There’s a parallel one can draw to housing policy — sensible people at this point know that with such drastic housing shortages, *any* additional supply bottleneck is bad, as is focusing on “% subsidized” rather than “total number of homes”. The same principles apply to labor/hiring pipelines.

People trying to defend the FAA here are being patently ridiculous. Reasonable people aren’t saying this was one singular reason that we’ve had ATC shortages — not even some of the people who pushed to bring this scandal to light are saying that. Just that it happened, and it was bad.

he's saying this because I keep replying to him with hard evidence of increased failure rates, but he's so set on a predetermined narrative that he doesn't want to interrupt himself to acknowledge that he's defending the indefensible

If you're "hardly one to defend DEI," then you certainly wouldn't pick an indefensible hiring scandal as your hill to stand on. The FAA explicitly and knowingly lowered their standards in a safety-critical profession, using absurd means. That's bad. www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-full-s...

Seeing the Latin script-based Vietnamese alphabet everywhere in Hanoi is wild because it’s the closest thing for me as a Chinese speaker to the alternate reality where Latinxua Sinwenz succeeded

OK, I'll take it nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/12/16/a...

she let me me hit because I got a

Mission success 🫡

>just landed in LAX >don’t want to stay with my sister in the Valley because it’s far from everything >friend has a spare room in Silverlake because his roommate just moved out >found a free Like New mattress in Westlake on Facebook Marketplace >I’m about to do the funniest thing

Love the Salt Lake City airport because I get to practice and play on the grand piano every time when I’m waiting for my flight 😇

How brain-poisoned am I if my first reading of this disposable coffee cup lid was “Euclid”

“Is Luigi Mangione ‘brat'” – the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 360,365 pages of heated debate

The context here is that the bodies that write model building codes in the U.S. have wanted sprinklers required in new single-family houses for a few decades, but have only succeeded in blanket statewide requirements in California and Maryland (+ DC). No other country on earth requires them afaik.

Ohhhh my god you don’t use Spotify or know the names of currently mainstream artists? should we tell everyone? Should we throw a party?should we invite Ted Kaczynski

Apparently it’s okay to be a Nazi, but this is simply crossing the line

How do people do entire lower body lifting sessions in sweatpants. Do y’all not get hot? I can understand sticking to a T-shirt and sweatpants combo if the majority of the time is spent on upper body. But if I’m squatting/deadlifting then there’s no way that’s comfortable

Got lazy and didn’t have a lot of time in the gym yesterday before it closed so I decided to replace Romanian deadlifts with the hip abductor machine and you know what, I think the girlies may be onto something here. My ass be looking so fine today

“A single unmuffled scooter crossing Paris at night can wake as many as 10,000 people.” We seriously underestimate the impact of vehicle noise on urban livability and health. Cities aren’t noisy, engines are. How #Paris Is Waging a War on Noise Pollution. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

For the past 8 years I have been adopted by one of my friends’ families for Thanksgiving (and also some Christmases), most commonly by my college buddy’s Italian family in NJ/NY. Nonna knitted me a beanie last year. This year she made me a Christmas stocking and cookies 🥹

"Sherrod Brown ran as Republican lite" is how you know you can't take these people seriously

Can’t believe I even made this cunty li’l instahoe mood reel. Instagram won’t let me download the audio with it so please put on “Landslide” as covered by The Dixie Chicks in the background to enjoy as intended

Taking the train up to the Hudson River Valley on Thanksgiving mood board (pt. 1) Taking the train up to the Hudson River Valley on Thanksgiving mood board (pt. 2)

Taking the train up to the Hudson River Valley on Thanksgiving mood board (pt. 1)

Holy shit Nordic hamstring curls are brutal

There is no relationship purer than that of a man and his bodega guy

Officially another record high for Bluesky activity yesterday, beating the previous record by 3.8%!

Another year, another night where I text my neighbors asking for dishwasher detergent because I ran out two days before my next order got in

I think the other benefit about this is removing upfront liquidity barriers to new housing. Even just getting to amortize the cost over a year’s lease would be good

Real

realtors: “you dont want to live here. its a busy road” city planners: “lets put all the housing on this arterial where the transit is”

Yeah I was on bsky when it was invite only, I'm part of a pretty selective few, otherwise known as "social media addicted losers"

One thing Bluesky is doing better than Twitter: you can use iPhone’s search function when attaching images

15 years ago in Guangzhou I discovered the best ice cream flavor in the world: Caramel Biscuit & Cream by Häagen-Dazs. They discontinued it and I only ever found it in Hong Kong and Singapore. 15 years later I have found the next best thing: Churray for Churro by Ben & Jerry’s

I’m not committing to any full transition so for now I am just duping my poasts over from the former bird app 🫡

I’m going to be out of town for most of December through the New Year…do I do the New Yorker thing and try to “sublet” my apartment for 26 days 😅

Reminiscent of Berkeley NIMBYs suing to block the People's Park dorm pursuant to CEQA on the theory that the residents would constitute a negative environmental impact. calmatters.org/housing/2024...

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #47,909!

“Developers appear to be strategically substituting away from plots and parcels subject to [Seattle’s Mandatory Housing Affordability inclusionary zoning program]. We interpret this result as evidence of the MHA’s cost to developers outweighing its benefits.“

I like OmniZaddy, give him a follow

YIMBYs should pay *much* more attention to building code reform. Example: the new EPA-required refrigerant requires enclosing HVAC piping in large, rated shafts. What does that actually mean? 🧵

The one weird trick to getting people to move here is to get people to move here. @stephenjacobsmith.bsky.social is out there doing yeoman’s work and it’s paying off

Anyways, please feel free to boost visibility of people I need to follow/me to others to follow back, tell me what’s been happening in these here parts, elucidate any norms and trends and amusing tidbits. I will try to check in a timely manner. Cheers

Alright, more urbanists are moving here so, popping out and saying hello. But a lot of Twitter for me now is discussing stuff in GCs; really need that functionality to make the move. However I have also aggressively policed my feed, so. I don’t actually see Nazi shit on Twitter. Blocks/mutes work!

Getting a lot of followers On Here when I’m not even poasting at all. Humbly thanking you all for your continued support of me doing the literal least

you're not a "lowbie." you have escaped from Weimar Twitter hyperinflation. A hundred followers over there is worth 1 over here. If you have ten mufos, you're ride or die. They'll rob a bank with you.

Who need they limitussy rate

Laughing? His rate limit is being exceeded and your laughing?

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this is the natural synthesis to “can we freely murder people with mental health issues?” discourse. some people are always evil criminals, and some people can never be.

can’t say this on the other app but the central question of that holmes profile is clearly “can a conventionally pretty white woman really be a criminal?”