Ryan Fraley

Live everyday like it could be your last. Computer programmer and sports geek. #AllforCITY

[Will Latham @The1AndOnlyWill]

@putmeincoach03

[Ryan Fraley @fraydog]

Yes, because instead of expanding their intelligentsia, which would be the smart play, they want to contract it. Dems have become a country club. This won’t win.

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

It seems like many Democratic consultants aggressively want Susan Collins to beat Graham Platner.

Is this the endgame?

[You want it Darker, you want it Woker. @TannenbergBltz]

As stupid and narcissistic as Hasan is, he stands for something and wants to change it. You, Destiny and the other fucking losers stand for nothing except sucking dick with the hope that version of liberalism that only exist in your heads becomes a reality.

[Ryan Fraley @fraydog]

@TMieldezis @MarchArchBaker @IllinoisStateU @ISURedbirds @SIUSalukis Lane

[james hawkins @james406]

for just $70, you can:

- go to Stanford
- buy this hoodie
- claim you "went to Stanford, but left before graduating"
- all of which is technically true
- wear this to the VC pitch meeting
- say words like "agentic workflows" and "non-consensus consensus trends"
- raise a $10m seed round
- spend it all on tokens and shut down in 1.5 months

but most stop at step 1 (they don't want to drive that far)

[Ryan Fraley @fraydog]

@jamfan40 @dan_bernstein @312SportsChi And yet building on a site with massive environmental issues is what you see as a viable answer?

There’s way more complexity here than Blue Team Red Team.

[Ryan Fraley @fraydog]

@BeeGault8 @airjer54 Or do you want Hammond over Arlington because you believe that most people will quickly want out of Indiana and go back to Illinois to spend money?

Hammond still has tons of issues specifically the environmental ones.

[Ryan Fraley @fraydog]

@dan_bernstein @312SportsChi How is it Warren’s fault that the state has mismanaged this situation from pillar to post? If the proper and relevant tax breaks get applied in Arlington Heights in a normal period of time, then we already have construction beginning.

[Ryan Fraley @fraydog]

So what, some of the best programmers I know are weird. Who cares?

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

Rust advocate.

Wearing cat ears.

As usual.

[Ryan Fraley @fraydog]

@HellbenderSTL And I am not saying fixing those things wouldn’t help, they would help a little, but if the business community doesn’t buy in, you’re just have a low crime low traffic downtown.

[Ryan Fraley @fraydog]

@HellbenderSTL So in this simulation NO ONE would have a reason to come to downtown. That’s going to fix it! /s

[Ryan Fraley @fraydog]

@Slamp_says @GaTechAlum_IE92 @Nino_Merica @StephenFleming 690,000 out of 254 million registered vehicles in 2009. I wasn’t a fan of the program, but it mostly removed crap vehicles and barely had an effect on supply. It was only 2% of the market.

[Ryan Fraley @fraydog]

@juukuchi The US market has 290 million cars, 690,000 is barely 2%. That’s barely going to make a dent even in 2009 when there was a recession. Supply and demand have basically equalized many years ago. I wasn’t a fan of the program but this sort of content you relied to is AI slop.

[Ryan Fraley @fraydog]

These cars wouldn’t be on the road at all, these were mostly the worst the Big 3 ever made. And that’s saying something. How do I know? Because 99% of the similar models are in the junkyard or scrapped for parts.

Maybe stop buying Big 3 junk for a start.

[Nino America @Nino_Merica]

In 2009, the government took 690,000 perfectly good cars and destroyed them on purpose.

Not recycled. Not resold. Wrecked beyond repair. Dealers were forced to pour sodium silicate straight into the engines so they’d seize up and never run again. Cars that a single mom could have bought for $3,000 got turned into scrap metal because Washington decided they knew better.

They called it Cash for Clunkers. $3 billion of your money. Sold to you as saving the planet and helping the economy. What it actually did was wipe out the bottom of the used car market overnight.

That reliable $3,000 Honda Civic? Gone. Now it’s $7,000 if you can even find one. The working people this program was supposed to help got priced out of owning a car at all. Single moms. College kids. Guys working minimum wage trying to get to their shift. The exact people politicians pretend to care about in every campaign ad.

Used car prices jumped 30% between 2009 and 2014. That’s not an accident. That’s what happens when the government destroys half a million vehicles and then acts surprised when the price goes up.

And the environmental win they bragged about? The old cars got around 15 to 17 MPG. The new ones got 24 to 25. You wiped out 690,000 cars to bump the average up 8 miles per gallon. That’s not saving the planet. That’s central planning with a green bumper sticker.

But here’s the part nobody talks about. Cash for Clunkers is the reason your car payment is what it is today. It normalized 84-month loans. Seven years of payments on something that starts losing value the second you drive it off the lot. Turned cars into anchors chained to working people’s paychecks.

Bureaucrats popped champagne because dealer lots cleared out. Meanwhile a whole generation got locked out of affordable transportation and locked into debt they’re still paying on. 🇺🇸

Every time the government says they’re here to help, check your wallet before they leave.

[Ryan Fraley @fraydog]

@Smithelinski @ljmontello Meanwhile your generation got Total Boomer Luxury Communism. It’s not as if many people across ideological boundaries haven’t written about this. Socialism for you, feudalism for anyone under 45.

[Ryan Fraley @fraydog]

@loubreeze @ljmontello The recession didn’t just occur under Carter, my guy.

[Ryan Fraley @fraydog]

@Mo_futbol I had e-mail my freshman year of high school and that was 1995. It would have been a thing when he was playing.

[Ryan Fraley @fraydog]

@putmeincoach03 Pekin would be my guess

[Henry Fung (also on bluesky) @calwatch]

Kars4Kids has been banned from advertising in California as it has been deemed deceptive by a judge for helping exclusively Orthodox Jewish kids in the New York and New Jersey areas despite having eight year old actors of all races singing their jingle. https://t.co/Id4WSbRiLI