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Portantino started biking a lot last year https://t.co/Q3EIu5u99p
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Josh @JalbyMD
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Last week's jobs report was widely misunderstood β it's true we got a good result despite omicron, but that doesn't mean omicron wasn't impacting the economy.
If anything it should increase our confidence that the virus has been holding back growth.
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I get tired of talking about my job. So I ask questions to redirect the conversation. Which just led to:
Hairdresser: What do you do?
Me: Oh, I'm a writer, books and stuff. What do you do?
Hairdresser, ie the woman cutting my hair at that very moment: ...I'm a hairdresser.
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Differing views on this seem to be driven by Trump derangment syndrome. The Russian ads were pro-Trump while Trump was anti-TikTok, and so people sort themselves into the appropriate partisan camps.
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Hope @EmilyRPeck hasn't gone through my timeline and discovered all the times I criticized Elizabeth Holmes and Marjorie Taylor Greene...this could be the moment I'm exposed π
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Noah Smith π+π§¦=π @Noahpinion
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Kirsten Dunst on being nominated for an Oscar alongside her partner Jesse Plemons: "Itβs like a storybook." bit.ly/34Kt0XK
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LOL, they exempted single-family homes from the vacancy tax
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Dean Preston @DeanPreston
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Turning vacant units into occupied units is great.
And a great way to do it is to allow people to build more new units, which then become vacant until occupied.
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Dean Preston @DeanPreston
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Once you understand that most incumbents in this city operate like cartels, every decision makes more sense. Itβs such a limited zero sum attitude
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Itβs interesting that when I was young all the new music was good but thatβs become less true over time as I age.
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Because people still won't believe me when I say Tokyo rents are infinitely more affordable than NYC: this light-filled, modern apartment is 15 mins by train from Shibuya, and is going for approx $1,250 a month. realtokyoestate.co.jp/estate.php?n=1β¦
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It's because free vaccines became widely available but a significant minority of the population has chosen not to take them β a highly regrettable course of events, but one which essentially requires us to "normalize" in the face of their obstinacy.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan