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2 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Wait, okay my bad. Alec here said "bike lanes" but the story isnt about that, its recreational biking on the trail. I dont care about that but on *bike lanes* e bikes are welcome and anyone complaining can get them widened or shut up.
Now whats a "recreational" trail? I dont use ebikes but i see em on city park trails or shoreline trails where i do "recreational cycling" and thats great. Unless its out in the wilderness, and even then i dont care, but especially green areas and parks in suburbs and cities
Whenever in doubt its safe to side against exclusionary cyclists who bitch about bike lanes, people not wearing helmets, ebikes ect. Fuck your midlife crisis, let people bike, electric or not.
If the cycling space is too small, grow the cycling space. Widened the bike trail. Dont push people off cycling because they use peddle assist, lol how ridiculous

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The blue bar is the number of jobs created from the late 2009/early 2010s to the end of 2019, and the orange bar is the number of homes built (i.e. not just permits) from 4/1/2010 to 1/1/2020
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Stupid and cowardly country buys more guns because they're on social media all day despite the decade's murder rate being at the lowest since the 1960s. News at 11.
All these guns everyone's buying because Facebook and Twitter instantly share crime videos and opportunists are peddling fear is mostly going to be used to kill other family members accidentally or as a suicide weapon once the neglect of mental health reaches overload.
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I hate repeating that this is a housing shortage but literally all indicators are identical. We're approaching WW2 levels of home scarcity yet we're not fighting the Axis and we have no nat'l rent control. The young can't move out their parents homes into homes that dont exist
I read the news story but used an old chart. Here's the 2020 version. We aren't approaching WW2 level housing woes, we've now surpassed it--in the number of 18-29 year olds living at home with their parents.
We have an aging population living in housing built for a post-war baby boom and then we stopped and now we're just out. The only ones who win here are speculators when everyone's competing for the few crumbs left.
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