Just started using the Apple podcast app again after some years away, and it’s cool that there’s ads now I love to get podcaster ad reads and then separate twice-as-loud ads

Our loading zones aren’t ready for this

“We can build a muscular social safety net without any middle class taxes”

Starting to wear hats out of necessity as I grow my hair out, and every day I feel like this

I am incredibly concerned about what’s going to happen when the last of the eyewitnesses to the concentration cams die off

Lula attempted this framing better than anyone “They think that the poor don’t have rights…the right to barbecue with family on the weekend”

Did oil write this?

If I did accumulate a billion dollars (hard to say it would be “earned”) I’d still have a responsibility to pay a lot of taxes to support society

There is only one good podcast (the dollop)

It’s so cool when politicians visibly enjoy the places they represent

I don’t believe in ghosts, but I do support them Just because I don’t believe in them doesn’t mean they can’t do it

Going to a flagship state school in the later Obama years was wild, because my liberal arts/humanities friends and I got fairly classical liberal educations and flat out did not consider employability much or at all And then the business school did the “profit = revenue - costs” meme

The median working class person in the US is probably a black or brown woman, and no one has updated their priors accordingly

Local tax issues require constitutional amendments. Basically everything requires a constitutional amendment. Looking up fairly minor planning regulations was always fun

You’re telling me a diner that opened in April 2001 is historic. And gets free money. And doesn’t have to charge tax

Affordability is not an inherent quality of any homes. Larger homes and centrally located homes may cost more, but value is always negotiated through supply and demand We need to make more homes

Doing this with my dog, but instead I look like a 4H high schooler showing off some big ass pig

My 10,000 foot view take: It is simply astonishing as an American to witness what has been implemented since Hidalgo was first elected in 2014, and I cannot imagine any American city doing so much so quickly

a reminder that a lot of the things people find unpleasant about cities - along with the noise and dirtiness - are largely a product of filling them with cars. get rid of the cars and the pleasantness of the environment improves dramatically

She won’t use this word, because she’s smart, but she’s truly the most “abundance” Dem on the national stage (in a good way)

The only way out of the housing crisis is to actually build the fucking housing. There are no other shortcuts.

I don’t understand how they thoroughly messed up the widely used software that opens PDFs? Like as apps go this one is pretty close to “you had one job”???

I am begging “environmentalists” to understand that building dense infill housing is one of the most environmentally friendly policies possible

Every day is more Veep than the one before

We simply weren’t made to sit in traffic and see people without homes and just kinda try to ignore it

Report: Every Place On Earth Has Wrong Amount Of Water https://theonion.com/report-every-place-on-earth-has-wrong-amount-of-water-1851544516/

We put down 7 yards of mulch today and now my body doesn't work

to finish/belabor my point: this is NOT true of the good stuff LBJ did. that was unique to him and his ideas of “what the hell is the presidency for?” a typical pol would not only have failed to pass civil rights and the great society - very few would’ve put their chips all-in the way he did

Oh my god just talk to your children like normal people

Evergreen Reddit question www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

the new postal truck is an extreme example, but the fundamental tradeoff between car exterior aesthetics and outward visibility is a very direct one... the black pill here is that a nonzero (though hard to calculate/estimate) number of Americans have literally died in the name of cars looking cool

If they can have their citizenship taken away but I can’t, then naturalized citizenship is second class citizenship. Better see every elected Dem raising hell over this

I know we just fired the GM but we gotta fire the next one too

Dwight Richmond brings it yet again

Trying a new thing (growing my hair out) and unfortunately I look like “guy who would repeatedly beg James Franco to check out his blog, where he reviews local dispensaries”

I’m so mad I can’t use the name CATL for my AI dairy idea

It should be illegal to email me this at 12:04am

Type of guy who deserves a key to the city when he retires

They are talking like traffic engineers haven't been trying - and failing - to fix traffic congestion for the last 70+ years It's the wrong question to ask And a good part of the reason we're in the mess that we're in

I thought this was a joke at first Sometimes, living here deals psychic damage

Happy Monday—I put in contacts and then immediately put on my coke bottle glasses, dealing myself +5 stun

Gas has always been too cheap

Solar mandates for homes: well intentioned but does increase the cost of building housing (maybe not a good thing) Solar mandate for big parking lots: increases the cost of building big parking lots (good)

My go to at any coffee shop is called “just ask the person what they have brewed” I like it because it doesn’t need an app

Gave a presentation to some high schoolers yesterday and they all seemed stretched. I am clearly being pranked

Popular sentiment is that five-over-ones contribute to displacement through gentrification. Real gentrification occurs when desirable neighborhoods are prevented from absorbing new residents

I think it's really an underrated moral issue (let along a political economy one) that we've sort of let scams and scam adjacent activities (sports betting, car dealerships, most retail interactions with skilled trades, crypto, etc) pervade the economy from top to bottom.