Hah!

I currently feel pessimistic about people’s ability to really absorb and believe this stuff.

My pet theory is sometimes that the Gini coefficient is higher for queer men than women, but it might also be the case that I see a lot of queer women in my career (education) so it’s just mirroring my own status.

Compare $200 on a depreciating vehicle with $200 in a brokerage account and you start to see how expensive a car payment really is

It’s offensive to assume someone is poor because they lack financial literacy, but in fact poor financial literacy *is* hobbling people across the income spectrum.

Yeah, I work in West Los Angeles and can infer this is performative: Danya’s target audience is actually ex-Christians who aren’t that informed about either tradition. Some Islamophobic Jews also showed up in the comments to be like “Haha Christians and icky Muslims are always trying to do this.”

Yeah that was 700 years later

I think it would be weird to call him Turkish; the city of Patara was Greek speaking for like a millennium and basically didn’t exist after the Seljuks showed up.

everyone *thinks

This is somebody with an incredibly poor understanding of diachronic linguistic OR cultural change! It’s like the weird fucking Greek people who insist Homer spoke with 21st century Greek phonetics, but somehow everyone this is a wise moral voice and not a crank.

Earlier this week someone compared me to Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Nazi mass murder of 13 million people, because I said that left anti-YIMBYs hate yuppies, developers, and neighborhood change more than high housing costs and homelessness.