The American Dream—buying a house in the suburbs and watching it increase in value to the point where subsequent generations need to move farther and farther out to obtain the same thing at a comparable price, but with an even more soul-crushing commute—was always a Ponzi scheme.

A tio back in the day: "i left the philippines because of marcos. We need duterte to fix the country"

Yeah you should see the deranged shit I see and hear in NJ from diaspora folks about politics back in India, Pakistan, Brazil, Poland, Egypt, Turkey, Peru, and even Palestine! I think what’s a tad different about Israel is that many people with extreme opinions never actually had family there.

I think “consistent reform/conservative synagogue goer” is not representative of the entire Jewish population the same way “young secular lefty jew” is not representative.

Yeah, this is a pretty aggressive list. The incumbents in that first list of top races won last time by 20, 19, 17, 25, 17 and 17 points. (The SC district is Nancy Mace's and the NY one is Elise Stefanik.) If these are the front lines, the GOP is basically dug in outside Berlin

The founder class couldn’t give two shits about the worker bees who ride Caltrain. Their goal is to render workers obsolete in our AI future.

This is discontinuous though, right? Avoiding a lot of the tough areas.

This is what crowd out looks like.

A lot is riding on Amazon successfully rolling out LEO on Delta.

If the EU sanctions Musk we’ll probably be ok.

Only in the EU is a bottle of wine cheaper than a box of pasta.

PATH proving increased weekend service reaps upping ridership. Now only if they would lengthen the window of increased service on weekends for after 9pm.

August US transit data is in today, & all of the largest US rail networks are growing! Cali leads the way, with ridership up 15% on BART, 14% on Muni, & 10% on LA Metro PATH (NY/NJ) & MBTA (Boston) also have strong growth at 8%, while MTS (San Diego, +1.7%) is the slowest🧵

PATH made major improvements to late night and weekend service this year and it is paying dividends.

honestly this video communicates it pretty well. he makes a long and involved Wizard of Oz metaphor to implicitly call Roger Marshall a heartless, stupid coward and it lands

EU ag policy is fascinating. It’s fantastic for making artisanal products plentiful and cheap, and terrible for mass commodities.

Why is the line to Glurns randomly 25kv?

Clearly they should just avoid the issue entirely and have trains use battery power in the tunnel.

Every one of the >6000 apartments in this photo will soon be inhabited by an educated professional who will be a down-the-line progressive vote. Only 20% of them will own cars. Another 20% will own a bike. At least half will ride transit daily. This is how you literally build progressive majorities.

Has anyone actually ordered ML derivatives besides MARC and AMT though? And has anyone at all ordered the powered version? It was a shell designed for push-pull coaches that is now being awkwardly adapted for MUs.