@constans

hard scrabble, yet privileged, NJ flotsam. “pedantic plonker”. GenX hegemonist in NYC. [email protected] if you need to find me elsewhere

 New York, NY
Joined May 2008
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The people on this website are deeply troubled.
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The horrible deaths, oppression, and suffering that communism inflicted on China, Vietnam, Russia, etc are easy to look up, and yet, we are somehow obliged to persist in taking people seriously when they say they're communists.
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So I have wanted to buy a pair of $300 speakers. However, this month I had a bunch of other expenses and bought a bunch of things I needed so… I’m just putting off buying those speakers until next month. But I realize other people don’t have my same level of self control
Oui || Art? Perhaps@Oui_Cake17h
My ex-coworker and I had the debit/credit card conversation and she kept saying "they tricked me, they played me, they gave me so much money and I swiped that shit on everything back then and now I have so much debt, they got me. Never get a credit card." And I was just staring.
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Iranian hostage crisis.
King Abert
@Abert_SquirrelOct 21
What is the oldest political news story you can remember? For me it's Joe Biden being selected as Obama's VP.
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Americans have long cared a lot about what is going on in Kansas
Patrick Ruffini
@PatrickRuffini20h
In the grand sweep of American history, it’s not normal or natural for someone from New York to care who the Senator from Kansas is
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Notsocrazy
@notsocrazy2421h
Christopher Rufo
@christopherrufoOct 21
California hasn't built its bullet train because the state has required 130,000 pages of environmental reports, making absurd demands like: • counting bumblebees one by one • rebuilding woodrat stick huts • hiring specialized dogs to sniff lizard scat
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There is only one New York City. There will never be another. Those who left, we welcome you back with open arms.
Aziz Sunderji
@AzizSunderji18h
"if you have been to downtowns of Atlanta, Dallas, Houston etc., lately, it ain't hard to look around and realize it's not where the action is." — @jayparsons
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daeveningglow@InlandCaGuy17h
Conservatives when I pointed out that their own preferred media sources were the only reason anyone ever saw that (Instagram reel only!) Bud Light ad they hated so much.
Nick@BigBicNick19h
It’s insanely funny that 99% of the exposure children currently get to the concept of transgender identity comes from conservative media
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Sam D'Amico
@sdamico11h
There’s an argument that both the Han dynasty and the Roman Empire failed due to a massive expansion of property/land tax exemptions in a very similar vein to prop 13.
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin19h
“I joke in my class that it’s the ‘Ur tax,' because they taxed it in Ur.” politico.com/news/magazine/2…

Do You Really Own Your Home? A Tax Revolt Says No.

The argument that property taxes make Americans renters in their own houses has fueled the biggest anti-tax uprising in half a century, and local governments are scrambling.

politico.com
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Ohio literally has drive-through liquor stores colloquially known as “beer barns”. Saying “this candidate used to drink a lot” just confirms their authentic Ohioness
2 Cold Sclopio Peepio@ShizzlingDrits20h
Replying to @CentristMadness
For a while all they had was "Amy drinks" and it's like "yeah, welcome to Ohio". Vivek ain't a real one.
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The first time I visited Ohio I was living in Pittsburgh, where you can only by alcohol from state owned liquor stores. Seeing the ubiquity of liquor sales where you could buy cases of beer and liquor from you car seemed miraculous
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Europe is so not worth working in now compared to the US, but the funny thing is that now that this is true, I have FINALLY had my EU citizenship registered so I can live and work anywhere in the EU with no problem.
constans@constansOct 20
The peak time to work abroad was the 80s-00s when salaries were somewhat comparable and Hong Kong still was worth working in. The post-2008 economic divergence between the US & Europe is too severe & America’s banking/housing convenience has become too obvious compared to Europe
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Had to run so many errands this week that I hit the MTA fare cap by Thursday morning.
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YIMBYLAND
@YIMBYLAND17h
People are hating on this by calling it the Hudson Yards of SF. What they’re missing is that, while Hudson Yards is full of 1000s of the cringiest transplants imaginable, without the Hudson Yards containment zone, these folks would be all over NYC! We need more Hudson Yards!
Tyler | Kenji Capital
@KenjiCapitalOct 21
One of San Francisco's largest redevelopment projects could completely transform nearly 19 acres of land near Downtown. Plans are moving forward for the redevelopment of the Caltrain Railyards at 4th and King in SoMa. The project could include: • Up to 5,834 apartments • Up to 5.6 million SF of commercial space • 160,000+ SF of retail • A completely rebuilt Caltrain station • More than 4 acres of public open space • Multiple skyscrapers reaching 350 to 600 feet • A potential 850-foot tower This land is currently occupied by railroad tracks, platforms, maintenance facilities and the existing Caltrain station. The proposal would modernize the transit infrastructure, relocate train storage and maintenance, and create an entirely new mixed-use neighborhood above and around the station. Thousands of people could be living, working, shopping and spending time in what is currently a massive rail yard. And all directly connected to one of the Bay Area's most important transit corridors. The project is now entering environmental review, with construction potentially starting in 2029 and taking 15 to 20 years to complete.... There's obviously a long road ahead, but I love seeing developers think this big about underutilized urban land. This could completely reshape SF. 📍San Francisco
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Every city in the world is great to live in if you’re rich. The test of a city is if you can live a good life and raise a family there if you’re middle class
Daniel Pearson@DPearsonPHL6h
People have responded to Tamer and Jawad by acting like the economy only matters to CEOs and the affluent. In reality, the status quo in Philadelphia is fine for the wealthy. It is the poor & working class who bear the brunt of our stagnation. That's who is leaving for work.
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I’m 100% in favor of red light cameras and other camera based traffic enforcement, but NYC streets force a person into a swarm that you can’t always get out of or make good decisions within. Sometimes you end up stuck in the middle of an intersection through no fault of your own
Coconut Tree City 🥥🌴@yin_yang_yo_21h
We really should be far more liberal in using traffic cameras to stop speeding and running red lights, or even blocking the intersection Cameras significantly reduce police-civilian interactions, freeing up police resources for other matters
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Bobby Fijan@bobbyfijanOct 21
People who live in Williamsburg, even in 2Br apt, can afford REALLY nice places in Bergen County And very few of people with that level of wealth & choice will accept schools not “good enough” for their kids TODAY If these schools are good enough, Great! If not they WILL leave
Ross Barkan@RossBarkanOct 21
The rebuttal to this - "people will move to new neighborhoods" - misses the reality of NYC in 2026 and how gentrification works. A zone that includes Williamsburg and Bushwick, for example, is going to be diverse (by race, by income) by default. Many areas are like this.
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Nicole
@nicolegelinasOct 21
For two decades, the city has shown an unwillingness and inability to enforce regulations against pedicabs, which are part scam and part nuisance, with the drivers of these wide electric vehicles encroaching on the pedestrian paths. The selective interest when it comes to singling out the horse carriages for this special treatment when everyone else engages in blatant lawlessness is rather glaring.
Gimmei@gimmei_nycOct 21
Yeah like we need more pedicabs
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Tired of these hack writers and their heavy handed metaphors
Shawn Westfall@shawnwestfall7h
Hello, Department of Metaphors? You got one that's just so on-the-nose geopolitically as to be downright laughable? You do? Great! Send it over!
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Many such cases…
JP@JP14thStar8h
Ive let this take sit for a while because its so spot on. I know a dude irl who was fired from an Ivy for larping as a Nazi on here. They live in a very blue suburb. Over the past 5 years, before the termination, he has lost every friend he had on his own Why?
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