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Rest in power Country Joe ,
who passed away yesterday. He was an American singer/songwriter and the lead singer of Country Joe and the Fish.

His mother was a communist organizer in the Bay Area. McDonald was part of the Free Speech and anti-Vietnam War Movements.

I was on a flight from Arizona to California years ago. A lady in a fur coat tried to convince me to switch my aisle seat for her middle seat because her husband was in the middle seat right next to me. I refused. Since then, every few days I kick myself for not asking "what's it worth to you?"

Something interesting about the legacy of Thomas Edison: Americans lose about 10-15% of the electricity they pay for in their homes converting it back to DC in most appliances. Combined with terrible insulation and home construction and we use 2-5x more energy than other countries per person.

I can't believe I'm writing this but: free Don Lemon.

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

“Liam is a bright student,” said the five-year-old’s preschool teacher. “He is very kind and caring, and his classmates miss him. He comes to class every day and brightens up the classroom. All I want is for him to come home safe and sound.”

Figures they'd let Bovino gulag from home while everyone else has to come in tomorrow

Becoming a eunuch isn't really what he would traditionally consider honor

Bill Gates SHOCKED as Windows Users ABANDON Microsoft for Linux! YouTube video by Tech Report

Some of us have been waiting 30 years for everyone else to catch up, but it's finally here: the year of the Linux desktop is 2026. It just became the second most popular desktop OS www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCTE...

Just remembered this site exists still, right?

Housing supply vs prices, using 1970 as an index value

From https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2024/08/22/from-commodity-to-asset-the-truth-behind-rising-house-prices If property consistently loses value against income, it's treated as a 'commodity' -- a thing you buy to use. But if property maintains its value against income, it gets treated as an asset -- a thing you buy as an investment.

Hey, how about housing? See how when we build more units, it gets way more expensive? This is because housing is both a commodity and an asset. But financialization means the pressure is on to treat houses as "sources of generational wealth."

When you say "success control housing cost" do you mean that rents went up or went down?

No, I'm asking whether rents went up or went down. Did rents go up or did they go down? I.e., does the average Minneapolis resident pay more for rent as a result of these magic bullet YIMBY policies, or do they pay less for rent?

And so what happened to rents, did they go up or did they go down in actual dollars?

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the most commonly-used measure of inflation in the United States. The CPI-U is an index that tracks retail prices for urban consumers, a category that encompasses roughly 87% of the population of the United States. As prices increase, the purchasing power of money decreases, driving down the real value of each dollar earned. In the post-pandemic recovery period, prices have been increasing quickly. In March, the growth in CPI-U hit 8.5% over the year, the largest 12-month increase since 1981. The Minneapolis-St Paul CPI-U hit 8.2%, an OTY high not topped since 1982. In terms of annual growth, CPI-U at both the national and state levels have been consistently outpacing growth in average hourly earnings since the economic recovery began in earnest in mid-2021. It also appears that the recent strong inflation growth began occurring prior to wage growth, with both the U.S. and Minneapolis-St. Paul CPI-U beginning sharp growth trends in March 2021, while the wage growth trend did not appear until May 2021 (in fact, both U.S. and Minnesota private sector wages posted sharp declines in March 2022), which suggests that increasing wages are not the primary driver of increasing inflation.

Housing for the majority of people in the Twin Cities' AMI is at a lower proportion than ever as a share of the city's housing stock. For those making 60% of AMI, only 41% of apartments in the city are affordable, down from 51% last year. For those making 30% of AMI, only 16% of the city's stock is affordable. But 88% of the housing stock is affordable for those making 80% of AMI, and 97% affordable for those making 100% of AMI.

Median rental prices spiked over last fall in Minneapolis, going from around $1500 to $1650 between September and October before falling in the next two months. Overall median rent increased by $72 even after a steep post-October fall.

Minneapolis rents show slow but steady growth overall from June 2021, but have risen less than the national averages.

Hey, quick question: did rents in Minneapolis rise or fall since 2020?

