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@Lib_Development

Cities, trains, money & A220s = good | localism, taxes & safety = bad | cardio supremacist | AI Bots Are People Too | Econ & CS @UChicago | Read my blog!

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open.substack.com/pub/developmen… Wrote another thing today; we're talking about how the "international" in "international best practices" is sometimes not all it's chalked up to be

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Wrote another thing today; we're talking about how the "international" in "international best practices" is sometimes not all it's chalked up to be

Oh that’s why I look so jewish and my high school’s italian teacher said my name was definitely italian

ashkenazi jews are italian?

IterIntellectus's tweet image. ashkenazi jews are italian?


Explaining politics to an American: “So imagine a burger…”

I know what fast food chains i'm going to be supporting.



That’s because “Charlie Kirk” from “The Charlie Kirk Show” is no longer in stock. Now it’s just “The Show” and it’s boring

BREAKING: The Charlie Kirk Show has crashed in the rankings, falling to number 94 on Apple Podcasts, even though it routinely held a top-10 spot in the past and even reached number one when Kirk was alive.



Chipotle has 130,000 hourly employees; how have they not been automated by now? It cannot be that hard to make a Bowl Making Machine

Unpopular opinion: Chipotle has 130,000 hourly employees. Do you honestly think the company directed them to reduce portion sizes, and it never leaked? I've had the same meal 700 times+ in the last decade and I've noticed 0 changes in portion size or quality, only the price.

mhp_guy's tweet image. Unpopular opinion:

Chipotle has 130,000 hourly employees.

Do you honestly think the company directed them to reduce portion sizes, and it never leaked?

I've had the same meal 700 times+ in the last decade and I've noticed 0 changes in portion size or quality, only the price.


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Lib_Development's tweet image. ???

The United States currently ranks below Ghana, Namibia and nearly every single European country when it comes to freedom of press. You don't get to lecture anyone on this.

Daractenus's tweet image. The United States currently ranks below Ghana, Namibia and nearly every single European country when it comes to freedom of press. You don't get to lecture anyone on this.


Just not in Atherton

Lib_Development's tweet image. Just not in Atherton

Imagine how fast we could go if we set interstate highway speed limits at non-interstate highway safety levels

imagine how fast the waymo could go if we set it to human-level safety requirements



GOP succeeds at almost treading water relative to democrats. woohoo.

Lib_Development's tweet image. GOP succeeds at almost treading water relative to democrats. woohoo.

fwiw, it’s also true that young, early-career educated leftists are much more willing to take a public-sector pay cut than their right wing counterparts the path to sane government and right wing power requires doing government pay reform.

fun facts: - MN state reps and senators make $51,750 per annum - MN governor makes $127,629 per annum if you're curious why everyone in public service is either (1) retarded, (2) independently wealthy, or (3) insane (much love travis) this is a good place to start



Oh no I did the thing (again) where I put all my clothes in the washing machine before showering, including all the possible sets of clothes I could have worn after my shower What am I going to do about this


Morbid and ironic but nonetheless a peculiar kind of satisfying: the democrats have finally found an issue where the right is willing to kick over absurd, prohibitive proceeduralism that democrats put up in front of them …and its deportations, of all things

“ICE does NOT arrest U.S. citizens.” They don't even try to make their lies believable anymore.

micah_erfan's tweet image. “ICE does NOT arrest U.S. citizens.”

They don't even try to make their lies believable anymore.


Old People Are Killing America

Opinion: At 90, I'm tired of paying for transit, schools I don't use | Letters indystar.com/story/opinion/…



Every store should be autonomously staffed and open 24 hours per day.

There should be a place that sells hot soup at all hours of the day. If I want hot soup at 7:00am then I should be allowed to.



The environmentalists want you to have low ceilings, depressing floor plans, and low-quality office space

Foster’s new JP Morgan HQ in New York uses *60% more steel* than the Empire State Building (built in 1931) But the Empire State Building has more floor area and is taller We’re going backwards environmentally theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

SustainableTall's tweet image. Foster’s new JP Morgan HQ in New York uses *60% more steel* than the Empire State Building (built in 1931)

But the Empire State Building has more floor area and is taller

We’re going backwards environmentally

theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…


There's a certain type of "omnicause urbanist" that has a special interest, but isn't at all politically motivated by urbanist issues. When faced with a serious political tradeoff they immediately abandon serious support of urbanism. I find this kind of person very annoying

there’s a certain type of single-issue urbanist that only cares about construction of buildings, trains, etc. they’re completely fine working with fascism as long as they’re promised the aesthetics of urbanism along the way. i call it “austin brain” and find it very annoying

north0fnorth's tweet image. there’s a certain type of single-issue urbanist that only cares about construction of buildings, trains, etc. they’re completely fine working with fascism as long as they’re promised the aesthetics of urbanism along the way. i call it “austin brain” and find it very annoying


If Trump manages to make Kei cars legal that would substantially exceed my expectations for the administration

🚨 @POTUS: Today, my administration is taking historic action to lower costs for American consumers, protect American auto jobs and make buying a car much more affordable... We're officially terminating Joe Biden's ridiculously burdensome CAFE standards...



There's actually a whole country of Somalis this guy can go live in if he really believes this

I would rather live next to a Somali immigrant than a MAGA, and it ain't even close.



In the future, people will create entire traffic jams out of burritos. Clickbait headlines and snarled roads, with zero people suffering the consequences

Door dash with Waymo starting today



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