joelrip.bsky.social
data analysis and visualization | affordable housing and homelessness | regionalism | open data | fiscal transparency | random observations
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Very clever! However, “I’ll never fail to reject you” means “I’ll always reject you”, which is maybe not the Valentine’s message you’re going for.
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We just did almost the same upgrade, but replaced our Prius with the Honda Prologue instead of the Ioniq 5, to sit alongside our Bolt. Was a close decision though! Enjoying the heady fumes of sanctimony as well.
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Every word of the title of that article reduced my IQ by one point
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Great resource. Thank you!
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Sorry, saw this post before your post about the Palmetto State Abortion Fund. Will look for similar in my corner of the country.
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My wife and I give regularly to Planned Parenthood. What other entities would you recommend?
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If you want to learn more, I highly recommend _Homelessness Is a Housing Problem_ by Colburn and Aldern. They convincingly demonstrate that the things that explain why an INDIVIDUAL may be homeless are very different than the things that explain why a COMMUNITY has high homelessness.
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Just waiting for them to, y’know, post something
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I’m currently alternating between _Why Does the World Exist?_ by Jim Holt and the third book in the Three Body Problem trilogy.
Why Does the World Exist? is very good. The TBP trilogy is weird, possibly due in part to translation choices, but I think I’m enjoying the third one the most.
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I think Ron Burkle could have been the right investor had the pandemic not happened and unraveled the entire MLS value proposition (at least in his mind).
The combo of this one being USL-sized and having a committed local ownership team makes it all much more likely. And better IMO!
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Excited about the prospect of a downtown stadium. I hope it actually happens this time!
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Pale Lime Light
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I have a massive playlist of mostly old ripped and downloaded tracks in iTunes on my old Mac. They’re all rated 1 to 5 stars, and it’s set up to play songs randomly, but with the higher rated songs more probable. I have been doing this forever and I love it.
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If you see this, quote post something green from a photo you took. #photography
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“Ow, my the fact that I was alive five minutes ago!”
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Wow. Thank you for this
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While you’re dying I’ll be still alive!
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Don’t let the pigeon lead the negotiations
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This feels appropriate to the season. voetica.com/poem/3738
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The county records of Sioux County, IA (where I grew up) were stolen by 55 Dutch settlers in sleighs in January 1872. They cut a hole in the log courthouse and moved the records safe from Calliope to Orange City. I had no idea this was so common! hawardenhistoricalsociety.com/history/siou...
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And based on other people’s posts, there were fewer than 100K users just 4 months before I joined!
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What is common knowledge in your field* but shocks outsiders?
Community homelessness is a rich city problem, positively correlated with high housing prices. Poverty rates and substance abuse rates do not predict community homelessness. **
* Field I’m currently working in
** Colburn & Aldern 2022
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Indian pizza is the best, and it’s all over Sacramento. These are just the ones in my neighborhood.
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For what it’s worth, when I was an out-of-state college student in Texas in the 90s, I voted in the presidential election at a polling place on my campus and found the process very easy. Strongly support this messaging and hope it continues to be simple.
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How do you fit four giraffes in a VW Beetle?
Take the elephants out
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Star Wars themed:
What’s the body temperature of a tauntaun?
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Luke warm
Why don’t people eat Wookiee?
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It’s a little Chewy
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My 13yo has always been the same way. We buy a flat of strawberries every week, and if unregulated, he will take the whole thing down by himself in 2 days
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You could have put the ”on” between any other two words in that sentence and I would have believed you
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To wit, this news:
(Also, let’s go USMNT! 🇺🇸⚽️)
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Agreed. I’ve been on Bluesky for a number of months, and the ONLY reason I have not deleted my Xitter account is for the various football feeds I follow. Excited to have all you Brits over here, which I hope presages the movement of all the football posts as well.
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Fucked around with religion and found doubt
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What a strange ordeal. I hope you are still able to be at peace in your home, and that the young man received the help he needed.
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It was Enter magazine, not RAINBOW, but otherwise right on the money
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The first programs I ever wrote were saved to audio cassette from my Tandy Color Computer 2
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I’m curious about this too. Could you legally register it if it hasn’t gone through NHTSA testing? And even if you could, could you get it serviced?
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In the Narnia books, he phrased it as, “It is the stupidest children who are most childish, and the stupidest grownups who are most grown up.”