Favorite Rejects 2022-09-19

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.

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

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.comTravelers 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 …“If I’m paying $229 a night to stay somewhere, plus a $125 cleaning fee, I’m not doing any laundry,” one traveler said in a viral TikTok.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I sometimes think I write too much about housing + transportation but they are literally half of household spending.

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.

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.comTrain hits Platteville police vehicle parked on tracks, seriously injuring woman who’d been taken into custodyA woman in police custody in Weld County was seriously injured Friday night when the patrol vehicle she had been placed in — which was parked on railroad tracks — was struck by a train.

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.comSeparating Sports by Sex Doesn’t Make SenseThough school sports are typically sex-segregated, a new generation of kids isn’t content to compete within traditional structures.

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

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.comTexas bucked nation’s learning loss trendThe national headlines earlier this month were jarring. Just as so many had feared, test score trends across the country showed that kids fell far behind when...