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@stan_okl

2 years

Goddamn, I just came across this post in LA's Reddit and I don't think I've ever seen Los Angeles and the United States roasted so accurately and devastatingly. The state of our cities really should be a national embarrassment.

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I don't think there's a society in the history of humankind that has done less with more than the United States over the last ten years.

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2 years

These are lines to view vacant apartments in NYC. We're witnessing the collapse of the American dream in real time.

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Once I went to a late-night Thai place kinda drunk and when they asked if I wanted "Thai spicy" I said all dismissively "I'm Vietnamese, I think can do Thai spicy." They brought me a soup that was 93% bear mace and I had to pretend like eating it wasn't giving me brain damage.

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@ymmayer

7 months

is anyone from a spicy food culture that goes to another spicy food culture but the people there claim your spicy food is spicier?? why is that? like i went to mexico and i was dying but i’ve heard mexican people say korean food is spicier?? i don’t think so??

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2 years

Very cool that 20 years after 9/11, we're still dumping out throwing out our toothpaste, taking our shoes off and submitting to all sorts of security theatre, but in the midst of a pandemic that's killed near 800k Americans, there's still no vaccine mandate to fly.

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9 months

Been thinking a lot about how Americans should invent a new type of professional wear that works in hot climates. There's all these great examples from Africa, the Middle East and Asia and the default for men is pretending you're in a London basement during the winter of 1880.

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2 years

Cities used to have fun, vibrant cultures because you could make rent working at a coffee shop 20 hours a week. When the people who run your city are committed to not building anything, the brunch spot outbids the dive bar's lease and the normies who go axe throwing outbid you.

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The problem is that the land on which one would sit is extremely expensive in most cities. What Amazon needs to figure out is a stackable version of these, maybe connected by an elevator, so people could share the land costs. This new invention would revolutionize housing.

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Amazon sells these houses for $19,000 because no one can afford a real home anymore.

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2 years

After doing a 30 min screener interview, a 75 min test and an hour follow-up interview, my gf is being invited to take part in a 5-hour secondary interview. For companies complaining that they can't hire in today's job market, maybe stop acting like it's still 2010?

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1 year

LA is amazing because there's segregation that you can literally see from 15,000 feet in the air.

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2 years

It's crazy to think that in cities across America, mayors, council members and thousands of bureaucrats all walk into City Hall every weekday morning thinking "How can I do the shittiest job imaginable today?"

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I don't really like NYC, but one thing I gotta hand to them is their absolute refusal to travel more than two miles to any destination that's not immediately transit adjacent. That needs to be part of the culture in every big city.

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Life in a Red State: -Life expectancy of 49 -32% literacy rate -Largest employer is combo private prison/Amazon warehouse. Red State Legislative Priorities: -Curious George too woke -Guns for babies -Smoking is cool again -Star Spangled Banner always playing, gotta stand

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2 years

One of the most lolsob things about America is that we had far better and more beautiful cities than Europe, but we vandalized them to oblivion with car infrastructure because White people were angry that immigrants had stores and Black people might live several blocks away.

FuckCars

@FuckCarsReddit

2 years

Urban highways literally destroyed Kansas City.

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3 years

Okay, I have an idea to solve homelessness.

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3 months

Americans hate this about our cities as well which is why there's such a premium on rents and home prices in places built up before WWII. We're like Dark Age peasants staring at Roman ruins and wondering how they built such things.

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walking five minutes through bend, oregon, to get a coffee, just to be told that the dutch bros is drive-thru only

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2 years

My dream job is to work at a conservative think-tank funded by one 95-year-old billionaire called The Cincinattus Foundation or something. I'd be the Director of American Thought and make $150k/year to post cringe all day and write essays about how Cicero thought voting is bad.

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2 years

I've been living in DTLA for the last ~3 years so that post resonated with me, but it looks like it resonated with people elsewhere as well. It's important we get involved in local politics because the incumbent political class in many cities is too satisfied with the status quo.

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2 years

America could borrow money basically for free and what did we do? WeWork, SUVs and tens of millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere to make monkey gifs.

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@stan_okl

1 year

The United States just ended an almost unprecedented era of cheap borrowing and instead of building a the most basic ass infrastructure that even middle income countries enjoy, we created the dumbest cohort of millionaires the world has seen in a century.

