Conservatives are justified in viewing liberals’ desire to regulate ‘Big Tech’ as stemming from a desire to censor conservatives, and it would be better for everyone if Democrats just abandoned the entire effort

I really want to live in a world with UBI someday but just doing the math on how much even a modest UBI would cost shows that it would require *major* changes to government budgets - call it political cowardice if you want, but it’s not a mystery why governments aren’t leaping to institute it

trade Staten Island for it

if a Mayor of NYC were actually monomaniacally fixated on how much faster Jersey City builds housing than NYC, that would be not just good but optimal

I think this question looks pretty different if you’re thinking of red state legislatures trying to disenfranchise urban voters vs if you’re thinking of local governments insisting on their power to stop housing construction

as indeed are most of the characters in the book, really

I’d be fine with multifamily housing exclusively on arterial streets as long as it’s with no height/dimensional restrictions, density limits, or parking minimums whatsoever. SFH owners can have their SFH-only block or they can never live next to a gigantic tower but they shouldn’t get both.

arguably the New York Times has always hated New York, as evidenced by “oh definitely everyone in a whole apartment building listened to somebody get murdered and did nothing, sounds right, we all know this city makes people selfish atomized drones, no need to look closer” in the 60s

“Looks like the state treasurer might run for governor, don’t know much about the guy but man, dude devoted a REMARKABLE amount of his speech at the state fair to the importance of closer US-Romanian relations”

I kind of wonder if like a whole bunch of countries are doing equivalent stuff with US local positions that seem more important than they are from a foreign perspective, like somewhere in the Midwest there’s a city council president who’s an unregistered agent of the Pakistani government