you're not having a hard time buying a house because jeff bezos owns a yacht. you're having a hard time buying a house because you voted for people who hate you.
The invasion of Normandy was the largest seaborne invasion in world history. Nearly 160,000 men on day 1; 2 million by August. It was an allied effort, but foremost American.
We conquered Western Europe. And we didn’t keep it. We restored democracy, and then we went home.
“Communism” is not an ideology, it’s an inability to operate as an individual in a society. It’s a lack of comprehension as to what personal responsibility means.
You don’t need to engage with these people or debate them, you just need to beat them, simple as.
Reminder that the reason that New York City is struggling to power its air conditioners is a Democratic Party crusade against the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant that finally led to its shutdown in 2020, which led to a massive rise in fossil fuel usage to power the city
Yes, your rent is frozen. So is the landlord's budget to fix your heat, your leaks, and your broken freezer. But don't worry, when nothing works, at least the number on your lease stays the same. You can admire it while you eat out.
And the rent won't rise, true. Neither will any new buildings, because no one builds apartments he's forbidden to price. So enjoy the same aging unit for the next thirty years, paying yesterday's rent for tomorrow's ruins.
Freezing a price doesn't freeze reality. It freezes the supply, halts the repairs, and ends the building, while the line of people waiting for an apartment grows longer every year.
But feel the warmth of collectivism: everyone equal, shivering together in identical crumbling units, sharing the broken elevator and the dead freezer as one community.
The number stays the same. That was the promise, and that is all you'll get.
NYC's Rent Guidelines Board just froze rent on a million apartments, 7-1. The lone "no" vote? @NYUStern Professor and @ManhattanInst senior fellow @arpitrage, the economist on the board who lays out, in @CityJournal, exactly why this freeze backfires.
~30% of rent-stabilized households earn six figures. 57,000 stabilized units sit empty. ~10% of these buildings already lose money every month.
A freeze doesn't make housing cheap. It makes it scarce, decrepit, and eventually the taxpayer's problem. It's the same cycle that bankrupted the nickel subway fare and hollowed out Mumbai's housing stock.
The benefit is a lottery ticket for whoever holds the lease. Everyone else gets crowded into a market that's now breathing with one lung.
Allow the private sector to build more housing. That's the only real fix.
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This is the textbook definition of a landing spot flagrant. Brunson was called for a less egregious one earlier in the season. Wembanyama avoids it. If he had been called for one, he would have incurred an automatic suspension for Game 6 (if necessary).
Oh yes, I remember that Bond film where the villain decarbonized the auto industry, brought fast internet to everyone on the planet, and helped paralyzed people interact with the world again.
almost every city in the country now sits atop a system in which a minority of highly-productive young people are expected to work away their best years around the clock, just to cover rent, while giving away half their income to crazy people, criminals, and bureaucrats.
I miss real intentional walks. The crowd booing, the .01% chance something weird would happen, the batter giving off “Yeah, I knew you didn’t want any this” vibes. If you want to walk a guy you should at least have to look like pussies for 30 seconds. It was good.
Yankees fans, if you guys thought Yankees-Twins was bad, hear this stat about Yankees-Royals.
Since the last expansion team joined the league (1998), there have been 252 team head-to-heads with minimum 50 games played between them (not including playoffs).
The Yankees W% vs the Royals (145-56) in this span is the largest of any team head-head in the league. Here are the top 11 rankings:
1. NYY vs KC (.720 W%)
145 - 56
2. BOS vs MIA (.700 W%)
35-15
3. NYY vs MIN (.682 W%)
131 - 61
4. DET vs STL (.660 W%)
35 - 18
5. LAD vs WSN (.625 W%)
110 - 66
6. BOS vs KC (.624 W%)
121 - 73
7. NYY vs SEA (.623 W%)
137 - 83
8. LAD vs PIT (.622 W%)
120 - 73
9. NYY vs BAL (.618 W%)
299 - 185 <-- This one's kinda crazy too
10. LAA vs DET (.616 W%)
133 - 83
11. NYY vs CLE (.616 W%)
122 - 76
The Yankees have 5 of the top 11 lopsided head-heads since the last expansion team joined the league lol