Ryan Hassett

As long as the city's litigation outlives the city's voters, the voters who want the ban still win.

Fascinating to compare analysis and messaging. WMATA publicly quantifying the efficiencies they want, meanwhile the MTA won’t even publicly quantify the inefficiencies they don’t want. Is it because the MTA is afraid of its shadow politically? Or do they not even know their numbers?

Only $10k? [laughs in LIRR]

Think on the margin, not as a binary (in addition to the issue of people making the decision to use a gun if they happen to have one).

Twitter is forcing me to reenrol my hardware key to reassociate it with the x.com domain rather than the twitter.com domain but also the process does not work, so I guess I live here now.

the emails from epstein say things like "thank god donald trump isnt exposing us. he knows more than anyone" and the headlines are like "it would seem, to some, that donald trump's name is mentioned in passing"

万锦 is the way.

r u ok

(I would have thought so too but here we are.)

I think there's no maintenance facility on the line so they can't sever it, though they could probably work out some sort of FRA waiver for some rules as PATH does.

I think that labour would be the more insurmountable issue, as LIRR unions can be intransigent.

On tradeoffs, WWII edition: “frightening the nation into blackout regulations, the Luftwaffe was able to kill 600 British citizens a month [especially pedestrians] without ever taking to the air”

They expect that 55% will renew their leases but 65% actually do.

This seems like a normal (and historically good!) retention rate for urban multifamily in the Sunbelt? Camden reports a retention rate of about ~65%, which is a record high, and MAA's rate is just under 60%.

YouTube video by Ryan G GE Commercial, 2002

(In addition to CT machines, Saturday Night Live, turbofan engines, mortgages, diesel locomotives, Sheinhardt-brand wigs, polycarbonates, The Funcooker and credit cards.)

Back in my day, appliances with the GE logo on them were made by GE. [raises and shakes walking cane]

Like I said, KIDS THESE DAYS.

Jack's deep embrace of Six Sigma is also a thing that was very much part of GE culture under Welch and not just a joke premise for "Retreat to Move Forward".

Kids these days don't know their history...

The faction that wants the state to provide more services in exchange for higher taxes faces more pressure to deliver, yes.

This is also why extremism in modern democracies is usually far-right, not far-left - it thrives on not delivering, and the right can more easily lower delivery expectations.

Is public posting of WARN Act notices affected by the shutdown?

That's right.

Sounds like bad material politics!

(as distinct from their exclusive public library)

Wait til you find out how long you have to live in Québec before the election in order to vote.

(I agree that HOAs got some projects approved that towns would not have approved otherwise.)

But if you bring that premise to its conclusion, how is that not an argument for the government to never build any infrastructure?

(At least with the subdivisions, they get the construction for free!)

Why would the US go after a country for gas? The US has plenty of gas!

This guy understands.

Same film!

a man in a black turtleneck is standing in the water holding a sword . ALT: a man in a black turtleneck is standing in the water holding a sword .

Anyway, I see your Roger Moore Tarzan swing, and raise you Pierce Brosnan impromptu windsurfing away from a collapsing Icelandic glacier, highlighting the best of British visual effects.

There was nothing ridiculous about the film titled "Octopussy".