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@Jason

1 year

The democratic party will not let you be a moderate today, while the republican party is explicitly courting moderates.

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10 months

America has exactly one superpower that gives us the potential to be the greatest society in the history of the world: the ability to receive someone from anywhere on Earth and within a decade not only make them feel American, but seamlessly integrate their culture into our own.

Devon ☀️

@devonzuegel

10 months

A while back, I was talking with a friend who'd moved to the US a few years prior At some point, I said something like "we Americans..." and he froze with shock. He asked, "Wait, do you think of me as American?" Without much thought, I said "Of course!" He paused for a while…

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@stan_okl

5 months

There are between 4 and 11 times more certified yoga teachers in the US than coal miners. About 30,000 more people work at Whole Foods than work in coal mines.

kavi 🌉🚱

@notkavi

6 months

Rural folks do this thing where they're like "you out of touch coastal elite, in REAL America EVERYONE does X" and you look up how many people do X and it's like 1% of the population

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1 year

Lol, just dawned on me that this was installed facing north/south on a street that runs east/west. That means it's not even going to provide any shade unless the sun is directly overhead.

LADOT

@LADOTofficial

1 year

Why this design? It’s adaptable to streets that can’t get a bus shelter and can be affixed to existing bus signs with no new permits required. This simple treatment provides shade during the day and utilizes solar energy gathered to light the stop at night.

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1 year

This is nothing but slander. Noam Chomsky later donated that money to survivors of the Cambodian Genocide and if you don't believe me, just Google "Noam Chomsky Cambodian Genocide."

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@decustecu

1 year

Lmao

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CA should be criticized for the misery their housing policy produces. But it's laughable that Republicans get on a high horse when the entire South has 3rd world homicide rates and can't develop an economy beyond cheap, exploitable labor and pulling stuff out of the ground.

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@BillMelugin_

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Good morning from downtown LA…

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2 years

Everyone is focusing on the fact that she was partying until 4 am, but I'm over here in awe of a country where their political leaders aren't a bunch of geriatrics still hashing out the grievance politics of the 1970s.

Neri Zilber

@NeriZilber

2 years

Finland's Prime Minister is 36 years old, went out clubbing till 4am, left her work phone at home and was therefore unreachable to get a text telling her she needed to quarantine.

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5 months

I have a very strong suspicion that most people think that it's possible to build a new home in a major city that sells for $150,000 and the only reason they don't exist is because developers don't want to build them.

Amazing Zoltan

@AmazingZoltan

5 months

Reporter: "How do you make housing more affordable?" Jagmeet Singh: "By making 100% of the housing affordable." Reporter: "How though?" Singh: "I've talked to a whole bunch of people who told me 'I can't afford luxury condos" Singh brings nothing to the table on this subject.

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2 years

Because this is doing numbers, let me plug 2 things. If you're interested in homelessness, this book is one of the best and most accessible things written on the subject. If you live in LA, help elect @kennethmejiaLA and end segregationist @PaulKoretzCD5 's political career.

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One of the keys to understanding America as a foreigner is that Silicon Valley is probably the wealthiest geographic area on planet Earth and it's also an irredeemable goddamn dump.

Darrell Owens

@IDoTheThinking

26 days

Palo Alto? More like Palo Garbageo. It's just Fremomt with street foliage.

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8 months

I have taught at schools with a 10% acceptance rate and I have taught at schools with a 66% acceptance rate and I am here to tell you the best predictor of whether you will be wealthy and successful is whether your parents are wealthy and successful.

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@CollieYimby

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I went to high school with her and the academic pressure drove 4 students to commit suicide in ONE YEAR. Sad to see she’s just perpetuating a toxic mindset that destroys kids lives.

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8 months

I went into a Walgreens and there were just two employees working in a 10,000 square foot store. Not a criminologist, but I think this might be a greater driver of retail theft than some city council member tweeting "Defund the police."

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1 year

Denmark and Missouri have roughly equivalent populations and GDPs. However while Copenhagen has a driverless subway system that runs 24 hours/day, I once saw people get into a Tazer fight in a Kansas City diner.

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@opinonhaver

1 year

That the US does not massively smash every single measure of health and happiness out of the park is, when you look at how rich this country actually is, honestly very embarrassing. I wish we had more of the kind of national chauvinism that considered things like this a disgrace.

