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Furiously dialing everyone she’s profiled to ask…. sooo how’s it going
November 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Furiously dialing everyone she’s profiled to ask…. sooo how’s it going
Los Angeles has 102k people in 1900. ~3/4 of its apartment housing stock was built between then and 1978 while 1/4 has been built since (47 years.)
A vote to sharply lower rent hikes for 1.5 million Los Angeles tenants caps years of wins for local activists and comes amid a national focus on affordability punctuated by Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Los Angeles limits rent hikes in historic vote
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to cap rent increases for most apartments, a decision that continues a wave of tenant victories in the city and across the country.
www.politico.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Los Angeles has 102k people in 1900. ~3/4 of its apartment housing stock was built between then and 1978 while 1/4 has been built since (47 years.)
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Stoics, Buddha and bamboo before the jump is a lot of Capital W Writing
November 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Stoics, Buddha and bamboo before the jump is a lot of Capital W Writing
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just imagining waiting a year to publicly drop an atomic warhead on an ex but being like “gotta get that big bamboo metaphor up in there”
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
just imagining waiting a year to publicly drop an atomic warhead on an ex but being like “gotta get that big bamboo metaphor up in there”
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Pretty upsetting how many roads are being widened and how many flyovers are being built in Bucharest. There are some metro extensions too, but way more capacity seems to be going into car infrastructure. They are learning no lessons from Western Europe, doomed to repeat its failures.
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Pretty upsetting how many roads are being widened and how many flyovers are being built in Bucharest. There are some metro extensions too, but way more capacity seems to be going into car infrastructure. They are learning no lessons from Western Europe, doomed to repeat its failures.
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Revenge/physical combat was how people settled things for literally millions of years, it's normal human behavior, we're wolves not sheep, the government project trying to social engineer us and domesticate us into sheep has been unsuccessful
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Revenge/physical combat was how people settled things for literally millions of years, it's normal human behavior, we're wolves not sheep, the government project trying to social engineer us and domesticate us into sheep has been unsuccessful
Fake pseudo-scientific nonsense in SF
November 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Fake pseudo-scientific nonsense in SF
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It reminds me of a provocative lecture by José Torero in 2012, a professor of fire engineering at UCL, in which he says that the problem of fire has basically been solved, and the main task of the field now should be cost optimization www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJx8...
Prof Jose Torero: "Cost Reduction, Optimization, Sustainability and Fire Safety" 1st March 2012
YouTube video by EdinburghFire
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
It reminds me of a provocative lecture by José Torero in 2012, a professor of fire engineering at UCL, in which he says that the problem of fire has basically been solved, and the main task of the field now should be cost optimization www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJx8...
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I have had to read about a million articles from the 1980s New York Times for this chapter and what’s striking, apart from the degree of local coverage that no longer exists, is how much wordier the average article was
November 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I have had to read about a million articles from the 1980s New York Times for this chapter and what’s striking, apart from the degree of local coverage that no longer exists, is how much wordier the average article was
So what are the policy hopes for the Wilson mayoral administration in Seattle? rezoning for more apartments? Taller single stairs?
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
So what are the policy hopes for the Wilson mayoral administration in Seattle? rezoning for more apartments? Taller single stairs?
If you want a housing program for the federal government, it needs to include stuff like this.
NIST’s report, which is a review of existing literature on the single stack, came 2 years after Alan Wise with the BRS went on an educational tour in the US, visiting various cities and publishing articles for the American audience on the single stack.
November 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
If you want a housing program for the federal government, it needs to include stuff like this.
An insane reaction to a wonderful accomplishment.
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
An insane reaction to a wonderful accomplishment.
Time to start activism for appropriately bronzed PSDs
Major announcement in just-posted board documents: DC's Metro is moving fast toward automation.
Over 15 years, Metro plans full automation & platform screen doors, which the agency says will improve safety, reliability, & travel times—at reduced costs.
www.wmata.com/about/board/...
Over 15 years, Metro plans full automation & platform screen doors, which the agency says will improve safety, reliability, & travel times—at reduced costs.
www.wmata.com/about/board/...
November 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Time to start activism for appropriately bronzed PSDs
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Major announcement in just-posted board documents: DC's Metro is moving fast toward automation.
Over 15 years, Metro plans full automation & platform screen doors, which the agency says will improve safety, reliability, & travel times—at reduced costs.
www.wmata.com/about/board/...
Over 15 years, Metro plans full automation & platform screen doors, which the agency says will improve safety, reliability, & travel times—at reduced costs.
www.wmata.com/about/board/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Major announcement in just-posted board documents: DC's Metro is moving fast toward automation.
Over 15 years, Metro plans full automation & platform screen doors, which the agency says will improve safety, reliability, & travel times—at reduced costs.
www.wmata.com/about/board/...
