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chaos is a ladder, thank you for your attention to this matter
DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
November 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
Affordable housing just make it expensive
NYC Council has a veto-proof majority on a union-backed bill to set a $40/hour minimum average compensation for workers on city-funded affordable housing projects, kicking in at 100 units www.crainsnewyork.com/politics-pol...
Developers alarmed as council advances minimum wage for affordable housing projects
The Construction Justice Act would set a $40 wage-and-benefit floor, increasing the cost of building.
www.crainsnewyork.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Affordable housing just make it expensive
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You absolutely have to bribe your top quintile with goodies, because 1) it limits zero-sum brain disease spread 2) it creates a powerful constituency for a public services floor, & 3) the admin/cognitive load of means testing means they'll get theirs anyway, so you end up subsidising them regardless
November 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
You absolutely have to bribe your top quintile with goodies, because 1) it limits zero-sum brain disease spread 2) it creates a powerful constituency for a public services floor, & 3) the admin/cognitive load of means testing means they'll get theirs anyway, so you end up subsidising them regardless
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This is basically the biggest thing I have changed my mind on in adult life. Having been raised in a Land Of Plenty soc dem, I was convinced of the 'insane subsidy to the rich' case for means testing until I came over here, saw the alternative, and I am now an Universal Coverage absolutist
The UK just has incredible attention to detail when it comes to making sure the people who pay all the taxes can’t have nice things. Child benefit? No. Free Child car? No. Cut price bike to cycle to work? No.
Functionally we are telling people they pay too much tax to get anything from the state.
Functionally we are telling people they pay too much tax to get anything from the state.
Rachel Reeves is setting the Cycle to Work scheme on fire as part of the war on salary sacrifice policies! on.ft.com/4oKXNrC
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 AM
This is basically the biggest thing I have changed my mind on in adult life. Having been raised in a Land Of Plenty soc dem, I was convinced of the 'insane subsidy to the rich' case for means testing until I came over here, saw the alternative, and I am now an Universal Coverage absolutist
Boze, irenka i wlodek mieli racje
November 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Boze, irenka i wlodek mieli racje
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cannot believe I have to now hand it to the kooks who insisted the government was being run by a shadowy cabal of pedophiles
November 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
cannot believe I have to now hand it to the kooks who insisted the government was being run by a shadowy cabal of pedophiles
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Hate to say it but Qanon was like webvan: an idea before its time but directionally right in a lot of ways.
November 13, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Hate to say it but Qanon was like webvan: an idea before its time but directionally right in a lot of ways.
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Bách Buquen is a blush-wearing bro with 9 million TikTok followers. Beauty brands are paying attention.
Will Men’s Makeup Ever Go Mainstream?
Bách Buquen is a blush-wearing bro with 9 million TikTok followers. Beauty brands are paying attention.
bloom.bg
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Bách Buquen is a blush-wearing bro with 9 million TikTok followers. Beauty brands are paying attention.
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Holy shit. This company claims it has developed an air-source heat pump with a COP of *7* (3-5 is considered good). For you non-nerds, that basically means it produces 7 units of heat for every unit of electricity it consumes. How are they doing it? You're not gonna like this answer, but: it's AI.
Fairland COP7 R290 ATW HeatPump - The Future of AI HeatPump
/PRNewswire/ -- As gentle heat wraps around you, you walk barefoot to bathroom and enjoy an instant hot shower—no waiting, no cold shock. Every corner indoors...
www.prnewswire.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Holy shit. This company claims it has developed an air-source heat pump with a COP of *7* (3-5 is considered good). For you non-nerds, that basically means it produces 7 units of heat for every unit of electricity it consumes. How are they doing it? You're not gonna like this answer, but: it's AI.
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Via musk v Altman, lol
November 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Via musk v Altman, lol
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In 2018, then-Mayor Ada Colau called Barcelona’s new 30% inclusionary housing requirement for projects over 600m^2 a “paradigm shift,” making housing “a right and not a commodity.” It was supposed to produce 330 affordable units a year. The reality: just 31 affordable apartments in all these years.
Cuando se ha aprobó esta medida dije repetidamente que iba a ser un fracaso y que no construirían nada de vivienda asequible. Se ha probado en mil sitios y no funciona.
Acerté. www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcel...
Acerté. www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcel...
La reserva del 30% solo ha generado 31 nuevas viviendas protegidas en siete años en Barcelona
Otros 123 pisos disponen de licencia ya aprobada, mientras los gremios afectados reclaman un marco legal estable para poder despertar al sector de su letargo
www.lavanguardia.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
In 2018, then-Mayor Ada Colau called Barcelona’s new 30% inclusionary housing requirement for projects over 600m^2 a “paradigm shift,” making housing “a right and not a commodity.” It was supposed to produce 330 affordable units a year. The reality: just 31 affordable apartments in all these years.
@mittmart.bsky.social trzecie konto???
November 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
@mittmart.bsky.social trzecie konto???
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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somebody's been informed he's losing the case
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
somebody's been informed he's losing the case
kochani, it's official, pada snieg
November 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
kochani, it's official, pada snieg
performative outrage, episode 36
The pro-Palestine group Within Our Lifetime has already decided that Zohran Mamdani has sold out the pro-Palestine cause... by condemning swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn. forward.com/culture/7822...
Mamdani's first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
After someone spraypainted a swastika on a yeshiva, Zohran Mamdani condemned antisemitism. Somehow, this generated conspiracy theories.
forward.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
performative outrage, episode 36
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happy anniversary of Stupid Lake getting its name [citation needed]
November 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
happy anniversary of Stupid Lake getting its name [citation needed]
10cm sniegu w niedziele, ja pierdole
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
10cm sniegu w niedziele, ja pierdole
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Hungarian PM Viktor Orban being like “we allow zero migrants in without permission… for that we have to pay €1 million to the Brusselian [sic] budget daily,” and Trump is probably thinking “the Brazilian budget? I just gave Argentina €20 billion, I know what that’s like…”
November 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Hungarian PM Viktor Orban being like “we allow zero migrants in without permission… for that we have to pay €1 million to the Brusselian [sic] budget daily,” and Trump is probably thinking “the Brazilian budget? I just gave Argentina €20 billion, I know what that’s like…”
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Whenever I see claims like this, I feel like the economics is completely missing. Even if you can theoretically replace all human tasks, *why* would it make economic sense to deploy the immense resources to do it, when humans are plentiful out there?
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Whenever I see claims like this, I feel like the economics is completely missing. Even if you can theoretically replace all human tasks, *why* would it make economic sense to deploy the immense resources to do it, when humans are plentiful out there?