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@stan_okl

7 months

The worst person in California right now is whoever it is whispering in Gavin Newsom's ear that he has a legitimate chance to be President.

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@AP

7 months

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have made free condoms available to all public high school students.

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2 years

Old enough to remember all the way back to 2008 when gas prices were as high as they are today and instead of densifying cities, improving mass transit and mandating stricter fuel efficiency for cars, our government spent the 14 years doing absolutely nothing.

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@stan_okl

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Harvard has a $50 billion endowment--more than the GDP of Latvia--and they still let a bunch of fascist mouth-breathers bully their president into resigning. Congratulations to American universities on winning the 2024 Neville Chamberlain Award for Excellence in Capitulation.

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@thecrimson

4 months

#BREAKINGNEWS HARVARD PRESIDENT CLAUDINE GAY RESIGNS, SHORTEST TENURE IN UNIVERSITY HISTORY @HaidarEmma & @cam_kettles report.

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@stan_okl

7 months

You should lose your license for a year the first time you're caught doing this.

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@the_transit_guy

7 months

You are not a good person if you do this.

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9 months

Americans are fantastically creative people and yet we're all cranking the AC to 11 so we can look like absolute garbage in business casual.

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@stan_okl

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It's true that America is quite a bit richer than even the wealthiest parts of Europe, which makes it all the more frustrating that any part of life should be worse here than there. Everything that's wrong with America is eminently solvable for just a tiny pittance of our GDP.

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There's a European upper middle-class cope which basically says "yes, America might look richer, but there's no work-life balance, culture, or accessible healthcare." What I've learnt moving here is that, no, for genuinely comparable professionals, America is just much richer.

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@stan_okl

2 years

I don't think I've ever seen the failure of the American local government model explained so succinctly as it is in these two paragraphs:

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@stan_okl

1 year

Lots of discourse about how households making >$120,000/year aren't rich and I hope in 2023, we can come to a consensus that yes, they are in fact rich, but the cost of housing in American cities means that being high-income here isn't as good as being high-income elsewhere.

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@stan_okl

3 years

This before and after of a street corner in Dallas between 1950 and 2021 illustrates well how much money and effort was spent making American cities into awful and unlivable pieces of shit.

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@stan_okl

2 years

College is expensive because Boomers stopped paying taxes. A college education is worse because Boomers stopped paying taxes. College admission is more difficult because Boomers stopped paying taxes. Thank you for attending my TED talk.

David Bradford

@bradfowd1

2 years

The @nytopinion won’t accept my comment, so I’ll make it here. I’ve been a university professor for more than 30 years, all in state universities. The problem with college tuition costs isn’t sports complexes, administrator creep, or salary growth. 1/4

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I met a dude yesterday who's almost 40 and has never had a job in his entire life. I feel like LA is one of maybe a handful of cities on planet Earth where you could meet a person like that.

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2 years

The YIMBY movement is taking off so quickly because having your finances wrecked by the skyrocketing cost of housing is an almost universal experience for every American under age 40 who lives in any place that could be even remotely defined as a city.

Catherine Rampell

@crampell

2 years

Where exactly are millennial professionals allowed to live? We got yelled at for living in our parents' basements. We can’t live in big expensive cities, b/c we’ll gentrify or price out retirees. We can't live in smaller, cheaper towns, where we'll displace the locals.

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I am withholding my vote for Democrats because there is no difference between them and Republicans and it is immaterial whether the GOP gains full control of Congress and the presidency. 🫡

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@stan_okl

9 months

I wonder how Minneapolis did this. Did they overthrow capitalism? Did they ban landlord greed by asking 'Housing for whom?' Did they expropriate the (estimated) 900 billion vacant homes in their city? Let's open the article and see what happened up there....

Jeff Stein

@JStein_WaPo

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First American City to Tame Inflation Owes Its Success to Affordable Housing The Minneapolis area has seen an increase in rental units, thanks to a regional effort that included new zoning rules.

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@stan_okl

3 years

Did it hurt? When America's largest state just ended single-family only zoning? #SB9

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@stan_okl

2 years

Every day, I think about the economic marvel that is California. We drive the world's technology in the North, its culture in the South and feed the country from our Central Valley. And yet we've chosen a path of stagnation and mediocrity because every tiny king gets a veto.

