A thread of DoorDash takes:

"I am entitled to DoorDash and can't eat a frozen dinner, because I am disabled and frozen food has 'histamines' in it." "I am upset that you call hand-delivery of restaurant quality meals to my home a luxury service"

Every piece of info we have suggests that building housing reduces rents

quick thread: The places that build are all cheap

The places that are expensive? None of them build

"The Houthis are allowed to attack Swedish merchant ships until Israel stops bombing Gaza" is just utterly insane logic.

"Let's start fires in Central Park until Dubai has gay marriage. I'm gonna kick puppies until we expand Medicare." What the fuck are you talking about? If you hear anyone say "it's only targeting ships headed for Israel" they are lying to you. They think you're too stupid to google for 10 seconds.

They're attacking ships completely at random - here's a Norweigan ship traveling from Malaysia to Italy.

politico.eu/article/norway…

There's a whole generation whose only foreign policy views are "US invade Iraq! US bad! No forever war!"

Even in a very different scenario, where the Houthis are repeatedly trying to murder civilians, they can still only repeat "No Forever War! US bad!"

https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/1745661750693781731

Not one of these people has an actual suggestion for what the international reaction should be to the repeated attempted murder of civilian sailors on merchant ships. Silence. Nothing. They don't care.

All they want to do, or even know how to do, is smugly yell America Bad.

The Worst Tweets bracket is down to the Egregious Eight!

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After a long year, it's finally time. Announcing the Worst Tweets of 2023 Bracket!

I've spent the entire year collecting hundreds of deranged tweets, awful takes, and the most insane discourses on this site. Only 64 were chosen.

Now it's time to crown a champion. The rules:

* No Elon Musk. It's too easy and would end up being half the bracket.
* We're not just looking for regular bad. We're not looking for normal slapfights.
* We're looking for that special brand of insanity you only get on twitter.

The difference between the AOC & Tlaib statements is very interesting if you know what to look for.

I often disagree with AOC but she tends to be the most reasonable of The Squad, and that's on full display here. A short thread on what to look for in statements like these:

First: AOC says directly "I condemn Hamas's attack".

Tlaib does not mention Hamas. It does not mention the attacks directly or condemn them. Reading Tlaib's statement, you literally can't even tell who attacked who.

There's a type of progressivism that is incredibly concerned with "which groups had voices heard" and "Have we done lots of process and planning" and "did we equitably include all stakeholders", but gives absolutely zero fucks about whether anything gets accomplished. Progressive cities are basically run on this principle.

Here's a bus stop project in LA that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. It won't do anything for anyone, but there was a lot of Fact Finding and Inclusion of Groups Whose Voices Must Be Heard.

https://twitter.com/LADOTofficial/status/1659303124903817218

This is an embarrassment. @ebottcher and the rest of the committee involved care more about having landmark committee meetings than people's livelihoods.

Why does nobody in the entirety of NYC actually want to accomplish things?

https://twitter.com/bfurnas/status/1659300268758974467

This is just one example of the sickness pervading NYC's politics. Everybody's in love with PROCESS and PLANS and MEETINGS and HEARINGS and nothing ever gets fucking done. We legalized weed 2.5 years ago and there are a grand total of 4 shops that have been licensed in that time.

I have a theory about @JosephPolitano's success with Apricitas:

The econ and analyst community has been overproducing complicated statistical work and grand theorizing, and underproducing data creation and basic analysis. Economic journals almost require complex causal analysis these days, and it's much harder to get a paper published in the best journals along the lines of "here is a useful data set I created". Predictive work is prized over descriptive.

The right way to criticize an academic study:

* Should use stats technique X instead of Y
* Important data XYZ is missing
* The results don't replicate
* Here's a specific way the data is biased

The wrong way to criticize a study:

* "The vibes are bad"

statnews.com/2023/04/12/arn… The article above from @owermohle is almost all vibes. There's very little substantive, specific criticism of the study. It's all

"She is someone who’s hugely disconnected"
"The policies are too new to judge"
"I personally think this is right wing"
"Data might not be objective"

There are cities that build lots of housing and where housing is cheap (green).

There are cities that build little housing and are expensive (purple).

There is no city in America that builds lots of housing and is also expensive. That giant red box is completely empty. This result is not a fluke, you see it over and over from many different sources. Here's permits issued vs housing prices with the same pattern

The most enraging part of the Left-NIMBY canon is the idea that new housing causes displacement.

It's NEW housing. By definition it is not displacing anyone! In fact, displacement occurs when you fail to build housing!

The rent goes way up because you have tons of people chasing a limited number of units. Residents can't afford rent any longer and leave. New housing *prevents* displacement.

The Worst Tweets of 2022 competition has come down to this: our final two contestants. I recorded a podcast with Vox's @rebexxxxa about the worst discourse of the year, this bracket, and why we can't get enough of social media trainwrecks. Check it out!

open.spotify.com/episode/4LOV2p…

We've reached the Final Four, the pinnacle of the Worst Tweets of 2022 Champion of the Discourse Region: Chili Neighbor

An innocent tweet led to discourse so cursed that it reached the Washington Post and inspired countless think pieces.

The first round of voting has concluded!

32 bad tweets eliminated, 32 bad tweets remain. To everyone sending me the insane tweets I missed: Keep 'em coming.

To everyone telling me Bean Dad was actually in 2021: Sorry. Im sorry. Im trying to remove it