radical yimby ultra

Scot in Luxembourg, yimby, foreign affairs, other takes 🇺🇦 🚲

[radical yimby ultra @buildingstu]

@__paleologo He sold cars with “full self driving”!

[radical yimby ultra @buildingstu]

@DanNeidle @AD1991234 Is care insurance banned? I agree there’s a moral hazard in no assets = free care. But for car crashes no assets = no recourse for the damage/victim of your crash. If you’re judged (by the gov) liable for £1M of personal injury, the gov assesses your ability to pay it off!

[radical yimby ultra @buildingstu]

Isn’t this correct though? If you think about labour markets by radius it does matter a lot how much of that radius is land! Coastal cities are accidents of history now we can move things cheaply over land

[Sam Whyte @samwhyte]

A take so stupid I feel like it's punched me in the face.

[radical yimby ultra @buildingstu]

You should think about your threshold for this. Is it absolute or a ratio? Keeping the structure, but for:
£5 and £100
£300K and £1M
£1M and £20M
£1K and £50K
And you might start to understand the £50K choosers

[YouGov @YouGov]

If you had a choice between instantly receiving £50,000 or a 50% chance to win £1m, which would you pick?

£50,000: 73%
50/50 chance of winning £1m: 21%

[radical yimby ultra @buildingstu]

@GordianFrost @MT_6226 “Nobody thinks that’s true”
“Some people do think that’s true”
“Ah well they only think that because of propaganda”
Sounds like people do think it then! Which beliefs of yours are only held because of decades spent making the opposite unacceptable?

[radical yimby ultra @buildingstu]

@avidseries He isn’t directionally correct about USAID. He isn’t a standard bearer of anything valid, this dumb stuff is what he believes

[radical yimby ultra @buildingstu]

Elon is tweeting that USAID was not saving lives but funding the global communist cabal while idiots defend him by saying “well strictly cutting the 50c medicine with no notice isn��t our problem”

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

The moral calculus here is insane. According to Kristof, the USA is responsible for every poor nation in the entire world. If an ambulance runs out of fuel in rural Liberia, that is our fault. The liberal has a pathological tension between the feelings of omnipotence and guilt.

[radical yimby ultra @buildingstu]

@alexandrosM The tweets in the screenshot don’t accuse Elon of murder. Nonetheless, people died who would not have without Elon’s actions. I would not call this murder, but there is a causal link from DOGE to the death of many people

[radical yimby ultra @buildingstu]

@stuey_beef Sounds good

[radical yimby ultra @buildingstu]

For the UK: lifetime earning premium
For the US: graduate salary

[radical yimby ultra @buildingstu]

@mr_james_c Pretty much @TalksDamien

[radical yimby ultra @buildingstu]

£1.5b here, £1.5b there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money

[FT UK Politics @ftukpolitics]

Third Heathrow runway would add just 0.05% to UK GDP, government finds https://t.co/XoyZSgXwN5

[radical yimby ultra @buildingstu]

@neilan11508183 @FNazis85244 @LinkofSunshine Aramco has a lower float than SpaceX

[radical yimby ultra @buildingstu]

@xwanyex I don’t think that’s true. If a republican candidate started talking about disenfranchising women, democrats would love to talk about it, right? It would be on every attack ad!

[Department of War CTO @DoWCTO]

NO HESITATION. NO MERCY. OVERWHELMING LETHALITY. 🇺🇸

[radical yimby ultra @buildingstu]

@GeromanAT Pro Russians don’t even try to argue any more. They just post Moscow blowing up and say Russia is winning

[radical yimby ultra @buildingstu]

@ded_ruckus This is the status quo in 2 way elections but we let singles vote at 0.5 weight

[radical yimby ultra @buildingstu]

@AnechoicMedia_ I don’t understand why you think men and women don’t have severable political interests. They certainly might on a topic like universal suffrage

[radical yimby ultra @buildingstu]

@FNazis85244 @LinkofSunshine Sure, but investors are in aggregate buying 4% of discounted future cashflow at this valuation. If low float mechanically generated insane valuations Aramco would be at 20T market cap