Books and studying! Still cheap!

The youth are great depressionmaxxing.

I think one of the main reasons I make videos instead of posting much is I prefer to anticipate idiotic arguments and address them proactively instead of wading through dumb replies youtu.be/vBSkLrYbLk0?...

The Box is the correct shape for most buildings to be

we all know this is the website for retired elder millennial posters, it’s embarrassing enough as-is, you don’t have to hosepost about it

Martyrdom of Saint Simon Zelotes, Saint Judas Thaddeus, by Martin Johann Schmidt, 1796

Every low cost carrier ultimately makes the same mistake of thinking continous growth is necessary. They thrive by taking the best time slots and gate locations in non hub airports and running direct service. Then they always screw up with national expansion and going into hubs.

Worst crime rates in the post ww2 era, an extreme crack epidemic, a complete collapse of the domestic industrial base. But, hey, the soviet union somewhat peacefully dissolved ending the cold war and al gore invented the public, commercial internet.

Having all the cards is, famously, not the goal in Uno.

The way we do municipalities in this state...

I’m convinced every polity does one *thing* in a mind-bogglingly stupid way purely because of inertia that every other polity has found to do in a way that actually makes sense

This feels like milwaukee's own version of NYC discovering dumpsters.

Since milwaukee is doing leaf bag-gate, ill once again say it: Raking leaves is entirely performative. Just continue cutting your grass through the fall season on the mulching setting and it will take care of them.

Yo usando Claude Code con Opus 4.7 para mover el margen de un div 2px.

I can't stop thinking about neo-seussian architecture

A corollary to this is that the poor live wherever is left over after all the housing is taken.

In France, a place that americans travel 6000 miles to experience their food culture, they have an employee benefit where you get pre-paid food vouchers to use at local cafes & restaurants. As a result, most cafes have a full lunch specials tied to the voucher voucher & the culture socializes daily

Nobody should kick anybody in the head. Even the sports. They're grotesque and should be shut down.

The state of wisconsin will spend more money rebuilding a dead end spur highway that rips through downtown & runs parallel 1 mile away from another interstate while carrying less than half it's design capacity, than the present value of mass transit in the region in perpetuity.

man, what the hell happened

If I was a Democrat in Congress this would be an instant PNG of Sunrise or anyone even vaguely associated with them. There's no climate angle at all here, they're just wreckers. Anyhow, exactly what I was talking about.

The idea that new construction has to be for the affluent is just not how housing works. Most new housing is built for average households. The reason you might not see it isn't because it isn't happening, it's because it's happening in smallish number of places & driving domestic migration.

Nobody will be blaming budget deficits for high inflation. That's because this time the debt will used to fund lower tax policy on the highest net worth 0.5% of households while before the debt was to finance checks to families with children.

Last time this happened, we cranked top marginal tax rates to 94%. Needed the SALT deduction to not go over 100% rates.

Yeah, 2009 Portland would fix me.

no one has ever Moved To Portland more than me

when you move to the pacific northwest

Nah, dawg. It's getting bad out there. I spent a record setting (for me) 70 dollars to fuel up the minivan in green bay wisconsin last week. Everybody is $3.99 and up in SE Milwaukee County.

Nothing is at crisis levels yet but employment levels are stalled out, unemployment levels & rates have been rising since 2023. Same with part time for economic reasons, marginally attached, not in the labor force, etc. When employment stops expanding, a recession is never far behind.

I made a reference to the Great Cornholio and absolutely nobody knew what tf i was talking about.

It's hard not to read these dissents as the regional Fed presidents sending a message to Warsh that they will not automatically go along with cuts. Not that they don't believe what they are saying, given the recent inflation data. But the sheer number of dissents is striking.

you all laugh, but dune is mainly an exploration of the forward guidance puzzle

The upside for WisDems of the conservatives ending the voting rights act is that they can split milwaukee now and draw a 7-1 map in 2030.

Correct. People make the mistake of thinking that that screens are stimulation, when the effect on the brain is really destimulation.

I have one I curb-scored a few years back as decor and it's a very fun toy for child and adult visitors

Been hearing more and more from professional class families about re-installing landlines (probably VOIP, not copper wire) to avoid giving their kids phones.

Hear me out: bring back pay phones. I’m going to wind up getting my kid a cell phone earlier than I otherwise would because there are no dang pay phones anywhere.

Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game

Children have economies of scale.

This, too, is a housing policy issue.

Well well well

November oil contracts are at their highest since this whole thing started, for those thinking about the midterms.

I am trying to think through the venn diagram of someone able to speak on behalf of a country and with a direct line to US leadership, who's also not the leader or part of a leading coalition.

Good thread. One thing you'll notice about this discourse is that despite the small town nostalgia absolutely nobody will even consider moving to Pennsylvania or Michigan or where ever north of the great air conditioning migration to continue their lifestyle.

The problem with the food trucks is that their generators are way too fucking loud, their customers leave their trash everywhere, and they attract lots of loud drunk people late at night. They do not in fact cause violent crime.

Yeah. That’s not why. lol

100K of federal income or 100K of federal income tax? If the later, that's exempting, you know, like ~450K in ordinary income after deductions.