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@SamaHoole @DomVR Are cashews or pecans as bad?

@FairweatherPhD Amtrak takes 1:30 to 1:45 for the trip. Amazing to be faster than driving at most times.

I have to plug Milwaukee too. Chicago would be growing faster if it wasn't losing residents to Milwaukee, which is only an hour away by train. Milwaukee is gaining so many residents that it has the some of the fastest home price growth and rent growth in the country.

New favourite clip from Japanese news just dropped

@WomanDefiner No matter who wins in 2028 we will have a crisis. Probably also a drone war at this rate.

Every major city has the same predictable crisis: unaffordable housing, endless sprawl, and politicians wringing their hands about "equity" while actively making everything worse. The culprit? Height and zoning restrictions that artificially cap density and force people to compete for a deliberately constrained housing stock. When government bureaucrats decide that no building can exceed some arbitrary number of stories, they're essentially rationing land in the most expensive cities on earth. Wild. Then these same economic illiterates act shocked when prices explode and working families get priced out. The solution is embarrassingly obvious. Let property owners build as high as the market demands. But that would require admitting that central planning failed spectacularly, and we can't have that. So instead, we get more subsidies, more "affordable housing" mandates, and more regulatory theater while the real problem — government-imposed artificial scarcity — continues to destroy urban life.

What is the real inflation rate based on Dave Collin’s 1980 data point to the present? My last meal in New York City included a $17 prosciutto sandwich in July 2017.

@rbarbosa91 Who likes boob jobs? So long as lady has a handful, it’s all good. I’m still using my @oneirongolf irons I bought with my 2010 tax refund. Spend your money on #whisky, #bullets, and #silver bullion. You have a #FN #FiveSeveN? #Five-sevenN #silverbullion

@rbarbosa91 The physicians need to publicize the statistic that physician pay is only 8% of US medical spending. The public thinks it is so expensive because their MD is making 10 times their salary. Admin bloat is why medical treatment is expensive.

@ScrimboSaggins @rbarbosa91 So long as the money is going to my class interests! More pay to attorneys, accountants, and male models, eh?

We have to get clinical pay up and administrator pay and burden down. If experienced attorneys and accountants, geeks like me, make hundreds per hour, physicians should make more. If physician pay is only 8% of US ‘health care’ spending, trimming bureaucrats are the low hanging fruit.

I think it's hilarious that some people think I should train for 14 years after high school, take q3 call and get woken up for nonsense every third call and real cases every fourth, keep them from bleeding to death through a literal pin hole, or save their life from various causes of sepsis FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME. I love taking care of patients and think what I do is the coolest thing in the world, however with all the bullshit *gestures around broadly* I would strongly advise you get off my back about my pay. If you think for a second I won't sell my house and truck and move into a mobile home to live out my days with my dog, you're SORELY mistaken. I came from the dirt and would return to the dirt. Don't try me. Fix medicine and we can have a reasonable discussion about pay. Start with firing half of the people with an administrative title. You don't need to screen them. They aren't needed.

The situation in Illinois is operating exactly how it's been designed by the democrats They've built it by funneling as much taxpayer money as possible to two groups 1. Unions 2. Migrants and their communities via healthcare and welfare spending. Both of these segments also have attached contractors, NGOs, advocacy groups, etc all dependent on the flow of dollars confiscated from those who earned them. This creates a system of well organized institutions who get out the vote and donate to the party monolithically. Sprinkle in a solid segment of run of the mill liberals who choose their politics based on what they think it signals about the type of person they are, and you've got a coalition thst will never lose.

@earlyvotedata @MaxNordau We should move in with the British airbase in Cyprus.

As an American the single biggest thing that repulses me about Europeans is the fact that when you ask for relatively simple and easy things, they kick and scream at you like you are some sort of monster. The USA is done being used. Get in the game or sit on the sidelines.

@SaysSimulation The federal government borrows the money. Congress distributes it to the states for welfare, infrastructure, ‘health care’ and student loans. Then the grifters and the connected industries recycle the money to the blue machines. That’s the blue state economic model.

@SaysSimulation The COVID bailout of blue state budgets prolonged the blue state largess. Politics here in Illinois is not ideological. If the Chicago machine can’t distribute federal money, the whole thing crumbles. The coming recession is the chance to let the blue states crash.

The case for National Divorce boils down to three salient points: 1. It avoids civil war 2. It is now financially required 3. Because I live in a deep-Red state, my family wins without bloodshed, guaranteed Let's start with #3, which may be the most controversial for the RW. 1/