I know your graph makes a big deal of a post-COVID drop in rents

*RELATIVE TO INFLATION WHICH REACHED A 40-YEAR HIGH*

but

RENTS INCREASED IN MINNEAPOLIS, NOT DECREASED
(see below). Why not measure rents relative to wages?

I've said this before (maybe 10 years ago?), but the thing about how machine learning is based on an inability to distinguish causation from correlation is getting worse the more we deploy this essentially flawed method for approximating human intelligence.

But then, remember who's programming it.

That's what's so maddening, almost the entire Obama White House went to go work for that same tech oligarchy to made sure it prevailed over any attempts to regulate or moderate

The most appropriate treatment of Yarvin is one that recognizes his influence on Silicon Valley billionaires who don’t recognize him as a shallow thinker bc they’ve never taken a single class on political philosophy or history or philosophy

I guess WaPo was right about this

Is there a real world example of a time and place where a city built more housing and then housing got cheaper as a direct result?

Dems will never get "credit" for adopting Republican policies. All that happens when you go along is you give them permission to get more radical. This bill started out bad. Democrats showed willingness to play ball and it got even worse as a result. This portends very badly for the next 4 years

*FED ANNOUNCES IT HAS WITHDRAWN FROM GLOBAL CLIMATE COALITION

"As president, Biden will work to codify Roe v. Wade, and his Justice Department will do everything in its power to stop the rash of state laws that so blatantly violate the constitutional right to an abortion, such as so-called TRAP laws, parental notification requirements, mandatory waiting periods, and ultrasound requirements."

Joe Biden made efforts to protect abortion, but Congress did not codify access President Joe Biden vowed to codify abortion rights, but he did not rally the congressional support needed to pass such legislation. On his 2020 campaign website, Biden said he would work to "codify Roe v. Wade," the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that established federally protected abortion access. Biden said then that his Justice Department "would do everything in its power" to stop or curb anti-abortion state laws. Two years later, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Still, Biden said he would restore Roe as the law of the land. But congressional efforts to pass legislation prohibiting governmental restrictions on abortion access failed. The Biden administration has, meanwhile, sought to protect abortion rights in other ways, including through executive order.

An irony of Biden’s final campaign is that one of the most vexing issues he has ever confronted personally — abortion — is now central to his political survival. Biden’s campaign and his entire party have made abortion a defining issue in his re-election bid, hoping to rally female voters alarmed by Republican efforts to roll back reproductive freedoms. The young Catholic politician who once said the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling that safeguarded abortion rights “went too far” — and who to this day remains uneasy with the procedure — is casting himself as the only thing standing between women and strict national abortion bans. He vows to chisel Roe’s protections into law if he’s re-elected and secures friendly majorities in Congress, quashing a GOP-led push to forbid most abortion procedures. On Tuesday, Biden is scheduled to give a speech in Tampa, Florida condemning the state's new six-week abortion ban. Jennifer Klein, director of the White House’s Gender Policy Council, recalls Biden’s reaction upon hearing that the Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Thinking through the decision in the Oval Office, “he was angry,” Klein said in an interview. “He went quickly to the fact that this had never been done before and the Supreme Court had never overturned a fundamental freedom. He also went immediately to what might come next: If they take away this right, what other rights would be under attack?” Biden may have little choice but to put abortion rights front and center. He is running about even with Donald Trump in the polls,

He was always soft on abortion, and the calculation was made not to pack the court, instead saving Roe as a wedge issue to use against Trump in the election.
Every president inherits judges, few have unconditionally surrendered this way.
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Imagine if she had said the exact same thing about private equity takeovers of America's already awful healthcare system.
It would be so wrong! The insurance-industrial complex doesn't care which generation of Americans it kills

Since 1812! constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-cas...

Calling it now: Americans will Mandela-effect the overturning of Roe v. Wade into something that happened under Trump instead of under Biden

Wednesday Sr at best, come on now

The whole video is shot at Fulton Landing and the nearby blocks