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Programmer in the Northland of KCMO. I post maps sometimes and talk about local politics.
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I'll say that as someone on the "left", I would prefer that the Tea Party never existed.
If I were a conservative, I would be very thankful for the Tea Party's influence on the 2010 election and beyond.
At the end of the day, they made Congress more conservative.
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"Democrats flipped 63 house seats and 6 senate seats. There were a couple they didn't manage to flip, but the winning congressional Democrats are substantially more progressive than they used to be, laying the groundwork for a transformational Dem president in a few years"
Is that a "mixed bag"?
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How many seats flipped from R->D because of the Tea Party?
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Okay, but that was Delaware - generally considered a safe blue state. And it's only one of the many elections held that day.
These are the results of all of the federal elections that same day:
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Which elections did it cost Republicans? The Tea Party movement didn't really exist until ~2009. The next year Republicans swept congress in the midterms and that outcome has been widely attributed to the Tea Party.
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I mapped the presidential election in the KC metro. LS is the pale red blob Southwest of the blue.
Due to the way that Eastern JaxCo reports precinct results, it's technically not possible to know for sure who won Lee's Summit.
But as you can tell, it's was a tossup at best.
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Yeah, but not all cities are grided. Most American ones are, though.
Maybe a good metric could be percentage of land that's impervious? When I think "suburb", I think that's what comes to mind - a lot of grass
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Maybe I'm just rambling about hypothetical definitions about words that don't really matter all that much. It just feels like it'd be useful in someway
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I thought your post about the pre-1950 borders was interesting, but I think it'd be cool if there was some kind of way to approximate what constitutes an "urban" portion of a city vs suburban.
Because IMO, much of Eastern KCK and City of NKC would be urban to me
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As you've discussed in a prior blog post, city limits in KC grabs huge swaths of what would typically be known as "suburban". So looking at city limits doesn't always capture urbanized areas. And even looking at past city limits won't always be a perfect encapsulation of urbanized areas.
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Yeah, it all depends on what you're using it for. For a labor market, MSA seems most useful. For understanding development. UA seems most useful.
My curiosity is just how one defines "suburb", which would be useful for things like quantifying population declines in urban cores
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Neat! Hadn't heard of this. I think it accurately reflects the spectrum of built environment.
I guess I'm wondering if I were to hypothetically map those zones, how would I determine each one? I suppose zoning districts would get close, but parcels are not always maximally built to their zoned use
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It was overhyped. It's glorified server rental with some abstractions thrown in to call it "serverless"
There's nothing tech companies love more than a hype train. Crypo, AI, the hype cycle continues
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Population density obviously wouldn't work bc industrial or depopulated urban areas. The difference comes down to how the built environment is designed. But is there a good way of quantifying that? I don't think there is
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The post doesn't talk to much about this, but I'm mildly interested in what differentiates "urban" from "suburban".
For example, the Staley Farms neighborhood is in City limits but is definitely suburban. City of NKC is a separate muni but feels urban to me.
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I was an IRS worker and NTEU 66 member for a couple of years. It was the first job that allowed me to pay the bills and have quality health coverage.
I can't imagine the uncertainty those workers and their families are facing.
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Anything we can do to show solidarity with the affected workers?
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English is the JS of human-to-human languages.
Yeah it doesn't make any sense and has a ton of ambiguities that make it difficult to learn, but we keep it the way that it is because, uh...
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Especially if you're asking a question that ends in a quote. For example:
> Did you just say "punctuations don't belong in quotations?"
It makes it seem like the quote is a question itself, when it's actually the author simply asking a question about the quote.
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I don't think that many Obama -> Romney voters actually exist.
Romney only gained ~1m votes from McCain, while Obama lost ~3.5m votes. So the margin shift was probably mostly due to changes in turnout.
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no, probably not tbh
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War crimes are done by basically every president. Might as well be in the job description at this point
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Naps suck. I usually can't even do it. But if you do manage to fall asleep and somehow manage to not feel like shit when you wake up, you get the pleasure of completely fucking up your sleep schedule
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Step 1: build a subway system in KC
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If there's anything that would get a Suburban Republican to change their mind about their Republicanism, it'd probably be school funding. I mean that's pretty much the whole reason people live in the suburbs lol.
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Part of it is the visualization. This map only visualizes crossing the 50% threshold on county-level.
49.9% -> 50.1% = bright blue
0.1% -> 49.9% = dim red
Not gonna pretend to know a ton about KS politics, but I imagine Brownback has a ton to do with it. Especially in regards to school funding
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Yeah, with an overall net-loss in votes and losing pretty much every rust best state. The strategy Schumer articulated has been proven dead wrong.
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Traded pretty much the whole rust belt for like Johnson County, KS lol
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That certainly makes it more difficult. If he wants it to be a surprise, it'll take creativity.
My sister gave me our deceased mother's ring. I was broke at the time and didn't have a car so I biked 5 miles from my job to a jeweler to get the ring cleaned cleaned. She didn't suspect a thing.
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The trick is for him to have it shipped to either his job or a friend's house
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KCPD doesn't stop for it. We went ~8 months with expired tags and only got pulled over when we drove out to Kearney, MO
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Aren't you European? I thought pb&j was an american food.
In fact, this is strangely a very American dish
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See?
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The bill is just another preemption (or in this case "postemption") by the state to prevent local anti-discrimination ordinances.
Those republicans and 12 democrats are pro-discrimination and anti-local control. At least my rep @ericwoods.bsky.social voted against.
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That's how "democracy" is supposed to work, right? When your leadership sucks, you replace them.