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@jedirich_ The reason Vegas is dead is the gouging of tourists with exorbitant prices, poor service, etc. it’s not due to construction. The strip casinos need to pivot to get tourism back. It’s not field of dreams where if you build it they will come. How did that work out for housing?

Everyone keeps asking if Vegas is “dead”… Meanwhile, this is going up right now. A brand new stadium rising out of the dirt — cranes everywhere, steel going vertical, money pouring in. Not talk. Not hype. Actual construction. And here’s what people miss: Vegas doesn’t build for today’s crowd. Vegas builds for the crowd that’s coming. The same people saying “it feels slower” are looking at surface-level traffic… But underneath? Billions are being deployed. New stadium. New resorts. Massive Strip renovations. Entire sections of the city getting reworked in real time. That doesn’t happen in a dying city. It happens in a city repositioning. Short term: Yeah — fewer bodies, less chaos, not every corner packed. Long term: Higher spend. Bigger events. More premium everything. You don’t build a stadium like this for budget tourists. You build it for what Vegas is turning into. So while people argue in the comments about $20 drinks and “it’s not the same”… Vegas is quietly reloading. What you’re seeing right now isn’t decline — It’s a reset. Give it 12–24 months and people will pretend they always saw it coming.

@JakeWilding1 @JonAguiar I’m not sure either, but if it’s winner take all except 300th there may be a +ev model to punt. Also certain circumstances for exceptionally flat pay scale like 200 payouts. While outlier scenarios I think structure must be defined to get % of punt attempts. May be 0 most scenari

@wrongyetagain @JonAguiar My gut says this is incorrect reasoning, but I only thought about it for like 40 seconds so I’m not 100%

You're in a march madness pool with ~300 entries, mostly reasonably smart game theory aware types dead last (has to submit a bracket) gets 2.5x the buyin back How many entries are going to attempt to punt for last?

@GrageDustin How to spend almost 30 million fixing a pool at Pan Pacific Park while making it smaller and less useful!

The world’s most expensive tent city. Coming in 2026. Possibly, maybe.

@ninaturner Same way everything is paid for. Deficit spending devaluing the dollar and more inflation to follow

“How will we pay for it?!”

@lanabeesfw Since the person that keeps saying no evidence blocked me I can’t respond… google.com/url?q=https://…

@lanabeesfw I think it’s fine, but I think that the intimacy and connection to someone you love in the future may be reduced because the act of sex has become less special and doesn’t create the same intimacy anymore. Just my opinion, for both sexes. But live how you want to.

Two of the main responses to this today have been full on nazis and guys saying “so you can fuck a lot of men but im not allowed to rape?????” and yet none of that changes that its actually completely fine to have lots of safe consensual sex with as many people as you want 💕

@190428twenty @BenjiBacker Yes. I’m aware of that sell point. 100 million to prevent a small isolated group of mountain lions from inbreeding. To me that doesn’t equate to smart money management. I find most of the arguments in the “for category” for this ludicrous for that reason.

@wrongyetagain @BenjiBacker This one is specifically for mountain lions - the highways cut them off so they couldn't migrate.

While we're discussing wildlife overpasses, let's discuss why they're important: They prevent ~97% of wildlife collisions They singlehandedly save wildlife populations (and migration patterns) They can save our country $10B per year BUT...they (should) cost $5-15M, not $100M

@MONIPLAYS @lanabeesfw Never said sex wasn’t normal or stigmatized it. To each their own. Encouraging someone to look into predictive outcomes through case studies is a scientific and unbiased approach. I’m sorry if that doesn’t align with your views or hurts your feelings.

@wrongyetagain @lanabeesfw Purity culture is man made BS Active sexual people are going to be sexually active Some will be tame missionary position w/ the end of the bed being the most risqué they get, to happy swinging nudists who love being exhibitionists All normal & part of free will & being human

@MONIPLAYS @uranoutofluck @lanabeesfw In addition I told you to rule out any studies found that you would deem not reputable (because of sample size, control group issues, etc.) I didn’t want to show something you deemed biased.

@MONIPLAYS @uranoutofluck @lanabeesfw Well a personal attack sets the tone. Well done. I was never gender specific. What I stated is true for both sexes. Lots of different metrics have been measured that less sexual partners predict higher success rates for long term relationships. That’s all. Why the anger?

@Andy_Bloch @libsoftiktok Bear also is being misconstrued by you based on originalist interpretations.

