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Looks like Tanakh generally although Ed Koch evidently used a piece of a Torah scroll from the Warsaw Ghetto one time
January 13, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Wow those are Toronto numbers for bus-to-train mode share
January 2, 2026 at 3:38 PM
There are two Lidls and an Aldi within a half mile of Atlantic Terminal!
January 1, 2026 at 11:02 PM
This from FedSoc fedsoc.org/fedsoc-revie... suggests the answer is, if you sue you’ll win the case but your clients will hate you and you’ll still never get the contract so what’s the point
Racial Preferences in Economic Benefits: From Widely Accepted to Legally Indefensible
As the United States began to emerge from its long history of legal segregation and racial discrimin...
fedsoc.org
December 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Of all the parts of affirmative action, why haven’t MWBE laws gotten overturned?
December 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
If you look up the history of Oklahoma, it‘s amazing the team is still called the Sooners. Fighting Rabbis would be a major upgrade
December 20, 2025 at 2:11 AM
One of the RE accounts on X was throwing some shade at their design and buildout process for being extremely expensive. Lots of ways to fail with a good concept
December 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
If people could have built more (midrise rental) housing the economy would have recovered more quickly and rates wouldn’t have stayed so low for so long!
December 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
grade inflation is because consumer choice is a much bigger deal in US education than elsewhere right? So schools cater to students/parents by inflating grades to avoid losing them
December 1, 2025 at 4:13 AM
That and one song from The Music Man I guess?
November 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Am I seeing this right, that you have to cross _two_ separate overpasses to get anywhere from the station on foot?
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I think the robot is confusing Zen and nembutsu?
November 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This could also be about building peakers to complement increased renewables?
November 16, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Yes!
- if it replaces coal on net
- or if it lets us expand the use of heat pumps for heating (natural gas power plant + heat pump is more efficient than a natural gas furnace!)
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I mean, they got theirs already right? If you have a public housing unit NYC is very affordable
November 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I mean Cuomo loves losing down ballot races so why should he understand
October 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The flip side is that this is one of the few cases where tariffs could spur domestic manufacturing…?
October 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
so much of modern affordability discourse is downstream of food and clothing being unfathomably cheap.
October 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Milk!
October 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Gallon of gas?
October 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Ok but did anything else happen in 2008?
October 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Would you rather:
-Marry an 80 year old veteran so your kids get pensions for life; or
- Live in your grandmother’s unrenovated 1960s apartment so you can pay $450 a month in rent in the West Village?
August 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM