@stationarymarx It's more so a "nonsense" metric
"Oh no, people not from my in-group are moving into my neighbourhood & my home's asset value is appreciating"
Altho, I can understand renters who might need to move, but realistically their living standards would be worse under NIMBY policies
@stationarymarx I kinda get it, bcs a lot of people on the frontier of the tech&business side have... rather unpleasant ideological motives (also "bad vibes", but alas).
But the insistence that the models are useless&can't do anything are hilarious; don't get me started on "Markov Chains" either
CONFESSIONS OF A GROYPER
"I've never been ashamed to be a Groyper. Father is a Groyper. Grandfather was. It's a Groyper family. But recently, all these strange figures have started to appear. Like, who exactly is this James Fishback fellow? Why won't he show his DNA results?
A graph of the democratic vote margin vs share of households renting for a given bin of precincts. I got share of households renting for a given precinct by using dra2020 code from github to map census block data to precincts.
@MesoAnglic One of the things that've always interested me is how many present-day Right Populist parties in Europe find their organisational origins in pre-2008 pro-"E-Democracy" parties. Notwithstanding their current stance, M5S is an example; but also Lega, Dutch post-Fortuynists etc.
It will come to head when the media release audio-visual surveillance of @elonmusk autoerotic asphyxiating in the backseat of a Tesla via hose from its secret carburetor while it autonomously shares 16lbs of hash and child pornography.
And the Fingermen will say, "See?"
Paul Krugman: “We really need to do a thorough purging of the United States."
“We need a deMAGAfication…similar to de-Nazification."
This deranged lunatic was employed by NYT for 20+ years.
@NicolasDVillar1 One critical mistake I see older Generations make re. Zoomer "polarisation" or "radicalisation" is that a lot of Gen Z just take these positions as "memes" and don't even consider them seriously; despite whatever they might write under an Instagram Reels comment section.