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  1. I’m a JFK Truther- with the LIRR from Jamaica going to Grand Central it’s <1 hour gate to midtown no matter the traffic and weather.
  2. On the other hand 90% of the owners can’t play for shit so the damage is contained to friends and family. Thoughts and Prayers. 🙏
  3. This is a little less of a problem than it was before, but from 2014-2022 especially, Austin had a massive leadership vacuum on the council, and they generally expected their appointees on the sovereign commissions like PC to act as surrogates. That’s not how it’s supposed to work and not how good commissions run. A Sovereign commission should make defacto final decisions on about 80-90% of what they see the first time it comes up with the expectation of council approval on consent. And council should use commissions to soak up political heat on controversial issues. Instead what was happening was that staff would present a sound recommendation, and if the issue was politically hot the commissions would delay as long as they could, indulge anyone with connections, blame staff for not taking enough input, and then send it to council much watered down. Then council would repeat the delay/indulge/blame dynamic until they ran out of process to conduct, and if the issue hadn’t died on its own (or if it had died of misinformation like the Zilker plan or sabotage like Code Next), they would blame staff for not taking enough community feedback, and either restart the process over again or do something halfass (Northcross) and blame staff for not taking enough community feedback. What staff learned from all this was that they could not trust council or PC to take the heat for their own policy decisions and adopted a practice of slow rolling projects until either the applicants or opposition collapsed. It’s slightly better for the land use plans than it was, but the teens were a lost decade in terms of land use and public safety still very much appears to be operating in that dynamic
  4. At this point the conspiracy theory and the incompetence theory converge into a single outcome. So why would a new buyer pay the premium when a change of ownership is the thing that creates the additional equity? If the Adelsons can’t get a stadium deal done in Dallas or Irving with a casino/resort attached or heavy taxpayer subsidies the franchise would be worth more to the Adelsons in a new arena in Las Vegas. The number of times the league has stopped a team from moving when they can’t get a new arena built is zero.
  5. Really hoping the telegram bot don’t get creative here
  6. off the top rope! Wordle 1,416 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Wordle 1,417 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  7. This is a very fair criticism. They also get a lot of local details about Texas wrong by not drawing more of a distinction between the successful but unaffordable cities like Austin and their affordable but bleak suburbs in the context housing supply, which is crucial because of how it impacts school funding at the district level and regional transportation and transit problems. As a result they wind up conflating the aggregate impact of suburban development with the impact of very recent zoning reforms. I don’t think it’s really necessary to read the book, honestly. The broad strokes are the important thing, and it fits on an index card with plenty room to doodle left over.
  8. All Dak Prescott has ever done in his life is squeeze a dollar of success out of two nickel‘s worth of talent and luck. He’s a pretty good QB on the field and unless there’s some major scandal in we don’t know about yet he’s everything you could ask for off.
  9. Good luck finding a substitute. Sure, there are other motorcycles, but ONLY Harley Davidson can turn fuel into noise without the creation of commensurate power or speed.
  10. I heard that. It’s a very silly counter. People need housing and working drawbridges and the walk-up service at the DMV. This isn’t complicated. Harvey Milk once said that if you could figure out how to clean up all the dog shit in San Francisco you could be elected mayor. He was right then and he’s right now. The baddest of bad faith arguments: we can’t have more housing in cities because billionaires.
  11. I understand you are asking this in good faith, but a lot of people are not. I spent about two decades deeply in the weeds on zoning, for example- if I showed you the process in a place that moves very quickly and a place that moves very slowly, you (as a normal person) would be very hard pressed to tell them apart. But what I can tell you from watching thousands of things go through the public approval process is that it’s built to facilitate wars of attrition between highly organized interests and making good “planning decisions” is the first sacrifice that gets made. And approval is only the first stage. That’s when the engines start to crank inside the real killing machine
  12. Perhaps that’s true, but I would argue that the Democrats have been hollowed out and cannot win in 2028 without a core message beyond simple rejection of Trumpism. Furthermore, I don’t think it’s possible to understand the election(s) of Donald Trump without understanding the nihilism that has been created by the widespread loss of housing affordability and the widespread frustration with elected leaders to accomplish literally anything. in other words, it’s impossible to really reject Trumpism without demonstrating an alternative, and the only alternative that is coherent is an alternative where meaningful progress can be made in on a reasonable timeline and everything isn’t just getting worse.
  13. Yes, and the critique in a nutshell is that we do need more housing and infrastructure but evil corporations or whatever and why don’t you also address all the other things that are bad and blah blah blah
  14. This is the gist of the book that Sirota and co. find so offensive:
  15. Here is the “progressive” case against “Abundance” in a nutshell.
  16. Ok but we need more housing and infrastructure. Democrats should be enthusiastic about more housing and swiftly building things like rail and solar and bridges and ports. Congratulations I just saved you 6 hours of reading.
  17. Speaking as someone who finds Ezra Klein to be among the most tedious media figures of our age, hearing lefties who don’t know who Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are and haven’t read the book explain why it’s wrong totally validate my opinion that they are absolutely right. David Sirota and a bunch of other toxic recidivist losers hate it? I think we’re on to something.
  18. Peer into the future:
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  20. Kemp isn’t running because he sees the same numbers as everyone else and wants to keep his powder dry for a presidential run as the alternative to MAGA. Wait until the house retirements start going.
  21. I hope you are right, I like your energy and if you can pull it off in LT, it’s possible (almost) anywhere.
  22. Different communities. Maybe this is anecdotal but I’ve heard that Dripping Springs and Dripping Springs Schools in particular have been aggressively marketed by realtors to MAGA families as a place they can access all the things Austin has to offer but still protect their sweet children from the woke mind virus, DEI, CRT, the trans menace, MS-13, dirty homeless people, etc.
  23. I wish I could like this 1000 times.
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