Ryan Hassett

This is the foundational belief of almost every American outside of Manhattan and certain parts of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens.

To think that just under six years ago, we were all watching the WTI crude oil April settlement price go negative.

It was a simpler, more innocent, more carefree time.

Well, at least you have low property taxes, right? Right?

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Individual members of a group do not have a collective responsibility for the actions of their government or the actions of other members of their religion, nationality or ethnic group.

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SAY-leen

It's so nice to wake up on a weekend morning, stretch, make coffee and turn on the death screen to see what the Mad King is up to now.

Although, cough cough, Québec doesn't technically have vacancy decontrol, cough cough, the way setting the rent works means they may feel, cough, incentivized to refuse an assignment, but that still frees the tenant from his or her obligation.

I'm not sure about this. The new lease assignment rule—that you can't just assign it to anyone—is the default in almost every jurisdiction. (Termination if the assignment is refused is still more generous than most jurisdictions.)

Maybe they can pick up some assets at FLL soon.

The Old New Spirit

Often paying someone else so you can blame them instead is smart.

Look, Trump wearing a cap when he's honouring fallen soldiers is bad, but you need to have perspective:

Obama wore a tan suit to a press conference.

A tan suit.

At a press conference.

I'm not making this up. He really did that.

He's a mensch and reposted it saying that people who know better say it's actually good and that the headline was bad.

The two most important tenets of "responsible" journalism appear to be never linking to studies that are cited and never linking to court filings that are discussed.

But Obama once wore a tan suit to a press conference, so you need to keep it in perspective.

‘People need to see it’: How politics hung up a $42B Biden internet buildout The 2021 infrastructure law contained tens of billions of dollars intended to help rural parts of the country like southwest Virginia — but mounting political snags will mean the administration will h...

The reason Biden's rural broadband program didn't sway rural voters is probably that Biden's rural broadband program didn't provide any rural voters with new broadband.
www.politico.com/news/2024/09...

I'm a pessimist by nature, but if the client needs a feasibility study to kill a bad idea, then they need a feasibility study to kill the bad idea. That way, when politicians say "why did you kill my good idea," they can say "The feasibility study said it was a bad idea, not me."

(I'd also be curious to see household access to car by mode. Are the bikeshare people who wouldn't take Metro otherwise, or are they obscured in the much larger sea of Metro ridership?)

In other words, a meaningful share may be people that others would identify as middle class or UMC socially but they have a lower income because they're still students or single young professionals.

Given how white/Asian the riders are, I'm curious how much of that is age and household size (ie, younger people are more likely to bike and less likely to be married/cohabitating) compared to county median. (Roommates can form a Census household, but in survey data I doubt respondents include it.)

LA just has such long distances and such dangerous roads.

I'm curious if a large part of it is housing segregation (the stereotypical bike rider in LA for many people is a low income person who "has no choice", but the marginal high income bikeshare rider is probably in a more bikeable area and making a shorter trip than the marginal low income rider).

(For ebikes, they get the unlock fee waived but I assume they pay the normal rate otherwise.)

Not free for low-income, but $5/month.

In other words, it's not just that the models got bigger 1:1 (which started a long while ago) but that you can't even buy the wagon today, while people still have an intuitive feeling that Subaru = wagon.

I think the real origins of all this is that that the the Legacy wagon and the pre-2009 Forester were "stereotypical" Subarus, but the former was discontinued in 2008 and, while the 2025 Forester really is 8 inches longer and 5 inches taller, the biggest size jump was back in 2009.

When One Tree Hill needs to invent a fake university so they don't get sued:

Had to doublecheck the date on this