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Mason

@webdevMason

Nov 17

https://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1857891828357542361

It's scope sensitivity

The median taxpayer pays around $15k/year in federal income tax

That money is harder earned than most, and it's coming from people who could really use it

Head-math tells them that a single $1M vanity project wipes out their *lifetime* contributions

https://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1857891828357542361

tbc I don't think obscure basic or applied research is the place to try to trim fat either, but it's a powerful thing to show people what someone like themselves is buying for the federal government and it's a study about 'roided up hamsters or whatever

I think even smaller decrements will REALLY fire up the typical person, e.g. contracts for $600 hammers

Because most people in this country spend a lot of time thinking about whether to buy the slightly-better-thing when the price difference is like $10

It's just what's salient

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Mason

@webdevMason

Oct 14

https://twitter.com/politicalmath/status/1845655032496050523

I'd also have had a hard time believing the "Venezuelan gangs are taking over apartment complexes" story if I hadn't had my own utterly insane experience with tenant protection bureaucracy

The police will not help you, period

https://twitter.com/politicalmath/status/1845655032496050523

Now that she's got these people out of her home, I can share more

One of the squatters grabbed her by the hair and tried to push her down her stairs — police took the report and did nothing

By the end she was carrying a loaded gun on her at all times in her own home

She took the squatters to court and was awarded Oregon's version of a restraining order

The judge didn't attach a "kick-out" order so it didn't matter, the police refused to enforce the order

When the squatters finally left the property they did so VOLUNTARILY

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Mason

@webdevMason

Mar 15, 2023

I think everyone will find something to dislike in my take on Dylan Mulvaney, which is that there is obviously a desperate cultural thirst for someone, anyone, to just wholeheartedly enjoy being a girl in a way that is politically acceptable — and this is probably a good thing!

I do find it reductive and a little bit embarrassing, but man, the culture we have has got to start somewhere. The idea that there is *anything* good about femininity has been MIA for what, a decade? Longer?

While I'm digging my hole, I think trad culture could probably take a note here because a lot of it does come across as very... Girlboss, But With Apron. At times, it delves into "our way is better because it takes 20x as long and hurts." This is not the way, not always

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Mason

@webdevMason

Jan 19, 2023

My mom's home in Oregon is being seized by "friends" who she allowed in a few months ago, who now refuse to leave & have literally stolen keys to her outbuildings. It's impossible to navigate her rights & obligations because local housing lawyers are booked up w similar conflicts

They moved two additional people in; mom can't afford to go anywhere else, so she has four people who live rent free in her house and glower at her as they go to and fro, leaving their dishes for her to clean and taking hour-long showers

You cannot imagine how bad tenant-landlord law is in some of these coastal states

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Mason

@webdevMason

Dec 27, 2022

https://twitter.com/NGrossman81/status/1607564054343680000

There is a whole alternate canon, more vibe than fact, emerging here

https://twitter.com/NGrossman81/status/1607564054343680000

"My lived experience is that twitter was actually always pretty right wing"

What twitter did is sort of brilliant, though probably emergent rather than masterminded

If you preferentially remove or obscure dissent from expert/high follower count users, the debate doesn't disappear, it just looks fringe and stupid

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