charliem.bsky.social
Law talking person.
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I've suggested that if he has to come back that he fly into a state where I'm licensed to practice so I can be on-call counsel for when he goes through customs. Not what I imagined my law degree would be used for but here we are. (2/2)
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Even as a citizen. I have a family member who is a dual (1/2 US) national, and is presently residing in his other country of citizenship. He's was accosted by customs once in the past and is worried about traveling back here now. 1/2
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I see these planes configured for landing from my back yard (PHL landing path) several times a day and I can't say the video of this plane looks any different, but who knows.
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Nothing weighing 178 pounds without a rider should be in a bike lane. The heaviest e-cargo bikes are around 110 lbs. and are unlikely to be traveling in excess of 15mph, but this thing weighs substantially more and can do 28 mph. Nuts.
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I live under a landing path and the engines of a 787 on approach sound louder than this.
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Ken seemed to basically agree given his comment about the color meaning.
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Same. I remember him do this put the mug down, change gears, then grab the mug again move
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My dad’s mug was made by a local potter friend and was rubber less.
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A goddamn Charger!?! Only the most heinous car-brained assholes own these cars.
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his mug had a wide base and a narrow top (pyramidal in proportions) and I assumed that had something to do with it not spilling, but maybe not
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It's a good time to read John Barry's Rising Tide if only for the parts about how media coverage of the '27 Mississippi flood basically forced the feds to take on the burden of disaster recovery.
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My dad used to do this except his early 80s Volvo didn't have cupholders so he'd put the mug on the dash. Never saw it spill.
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It's also totally within their power to limit the use of ebikes in bike only or bike/pedestrian paths to Class 1 ebikes, which are pretty hard to get up over 20 mph. The idea of limiting ebikes to 15 mph on normal roads while cars are permitted to go faster is insane.
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Yup. You see some small towns that have a lot of grandfathered licenses from the old regime where the prices are reasonable for NJ sort of, but those are easily $250k and up.
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The key is to not have any curiosity about any of it.
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I’ve had my house broken into here but in SC a second cousin was abducted then killed execution style by two escaped convicts from Alabama so …
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I get this same crap from southern family members about Philly. I live in an NJ suburb so the point is even stupider, but Philly is also safer than where they live.
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Sounds like a great deal
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Go birds. Fuck ICE
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Yeah. Also, they could have picked on a much smaller city.
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You’d need blue states too. And they’d vote no.
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Just got my first 10k on 1987 stock market crash
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Dancing around the room because I knew that was a photo of Red Square in 1992 thank you very much. I might have an illness
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Damn I didn't know about this game yet and now I'm addicted
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Haddon Township represent
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They should have sent a poet
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In a twist on the baby hitler bit, I'm taking Dr. Becky back in time to gentle parent these guys.
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Also, I love this coffered ceiling.
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I don't know anything about code, but seems very very lame to not install the box to a joist or blocking when its so easy before the drywall goes up. Even if the chosen fixture was lightweight you never know if someone will want to put in a heavy fixture later.
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Is that a retrofit electrical box merely attached to the drywall?
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Got this ready to go
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“Actually, this is a positive good,” really took it to the next level.
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I started doing this thing recently where I arrange the deal via email before I show up. I bought a certified pre owned recently and I was in and out of the dealership in under an hour. 20 minutes of that was a test drive. Highly recommend.
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Yeah, a very blue state swung mostly in line with national trends is not really news. Also, given thermostatic public opinion and Trump's predictably bad approval numbers in NJ I think we can take a wild guess that NJ's 2025 elections will be a blue wave.
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This also feels like kind of distancing yourself from the conspiracy and attendant liability.
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Oh, Target refunded $27.51 into the beneficiary's account and they are now accidentally over the limit. Good luck.
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Anyone who has ever had to grapple with medicaid asset limits knows that they are an administrative nightmare, with loved ones or attorneys needing to waste time and money to spend money on allowed items just to make sure the beneficiary stays under the asset limit.
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At least in this case they can't just vote it away, they have to get the players on board. When you're looking for an 18th game it seems like you are going to have a tough time also pushing through a backdoor salary cut, right?
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In an alternate world without single-family zoning those same developers might choose to make bank by buying a couple homes and throwing up a 20 unit apartment complex, but they are prohibited by the government from doing that.
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I see this in my town (close in, pre-war burb of top 10 American city) all the time. Most of town is zoned single-family and existing homes are around 1500-2000 sq ft. Given current demand, developers can buy existing homes, tear them down, rebuild 4000 sq ft home and make bank.
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Developers are building those houses because they are profit-maximizing given current governmental restrictions. As in, if you can only build single family, and houses are largely priced by the square foot, then building the largest single-family home on the lot will get you the most money.
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And if you poll people about this you'll get supermajorities that are very concerned about the cost of housing. They are just utterly ill-informed about the cause and the solutions to that issue. Many will straight up say that normal market forces somehow don't apply to housing.
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And in the end they aren't even achieving the result you suggest. Sure you can increase your book assets, but often retirees can't cash out so easily so they don't tend to reap the rewards. Many also fork over money to help their kids buy housing, etc.
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I think it's fair to say that that is kind of the result, but people driving these decisions are not acting that rationally. At the local level it's dislike of higher density homes, changing character of their town, fear of newcomers, etc.
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Of for sure. Existing stakeholders in hyperlocal areas voting to impose Byzantine use restrictions on property rights through confusing processes with unintended results is certainly a “market” solution.
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Also, as people become aware of them people will adjust their behavior and enforcement will drop as people comply with the law. See this with red light cameras as they become well-known.
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It’s funny because I think the underlying misdiagnosis is based a on misunderstanding (idea that market forces somehow don’t apply/won’t work with housing) that cuts across ideological lines. This is the best explanation I’ve seen of this. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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It’s really not. The same basic dynamic of constraints on new construction limiting supply and driving up prices is playing out in most major cities. Texas is more the exception, though “space” is not a panacea especially as the space available is further and further from where people want to live