More & more people see that
#NationalDivorce
is the answer.
Thereβs no good reason to share ground or govt with people who hate us.
Life is too short to live with unnecessary strife.
One of the reasons I keep workingβ¦
my 2023 property tax bill $61,514.69
(paid in 2 instalments)
Add in house insurance and 2 kids in private school and thatβs a big nut before weβve turned on a light or eaten a bite.
Luckily I like our business and enjoy working.
@stinkity
@raadzzi
Advocate for more housing to be built so landlords are complaining about not being able to find tenants the same way employers have been complaining about not being able to find enigub employees.
I haven't watched it, but I feel like Squid Game's critique of capitalism makes a common mistake, which is that it makes the elites overtly evil because they're entertained by suffering.
Parasite is way more on the mark. The rich family simply doesn't think about the poor.
@JasonKirell
It's because the debt owner knows it's unlikely they'll be able to collect that money.
It's kinda like how mortgage bonds became worthless as people defaulted in 2008.
It is literally impossible to be a new housing development.
You have to be thin to avoid shadows, but not too thin or else you're a pencil tower. You're supposed to be pretty, but not so pretty so as to stand out because you're supposed to fit in with the neighbourhood.
It's wild how America only has 9 cities with more than a million people, while Canada has 5.
American cities really just do not have much regional power outside NYC
I find it very funny people use Paris to show that we don't need tall towers to have a lot of density, but never make explicit the flip side, which is that everywhere has to be covered with at least a 4 storey building.
@TheJustiest
@jackpaulsartre
@WriteToRebel
If you live in a swing state or swing House seat, any Democrat is way better than the Republican.
If not, you gotta hope others come through. Your votes in local elections and primaries still matter. Vote for candidates with effective policies to fight climate change.
I feel like this argument misses the mark because it implies the problem is lead times when that's not really the case. We could run the computer more frequently than once a year.
The actual problem markets solve is getting participants to honestly reveal their preferences.
@Staroxvia
You have to consider that some crops like apples take many years to bear fruit.
So how about I lend them my wheat, and then they will give me a token for me to exchange for apples in the future. To compensate me for waiting they'll give me more apples that current exchange rates
Do we really want a for-profit grocery store opening in our communit?
No. We need to change the system of how we get food by holding out for an affordable grocery store. I do not care who gets hurt over the many years this will drag on. This is the fight. No for-profit food.
I'm flabbergasted by this attitude. This has been front page news for days.
The displacement of ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh actually went under the radar. Thousands and thousands of civilians died in the Tigray War, which most people never heard of.
It's mind-boggling that living in a condo, taking public transit, and cycling are coded elite while living in a detached house with a private yard and driving a car are coded working class in certain left-Nimby climate justice circles.
How do people not understand that there's data on how people commute. Drivers are a small minority, and hundreds of thousands commute by transit, not by car.
NYCβs congestion pricing plan is an unfair double tax on the hundreds of thousands of New Jerseyans who commute to the city each day and will only worsen affordability concerns for my constituents. Last week, I made clear to
@USDOTFHWA
and
@MTA
my serious concerns with the plan.
@Lux_Stella_
I've always felt this way about depictions of how people appear in heaven in media too.
Picking one point in someone's life and declaring it to be their "truest" self is going to raise some questions.
People are only "priced out" of cities because that is the mechanism markets use to alleviate a shortage.
In a non-market system, people would simply be "waitlisted out" .
The fundamental problem is not enough housing for everyone.
Did people really think the towers that had a bunch of void floors to go taller because they had a legally limited FAR actually constituted a bunch of housing.
@Lux_Stella_
No way an American would imagine "South American" to be a valid answer to "what type of American are you"
Very much discredits Alex Garland's ability to understand America.
People gotta stop acting like subrubanization was a natural expression of consumer demand and not shaped by idealogical projects that subsidized and shaped suburbs.
I just remembered my unique hot take, which is that AC is climate friendly and people treating it like a problem is due to urbanists not liking the Southwest for the separate reason of sprawl, and the general Puritan vibe of enduring suffering being good.
"Police unions aren't real unions" is a pretty weak cope to avoid recognizing that unions aren't always good.
