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Free refills advocate. Radio shows on @kzsu ( @henrygeorgepgm and @earfulof ‒currently analyzing "Jumper" (2008)). Quaker. Homeownership 👎. The Chawly Changer 👍

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@the_transit_guy And that’s with an unrealistically low percentage of the cars with only one passenger
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@balajis A photo of these roads of the future
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@ERCboxoffice The film was financed in order to shovel more prestige towards Apple Call it a “loss leader” if you want
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@JakeAnbinder This seems wrong, I distinctly remember the term bubbling around a few years before
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@jeremylovesyall I felt pure hate during this segment, it’s the worst I felt all year
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@NotABigJerk Sometimes you could end up spending 15 years at a baseball message board frequented by 120-170 people
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@AnonymousLeftie The incentives are too strong to strategically withhold evidence, anti-corruption demands that this isn’t even an option
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@_Jason_Dean_ "Fog Bot" is a really terrible shortening tbqh
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Ladies and gentlemen, the best Palo Alto Online post of all time
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I remember when cars were KING
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@JakeAnbinder Why are you asking them to submit .doc files
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@ERCboxoffice Certainly got the gold, but honestly I only hear about CODA in reference to “most forgettable best picture winner ever; feels like a TV movie; etc”
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@notkavi I really don’t understand how they haven’t undergone any sort of tree-planting campaign in the last century, it’s so fucking bleak
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@IchabodYuckster @Pureevilbich He’s a deeply weird guy, but absolutely a real pro
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@north0fnorth Weird alleyways, parking lot boundaries, and bizarre parcel shapes… you better believe that’s an old railroad
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The only Supreme Court Justice with the guts to point out that Prop 13 is bullshit, RIP @SNordlinger
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UPDATE: the legendary “Milton Friedman says that Prop 13 will work out great” ad has been located Wanna see it? You can simply… (1/2)
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@bufordsharkley I want to see this so bad
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@Calkent A key reason Finland is able to pursue a vigorous, transformative path to housing everybody is that they generally *don't* allow private speculation via fee-simple landownership
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@jakebrodes Open container laws are a conspiracy
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Our braindead non-profit class only know how to do one thing: instinctively oppose any reform It's so harmful that they take "mandated parking" as the baseline, from which to extract concessions This is such a broken, utterly harmful form of "value capture"
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@DavidCamposSF @tolles @Wagnerian @pailhead011 @blogavism @SteierMisha @dbroockman @MattHaneySF You can bring in new people and not displace a single person (but you need to build buildings)
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@PierreDelect @mindyisser Love to see woke framings that we owe nothing to anyone else, and that society should be far more atomized
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@vihkee @astraygay Chimps can do things with their memory that humans can't
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@gracefurby There was previously a mall, but not of this grand style
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Why does Palo Alto's NIMBY think tank fear me?
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Unpopular opinion: minimum wage should be set automatically as a fraction of median rent within a 30-minute transit ride
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@smokeismedicine He’s right when concerning cars and other large vehicles, he’s wrong when concerning pedestrians Pedestrians can always do whatever the hell they want, jaywalking is fake, etc
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@skrillidex @TheChowderhead This is the canonical one
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@JakeAnbinder Use git and txt files like an adult
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@ByYourLogic I went to a museum in fourth grade where they *still* had a model demonstrating the tongue map, but had a sign up next to it saying "this model is now understood not to be true" Baffling to me that they didn't just remove the exhibit
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@JabariBrisport Saying "we won't build anything until external subsidies arise" isn't very serious: this is why EZ proponents in rich areas push for a *maximum* of subsidized units: they know nothing will get built
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@HeerJeet Making your politics downstream of tone policing is a good way to end up with some pretty stupid positions
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@ModeledBehavior Marx didn't villainize landlords enough, actually
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@supermarke One of the funniest things people do is try to make anti-migrant sentiment seem woke by pretending it only affects yuppies Consider for all of three seconds how badly *low-income* migrants are affected by administered unaffordability
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@ZeroSuitCamus I would appreciate a documentary solely about the ethics of sliming
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@StolenDans One of my favorite photos of all time
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@HeheWaitWhut You should see the 800 page PDFs our consultants are producing though, they’re amazing
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@the_transit_guy I think they had so many cars having multiple passengers because it would look lonely and pathetic otherwise
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1) Housing is a human right 2) Homeownership is a good way for people to "build wealth" Make up your minds, morons
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@Wagnerian This is why Palo Alto has a famously vibrant cultural scene, whereas Berlin has no culture to speak of
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@Down_So_Low @TribTowerViews @daveweigel The purpose of a home is to provide a place to live, and stability. The idea that it also needs to magically accrue in value is bizarre, considering that the flip side of housing being more valuable is *others* finding housing more unaffordable
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@stan_okl Imagine if we didn’t spend the American GDP on auto infrastructure
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Palo Alto NIMBYs consistently producing the best propaganda for SB 50
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@CityOfLasVegas Wow, looks incredibly inefficient
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@TreyWilli @_wayneburkett @Capittalism Check out this map of Cincinnati with the map of its streetcar system at its peak That's a dense, vibrant city several decades before cars murdered it
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@hasanthehun Easy to loudly and publicly advocate for the perfect over the good when you're a real estate investor yourself
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@IDoTheThinking SF's most epic and extreme socialist to the rescue!
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@kiangoh Kian, I’m so sorry that people are dunking on your thread, simply because the things you said are untrue and flatter a very harmful status quo People can be so rude
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The discourse around homeownership reaching levels once thought impossible
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@UrbanLandRent I think part of it was that the Greatest/Silent generation folks were pioneers to the suburbs, and brought their feeling of community to it, with Canasta nights and other shit Boomers were bred in the isolation
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@carterforva America is *unusually* suburbanized (as a result of very direct policies that continue to be in place, such as the 80:20 federal transpo budget favored towards roadways) Any sort of sustainable and livable future depends upon undoing this, not taking it as a given
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@drmistercody @Nermalone It’s a great way to milk viewers for over a half hour
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@CoinBeaver @quiroz923 @siddharthvader_ @JakeAnbinder That could be a newer edition (and based on typography, almost certainly is)
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@_johnsonator This road is way too big though
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@marcelemoran It’s worth noting that supermarkets as such did not exist until suburban trends took hold Smaller footprints that catered to urban residents were the norm up to the 1920s (and which generally featured delivery as a first-class feature)
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@jdcmedlock One of the most insightful and inspiring things Matt has commented on is the Finnish general strike of a few years ago, and how it necessarily depended upon the solidarity of many, many people *who were not cool at all*: a leftism only for cool people is a non-starter
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@who_shot_jgr The ads were 100% “don’t you want money to fix the roads?”, with no mention of the railroad Wholly funded by NS
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@aquaimperium8 I have more faith in the people who have developed a religious zeal of going to the ballot box, as opposed to the people who think every election is transparently rigged
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@skip_sf @DeanPreston This is one of the big "whoa" things that is kind of obvious when you think about it, but so many people miss: High vacancy rates are *good* for tenants, and it's really just puritan mindset that makes us think otherwise
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@firagawalkwthme You can’t have a truly perverse tragedy without moments of genuine sweetness
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@justinamash Maybe you should leave your party, because these sort of violations of the Constitution is its bread and butter.
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@slothropsmap How long would it take to run grep on it?
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@MaxRose4NY The floor of your apartment does not seem to be congested with cars, so the correct congestion price should be $0
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@DeanPreston @DSA_SF @FIABayArea Why is bringing housing units onto the market a good thing?
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@ChadNotChud It simply edged out Esperanto in a global poll
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@mtsw The bill author is a member of my DSA chapter, and we supported it
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I fucking love science (A CEQA-mandated 187-page report about "aesthetics and visual quality", required for moving the high-speed rail project forward)
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@ArmandDoma I dream of a world of decommodified parking abundance, free at the point of service
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@BearCurd Sounds like an argument that we need more nimble policies to stabilize fast food prices in order to protect social democracy and prevent fascism
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@ryxcommar I think California should form an alliance with Texas just to support the film industry
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@policyfailure People who threaten to move to Europe if Trump gets re-elected: suck it up, stop whining, try to make your corner of the world better People who threaten to move to Europe because America's entrenched urban planning failures: okay, I get your point
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@lunch_enjoyer This is why kiosks are good
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@ctbeiser I read a lot of archived newspapers, and I really miss what we lost (a heavily curated and cultivated and processed sort of *official channel*), but what we gained is this Our brains are all struggling with the transition, imo
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@PierreDelect @mindyisser Your tweets are indistinguishable from a pro-cop psyop People don't want to see other people blow smoke into an infant's face, if you're gonna frame this as regressive carceralism, I think you're basically gonna lose everybody
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@ojblanchard1 Means-testing simply isn't worth the administrative overhead necessary to achieve very dubious ends (at best, it's probably counterproductive, for moral hazard reasons alone)
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@daguilarcanabal @DeanPreston I discovered some vacant units in West Portal These vacant units are in the sky, nobody's living in these units
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@Shane_maps Automobile-centric atomization is low-key the greatest driver of right-wing ideology
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@artisanrocky It just shows how nationalism is a hollow framework "Oh, we should only respect the *real* nations, not the *fake* ones" Dude, they're all fake, everything is ultimately fake
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I love how "abolish homeownership" is more controversial and threatening than "abolish capitalism" for 95% of people
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@AccordionTomato @jacob__posts He said a moderately goofy phrase and is wearing a weird hat, which means that he's not to be taken seriously
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@smilingnodding @bread157 Is the furniture any good?
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@grahamwelling16 @TribTowerViews @mtsw @markvalli If you're "cash poor" but "real estate rich", you're rich The idea that real estate holdings don't count for some reason is just enormously strange
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@be9a0013 @cushbomb The weirdest thing is that Jimmy Wales was inspired by objectivism to found Wikipedia, which feels like the least objectivist institution out there
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@godkingplus @LeftistSense @pastryStout Everybody says "oh, I'm not classist, I'm just a process wonk!" The process is *how* the classism is perpetuated
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@crowcialist Good argument for worst state government overall, but definitely #1 in terms of “promising cities held back by bad state government”
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@jdcmedlock One 30 hour day
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@PplsCityCouncil Civilians should simply be empowered to light up illegally parked cars with flamethrowers
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@seanmc_99 @IDoTheThinking I like how your “maximally revolutionary” proposal is all about acquisition and distribution, but not at all about production Such a fundamentally babyish way of thinking
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@pattymo This baby is already fighting a war
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@MioHondaFan @ChadNotChud I'm opposed to means-testing, so of course they should continue to receive welfare
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@cafedujord They should all move out to give the mountain lions more space
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