Everyone’s yelling “communism” about Mamdani’s housing plan. They’re missing the actual trick.
His own plan says the city will “engage lenders to trigger foreclosure” on landlords.
I’ve done real estate 20 years. Here’s what that means: they let the building go distressed, force the bank to eat the loan, then hand it off with NO mortgage.
A building with no loan is a money printer. And they pick who holds it.
That’s not a housing plan. It’s a wealth transfer with a loyalty program attached.
New York’s the test kitchen. California’s next.
Follow me — I’ll show you the part nobody else is reading. 🔨
@Gentleman_Ways Gutenberg. By making books more widely available, he created a demand for literacy. As books and reading proliferated, the exchange of knowledge made subsequent inventions so much easier.
@FoxNews It depends on the restaurant. We liked going to Chinese and Italian places when our kids were young because they are very family friendly. I would never have taken them to a high end, haute cuisine type place. And yet I have seen people do that.
@SeddSezz No. You can't arrest someone for being terrible at their job. You can, however, subject them to workplace discipline, up to and including firing.
@SDDonovan I just take a long walk and think about the problem. It's good for me and it works, because it's my book and I know more about it than some piece of software.
🚨🚨 Iran deal NEARLY finalized. Last sticking points are Iran's insistence on destroying West, killing all infidels and imposing Islam on the world. Fingers crossed!
Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear.
The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day.
After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this.
Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017.
The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around.
Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.
Dear Gen X,
I’ve been watching 80s movies and I just need to know…WHERE WERE YOUR PARENTS??
Every child was just wandering the earth unsupervised like a raccoon with house keys. Riding bikes across town at midnight, fighting ghosts, investigating murders, befriending cryptids, hacking government computers for funsies…
And the parents were ALWAYS “out of town” or “working late” while the only adult-adjacent supervision was some random 16-year-old who got dragged into the chaos.
No cell phones. No helmets. No adult supervision. Just vibes, life lessons, and several near-death experiences.
You all weren’t “raised.” You were lightly monitored feral creatures with a bike and unresolved trauma.
I’m genuinely shocked there are enough of you left to populate an entire generation.
Dear Gen X,
I’ve been watching 80s movies and I just need to know…WHERE WERE YOUR PARENTS??
Every child was just wandering the earth unsupervised like a raccoon with house keys. Riding bikes across town at midnight, fighting ghosts, investigating murders, befriending cryptids, hacking government computers for funsies…
And the parents were ALWAYS “out of town” or “working late” while the only adult-adjacent supervision was some random 16-year-old who got dragged into the chaos.
No cell phones. No helmets. No adult supervision. Just vibes, life lessons, and several near-death experiences.
You all weren’t “raised.” You were lightly monitored feral creatures with a bike and unresolved trauma.
I’m genuinely shocked there are enough of you left to populate an entire generation.
This is the best articulation of how I feel about Israel. Thank you.
I literally traveled to CEU in Budapest to gain access to private Soros archives. I smuggled in a scanner to scan every document possible.
And here's the hard truth: Israel simply isn't a player. Yes, many impactful policymakers are Jewish. But Jewish isn't Israel. Israel is just a tiny nobody country that has outsized impact in the USA of extreme religious significance to Muslims.
Muslim nations also happen to be by far the most powerful UN voting bloc and thus arguably the most powerful global faction in the world. So if UN has to pass anything, they have to get approval from Muslims. Which makes Israel a disproportionate target.
As a result, literally billions upon billions of dollars are being spent by Muslim nations to condition everyone into thinking Israel has some sort of influence. And that's why news media about Israel dropping a few million on influencers dominate everything but you have Qatar spending billions and billions in influence pass by in silence.