Like it's just kicked the can down the road to "what makes a union a real union."
@yjXnj94
@vivrantny
If you stop building new cars, used cars become more expensive pretty quickly.
Same goes for housing.
The best outcome is to push for a lot more housing being built in rich neighbohrhoods. This is the second best one.
@GeorgeKoral
@StatisticUrban
This statistic counts production emissions, so all GHG emissions are credited solely to the producer of the fossil fules rather than the consumer.
So the gas in people's cars would be counted against Shell or Aramco instead of the people driving.
People will be like "run government like a business" and mean "run government like the cheapest boss you've ever seen that drove every employee insane and resulted in short term cost savings but lower productivity and higher turnover"
@BustYoTaco
@stinkity
@raadzzi
They lie because they don't want to have to raise wages.
Same goes for landlords. They'll complain until they have to decrease rent.
I still don't get why voting isn't enough public input for city plans.
Why do we need to go to a smaller less representative sample size to make land use decisions.
@leahfrombklyn
You'd be laughed out of court. This is not defamation.
Also as a politician you should come out and say how you imagine not accommodating white people moving in to denser urban neighbourhoods.
Prop 13 is a long-running pyramid scheme that is sustained by California being an economic powerhouse.
The earlier you get in, the better off you are, but even if you get in now, as long as California keeps booming, you'll eventually be better off as newcomers subsidize you.
I think many misunderstand what "housing delayed is housing denied" means.
It's not saying that housing delays will mean housing never gets built. It means that delaying housing results in less housing at any given time.
People in the present cannot live in future housing.
@zoekennedy
@mrbeardofficial
She doesn't like it when people call her fat to insult her. The scale is not a literal arbiter of fatness it's a representation of what people call her (and how she internalizes what they say when she looks at a scale)
The fact that I am not online enough to get what this is referring to without checking the replies really says it all.
They're way off the deep end, average people are just like "cool, e-bikes"
YIMBYs, please learn how to read a room.
There's a shelter crisis - the majority of us cannot afford the existing supply of condos - it is fair for communities to be afraid and grieving.
Change is difficult - it doesn't have to be callous
#TOpoli
Gentrification can happen without any changes to the built form.
It's just richer people moving into a neighborhood and pricing existing residents out.
If there's a shortage of housing in richer neighbourhoods, people will start moving to poorer ones and displacing people.
I know nobody actually takes this definition seriously because it's always applied to toothbrushes and never to Bezos' yacht.
Plus, Marx and Engels are definitely rolling in their graves over this defense of individual homeownership.
This is why I really don't like how people have been "analyzing" Amber Heard's courtroom body language. It's bunk. All it does is confirm priors. We should use actual evidence to determine guilt, not judgements based on personality.
You periodic reminder that 5-over-1s could look exactly like this if the architects had enough humility to learn things long proven to work. But no, itβs trained out of us in architecture school, where I spent 5 years. Been trying to make up for it ever since.
No more gas supply unless it's affordable β
I see a lot of neoliberal sellouts saying the problem is that oil producers aren't drilling enough. That is a lie, there's plenty of oil, there's expensive gas at every gas station, we need affordable gas
@ogredandy
@katewillett
If you only build 100% affordable housing you concentrate poor people in one area, which history shows leads to disinvestment and less prosperity.
European social housing models favour mixed income social housing. The rich and poor living together reduces inequality.
Fun fact, the University of Toronto, which is has more undergrads enrolled than the entire Ivy League.
UBC and Waterloo combined would also surpass the Ivies.
It's the big reason why university applications aren't so wild here. The best universities aren't as exclusive.
@ChadNotChud
They were making fun of the left for calling every boy that showed interest in girly things a trans girl, but then as soon as a boy dresses girly they freak out.
@andreagail_k
@nytopinion
@johnnywharris
Build high density housing or public transit and the other follows.
Just build. That's how the West was built. We need to revive that spirit.
@JettTrj82099
@bengrossbg
The harm principle is very vaguely defined.
One could be argued that his past self harmed is present self by doing something his future self feels weird about
@LinkofSunshine
The academic definition of gentrification is supposed to be about the things people in power do, but people needed a woke way to hate on newcomers so