It's ok to hate the people who voted for this.
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It's ok to hate the people who voted for this.
Joe Biden was a very good domestic policy president, but an atrocious foreign policy president.
If people can store their cars for free on public property, then I get to place 200 ftΒ² of crap that's cluttering up my garage out on the curb as well.
I dunno if it's still like this, but it blew my mind to see unmetered parking on the island of Manhattan ten years ago. There is literally nowhere in the US where land is more valuable.
Comment of the month right here.
I'm not talking about Gaza or Iran specifically, but about a counterfactual world where Netanyahu was ousted in 2023 and Trump was sitting in a jail cell for the Jan. 6 coup.
Would be cool to live in a country where foresight was a big part of our politics.
Fondly recalling the 2010s, when one could borrow money for free and instead of densifying our cities and building electric-powered mass transit, we pretended Uber rides would always be cheap and worked hard to prevent "transit-oriented gentrification."
Next time you're in Riverside, be sure to visit the Belvedere Heights neighborhood immediately east of campus and marvel at the breathtaking architecture and stunning streetscapes.
I will never get tired of pointing out how the Metrolink station that ostensibly serves UC Riverside is not only served by just **six** trains daily, but it's also two miles from actual UC Riverside because people living in a dump sprawl neighborhood next to campus filed a CEQA suit.
Now that gas has jumped $1/gallon at my local station since Sunday, I'm just gonna take a big swig of this coffee and look at what options I have to get to my job at one of California's largest universities using mass transit....
Kinda blows that the post WWII international order might've been preserved if Israel had done a better job jailing Netanyahu and America had done a better job jailing Trump.
If only there were a way for me to have negative children...
This is the thing where Gen Z watches other people play video games, right?
Do I have to learn what Hasan Piker is or is it not that important?
Can the Democratic Party start airdropping "I did that!" stickers with Trump's face on them so people in swing districts can slap them onto the gas tank of every pickup truck and SUV they come across?
There was another candidate who was light-years better on every conceivable dimension and people still didn't vote for her because they are, quite simply, terrible human beings.
Never forget that this is happening because the stupidest and worst people in America were bored.
El Eternauta on Netflix is the best thing on streaming right now. Can't believe I missed it when it came out last year.
At a certain point, we have to come to grips with the fact that the contemporary Republican voter is functionally no different from the Germans who voted for Hitler 100 years ago.
Yeah we didn't build any housing in the 2020's either so Texas will take at least four of our Congressional seats. But on the bright side, all the single family homes and surface parking lots will rise up and overthrow capitalism.
Nothing would be more perfect than California being governed by Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco because 400 dummies that no one has ever heard of all campaigned using the Democratic Party label.
How TF can Juan Vargas' stupid ass be the best person California can come up with who lives in this part of southern San Diego County? Is there not one person in City Heights we can convince to run a primary challenge?
The most illuminating thing about graphs like this is how inefficient work is in the United States. We generate far less wealth per hour worked than our wealthy EU counterparts.
Nuremberg 2.0 implies John C. Woods 2.0.
I hope the US Senate carries out their constitutional duties and finally delivers the truth about this insanely questionable 3-0 record. He beat a guy with a 1-11 record twice in a two month period????
This is the kind of serious pivot we needed from Trump. Rather than the governor of a backwater oil pit whose major qualification was shooting her dogs, we need a senator from a backwater oil pit whose major qualification is having a fake MMA record and trying to fight a witness at a Senate hearing.
Imagining a dog that's always showing up late to work, smelling like booze, and then blows the big presentation because he didn't finish his deck on time.
I'm pretty sanguine on how much junk studies like Storper et al's actually affect policy. If these academics weren't disgracing themselves by putting out such drivel, segregationist elected officials would just find some other excuse to keep housing costs high.