One of my formative political experiences was waiting in lines just to apply for rental apartments in Vancouver in the 2010s, getting rejected, seeing people bid up asking prices, and then watching politicians raise the alarm about "vacant units."
What do you make of Trumps "51st state" comments re Canada? As a Canadian I'm a tad concerned
It's pretty funny that we had to invent a whole new term to describe substitution being a thing for housing of varying levels of quality.
Look, if you can't promote your message as a scientist with data on your side without acting neutral you're just bad at rhetoric.
"The median price of a home in California is $869,000. In Texas it is $349,000."
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I really really have found myself enjoying the work in Liberal Currents of late.
love the replies and quotes that are some version of “actually the real problem is [insert something that doesn’t require anyone to build anything]”
This is like claiming that 57 coffee roasters are responsible for 80% of coffee consumed
Strictly true, but conveniently absolves me from the espresso I just bought
My latest WSJ is a theme I've been hitting a lot lately--about tradeoffs and the conservative vice of only worrying about costs and the liberal vice of thinking everything is a benefit.
The rise in left/liberal types emotionally investing in misinformation is, I think, a bad omen.
Carter has passed. An accomplished man. A brilliant legacy. Although for many of us he died years ago when he refused to condemn, gamer gate
we have now reached the point where “climate advocates” are describing “making it so it doesn’t take 15 years to build a transmission line for clean energy” as “supply side deregulation”
every important system is now too large / complex for the average human to grasp and requires full time PR or the public will think it's evil
most people don’t realize that having a readily available, even kinda-accurate answer to “how many Asian women under 40 with a college degree live in Pomona” is a world-historic achievement that requires an industrial scale, heaven & earth moving effort. it is on par with CERN. not hyperbole.
in the future schizophrenics will be talking to 'chat' instead of 'god'
this place really needs a muted word function so i can ignore the john jacob jingleheimer schmidt discourse on here. i don't care if his name is also your name. stop trying to insert yourself into every conversation. stop singing john jacob jingleheimer schmidt
(Obama voice) If you like your gender, you can keep it
i think it's about time we got some new shapes. i like triangles and rectangles as much as anybody, but how about a shape with, like, seven or eight sides? that'd be fun
