Jordan Grimes 🚰@cafedujord
Left NIMBYs are apparently claiming that after Seattle built lots of market rate housing in recent years and rents decreased, developers stopped building due to profit loss.
In reality: Seattle permitted more new multifamily housing last year than any year in the last decade.
5:03 AM · Sep 19, 2022
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cocteau twins karaoke@revhowardarson
not only is Taiwan independent it has been independent for the PRC's entire history and the One China policy is entirely a 19th-century accession to a sphere of influence
5:04 AM · Sep 19, 2022
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Dare Obasanjo@Carnage4Life
It’s wild how AirBnB slowly boiled the frog where it went to being cheaper than hotels to being just as expensive while requiring you to do half of the cleaning up in addition to the cleaning fee.
businessinsider.com
Travelers are slamming Airbnb chore lists that tell guests to mow the lawn, do the laundry, and take out the trash — on top of paying $125 cleaning fees
3:19 AM · Sep 19, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I sometimes think I write too much about housing + transportation but they are literally half of household spending.
1:42 PM · Sep 19, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The fact that land use regulation got much stricter during the era of deregulation and “neoliberalism” seems to me like a significant complication of the narrative once you see how much bigger housing is than any other sector.
1:45 PM · Sep 19, 2022
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Darrell Owens@IDoTheThinking
I love the passive voice journalists use when describing police violence. In this case, cops parked their car on an active train track and then detained a woman inside, left the car and it got hit by a train.
denverpost.com
Train hits Platteville police vehicle parked on tracks, seriously injuring woman who’d been taken into custody
3:25 PM · Sep 19, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
At any rate, some of the specific proposals in this piece make sense to me but burying it under obfuscation isn't helping anyone.
theatlantic.com
Separating Sports by Sex Doesn’t Make Sense
6:10 PM · Sep 19, 2022
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Mick Ryan, AM@WarintheFuture
There is a lot going on in #Ukraine at the moment. The macro story is that Russia appears to have lost the initiative at every level. But there is also an interesting story to be told about Ukrainian campaign planning. 1/24
6:15 PM · Sep 18, 2022
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Zaid Jilani@ZaidJilani
Didn’t realize that on top of keeping school closures short, Texas budgeted extra money for tutoring to battle learning loss. It might be why Texas schools are showing very little learning loss compared to schools on coasts.
dallasnews.com
Texas bucked nation’s learning loss trend
3:38 AM · Sep 20, 2022
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