Over 15 years, Metro plans full automation & platform screen doors, which the agency says will improve safety, reliability, & travel times—at reduced costs.
www.wmata.com/about/board/...
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Guy who needs advice on how to pursue an extra-marital affair with a younger woman he has a professional relationship with, so turns to his pal the sex crimes guy.
November 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Guy who needs advice on how to pursue an extra-marital affair with a younger woman he has a professional relationship with, so turns to his pal the sex crimes guy.
This is just not true. Mississippi would be a blue state if it were.
I think the best case for this is that "the South" no longer has a distinct political culture, with urban regions of the South being largely similar to suburb-heavy northern metros and rural areas of the North largely being Dixiefied
I understand why some white liberals from the Deep South want to insist that there isn't something distinct (and bad) about Southern political culture but the problem with this is that we wouldn't even have this idea of "The South" as distinct from the rest of the US if there wasn't a there there
November 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This is just not true. Mississippi would be a blue state if it were.
Hopefully it will be used after the 8k order by someone else.
"Starting in 2028, you’ll be able to ride on a train that was built [in the DMV]. The 8000 series cars will be assembled at a new $100 million Hitachi factory in Hagerstown."
@washingtonian.com @washprobs.bsky.social
@washingtonian.com @washprobs.bsky.social
Inside the New Factory That Will Build DC's Metro Trains
The Hagerstown facility has dog robots and other cool tech.
washingtonian.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Hopefully it will be used after the 8k order by someone else.
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i am not convinced that a current cast member of the real housewives of miami is "spending a fortune to live in extreme privacy." www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
The Ultrarich Are Spending a Fortune to Live in Extreme Privacy
In Miami and elsewhere, the wealthy are moving in increasingly private spheres, shelling out big money to bypass the indignities of public life.
www.wsj.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
i am not convinced that a current cast member of the real housewives of miami is "spending a fortune to live in extreme privacy." www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
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not to footballpost on main but that pass interference is one of the most egregious calls I’ve ever seen
November 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
not to footballpost on main but that pass interference is one of the most egregious calls I’ve ever seen
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Unfortunately I think the actual hinge is so, so much dumber: the Comey letter
bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on
i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.
November 17, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Unfortunately I think the actual hinge is so, so much dumber: the Comey letter
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Haven’t read the report, but the photo of three-dimensional modules being craned in with double-hung windows kinda sums up the problems with Americans trying to pursue industrialized construction – it’s an advanced topic and we haven’t mastered the basics.
Center for American Progress Housing Plan:
Take down barriers that make it harder to build homes.
Build more affordable homes at a lower cost.
Protect consumers and lower other housing costs.
www.americanprogress.org/article/buil...
Take down barriers that make it harder to build homes.
Build more affordable homes at a lower cost.
Protect consumers and lower other housing costs.
www.americanprogress.org/article/buil...
Build, Baby, Build: A Plan To Lower Housing Costs for All
CAP’s plan would focus federal efforts on building homes and lower housing costs.
www.americanprogress.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Haven’t read the report, but the photo of three-dimensional modules being craned in with double-hung windows kinda sums up the problems with Americans trying to pursue industrialized construction – it’s an advanced topic and we haven’t mastered the basics.
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RFI's multi-year capital plan gives me increasing "graphic design is my passion" vibes.
I bet they are using PowerPoint or an equivalent to draw these service diagrams...
I bet they are using PowerPoint or an equivalent to draw these service diagrams...
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
RFI's multi-year capital plan gives me increasing "graphic design is my passion" vibes.
I bet they are using PowerPoint or an equivalent to draw these service diagrams...
I bet they are using PowerPoint or an equivalent to draw these service diagrams...
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@wmata.com out here talking about moving to full automation and platform screen doors across the network while lawmakers in NYS push forward nonsensical bills that would mandate a minimum of TWO workers per @mta.info train, removing even one person train operation.
Major announcement in just-posted board documents: DC's Metro is moving fast toward automation.
Over 15 years, Metro plans full automation & platform screen doors, which the agency says will improve safety, reliability, & travel times—at reduced costs.
www.wmata.com/about/board/...
Over 15 years, Metro plans full automation & platform screen doors, which the agency says will improve safety, reliability, & travel times—at reduced costs.
www.wmata.com/about/board/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
@wmata.com out here talking about moving to full automation and platform screen doors across the network while lawmakers in NYS push forward nonsensical bills that would mandate a minimum of TWO workers per @mta.info train, removing even one person train operation.
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In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change
December 31, 2024 at 2:41 PM
In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change
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I’m a melt the guns guy but if we won’t do that then we should all at least agree that if you keep your gun in your car you have proven that you do not deserve the privilege owning a gun
November 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I’m a melt the guns guy but if we won’t do that then we should all at least agree that if you keep your gun in your car you have proven that you do not deserve the privilege owning a gun