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Yes, it sure does.
(Also glad ikyk it's not the 2010s and I'm not outrage-bait misconstruing a relative statement into an absolute one.)
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> Dartmouth [...] substantially safer for women.
Yikes!
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Fuck...so me (still sucking though) at knockout in elementary school was actually right...
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Seniority + anti-MeToo in chilling synergy
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Feel like just another round of the violence towards the protesters at Columbia. Hating youth and earnestness more than any material interest.
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Glad to hear it!
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I remember once stressing out from just barely missing the train after arriving in London, only for the next train to arrive before I had calmed myself back down.
It really changed my appreciation of this sort of thing --- I knew the theory by that point, but *feeling* it was still something else.
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> If you have ever [...] waited for the ever-irregular F train, you have likely suffered the costs of interlining.
Right from the first sentence of the piece.
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homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2021/06/15/d... deinterlining is a very interesting topic.
I am cautiously optimistic that if you take sufficiently many F trips *not* to Queensbridge, this could still be a net benefit to you too.
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Better at communication, but also maybe more steeled and ready for a vocal minority to be upset? Feels like that reflects a interior confidence in planning that is independent from comms quality.
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> What does this mean for riders? Increased reliability, reduced delays, and shorter travel times. In fact, 2.5 times more riders will benefit from faster commutes than those who may see longer trips.
Very good phrasing! Proper comfort and acknowledgement with being worse for some riders!
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I mean, I hope so. But I think a lot of these alt-centrists actually would Stan him all the way to the oval office.
To them, it's all the best parts of Trump and Bill Clinton, what's not to love?
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Ah, gotcha
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Cuomo hates any an all rival power center, no matter how little attention it wants for itself. He won't listen to anyone, he will spend all his time flirting with the national press to run for president, when he's both not doing his job and not delegating, nothing will happen.
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No it will be worse. Adams, when he wasn't being corrupt, meant well in this kinda earnest-boyish way, and allowed a lot of good career civil servants to manage the minutiae. The deep state was strong.
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it is important to understand that they and others want Cuomo to win *because* he was MeToo'd, not *despite* it.
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The alt-center is getting off signalling to each other how edgy and cynical they are with RETVRN TO CVOMO
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Yes, it was definitely way more depressing. It's the difference between already being dumb and just succumbing to the TV, and actively giving yourself a lobotomy while chanting "we don't want nice things!"
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If they degenerate, the non-degenerates leave to start a new party. This makes for a clean break for the new party members, and then less-plugged-in general voting public. In a multi-party system, the advantages to incumbent parties are *vastly* less, so it should not be a scary decision to leave.
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To me it just kinda seems like a meme. Foundations that fund nonprofits are filled with rich people who don’t understand transit, think they are welfare agencies, told nonprofits to advocate to eliminate fares and prog pundits just followed suit.
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I don't think we're yet ready for a discussion about the good side of respectability politics, density, and urban professionalism, as would connect both a modern YIMBY revolution and the Harlem Renaissance. But it's a conversation that will someday be had.
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But we have Keynesianism now, and there will be no second automobile shock from some new form of transport — future "Harmlem Renaissances" will not be cut short
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I think parties basically *shouldn't* be democratic in a multi-party system, but of course the DSA is what is because of the nature of the US and its electoral systems.
May the latter someday change so the former can too...
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The only way out is better electoral systems. Let's state with state legislatures to create a proven model for the federal government.
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There is no contradiction between the previous two posts
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I think there is an online job LLM traffic jam issue independent of the tightness of the job market also
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Uhhh what? The language of the endorsement editorial mimed abundance, but is there any indication that ChatGPT-housing-plan-Cuomo would follow through on any of that? Don't think so.
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As usual, the Donald is clueless. Israel will do more precise strikes, because they respect Iranians much more than they respect Palestinians. 💀
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Well, America doesn't like virtue anyways.
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In the meantime, I can go to Brighton Beach
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I think Azerbaijan is doing a tourist push right now. (Not really where I'd want to begin though.)
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I've been wanting to go to Central Asia for a long time. I gotta do that soon to secure my bragging rights.
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My anecdotes also strongly confirm this
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Americans are now going on Ottman Grand tours without realizing the theme that connects all those places together
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And fixed infrastructure directly delivering "use value" is probably a better model for keeping a high income country industrial than trying to make consumer goods again, when we already have way too much cheap crap that doesn't make our lives better.
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And fixed infrastructure directly delivering "use value" is probably a better model for keeping a high income country industrial than trying to make consumer goods again, when we already have way too much cheap crap that doesn't make our lives better.
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Even if we imported all the rolling stock (which I would be fine with), ops itself is industry, is technology, is workforce development.
We have to liberate ourselves from the idea that industry = manufacturing. Rail is a prime example of an industrial service!
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I recall that he got behind a very counterproductive version of inclusionary zoning. I blame the era more than the guy, however.
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*Knightian, for the permanent record