Housing is expensive because we have spent 40 years under-building homes relative to population growth, not because shadowy corporate actors are manipulating home prices.

TLDR: If we had the same population growth rate as Canada we’d have One Billion Americans by 2100

We should achieve that through immigration reform, pro-family policies (maternity leave, child tax credit, etc.), and affordable housing policies

I was normal today!

It’s work from home. We used to have 450k+ commuters going downtown 5 days a week.
Now it’s 3 days on average.
900k fewer people every week. No lunches, errands, or shopping.
You can’t force them to return.
How do you fix?
Make downtown inviting for workers to return.

'These bureaucrats only waste our time and money, we should focus only on the hard working men who believe in the heart of the cards and built our society' is like, the number one cause of man made death in all of human history, yeah?

wtf?? it's ridiculously easy to psyop/jailbreak high people

i was infodumping about ai to a stoned guy, and he was SO into it. he literally reached the conclusion 'man i should do less drugs so i can make it to the singularity' after only like 10 minutes

Q CocaCola spends 4 billion a year on advertising, so they probably spend at least 100 million a year just paying copywriters, graphic artists, commercial directors etc etc. Generative AI makes a lot of sense for them.

I don’t care about student protests. Stop it. Just shut up.

Just like how British planning restrictions can cause subtle problems almost everywhere (housing theory of everything, “mass of increasingly agitated deanos”), so can generalised social disfunction

Thousands of micro-taxes across the social fabric leaving us confused and poorer

Matthew Yglesias We could probably save a lot of money by reducing a bachelor’s degree to three years

Chicks dig confidence, which is why I like every tweet I make.

Both?

Both

maybe i'm not bi. maybe i'm SO STRAIGHT that when a man has the merest hint of feminine beauty, i can be attracted to him

Parking mandates per bedroom are a thumb on the scale *against* building apartment for families