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The contemporary debate format rewards memorization of helpful facts and skillful directing of the debate towards territory full of memorized helpful facts.
If I cite a paper or event and you don't know enough about it to contradict my interpretation, then it doesn't matter if I've made it up.
I've always been pro-cancellation and anti-cancel culture and that still applies now.
Some people do need to face consequences for what they say. But there are also social forces that lead to people opportunistically looking for cancellation targets, and that has a very high error rate.
Like, I think somebody calling for more murders or a purge of anybody who's critizing Kirk's beliefs is fireable.
The problem is that cancel culture has taken hold and so now the right is being reckless in who they're reporting.
Not that social consequences are a secret police.
I'm not a fan of vague descriptions like this because it applies to reporting someone for racism or sexual harassment as well.
And honestly, in recent days some people (of all ideologies) have posted stuff that speaks to a level of recklessness that I think is fireable.
The post-war white picket fence American Dream was not just about homeownership in the abstract, it was about a vision for urban planning that society bought into.
Housing policy today needs to promote a new mythos that matches what is economical to build now.
I think the exaggerated narrative of development ruining neighbourhoods is the main driver of NIMBYism. It's framed in very material terms, but the material concerns are just not true.
We need propaganda to counter the NIMBY propaganda
A high trust society is one in which people will sell out their family members to uphold the social order.
People make real sacrafices to their social standing among those closest to them because they trust that strangers will do the same for them.
This is how we hit our NATO defense spending target
I'm not a fan of how these stats are presented by single-month YoY numbers are super volatile and frankly Montréal's development numbers not moving in-line with market demand conditions speaks to the planning system being very constraining in 2024.
I think it would be good for this site of using Bluesky were added as a component of the performative male meme.
It's like 10 years too late to preserve housing affordability. You have to have a vision for how markets rents will come down as a percentage incomes, not just a plan to keep current rental contracts at the same rate.
Being stupid and persuadable is attractive to voters because people like to assume that you'll be persuaded by the truth, what that is to each individual voter
My steelman of this is that it's arguing that AI (in the broadest sense) inherently has a niche in video games because it's how you give players interaction with other characters, and so it makes sense that machine learning will be used in video games.
It's true that IZ makes rich people more resistant to new development, but rich vs poor polarization is good for getting housing built. IZ exists because it is politically popular!
It fails on the merits, not on the politics
I think it's bad that so many progressive surveys are total hack jobs you basically have to treat every new one you see with immense skepticism.
Where is the respect for good data collection?
The problem with this is that Republicans are currently spinning Medicaid cuts like adding work requirements as providing affordable and secure health insurance for those who need it, because they have a much narrower conception of who needs affordable health insurance.
I think it's possible for variation in affordability between states to be driven by factors different than what drives aggregate national housing affordability though
He complains like a manchild
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It turns out the net loss of 21,901 residents stat is wrong two ways lol
It's the CMA, not the city. And it's net intraprovincial migration, not net migration.
If the journalist did basic research they wouldn't've made this mistake!
I've heard of Viki subbers being really poorly compensated fans, but I feel like they do a better job for an audience more willing to learn the nuances of what Korean phrasings mean.
538 really cared about using data well, and there isn't really a replacement.
With the way average journalists are, it's like they resent having to use stats and do the bare minimum—often mischaracterizing stats they likely heard from a source.
It's the 2023-2024 net intraprovincial migration number! I found it by directly using 21901 as a search term.
Not a great act of journalism to conflate that with net migration.
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Shoutout to this website with direct links to radio station streams so I can add them to my podcast app
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Youtube Rewind falling of was basically entirely due to social media platforms becoming too big to have a homogenous culture, and acknowledgement of the shift scared people.
Now people just kind of exist in delusional ignorance.
Thanks for the link!
People just need to be more aware that they're in bubbles.
One reason I'm relatively fine with free bus fares is that I think MTA bus service is much more limited by roadspace than money.
NYC is actually different from most other places. We can't just copy and paste truisms.
Good to see Zohran focusing people on cheap bus service improvements.
Hell is being a fan of the artistry of a celebrity with big boobs. People are just unable to be normal
