than manufacturing is the only route to high-paying blue collar jobs.
Construction jobs are just as viable, and unlike manufacturing, there's no global competition. In fact, there's a major housing shortage!
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@transscribe just pass a law that says you’re replacing obamacare with the aca
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@AlexGodofsky @nominalthoughts violent crime should rightfully be a higher priority but yeah, could use some improvement there too
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@nominalthoughts the very first thing I tried to buy in nyc today was behind locked glass and I had to find a store employee to open it
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Although, one thing that pisses me off is that NYC genuinely is a low crime city with police everywhere you walk, yet nobody hammers this point home
Maybe tout the success of your 8 million person, very liberal city that's contributed trillions to global GDP ffs
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@MattBruenig @mattyglesias then i don’t understand why electeds are turning to them at all. if you had a real priority you wanted to accomplish, why would you let them get in the way?
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@mattyglesias @MattBruenig many of the electeds have been there for years before this started though, haven’t they? why would they still be looking at those groups like authority figures?
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@MattBruenig @mattyglesias would anything at all happen if they just ignored those groups?
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@Benjami89700129 @Patrick_Wyman local elections often get like 10% elections lol. not much ‘mass’ there
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@Patrick_Wyman If we live in a mass media age then those people actually have way less cultural power than media, cultural and technocratic elites.
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Not having to live in a political world that caters to third-generation car dealership owners, fast-food franchisees, construction-company heirs, and all the rest of the multimillionaires who make up the backbone of our local gentry would be nice.
J.Christopher Proctor@Jcproctor29
@Patrick_Wyman You just had an election without a Clinton, Bush or Biden. What more do you want?
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People love proposing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 like it doesn’t already exist
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@dylanmatt ok, pass a bill doing it anyway. if it’s already the case then nothing will happen and no harm done, right?
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If can set aside all the harm of this institution, it's kind of funny to think that a pillar of US "planning" has become: convene all the most insane people in the community and let them compete to say the most absurd things before building anything.
Charlie Gardner@OldUrbanist
Speaker 2: observes buildings are four stories high, compares emergency danger potential to 9/11 terrorist attack.
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@PEWilliams_ @ernietedeschi @mattyglesias yes! ive been furious about this the whole time and idk why people don’t mention it more
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@ernietedeschi @mattyglesias The checks I get...but what else in ARP is even supposed to be particularly inflationary? Not every federal dollar has the same inflationary impact—SLFRF money spent on wastewater plant capital projects obv does not have the same impact as someone getting $600.
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we have to baseline this with Europe
they ran a traditional slow-growth don't-overdo-it recovery that has cost the continent in terms of growth and productivity
and they still had a massive inflation spike that voters hated because inflation was mostly an energy shock effect
Betsey Stevenson@BetseyStevenson
Economists are going to have to reckon with the fact that the public would have preferred a slower recovery with much higher unemployment, as long as prices had been stable.
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Western engineers often have no exposure to the cheap CNC work being done in China.
Your milling costs are China's margin
Samuel Stone@SamWStone
@boxcardavid Stamping. Laser cut fan profile, then bent to shape. Either than or die cast/injection mold. I wouldn't be surprised if it was plastic with a shiny coating. Even at 1000 quantity, even in China, you're looking 100/part for cnc.
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@pachabelcanon if there’s supposedly tons of people smarter than him, where are their space companies
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@NickTagliaferro there’s an interesting asymmetry here.
d cities- nyc, sf, etc- are highly visible. people nationwide know about their problems.
but there are no r cities that big. when r cities/areas have problems, they’re less concentrated for reporters to focus on easily
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As a researcher, this graphic from the NYT stood out to me pre-election as a good representation of the vibe and emotional state of the nation.
Lots to be unpacked here.
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@moseskagan Now you can’t evict a tenant in LA for substantial renovation with permission. They won’t have any work because LA City council is essentially turning property owners into slum lords
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Believe me when I tell you:
We were *not* getting emails like this '20-'23
(Nor were we getting drop-in visits from landscapers, etc., which are also happening pretty regularly now.)
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@WillBredderman this seems pretty standard for influencers. ‘new video in 3 days!’ ‘get ready for new vlog!’ ‘so hyped for tomorrow!’ etc etc
youtuber candidate might be the future
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So maybe that’s what it takes to break through in the popular consciousness with something like infrastructure: just grinding, mind-numbing repetition, with absolutely constant adulatory events, so you’re on everybody’s TV and news feed seeming to accomplish something
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When Andrew Cuomo decided to make infrastructure his brand, he’d do 5-10 news hits announcing the same project. Any funding allocation, any physical or bureaucratic progress, was an occasion for a press conference, w/construction workers and contractors and local pols
Blake Allen@Blake_Allen13
10) Legitimate Democratic accomplishments under Biden never broke through to voters which is probably some mixture of voter apathy towards the Democratic policy suite & Democratic comms failures
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@Conblob Maybe it’s time to do “neighbor polls” on every other issue. “What do you think your neighbor would say about inflation?”
x.com/mbateman/statu…
Matt Bateman@mbateman
The French Polymarket whale commissioned polls with a specific alternate methodology, the “neighbor method” 1. What a baller 2. What a killer example of how betting markets can surface contrarian, high quality signals
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A lot of Biden’s policy choices (ARP, Afghanistan, labor) represented big shifts from prior Dem policymaking. It was an attempt to “learn from past mistakes” and tbh the real lesson is that voters are chronic liars, and you have to find what they’re lying the least about.
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