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@aaron_renn Subsidizing people to live in disaster prone areas is bad actually. Case in point: California wildfires.

This is truly extraordinary, the idea that the government would agree to de-electrify territory. An incredibly potent symbol of America moving in a direction of decline.

@ZoyaHighVibe @HowEPhil Yeah I guess the point I’m trying to make is infrastructure being too small to support the busiest handful of days a year actually feels like a good design choice. Eg if you built every road to never have a traffic jam they’d all be 8 lanes.

I like the way you said that and you have a future in planning — it is stingy !!! considering it’s a mixed building use in a neighborhood with so many zones happening simultaneously and in the end a lady who wants to pop in for a dress at what would be normal commerce is stuck We need chik fil a level parking design and then we can probably pump SO much human capital / time spent in and out of this area

whispers in humanities Robert Moses highways of Long Island meet Atlanta Parking Garages in the “fun” neighborhood * to curtail weekend flow from out of town while remaining a tourist destination to the demographic who can go on non holidays and weekends is a feature not a flaw in certain infrastructure design PCM was designed by the same people who worked in NYC — culturally mixed but economically segregated * this claim is based off autistic pattern recognition and has zero research behind it *

@Jabaluck @avidseries Why would I have asked if I knew the author?

@rushmoor11 @avidseries Yes and yes. I know the author well and I know the journal editor well. Do you?

If you're confident in your beliefs because dumb people don't have answers, you are making an epistemic error. The best evidence suggests affirmative action probably increased wages on net; net benefits for URM applicants exceeded harms to white and asian applicants. @avidseries

@Barry59700119 @MercuriusFilius IMO to your point #2 a 90% levered company implies they have the earnings stability to service the debt. Hence it’s the better buy.

@MercuriusFilius Lots of angles to approach this. 1)It doesn't matter (once you own the business, you can capitalize it however you like). 2) Depends on stability of earnings/cf. 3) Depends on the fund's mandate. 4) Par vs market value - the $90 par value of debt case with only $10 equity means

How would you answer this common Silver Lake interview question?

@WTFtherealjt @GreenPlusAnE @MarcGoldwein The point is they are rich from their assets outside of social security. Retired people of the highest net worth of any other demographic so why do they get so many additional benefits and tax breaks paid for by lower net work people?

@GreenPlusAnE @MarcGoldwein Your chart is per couple which means the payout per person is 46,726 or 3893 per month. Per person. That’s not a “rich” retiree.

America has the most generous welfare state in the world, for rich retirees.

@ajlamesa How long do social measures take and how confident are you in their efficacy vs having more police around?

Brandon Johnson isn't wrong that you need a holistic approach to public safety, but his mistake is to dismiss the value of more police *alongside* social measures.

Journalist: Does more police equal a safer environment [on transit]? Brandon Johnson: I mean, clearly that's not, no, it doesn't. Right?

@cartographer_s Beautiful. Reminds me of marriage of the virgin by Raphael.

Ana Kapor

@EYakoby @AriFleischer lol and remember when everyone was falling over themselves to say how hot she is? Truly an insane moment.

Turns out, Zohran Mamdani’s wife is racist, homophobic, antisemitic, anti-white, and loves suicide bombers. The Progressive Caucus has not said a word. Weird.

@HoracioOli14981 @EggerDC Yes but also the last 5 pages of that book will have you depressed for weeks. The border trilogy should be talked about more than blood meridian. True masterpiece.

@EggerDC His best novel is The Crossing. I will die on this hill.

I love Cormac McCarthy but I also feel like everybody clowning on this post just has a different axe to grind with Rufo, because "just not in the mood to get pounded by unrelenting nihilism for 350 pages" is a perfectly respectable reason to go read something else

@MoodyBlueliner @mattyglesias Tastemakers in this case are busybody bureaucrats

@mattyglesias Because the tastemakers have bad taste, at least when it comes to architecture.

@andrew_anon_ @KelseyTuoc Here on planet earth I value high trust and when someone violates that they steal that trust from everyone else.

