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YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity! The Problem With Left-Wing NIMBYism

The Problem With Left-Wing NIMBYism

The figure is from Xiaodi Li (2019) studying Manhattan. Its not that 10% -to- 1% drops in rents everywhere, and the curve is not going to be linear so there is no scalable number, just that it drops. Asquith et al. (2023) found in 11 US cities that rents drop 5-7% w/in 200 meters of new apts.

YouTube video by A/V Geeks 16mm Films Basic Computer Terms (1976)

Watching this Computer Programmer instruction guide from 1976, I'm reminded that being a programmer was somewhat gender coded as a woman's job, like an advanced secretary job, until the modern computer era.
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Like nothing's adding up. On paper, he doesnt owe Epstein's legacy or Maxwell anything. The weird preemptive cover ups rather than a quick denouncing and file release is just shocking.

Illustration of how we make it hard to build for-sale housing in California:

Two four-unit projects but around the same time:

Right is for-sale, and as a condition of subdivision approval, it had to widen the street.

Left is rental and by-right, so it didn't have to widen the street.

this is a good thread but I might actually take it further -- I don't think manosphere shit is actually about getting laid, I think it's literally about male loneliness, by which I mean, men addressing their loneliness via homosocial bonding through misogyny

Housing is genocide sign seen at a NIMBY protest today against a mixed income high rise.

The new homes are less than a few blocks to a trolley stop.

And the neighborhood is majority white and middle to upper income.

Kamala always filters whatever she's going to say and that's just not the moment right now. Jasmine Crockett and AOC, hell even MTG, are appealing cause they shoot from the hip. Carefully worded speeches with innuendos and implications instead of just calling out CBS for capitulating is the issue.

Not trying to be mean but honestly Harris was never a great speech giver. Her tendency to dance around subjects and not be direct in accusation is very Obama like and we are far beyond that time

Initially, I thought the Epstein shit was just nonsense but good bait since the old info about Trump's friendship had been known for years. Now im actually convinced Trump definitely participated in Epstein's sex trafficking holy shit.

thats what you look like tho

Developers are not behaving as a cartel to juice higher rents. Don't cite papers that do not claim this and don't pick fights you can't win. Why even bother if not for interpersonal conflict?

... the countries that build public transit well, quickly, & cheaply all have something in common: most of the work is done by the government itself, using in-house expertise, rather than farming various parts out to private companies under the bullshit theory that private always = more efficient.

Not only that, but that manufacturing techniques are extremely primitive in the U.S. Outside of some SFH builders like Lennar, we do not do standardization and modularization at scale for MFH.

Its about manufacturing consent. WSJ, NYT etc just pretend they're hearing all sides on the concerns of Mamdani's positions but in truth they're instructing media to purposely focus on him instead of the current Mayor

I'm not even a car guy but that its the most European-looking car I have ever seen.

Truly one of the most transparently ridiculous executive orders I have ever seen. Who cares that property owners want to build a duplex? Not a single fire chief or expert claiming duplexes are a fire danger and making laws overriding the legislature based on NIMBY complains to Karen Bass?!

There are clear, monopolistic actors in the economy, you see it in Big Tech. There's a lot of research as to why US home builders are only decent at constructing single-family houses and lack of advanced construction techniques in mulit-family manufacturing that causes these boom/bust cycles

Yeah that jobs report was insane. Obviously the revision was going to be adjusted downwards, didn't realize it would be revised so downwardly that it would tick into increasing the unemployment rate upwards. Thousands of Manufacturing jobs lost during the tariff war. Bill Maher haters vindicated.

At a high level, the issue is that the social media anti-trust attack on abundance was that it was interpersonal from the start, not even factional let alone factual. I've seen this a lot over the years in housing discourse online and its just baffling. Picking bad fights for no reason.

Fox News since Monday: 85 minutes talking about Sydney Sweeney, 3 minutes talking about Epstein Since Monday, Fox News has spent an hour and 25 minutes covering an American Eagle commercial in which Sydney Sweeney talks about her “good jeans,” devoting over 20 segments to the story. In compariso...

Since Monday, Fox News has spent an hour and 25 minutes covering an American Eagle commercial in which Sydney Sweeney talks about her “good jeans,” and just 3 minutes of coverage to developments in the administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein saga.

The gunman in Midtown Manhattan lived in Nevada and traveled over 2,000 miles before the shooting. Our country’s gun safety laws are only as strong as the weakest link. It’s past time for lawmakers to stop playing politics with our lives and pass an assault weapons ban.

This Uygher Chinese noodle dish and the little burger are the best things i have ever tasted in my life. Got it from Xian Kitchen in Milpitas.

The Anti-Abundance Critique on Housing Is Dead Wrong Antitrust critics say that homebuilding monopolies are the real culprit of America’s housing woes. I looked into some of their claims. They don’t hold up.

I am not an abundance debater, but I like a nice takedown. In this one, abundance guy Derek Thompson does the unprecedented by picking up the phone, calling the academics that leftists cite, and asking them if their work is being misrepresented.

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DENSITY DOUBTS — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is asking Newsom and state lawmakers to prevent developers from using a state housing law to construct multiple new units on the lots of single-family homes destroyed by the Palisades fire. Bass, in a statement Tuesday, said denser construction in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood “could drastically further challenge ingress and egress (in a high fire-hazard zone) following the worst fire disaster the city has ever faced.” She warned that allowing multiple new residences per lot could also strain local infrastructure. Bass’ warning comes amid a social media furor over the potential impact of SB 9 on local rebuilding efforts. The law, passed in 2021, was an effort to ease the state’s housing shortage by requiring cities to allow denser development — such as duplexes or lot splits — on land zoned for single-family homes. But residents of the Palisades, including influencers like former reality star Spencer Pratt (who’s sparred with Newsom’s office over recovery efforts), have taken to social media in recent days to stoke fears that denser housing could hamper future evacuations.

Via California Playbook. This is an embarrassing posture for the mayor's office to be adopting in the midst of a historic housing shortage that the fires have only made worse. And it doesn't even make any sense!

I know these people dont matter but its remarkable how they do nothing but talk shit about liberals all day in the most comically juvenile way. Like an entire subculture of people who were bullied in grade school acting out their bully fanfiction as an adult.

Again, why is it a media story that neurotic nobodies on TikTok think a Sydney Sweeney ad is racist but JD Vance following actual racists online doesn't make the news? Who gives a fuck that a TikTok comment has 6,000 likes; you know how little 6k likes is online? The world's huge, bro.

This is the cutest attack you will ever see... 😊 #cat #catday #bluesky

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Texas Republicans release a redistricting plan that could achieve Trump's aims Republicans in the Texas House have released a proposed new redistricting map that seeks to fulfill President Trump's desire to add up to five additional GOP congressional seats in the state.

Just want to remind people who said it was OK for the California housing crisis to drive people to Texas, because that would turn Texas blue, that they are the dumbest people alive today. www.npr.org/2025/07/30/n...