(but also, to your point, the public accountability is ~0, and they are reacting with revulsion to the idea that some might be introduced)

like a lot of the people involved in us building codes are professionals of *something*, but not necessarily of *the building code* specifically

I'm not sure that US building codes are actually all that technocratic/professionalized

lmao

get that TOT money Jersey City!

they’ve also published plans for a transfer requiring like 10 flights of stairs

cities are not about fun, but Vegas is

the number one reason for Mamdani to focus on being a successful mayor is that, as you said, it's a hugely powerful position to improve millions of lives

it's also the only hope he has of any further political advancement, and a chance to be a real showcase for socialism as a *governing* ideology

mostly trying to figure out how RCV & proportional allocation fit together

I guess there’s no reason to drop RCV at the end, but I think it’s good to have multiple candidates winning delegates in the early contests

by the proportion of votes the candidate got in that state

proportional early primaries, RCV middle primaries, WTA late primaries?

one big recurring problem: they kept wanting to tell a story of "here's a problem Korra can't solve by punching", but then the only resolutions they could come up with were "a different special kind of punching!"

the resolutions to Seasons 1 & 2 suffer particularly from this

I do think the show gets too much hate, but it's also true that the first two seasons in particular were a mess

might have helped if they'd had more time or a more solid commitment from Nick, idk

Season 3 is legit great though, Season 4 v good, and there's good stuff in the other two

but also I don't think it's true that different VMT per capita explains traffic death differences in US vs Canada

in 1997 Canada's VMT per capita was 20% above the US [https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar4.htm ]; US VMT per capita is only up 10% since [https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=lls ]

both metrics provide meaningful information

(also, I was indecently hopeful about Miller, god damn)

I still wonder sometimes how many hundreds of thousands of lives might have been saved in the delta/omicron waves if MAGA nation had seen him or someone close to him die of it

was an incredible night, but the aftertaste is sour

pretty grim how the dril tweet about drunk driving is basically how most US policymakers treat this