Ezra Klein

@ezraklein

2 years

One reason this decision is so galling is California has built exactly one new UC campus since 1965. One! The greatest public higher education system in the world, and we've managed to add one UC campus since man touched the moon.

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10 months

That Clear stuff at the airport security line seems like BS. Like how is a private company able to sell you the ability to cut the line for a security procedure the government mandates all of us go through?

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@stan_okl

7 months

Visiting Austin for the first time and I've concluded that no city that claims to be "weird" actually is. Real weird cities are places like Independence, Missouri and Pueblo, Colorado. Go there and you'll see some shit.

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@stan_okl

2 years

Just once as a treat, I'd like elected officials to treat the decades-long explosion in housing costs with the same level of urgency as gas prices whenever an entire gallon sells for exactly what a mere liter costs in Europe.

ABC News

@ABC

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"A lot of the working poor are destined to retire onto the streets."

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@stan_okl

2 years

I will never understand why Marxists are obsessed with the extremely false idea of investors leaving homes vacant when the real story, homeowners and landlords profiting off gov. enforced scarcity, fits their worldview so much better.

DSA

@DemSocialists

2 years

Finally, we endorse @DSA_SF ’s Empty Homes Tax initiative. Vacant homes put pressure on housing supply in San Francisco, where those w/out homes are criminalized & workers struggle. A tax will require owners of vacant properties to compensate the city for the problems they worsen.

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1 year

As California prepares to make cuts to public services due to yet another budget shortfall, a reminder that we could be done with our 45 year experiment in enforced poverty if we simply repeal Prop 13 and get wealthy homeowners off welfare.

Ashley Zavala

@ZavalaA

1 year

BREAKING: California is bracing for a $31.5 Billion budget shortfall, Gov. Newsom projects. He’s rolling out his state spending plan now, which totals $306.5 billion 🧵

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@stan_okl

3 years

It's not my area of political science, but I seem to recall something from my coursework about it not being the best thing when armed agents of the state refuse to submit to civilian authority.

Alene Tchekmedyian

@AleneTchek

3 years

LA Sheriff Villanueva says that he will not enforce a vaccine mandate, saying employees are willing to get fired over it. "I don't want to be in a position to lose 5, 10% of my workforce overnight on a vaccine mandate."

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The truly nuclear take is that the US has no real cities because we destroyed them all to accommodate cars. NYC has like Daegu quality train service for going N/S in Manhattan and they pile garbage outside like in a refugee camp because millionaires want free street parking.

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real cities new york chicago philadelphia boston san francisco dc end list

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1 year

NYC lost 190 market-rate and 80 deed-restricted affordable homes, but at least they prevented the Manhattinization of [checks notes] literal Lower Manhattan.

Tribeca Trib

@TribecaTrib

1 year

Opponents win lawsuit against Howard Hughes Corp. tower in South Street Seaport Historic District. Judge declares Landmarks Commission approval "null and void."

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2 years

Police across California could fix this by cracking down on the scrap yards that buy stolen catalytic converters, but once again, American law enforcement is a useless money pit.

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@laura_nelson

2 years

If anyone wants a glimpse into my weird reporter brain, every time I have spotted an old Prius over the last two weeks, I’ve thought to myself, “You in danger, girl.”

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When a government can have car infrastructure up in running in about a month, but it takes literal years for them to build a bike lane, you can safely say that mitigating climate change is simply not a priority for them.

Gavin Newsom

@GavinNewsom

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NEW: We expect the I-10 Freeway to be reopened to traffic in 3-5 weeks. The state is working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to get this done.

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Toxic masculinity is dumb, but also, how did it become a symbol of strength and toughness to pilot around a $80,000 easy chair? People on bikes are actually using their legs and dealing with the elements.

Markwayne Mullin

@SenMullin

5 months

Joe Biden doesn't want you to believe your own pocketbook. I just filled up my truck, an F-250 Power Stroke Diesel for $4.68/gallon -- and that's in Oklahoma. To tell Americans that inflation isn't a problem just shows how out of touch this administration really is.

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Also it's good that normies moved into cities because at least they're not paying taxes in the suburbs and burning gas to drive in every day. Just replace every parking lot in every city with 10+ stories of housing and I promise that'll solve the problem in all but like 4 places.

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My spicy take is that the entire Ivy League produces about as many undergraduates as Texas A&M and making changes to improve the quality of education and expand access to state publics will do far more to advance racial justice than endless focus on which 7k kids go to Harvard.