@KelseyTuoc Back on planet earth petty theft at Whole Foods is not even a rounding error on Amazon’s balance sheet

I doubt that anyone I know steals from Whole Foods, but the milieu that the article depicted, where it's normal for perfectly well-off people to steal things because why not, was really upsetting to read about, so I actually want to try to earnestly explain why you shouldn't do this just in case there's someone out there who has never had it explained to them. When a business opens - or really, as soon as a business starts making plans to open - a defining question for the business is how it will collect payment for the goods or services it provides. If you trust the people you sell to, you can be pretty relaxed about this; send people an invoice, most of them will pay it on time, any who don't will pay it a bit late. You have to think about convenience and mistakes but not about people trying to cheat you. This saves you so, so much defensive planning to make sure you get paid. It's so much easier. But if you're selling to the general public, you do have to think about people trying to cheat you. You have to structure the physical store so that it's hard for them to steal. You have to not carry some items that you'd like to sell, because they'd also be attractive targets to steal. If people swap price tags between items, you can't use stickers. If people put things on in the dressing room and wear them out, you need to pay someone a full time salary to monitor the dressing room. The world that we all live in is much poorer than the world we'd live in if people didn't steal. The stores don't carry things that they could carry if people didn't steal. They don't use pricing and inventory systems that would be way easier and more convenient if people didn't steal. But it could be much worse! If I walk down to my local Whole Foods today, items on the shelves won't be locked behind sheafs of plastic - that is only worth it when the background rate of stealing is much higher than it is at my local Whole Foods. When more people steal, businesses have to further intensify security, or go out of business. When you shoplift, you directly and unambiguously impoverish your community. You make prices higher for everybody else, you make stores less usable for everybody else, or you make businesses not viable that would otherwise be viable. The direct impact each time is small, but it's a lot larger than the direct impact of taking some trash out of the trash can to throw on the ground, or pouring just a tiny bit of poison into your local river, and most people have a deep, instinctive abhorrence of antisocially wrecking your community like that. So don't steal. The other thing that it seems possible some people might not understand is that while you might have a social circle that is incredibly nihilistic and cynical and thinks that everybody steals, in fact this is not true. Most people do not steal. Most people, if they learn that you steal, will lose more respect for you than you had to lose. I don't know anyone who has shoplifted except 'as a kid/teenager'. It is not always the case that virtue is rewarded and vice is punished but even before you bring the legal system into it, the risk-reward tradeoff of having everybody you know know that you steal things sometimes is absolutely terrible. Who would hire someone who steals things? Who would trust them around a vulnerable person? Who would want to live in a society with someone who will delightedly and routinely wreck it for the slightest personal benefit? I hope that "Gina" turns her life around. I hope that Gina realizes that she needs to. And if you have been told that it's just a corporation or that having ethics is lame or that if you think about it, other bad things happen too, like wage theft, so that means stealing is okay, I hope you really, actually, think about whether you'd accept any of those as excuses for anything else.

@old_memory This level had the most sad music as you’re burning the windmills.

Medal of Honor: Frontline

@cremieuxrecueil The same people who will chastise you for not voting will then go and try to get out of jury duty. Unlike voting your personal decision in a jury actually matters and can change the outcome.

Serious note: This may be funny, but it's likely part of why juries are retarded and often award damages to people who don't deserve it. I'm convinced that since smart people try to get out of jury duty, juries are much less effective than they should be. How do we fix this?

@mattyglesias Her voice was stunning.

@StickelTedward @GuyBeinDude @dilanesper Do you not understand that generalizations contain their exceptions?

@GuyBeinDude @dilanesper So no one flies first class or business class anymore?

Since I have the travel bloggers mad at me, I might as well go all the way. Their broad claim is that in flight service is a super important distinguishing factor that drives purchasing decisions and hundreds of millions of dollars in purchasing revenue. It's not true.

@shinakira00 @extradeadjcb Emasculated? Bossgirl? What? Can no two characters do anything that doesn’t have some culture war interpretation for you?

@rushmoor11 @extradeadjcb You definitely aren't. Let me guess...Dunc getting emasculated by the strong black bossgirl is ok because it's just one scene? Yea you're on the same side you've always been

Watched the first episode last night Tons of millennial vulgarity & theater kid jokes that don't land I'm told it gets better People must be desperate

@Haytham700 @RepFine Ok what contributions are those places making to the world now? Do you know what a self own it is to bring up algebra?

Muslims did not build their legacy by dehumanizing others. Muslims built universities while others were burning them. They pioneered algebra, advanced medicine, refined the scientific method, and preserved the knowledge that fueled the Renaissance. Baghdad, Córdoba, and Cairo were centers of science, trade, and coexistence when much of the world was fragmented. If we are going to talk about “choice,” let’s choose facts over prejudice and history over hostility.

If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one.