Not just massive, they were the largest single-day protests in US history, each exceeding the last. The problem is that they didn’t move the needle at all, politically - the Oct 2025 protest, for example, was followed…
> Well, we defunded the police, and let political axe-grinders fill our DA seats with hyper-progressive activists. When did this happen?
The fare gate redesign was cost-neutral; that’s the kind of solutions that should have been on the table, not setting money on fire with cop salaries.
I much prefer targeting more pressing antisocial behaviors while not excessively wasting public funds, something the Mamdani administration has been doing quite efficiently e.g. with the pied-à-terre tax. You seem angry…
Per dollar recovered. Paying law enforcement officers overtime and directing police attention away from more significant criminal behavior (as opposed to redesigning turnstiles or pursuing alternative strategies like…
NYC ended up spending $1,440 per dollar in fares recovered on stopping fare jumpers, which is probably why the decree came about in the first place. Is there a particular reason why you think setting gargantuan amounts…
“Every news source lies equally and is equally untrustworthy” does not sound like grown up analysis, Mr. Caulfield
I feel like drawing an equivalence here is morally dubious
Going back over every president over my lifetime the deficit has trended down during Democrat presidents and up during Republican ones, so I’m not sure this is true!
There’s a difference between the abuse potential of ‘a car’ and ‘a nationwide surveillance network that tracks your location any time you’re on a public road’
Then that danger is going to have to be balanced against the reduced danger to the general public
Unfortunately we’re not real good at rescinding bad laws, so you just get tyranny (and a lot of mysteriously voided tickets for cops and politicians)
Systems should be built so abuse isn’t allowed in the first place, in addition to monitoring for compliance.
Offering ‘just don’t use modern communication’ as a solution when ‘ban data collection and retention’ is right there feels like a way to derail the conversation rather than an honest proposal.
That cellphone and car and television and most other things that spy on you were most certainly not free.
Setting aside any utility it might have, crypto has lots of negative externalities besides energy usage. The event under discussion, for example.
There’s a lot of nerve endings, probably the same reason spankings are a thing.
That’s…the exact opposite of what the data says?
The shoulder is a very easy place to be tattooed, which is why that area gets recommended for first-timers. Places with less flesh and more bone are much worse; I have tats on the tops of my feet, and those were…
The majority of voters who pay no income tax are (heavily Republican) retirees.
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I’ve interacted with a number of rationalists that are just as crazy as Ziz but managed to not implode with the help of money (either lucking into it via family/crypto or a tech job). My personal hot take is that if…
Well-educated young middle class white men, and with politics that generally flow entirely predictably from those demographics. The only real outlier is the openness to HBD/scientific racism stuff.
And big tech market cap is 5x what it was in 2019, yes. I’m not hearing wild overhiring in these numbers, quite the opposite.
We’re going to be well into the Diamond Age before people stop attributing layoffs to ‘Covid overhiring.’
Not just massive, they were the largest single-day protests in US history, each exceeding the last. The problem is that they didn’t move the needle at all, politically - the Oct 2025 protest, for example, was followed…
> Well, we defunded the police, and let political axe-grinders fill our DA seats with hyper-progressive activists. When did this happen?
The fare gate redesign was cost-neutral; that’s the kind of solutions that should have been on the table, not setting money on fire with cop salaries.
I much prefer targeting more pressing antisocial behaviors while not excessively wasting public funds, something the Mamdani administration has been doing quite efficiently e.g. with the pied-à-terre tax. You seem angry…
Per dollar recovered. Paying law enforcement officers overtime and directing police attention away from more significant criminal behavior (as opposed to redesigning turnstiles or pursuing alternative strategies like…
NYC ended up spending $1,440 per dollar in fares recovered on stopping fare jumpers, which is probably why the decree came about in the first place. Is there a particular reason why you think setting gargantuan amounts…
“Every news source lies equally and is equally untrustworthy” does not sound like grown up analysis, Mr. Caulfield
I feel like drawing an equivalence here is morally dubious
Going back over every president over my lifetime the deficit has trended down during Democrat presidents and up during Republican ones, so I’m not sure this is true!
There’s a difference between the abuse potential of ‘a car’ and ‘a nationwide surveillance network that tracks your location any time you’re on a public road’
Then that danger is going to have to be balanced against the reduced danger to the general public
Unfortunately we’re not real good at rescinding bad laws, so you just get tyranny (and a lot of mysteriously voided tickets for cops and politicians)
Systems should be built so abuse isn’t allowed in the first place, in addition to monitoring for compliance.
Offering ‘just don’t use modern communication’ as a solution when ‘ban data collection and retention’ is right there feels like a way to derail the conversation rather than an honest proposal.
That cellphone and car and television and most other things that spy on you were most certainly not free.
Setting aside any utility it might have, crypto has lots of negative externalities besides energy usage. The event under discussion, for example.
There’s a lot of nerve endings, probably the same reason spankings are a thing.
That’s…the exact opposite of what the data says?
The shoulder is a very easy place to be tattooed, which is why that area gets recommended for first-timers. Places with less flesh and more bone are much worse; I have tats on the tops of my feet, and those were…
The majority of voters who pay no income tax are (heavily Republican) retirees.
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I’ve interacted with a number of rationalists that are just as crazy as Ziz but managed to not implode with the help of money (either lucking into it via family/crypto or a tech job). My personal hot take is that if…
Well-educated young middle class white men, and with politics that generally flow entirely predictably from those demographics. The only real outlier is the openness to HBD/scientific racism stuff.
And big tech market cap is 5x what it was in 2019, yes. I’m not hearing wild overhiring in these numbers, quite the opposite.
We’re going to be well into the Diamond Age before people stop attributing layoffs to ‘Covid overhiring.’