The Diddy trial is one of the greatest outrages I've seen in the criminal justice system. A guy flies women around for sex, he becomes a "human trafficker" who might go to jail forever. If he was violent, go ahead charge him with assault. I can't believe this is America.

10 years ago. It was even worse before I got injured/retired. Ulterior message for anyone smart: Let 'em kill each other, unless it's absolutely essential to intervene. Boy, if that crazy dude wins election in NYC, those cops are REALLY screwed. I envision at least 30%

Every year for the last 40 years, France has built more homes per person than England. If England built at French levels, it would have almost 3 million more homes. French homes are, on average, a fifth bigger that English homes.

I'm once again registering my annoyance at the fact that EVERY SINGLE NATURE DOCUMENTARY talks about how humans suck. Literally every single one. I am so tired of explaining to my 7yo son that no humans are not destroying everything. That he can be optimistic. It's obscene.

It is not true that Americans have experienced "continual cuts" to public benefits since Reagan, as the lede of this piece suggests. Rather, wage subsidies, food assistance, and public health insurance were all expanded between 1980 and 2020. Tho tide obviously just reversed

Nice paper and a theme of SI Urban so far: people don't like density, will pay to get away from it. Graph shows home price changes as you cross the line into a neighborhood with a higher minimum lot size. 1/

Another quietly subversive paper. Urbanists are often young and childless — this is a unique demographic most interested in city centers Even in Copenhagen, people move to the city when young, but move out to suburbs when they get married/have kids, and don't move back

Rather, their grandchildren worked harder, and have better attitudes toward individual success.

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I’d put it more like this, people who are drawn to STEM (and people who are drawn to the trades) end up being more productive because it’s less likely they will end up as some sort of defacto rent-seeker.

Checking sources is a superpower--you would not believe the stuff people sneak into things. As one example: the book "Keeping Track" is by far the most influential anti–ability grouping book. Key to its argument is a claimed finding that 90% of students can master course

The reason San Francisco Fire Dept uses huge articulated trucks that are less effective/safe than modern ladder trucks is bc they guarantee two union driver jobs (front & rear). They use bespoke wood ladders to guarantee an unnecessary union carpenter. It’s all just rent-seeking.

Another way of phrasing this is that I hate cultures where you force me to be a dick in order to not be taken advantage of. I do not enjoy the experience of walking around being an aggressive a**hole to everyone all the time.

jon repetti I have a masters in education from a top 10 institution so I feel very confident in saying that far and away the two most important skills for secondary teachers are ease around students and subject-area mastery, neither of which can be taught in grad school lol

Journalist thinks a one-time payment of $370 billion would end poverty

One thing that becomes abundantly clear if you deep-dive the Epstein stuff is almost everything which would've been called "prostitution" in the 2000s is now called "trafficking"

Robbie J “Trafficking” strikes me as an endlessly permeable and increasingly incoherent concept, mostly favored by prosecutors, NGO activists, credulous journalists, and hysteria-fomenting politicians. So no, not really

More than 5.6 BILLION people took the COVID vaccines. If there was a mass dying wave, miscarriages and stillbirths, cardiac issues, or anything else, we have more than enough data to show those things. But they never happened! They're not real, they're a neurotic delusion.

One thing that genuinely surprised me many years ago when I became acquainted with US academia was that on more than one campus the really nihilistic department, the one truly bent on destroying its own discipline, was the English department.

Completely anecdotal (N=1) but when my son was 6-7, his female teachers found him to be a handful & encouraged medical interventions. I resisted, & then observed that when he had male teachers they thought he was completely normal... x.com/missrobinson/s…