andyhickner.bsky.social
Medical librarian, dog dad, urbanist, Chicagoan.
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And Ariana Grande
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Housing economists will tell you that the solution to the housing shortage that is causing rents to rise is to add supply (build more). If you plan to continue following this story, which I encourage you to do, it's crucial to include this context when discussing rent control. Thanks! /end
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The discussion of rent control gives the impression that it will reduce or at least limit increase in rents. This is a myth, although a popular one. The evidence is that rent control decreases overall supply and has other unintended adverse effects. 2/
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I'll take "Counterproductive Performative Activism" for 600, Alex.
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Oops, I forgot to link to Matt Yglesias piece these excerpts are from: www.slowboring.com/p/throw-bide...
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Setting aside whether you agree with whatever argument she’s trying to make, making fun of the name someone was given by their parents is not cool. Shame on you, Ed.
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Rather, it seems pretty clear to me that couples are choosing this week to get married as a symbol of how they feel about the Trump administration. Which is fine, it's as good a time as any to get married! But let's not delude ourselves that it means anything more than that. 2/2
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Nosferatu is worth seeing in the theater!
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Name names!
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I don’t think there has ever been an HHS Secretary who would even know what the acronyms mean on #3, and there never will be. Nor would most healthcare providers or administrators working outside of academia.
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Interesting, so it’s reducing travel times outside the zone too! I guess that shouldn’t surprise me but I wasn’t sure what the effect would be.
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(Signed, an ex-New Yorker who enjoyed my years there and thinks it's criminal a young person should have to go into debt to try it out for themself.)
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“If you have to consume”? You write this like buying groceries is optional lol
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My desire for a swing state/district candidate isn’t because of the electoral benefits of the VP’s home state in 2020 (as you note, there aren’t any), but rather for 2024 since Biden’s VP should have been someone who could win the presidency in 2024.
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Back in 2020 there wasn’t anyone in the presidential primary who fit that bill that I can think of, so it would have had to be someone flying under the radar. I was a Warren supporter in 2020, so I admit my own political judgement at the time was pretty bad!
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One of the biggest lessons of the past 9 years for me is that what “crucial elements” of the Democratic base want turns out not to be what swing voters on swing states want. So ideally I’d want someone who’d proven they could win a swing district or swing state.
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The problem was the shortlist and the criteria used to develop whatever the shortlist was. But that’s Biden. A strategic thinker he is/was not, and apparently he didn’t like having any strategic thinkers around him either.
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No, they wouldn’t. None of those 4 should have been on the shortlist.
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Secondary regret: His VP pick. (Not because she’s not smart or talented, but because those qualities alone are not sufficient to win a presidential election, unfortunately.)
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You didn't miss much
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My personal Google Drive and Gmail, OTOH, have led me down some bittersweet paths down memory lane as I have to periodically delete old stuff to free up space
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As someone who worked for 4 different employers between 2010-2020, this is a question that has never occurred to me
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Also the architecture is unparalleled for a North American metro under 1 million. Everything from colonial to Victorian to Collegiate Gothic to Brutalist. A feast for the eyes, block after block.