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@stan_okl

9 months

One of the biggest policy failures in the United States is that vehicles aren't taxed by weight. The cheapest Ford F-series should be $100,000.

(((Matthew Lewis))) progressive federalism SOS

@mateosfo

9 months

Number one selling car in North America is a pickup truck that gets 17 miles per gallon. There are ~ 20 million of them on the road. So, that’s ~ 20 million dudes/dudettes/duderinos responsible for this. Unless you think the car industry fooled them into buying those trucks.

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It's pretty funny when you read about cities opposing density because it'll ruin their unique character and then you visit them and they're just the same ten chain stores parked in a strip mall like everywhere else in America.

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Despite the huge reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that building with mass timber provides over steel and concrete, the LA City Council is currently weighing a ban on this type of construction just because the concrete industry lobby told them to.

Andrew Katz

@katzdevelops

1 year

Platte Fifteen is Downtown Denver’s first mass timber building. The cost premium over concrete or steel was less than 2%. The embodied carbon savings was significant. The office was nearly fully leased at TCO with some of the highest rents in the market.

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Every time I go to UCLA, it blows me away that there are single family homes abutting a campus with 45,000 students. It's like seeing the Grand Canyon, pictures just don't do it justice.

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In the next decade or so, there is going to be a massive reckoning in the housing market where properties across wide swaths of the US become uninsurable and thus ineligible for a mortgage.

Sean Sweeney

@seandsweeney

7 months

Spoke to a large multifamily firm active in Florida. Their insurance is expiring on a 300-unit, 90s built deal near Tampa. They told me they can't get a single company to offer them a renewal. Florida is the #1 state in the national for in-migration and has been one of…

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10 months

I think the thing that's holding American democracy together is that Roberts and a few other justices got treated like lepers by DC society after Dobbs and unlike Thomas et al, they're not happy hanging out exclusively with Nazi memorabilia collectors.

Richard W. Painter

@RWPUSA

10 months

Good riddance. Lawyers and academics come up with lots of abstract theories about the law these days. The "independent state legislature" theory is one of the craziest - and most dangerous. In a democracy, state legislatures can't nullify elections.

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10 months

Damn, I wonder why San Francisco is one of America's least affordable cities with an intractable epidemic of homelessness and also a displacement crisis that's both a humanitarian and environmental disaster.

Learn History

@HistoryVibes2

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Downtown San Francisco, 1940.

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@stan_okl

2 years

Conservatives are wrong about what caused this and are wrong about what to do about it, but they're absolutely correct that the moral and governance failure of unsheltered homelessness belong exclusively to elected officials in the Democratic Party.

Benny Johnson

@bennyjohnson

2 years

I just drove through downtown L.A. What is saw shocked me to the core. 3rd world conditions on *every* block. Tent cities. Filth. Drugs. People digging through, living in and eating trash. Broken lives everywhere. This is not America. See for yourself...

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@stan_okl

2 years

@BradSpahn Advertising, but 10ish hours of unpaid interviews is abusive and stupid for any field.

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@stan_okl

9 months

Career advice for young liberals: You must graduate from an Ivy+ to even be considered for media, policy or staff jobs. Work at least two unpaid internships. Eventually, you may land a permanent staff role at $55k in NYC, SF or DC. Career advice for young conservatives: 👇

Aaron Sibarium

@aaronsibarium

9 months

Whenever I’m on a career advice panel for young conservatives, I tell them to avoid group chats that use the N-word or otherwise blur the line between edgelording and earnest bigotry. I’m often asked afterwards why I made a point of saying so. This is why.

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@stan_okl

9 months

Around 80 years ago, America made a choice to forego building a social safety net and instead create a system where your house acted as a defacto stimulus check because it meant that you could hand that stimulus to White people and not Black people without saying so explicitly.

Olga Khazan

@olgakhazan

9 months

The nightmare of housing right now is all I think about. It’s insane that a fluke of timing could leave people locked into houses they don’t want (🙋‍♀️)

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@stan_okl

3 years

The Viet Cong taught us that a small guerrilla army backed by another nation's regular army, with all war production done by two hostile superpowers, receiving substantial logistical support from hostile superpowers, who can run supply lines through neutral third countries...

