Blake Maczka

urbanism, software, books, basketball, irreverence

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@WanderinPhil @BustedAuction Bodegas, delis, and small clothing stores primarily

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@captgouda24 this would!

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@captgouda24 I must’ve missed when this was actually cattle grazing land and not a national forest that Mike Lee wants to sell

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@Austen Any American can access and explore this for free, no reservation required. It’s a mind-boggling luxury that we should not give up, or take away from future generations, lightly.

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@Austen Here’s a few shots from my backpacking trip in the Uinta-Wasatch National Forest last summer. Not Zion but still worth preserving at ~any cost IMO.

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@kunktation https://t.co/FQqt0eII5R

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A few views from a national forest last Summer. This is what they want to take from you

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A few views from a national forest last Summer. This is what they want to take from you

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@brookeleblanc Levels of the Game

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@aaronAcarr I say this as someone who has spent many dozens of hours in Roosevelt park, loves playing basketball there, is YIMBY, etc - that place is not 1% as beautiful/tranquil as Elizabeth Street Garden and I can't take anyone who considers them substitutes for each other seriously

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@wanyeburkett Yup, my first apartment in LES had a bedroom that didn’t meet the minimum requirements. It was awesome and I loved living there. Super cheap, great location, and I was rarely home anyways. Let people decide for themselves what tradeoffs they want to make.

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@felixauboeck @Paris2024 💪 lets go Felix

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@Mass_Confusion_ @sher_sdk @RasAIGhuI_ 2 large eggs = 160 cal
1 tbsp olive oil = 120 cal

very easy to get to 300 with a little extra oil or jumbo eggs

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@NeilYounger4 @opinonhaver +1, I’m gonna need the 2000 page debrief on her career when its all said and done

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@bot770131 @sam_d_1995

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@9mmsmg Literally the central plot of perhaps the most well-known anti-war novel of all time that is very common in American high school curriculums

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@RiverPond42 @jaybee484 @ArmandDoma Yup. Senior people never moving is not optimal on multiple levels

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@jaybee484 @ArmandDoma Retired people moving when they can no longer afford property taxes is good because it maximizes funding for things like school districts and local governments. It would look like retired people simply moving when they can't afford it anymore. Nothing out of the ordinary

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@p_millerd Stalingrad + Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

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2. Congestion pricing is cost effective

"In Singapore’s Area Licensing Program, revenues were more than ten times the operating costs"

"For the London charging program, the revenues have been a little over twice the operating costs"

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Lessons Learned From International Experience in Congestion Pricing

https://t.co/5ixwWBZxoX

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1. Congestion pricing is without exception effective at reducing traffic and increasing travel speed

"Areawide pricing in Singapore, London and Stockholm resulted in 10 to 30 percent or greater reduction in traffic in the priced zone and has sustained the reductions over time"