As someone who hates musical theater, I gave it a try, and I do not enjoy it for the same reasons I don’t like most musical theater. It seems by and for theater kids, though, so if that’s you, I imagine you’ll enjoy it.

great historians and social scientists

not on the side of Israel you couldn’t

If you have Netflix you can get Into the Breach and Dead Cells.

That’s such a cool keyboard.

ol donny trump, wriggle, this one, nevertheless, etc etc

Honestly this picture looks more like bad photoshop than AI.

If the (smart) inverter is on the line that connects into the wall outlet it could easily stop the flow in the event that it doesn’t detect anything from the grid across its terminals. I expect this is a solved problem, but like I said, I just found out about this tech.

Do you think that building more housing will cause the percentage of non-market vacancies to increase? I expect that number is pretty inelastic wrt supply for a given area and you can consider it a measurable inefficiency of the market.

So if we assume that rate is static at roughly 3% for LA, to me it seems that getting that number down to 2% or less is the real wasted effort. There need to be more homes. Whether 97 or 99 of every 100 new units built enter the market doesn’t seem like it’s worth focusing on over just getting those 100 new homes built in the first place.

By all means, if vacancy taxes or more radical measures get passed to get those non-market vacancies available I’m all for it, I just feel like non-market vacancies are orders of magnitude fewer than the number of homes not built for other reasons (zoning, land speculation, etc).

My main point being that when people make the argument “there are enough homes in desirable places to house every homeless person” it’s usually deployed as ammo for the further argument that new housing construction is unnecessary, or that new market-rate housing construction is unnecessary, which I disagree with.

In unrelated news I watched the Vanilla Ice movie Cool as Ice (1991) recently.

I want Biden to federalize the Texas National Guard so bad.

In theory shouldn’t a smart enough inverter be able to handle this well (to be clear, the German models come with an inverter)? Surely Germany has plenty of old wiring as well.

I don’t disagree that these units exist, but the report you mentioned only discusses one point in time, which doesn’t give much context. If you look at the historical data from the census (8 and 8a) rather than just one year of it, you’ll see that the vacancy rates have been basically steady in LA, never moving by much more than a percent (excepting 2008) since 2005.

I’m sure we both agree that the homelessness crisis has intensified over the same timeframe, but if the vacancy rate isn’t changing, I find it hard to accept as the cause.

Obviously it is unjust for there to be those who have two (or more) homes in a place where many have none, but if we’re talking about systemic changes that need to be pursued, more housing seems like an obvious one that can produce more units than just things like a vacancy tax or even requisition (not that those should not be pursued). And your report advocates for that too, specifically pointing out land speculation or land held vacant by the city.

I think that’s because most people omit the very important “in places where people want to live” which makes it a lot more valid.

That’s the same argument people on here make about how there are 3 homes in the US for every homeless person.

Kamala’s xannies more like.

It’s because of woke

Just saying it’s not a unique criticism to level.

“Most influential religious leader in the world” is.

It would solidify him as the funniest option.

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paradox nerds seething rn

Greatest city on earth, baby.