White Lotus is great, highly recommend!

Nobody said that firing federal workers would be solely responsible for causing a recession. I said it would be one factor contributing to worsening employment, along with tariff volatility, and slashing private-sector jobs through contracts and funding.

80k employees in one industry losing their jobs in one month will obviously noticeably affect monthly employment data. It doesn’t need to meaningfully affect the unemployment rate. That’s not why Trump fired the commissioner, they’re trying to hide any poor performance

I mean you can look at the BLS data. The biggest monthly and YOY job losses have been in industries impacted by tariff volatility (manufacturing, construction) and those impacted by federal job and funding cuts (federal employment, scientific research, consulting).

Not to mentions the tens of thousands of workers who took the severance payout aren’t even included in unemployment numbers yet. Let’s see how the jobs report gets manipulated to ignore this when the money runs out in October

It’s not just the tariffs, Trump has also eliminated hundreds of thousands of jobs through all the federal workers, contracts, and funding they slashed. They’ve flooded the job market and crippled hiring for entire industries: scientific research, international development, renewables, contracting

I trained my facebook algorithm to only show me insane skyscraper parkour so that I wouldn't watch it but I became numb to the danger and started leaving comments like "me and my friends are 13 and we do this for hours. We may die but we are the new generation" and now I get dozens of angry replies

flagging a correction to this: Florida's housing development overall *is* very similar to arizona and texas, but i misspoke about Miami specifically. Miami has also been building quite a lot per capita (but not as much as the star cities in the article)

Looking at the suburbs that have significantly densified would be an interesting next project

Jersey City absolutely deserves a shoutout too! I didnt include it in the chart since the pattern isnt as clear on a state level. But it's building nearly as much per capita as seattle, dc, and atlanta, while also being much denser.

It's national density ranks, which explains why, say, so little of Texas' development is happening in "downtowns", even though Austin is one of the fastest-growing metros in the country. Most of their 'downtown' homebuilding has been in relatively sparser neighborhoods by national standards

hi! I wrote this piece. Florida looks very similar to Arizona and Texas actually, with slightly more greenfield/rural development. Miami is, perhaps surprisingly, not much better than NYC when it comes to per capita new home development

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(credit to Dennis)