Jason S. Campbell

@JasonSCampbell

3 years

Rep Madison Cawthorn: "If anybody ever wants to say 'oh, well you know what, citizens with a few small arms fire would never be able to stop the federal government' - I absolutely disagree. Ask the Viet Cong how they handled the Marines and the Army in Vietnam"

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My 🌶️ take on hippies is that yeah they suck, but also they were just a manifestation of American post war wealth in that for the first time, a broad swath of middle class families could support bum ass children well into adulthood.

History Defined

@historydefined

1 year

Interviews conducted with hippies in the summer of 1968 in San Francisco.

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@stan_okl

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Only in San Francisco can one use social justice language to defend a status quo that literally kills entire families just so the richest people on planet Earth can drive a car around one of the few cities in America where you don't actually need to own one.

Armand Domalewski

@ArmandDoma

10 days

An entire family was annihilated by an SUV and someone still had the gall to post this dreck

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@stan_okl

3 years

Having a beer in El Polanco, one of Mexico City's fanciest neighborhoods, and it makes every rich part of California look dumb. Palo Alto is full of dump ass strip malls and Malibu is just a dilapidated parking lot. Money is truly wasted on California's wealthy.

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@stan_okl

1 year

How to engineer a housing crisis in two photos: Yes to mandatory affordable units in new developments, No to the actual projects that will build affordable units for people to live in.

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@stan_okl

2 years

Seems unfortunate that the USSR collapsed right when austerity fetishists ran every western government. For pennies on the dollar to what Putinism costs us, we could've delivered financial aid and institution building rather than just laughing at their poverty through the 90s.

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@stan_okl

9 months

You never gotta hand it to the GOP, but giant swaths of West Coast cities look like Sao Paulo's "Crackland" despite their regional GDPs rivaling entire nations because millionaire Boomer homeowners are madder about apartments than any chud has ever been mad about anything.

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@stan_okl

3 months

I am completely befuddled as to why Texas landlords are simply not keeping a large portion of their rental properties vacant in order to boost average rents and also claim generous tax write-offs.

sam

@sam_d_1995

3 months

The YIMBYs were right all along: building more housing is the only way to lower rents for everyone

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@stan_okl

10 months

The hardest I ever got ratio'ed on this site was when I suggested that households making over $150,000 are rich, but if you want Nordic style social democracy those are the "rich people" you're gonna need to raise taxes on.

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@stan_okl

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If you're wondering why American culture between ~2000 and the present has just been a giant blast of beige, it's because the people who would've produced it have all been sacrificed at the altar of some Boomer's home equity.

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@stan_okl

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I can't believe this is still a thing. Just 3 years ago during the pandemic, everyone who lived in a major city saw new apartment buildings slashing rents and offering **free months** to get people to move in.

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@maxdubler

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@stan_okl

3 months

Forcing busses and streetcars to share space with cars means you not longer have a viable mass transit system. 100 people will be late because 1 person in a car needed to make a left turn.

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

3 months

What *really* killed streetcars? They stopped running efficiently because they were swamped by private automobiles. This stunning colorized footage from 1930s Los Angeles shows it well... 🚋🧵

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@stan_okl

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My face when I go to the website of a new candidate for LA City Council and their housing plan is just "declare housing a human right," "decommodify housing," and "vacancy tax to stop intentional warehousing of apartments."

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@stan_okl

9 days

Someone else brought this up elsewhere, but the same Texas cops that cowered for 50 mins while little kids were being murdered in Uvalde now show up all tough with rifles and body armor to arrest unarmed college kids.

Ryan Chandler

@RyanChandlerTV

9 days

UT/DPS arresting protesting students. DPS confirms at least 4 arrests so far, students not going anywhere soon.

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@stan_okl

2 years

Absolutely gutted to learn that the YIMBY movement has lost the support of Shining Path Willy Wonka and some wine mom Netflix comedian. I was really hoping that we could be a part of the revolution that establishes real communism, which I hear is happening any day now.

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@stan_okl

2 years

There is nowhere on planet Earth where money buys you less than the Silicon Valley. You pay Monaco prices to get suburban Orlando with Bangkok traffic.

mismatched🂻

@uneventomato

2 years

So I’ve only had about an hour in Silicon Valley now But what the fuck is this This is a giant office park. It is indistinguishable from Huntsville. How are you people not embarrassed. You’re supposed to be builders

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@stan_okl

10 months

There have been like 5,000 dumb alternative histories where the Confederacy wins the Civil War, but I just want one where the South remained under occupation long enough for Reconstruction to take hold for formerly enslaved people to build wealth and political power.

Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

10 months

All this talk of merit and fairness when it comes to black folk reminds me of s story my grandma told me. In the MS delta when she was a kid there was this white family that owned a small plot of land on which they grew cotton and some other fruits and vegetables for sale.

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@stan_okl

2 years

Just learned today that an article I wrote is on the syllabus for an undergrad political science course at Yale and it's kind of amazing for me to think that I, the kid of an immigrant single mom, produced scholarship that the kids of oligarchs will bullshit about having read.

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@stan_okl

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About 2.5 years ago, New Zealand passed legislation nearly identical to SB 827, a CA bill that every suburb segregationist and paint-sniffer Marxist opposed. Since then, multifamily construction soared and housing prices in NZ, some of the world's highest, have begun falling.

Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

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record 46,400 new homes built last year incredible. seeing the results in falling house prices, flat rents 184,000 homes built under Labour in just 5 years. 1 in 11 homes in the country were built since Ardern become PM. Biggest building boom in history

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@stan_okl

6 months

I've been telling my students to think about doing the readings before class for about 11 weeks now and I think I might just be teaching 100 extremely independent thinkers.

Paul Graham

@paulg

6 months

College students mostly think what their teachers tell them to.

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@stan_okl

1 year

It's important that property taxes reflect the fair market values of homes so that homeowners also feel the pain of rising housing costs. If renters face higher rents each year, homeowners should also face higher taxes.

Colorado property owners to face astronomical tax increases next year

Colorado homeowners, no longer protected by the Gallagher Amendment, face an unprecedented increase in their property taxes next year as the run-up in home prices during the pandemic works its way …

www.denverpost.com

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@stan_okl

9 months

Historic preservation should only cover structures the public owns and can visit. Otherwise, it's better for society if we demolished decrepit buildings rather than forcing people to spend money preserving them and to live poorly inside of them.

M. Nolan Gray

@mnolangray

9 months

What's your most radically YIMBY opinion?

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@stan_okl

10 months

A developer will never build **new** units affordable to low income ppl bc they'd spend more than they'd earn. The reason we are rapidly losing "affordable" apts is because there is a housing shortage and wealthier people are outbidding poorer people for older, crappy units.

roshanabraham.bsky.social

@roshantone

10 months

New from me: a report shows the nation is rapidly losing apartments affordable to the poorest people, despite a boom in new multifamily apartment construction not seen in 50 years

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@stan_okl

9 months

If this room temperature superconductor thing turns is real, it's gonna be pretty lolsob when lossless power transmission lines and super efficient maglev trains get held up or blocked by the same coalition of NIMBYs, Malthusians and Marxist dead enders who block bike lanes now.

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@stan_okl

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For the "Why don't developers build affordable housing" crowd: This project contains 278 studios and 1brs for formerly homeless people, i.e. no "luxury" amenities at all besides an underground 15 space garage. It will cost more than $160 million total or btw $585-$602k per unit.

Urbanize LA

@UrbanizeLA

10 months

LA's biggest supportive housing complex yet tops out at 555 S. Crocker Street in DTLA

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@stan_okl

1 year

Kinda funny how we look at transit maps like these like they're pictures of flying cars when any other OECD nation would absolutely have something like this running in a metro area whose GDP is over $500 billion.

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@stan_okl

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San Francisco has the highest land prices in the entire US and yet their downtown is becoming like Buffalo's all because they refuse to allow housing to be built in it. This is Caligula level governance.

Dave Lu 呂曉龍

@davelu

11 months

Imagine walking away from a loan after paying more than half of a $1.56 billion. One thing after another compounding the demise of downtown San Francisco. Not sure how this gets turned around.

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@stan_okl

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No joke, this is the most important thing to happen in American housing policy this year. California segregationists just took the most massive L.

Senator Scott Wiener

@Scott_Wiener

7 months

BIG HOUSING NEWS: @GavinNewsom has signed our 3 housing bills: ✅ Dramatically expanding housing streamlining — no discretion, no CEQA; takes effect in SF early 2024 (SB 423) ✅ Allowing churches, nonprofit colleges, etc, to build affordable housing on their land (SB 4) … ⬇️

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