wintersplinter.bsky.social
Abundance liberal - president of the Lina Khan Fan Club
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After the revolution, you will drive your Lada Explorer along the people's stroad, take an on ramp onto the convenient urban freeway, drive 15 miles(45 minutes with traffic), and park with thousands of other comrades at PraxisMart to buy cheap chinese goods before returning to your Marxist Mansion.
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That's a matter of perspective; my partner and I find our 560 sqft apt snug but not claustrophobic so ~1300 sqft honestly sounds like a great size :)
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I would look at household income instead of individual income, since that's usually what people use to buy a home.
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Rob Saka cured my imposter syndrome
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Neoliberalism is when you have an independent coffee shop in your neighborhood instead of going to a drive-thru starbucks
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I don't think that's in dispute, it's a question of tradeoffs. Free fares in NYC would require raising ~$1B in new revenue per year. What if that same $1B was spent on hiring more drivers and running busses more often? Or capital improvements like bus lanes, better shelters, or priority signals?
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Monthly unlimited bus rides is $99/mo in Seattle, or $36/mo if you qualify for low-income at 200% of the federal poverty line.(<$31k/yr for a single person). Kids 18 and under are free.
I'm curious how this stacks up against other cities fare monthly/low income fare systems.
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trying to wrap my head around, "Random guy brandishing a rifle shoots another guy brandishing a rifle, because brandishing a rifle is threatening, and he was worried about the safety of bystanders. Then shoots a random bystander. Police say this is all fine, since he gave himself a cool title."
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road these last week, they fuckin rock
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trump won 2 out of 3 elections that way so it can't be all that bad of a strategy
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requiring SFHs to be affordable units only would be the funniest thing.
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The structure of that compensation could take any number of forms from fully nationalized farming to a simple farming subsidy. What makes it a universal right isn't the compensation structure for the farmers, it's that it's universally available through some public source.
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Lets say the US govt was going to make food a right, they could just purchase the food from farmers and provide it to people. Those people would have a right to food. Whether those farmers sold to the govt at-cost, or had a 5% margin on top wouldn't make much of a difference.
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The first chart is wrong: income is adjusted down for inflation but rent isn't.
It's a good intuition check that while rent is more expensive it can't be 4-5 TIMES more expensive relative to income.
For that to be true your parents generation would have paid less than 10% of their income on rent.
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making food can be for profit and also a right, i don't think those are exclusive
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it's always "bangor" and never "how is hor?", "what's hor been up to lately?"
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I think it's almost always 10/11mph over. Which makes the whingeing even more embarrassing.
"I got ticketed for going over the speed limit" -> sympathetic, we've all been there
"I got ticketed for doing 38 in a 25" yeesh buddy, ten-over just wasn't goo enough for ya huh?
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"Do popular things," as they used to say, was really code for "avoid saying anything that could be unpopular with anyone, particularly if it invokes race or gender in any way." It's a posture of endless surrender: trying to beat the demagogues by running away from them.
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Egg prices per dozen: fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU00...
- down from a high of over $6 to around $5, still far above the baseline of $1-2
Gas prices per gallon: fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GASREGW
- peaked in 2022 at $5, then dropping steadily since, flat since Nov 2024 at around $3
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And there's no reason to accept those restrictions. They didn't always exist, and they likely won't exist forever. They aren't necessary to prevent piracy or profit. They're a bad legal construct that harm users and we should complain until they are repealed.
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The specific things you can't do due to IP/licensing varies between different devices. Phones have different limits from consoles, etc. My point (I guess?) is that any device you buy has arbitrary, anti-user restrictions that go beyond piracy or protecting profits. DMCA section 1201 type shit.
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I can't believe we don't do more housing directly abutting a park instead of a road! it's so nice, I think it would open peoples' minds to the possibilities!
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ebooks and ereaders more or less work that way (swap "wrote in margins" to "attempted to transfer to new device") due to similar IP and licensing-related restrictions.
I'm curious, whats your general feeling about right-to-repair?
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if a publisher bricked the book i was reading because i wrote something in the margins i'd be pretty miffed
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Sonic Tronic Honchhog
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With old homes the high price is often driven by inefficient use of land (one small house per lot). The land-per-unit this project is minimal so what other factors are driving the construction cost above $1000/sqft? I would expect $700-900 even for a pretty nice development like this