@wrongyetagain @libsoftiktok No, the right is to "keep and bear." Part of bearing is carrying. Purchasing is part of the right only because without it you couldn't effectively exercise the right as an individual.

Make it make sense

@Andy_Bloch @libsoftiktok Bear as well is not allowed in all states. Hence open carry states cs those that are not. Concealed even more restrictive. Again illustrative of rights that are constitutionally guaranteed but with some restrictions.

@paradigelina A rich man saves them both

Pau grande salva um homem feio. Mas um homem bonito jamais salvará um pau pequeno.

@mmpiatkowski Restrictive doesn’t mean not accepting. They vetted incoming immigrants to make sure they aligned with cultural norms and denied mostly Muslim asylum seekers. Also other countries in Europe are absorbing those numbers over 1-2 year spans not a decade.

The opposite, actually. Poland 🇵🇱 has absorbed 2.5 million immigrants, more than 6% of total population, over the past decade plus👇. This includes around a million of Ukrainian 🇺🇦 refugees who came after Russia’s aggression. More than 70% of the refugees are employed and have contributed between 0.7 to 1.3 percentage points to Poland’s GDP growth in 2023 alone. They also had a significant contribution to the Polish budget forbes.com/sites/lidiakur…

@micyoung75 Just so you know in 2021 California stopped issuing new licenses for hospices citing widespread fraud. The number of 1/3 of all US hospice care is in CA also just doesn’t make sense. There are giant red flags and no proper investigation has been done. Also no huge intervention.

Nick Shirley’s Minnesota video claimed to expose $110 million in daycare fraud. His claims remained unsubstantiated. State inspectors found the centers operating normally. Many had already been audited. The downstream consequences were not unsubstantiated. Ten billion dollars in child care funding frozen across five states. Two thousand federal agents deployed to Minnesota. An immigration crackdown that killed two US citizens. Now the same playbook opens in California, this time aimed at hospice funding. The $170 million figure is his own. No verified independent sourcing yet. The Minnesota record tells you exactly what questions to ask before the freeze orders and the crackdowns follow the clicks.

@Anpanator @AgroNationalism So you think 52 accidents including medical and follow up costs over a 100 year period justify a 100 million dollar expenditure? Call it 100 accidents. A million dollars per… that assumes the crossing prevents 100% of accidents in the region. I don’t think that is correct

@wrongyetagain @AgroNationalism Again, you ignore medical and follow up costs.

To be clear the wildlife bridge is a good idea. It's a no-brainer money saver. Either pay for the bridge or externalize the cost onto a bunch of different people's cars and lives over time. That's not to mention the loss of the animals lives. Don't let rampant corruption and weaponized incompetentence trick you into thinking good ideas are bad.

@Andy_Bloch @libsoftiktok 3) you were talking about ID to use or carry a firearm. I was saying use is not what the provision in the constitution guarantees. It is referring to ownership, which actually has provisions for not all people as felons are exempted like voting rights.

@wrongyetagain @libsoftiktok I don't know what you are trying to say by 3.

@Anpanator @AgroNationalism Ok by that math 4x those numbers from the last 24years. It doesn’t come close to justifying the cost assuming 100% of those accidents are prevented. Good news is 60 mill is coming from private donations

@wrongyetagain @AgroNationalism Such bridges last somewhere around 70 to 100 years generally. Since they don't have traffic going over them either, maintenance costs are also fairly low (and are considered in the paper).

@Stapes @mynamehear A general increase in all sales taxes 100% is disadvantageous to the poor as they have to spend almost 100% of their earning on essential goods to survive while those with more wealth have an ability to save causing growing gap in inequality.

@Stapes @mynamehear Again you may be right, but exemptions like that have never been part of the conversation. It’s always been in reference to sales taxes on all goods. I don’t think there has ever been a study that excludes essential goods in conjunction with elimination of all other taxes.

Being a billionaire doesn't mean you're in any way intelligent. It means you're willing to do whatever it takes to hoard more than you'll ever need. That's not a good thing.

@Anpanator @AgroNationalism Ok for the agoura hills crossing there have been 13 total non domesticated animal collisions on the 101 in the last 24 years of animals over 40 lbs in that region. 12 mountain lions and 1 black bear.

@wrongyetagain @AgroNationalism trid.trb.org/View/2122530 here's one example. It's region dependent of course, but the paper works with threshold values where it becomes economically viable (measured in accidents / km of road). So all you have to do is look up those statistics for any given area and calculate.