Will Thomas

i.e. at least upper middle class

To synthesize these points I think being at the median *household* income as a single person though is probably a sign that you’re doing better than average

I do think there is a lot of willful obfuscation between household and personal income whenever this subject comes up

I think it also helped that they made certain items obviously more expensive—I still have a “tariff charge” on the bags of coffee I buy every month

"Is pitbull a democrat" in Google search, AI overview quotes Pitbull as stating "I'm here to bring political parties to my party, because they can't, they won't they never will, stop the Pitbull party."

Thank you Google AI

Oh and the naming the space oil “unobtanium” was the laziest thing I have ever seen in a movie, of course it made billions

I also hate the made-up language, like the least you could do is use an actual language and give people who speak it an Easter egg

Avatar—the non-airbender one; I guess it’s a white savior complex but it’s not like the Navi or whatever are real.

The critique I couldn’t voice because no one else cared was that actual aliens are highly unlikely to be humanoid, so the whole romance subplot felt exceptionally contrived to me

I guess the obvious ‘Smarter Obama’ would be Michelle lol

Honestly that’s a pretty tough role to fill, although maybe Stephen Colbert could be more charismatic / Dem Reagan

I like Ossoff but I don’t think he’s smarter than Obama

🙈

I am an optimist

What if Dumb Bush II leads to Even Smarter Obama

He’s dangerous specifically because he’s shown that he essentially has no principles or beliefs; it gives him a certain flexibility that a politician with a semblance of moral scruples could not match

There are a lot of phrases you can use to describe Donald Trump but ‘morally good’ is one I don’t even think his supporters would use

I mean this checks out to me when Donald Trump is literally the President

Memphis is clearly Holy Ghost Country

very Canticle for Leibowitz

I think their plan is to keep him distracted for 3 more years

Just learned that James Talarico is a single-stair guy.

I think this sort of cloning would be less popular than allowing more immigration; like it’s currently actively banned by the state of California

Kind of interesting that this single-family house near the epicenter of the Journal Sq/Homestead Pl construction boom on Van Reipen Ave just sold for 2% *less* adjusting for inflation than it did in March 2018, despite the new retail amenities in the area.

Douthat’s entire job is to be the Right’s devil’s advocate for the NYT audience—it’s actually kinda meaningful that he’s reaching a blank in terms of “reasons to support the GOP”

Are we thinking that today is the first day of fake spring in NYC?

I do think it's interesting where condos still pop up in NYC; like in Queens you're more likely to see them in LIC, Woodside, and Flushing and I've wondered how much of that is more permissive zoning versus cultural preferences

We weren’t ready for Neo Yokio

An 8 story apartment building

A literal country club is being replaced with an apartment building.

Previously through "member deference" Paladino would be able to block this project. However, with the new "affordable housing appeals board" if the council rejects it the Mayor and BP can approve it (and indicated they would)

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

Mamdani to Use New Power to Speed Up Housing Development in the Bronx Projects that used to take as much as seven months to get approved can now move forward in as little as 90 days. Mayor Zohran Mamdani is taking advantage.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is set to announce on Friday that an 84-unit affordable housing development on an empty, New York City-owned lot in the Bronx. It will be 100% affordable and include 30 units for formerly homeless New Yorkers.