Research Fellow @joinFAI; opinions mine not theirs | Working to make US transportation faster, cheaper, more reliable, & less safe | prev: Econ & CS @UChicago

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Lucas Pombo (aka Lib Development) retweeted
Nate, Cheesecake Factory stands for ABUNDANCE LIBERALISM! Please take your reactive richardsonism elsewhere
Nate Silver
@NateSilver53820h
Evan I thought your book was OK, and I'm certainly very receptive to the idea of D organizations having become too woke/progressive/etc but this Cheesecake Factory stuff makes you look like a humorless reactionary idiot take the fucking L.
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Could God create a councilmember so stupid that even He would vote to impeach? 🧵⬇️
Every year, thousands of DC residents lose their homes over unpaid rent. Most owe less than $5,000. Going to court is stressful for tenants, expensive for landlords, and slows down the system. We need a better way to resolve rent issues. 🧵⬇️
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Annual Ranking of US Airlines: Tier 1: The Tier 2: cheapest Tier 3: convenient Tier 4: flight Tier 5: you Tier 6: people Tier 7: are Tier 8: all Tier 9: insane. Tier 10: Frontier
My annual rankings of US airlines: Tier 1: Delta Tier 2: United, Alaska Tier 3: American, Spirit, JetBlue Should be shut down and sold for parts: Southwest
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Replying to @RichardMCNgo
I think if you asked them they would just give you an extremely direct “the army is good” shtick? What would the analogy even be here, succession?
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Replying to @DirteeerMartini
… you mean Arlington Cemetery? Look I agree its in a super inopportune spot wrt urban development but it is definitely not changing any time soon
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googled opinion polling for the israeli election and i'm gonna be honest I really have not learned anything
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Replying to @RichardMCNgo
people who work on a robotics project at purdue almost certainly 100% know what they're doing
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Replying to @AVGregR
What are the "some cases" outside of literally just Tesla?
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Replying to @AVGregR
"eventual goal" (operator does not currently operate any driverless services) In situations like this it isn't really credible until it happens
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Lucas Pombo (aka Lib Development) retweeted
While people around the world celebrate freedom, Los Angeles falls to fascism today. nbclosangeles.com/news/local…
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cta isn't even on this site anymore
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Replying to @TheStalwart
> discussing Matt Bruenig > "YIMBYs" ?
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Replying to @tnertz @cta
exceedingly implausible
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surprisingly the ridership at this station is fairly middle of the pack for a wmata station iirc
I’ve seen metro stations you wouldn’t even believe
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Replying to @alisha_hg
oh is "this issue" supposed to refer to admitting publicly that you don't know your kids very well as opposed to the underlying problem? i have to admit i'm sort of neutral about that
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Used the phrase "anti-bedtime leftism" in a meeting today and apparently my coworkers were not online enough for that
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Lucas Pombo (aka Lib Development) retweeted
thinking about amtrak time table art
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Lucas Pombo (aka Lib Development) retweeted
Replying to @MakeUSAVAT
The MW literature is no different than any other controversial subject in empirical social science. You know what the paper says based on the author/s. There is (somehow) always a small methodological difference that can reverse results -- and was not reported by the others.
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Replying to @mean_field_zane
biblically accurate uchicago student
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Replying to @alisha_hg
eh. does not seem clearly true
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