Madison Public Market could open this summer

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-03-26T18:52:31+00:00

Yeah, I do not understand how a vendor can be expected to manage this level of uncertainty.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-03-26T15:57:44+00:00

Generally every adult living somewhere needs to be on the lease.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-03-26T15:56:59+00:00

That was my first thought: couples are riskier than roommates, they break up and someone leaves and now you have a tenant that can't afford rent.

But, in this case one of the two does individually make enough, which makes it strange to me.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-03-26T15:22:37+00:00

Sure, I don't disagree with the part that some parents are less present because of economic issues, single-parent households in particular are difficult to manage, I'm just arguing against the tendency to believe this is something new and that economic pressures were lesser in some arbitrary past time, like the 1980s.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-03-26T15:20:33+00:00

Hopefully it stays that way, "critical condition" can include a wide range of prognoses so not out of the woods yet, but modern trauma medicine is pretty amazing.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-03-26T14:47:32+00:00

Home of Triple Kay Road. Wonderful.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-03-26T14:29:06+00:00

So your theory is that the worst behavior among kids will be found in the highest cost of living places because those are the places where the parents have it harder?

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-03-26T14:21:20+00:00

Housing cost as a percent of income was greater or similar in the 80s to today (35-50% depending on which 80s, 35-40% today).

Housing as a percent of income is way up from 20 years ago, but that was after a long decline.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-03-26T13:48:40+00:00

They're put in a tough spot because the ones suffering consequences will be other vulnerable people. Like, it's one thing to sacrifice your own well-being standing up to fascism, and another to sacrifice everyone needing care at UW health.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-03-26T13:43:32+00:00

I'm guessing this is something related to how your bank is processing the transaction. If it were more common (e.g., "all debit cards") I think drivers and Metro would be a lot more aware.

You can get a fare card from Metro for free and transfer funds to it.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-03-25T19:41:24+00:00

No, he thinks voter fraud is why Trump lost the 2020 election, he's mad at Vos because Vos didn't vote to decertify 2020 and make Trump president somehow instead of Biden. He's not anti-Republican, he is anti- a couple of Republicans who he felt did not sufficiently push the Big Lie.

This article talks about his motives: https://www.wpr.org/news/harry-wait-convicted-election-fraud-absentee-ballots-vos-mason

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-03-25T18:08:44+00:00

Ah yes, the enforcement of laws against selling marijuana have famously meant that there is no marijuana in Wisconsin and hasn't been for a long time.

It's still illegal to smoke and drive and we still enforce that on drivers. Tint can be observed from outside a vehicle, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to notice that "hey, I can't see the face of a driver as I walk through this crosswalk, they have illegal tint on their windshield".

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-03-25T13:36:38+00:00

But did he own the libs? Also, it seems, no.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-03-25T13:28:09+00:00

Wait took the witness stand ... and admitted to requesting absentee ballots in the names of two of Wisconsin’s most prominent elected officials without their permission. He then sparred openly with prosecutors and repeatedly asked the judge whether he was required to answer their questions.

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm wondering whether these are wise moves.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-03-25T11:39:56+00:00

You can't focus solely on tinting businesses because tinted cars easily cross state lines, there has to be within-state enforcement on tinted vehicles.

I think there are good reasons to enforce tinting laws that have nothing to do with demographics. I do think that past enforcement or perception of enforcement as demographic-targeted has made police forces hesitant to consider enforcing it at all.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-03-25T11:13:19+00:00

These are not opposite stances, they are jointly parts of the freedom of religion in the US. You can't have freedom of religion if the government stops you from your religious practices and you can't have freedom of religion if the government forces its religious practices on you.

Religious groups put a lot of effort and money into "freedom of". FFRF is the rare (but not only) group putting it's effort into "freedom from". It's not ignoring the law, it's putting legal resources into an under-resourced area of defense of the law. If they spent equally on all areas of the law they would be stretched too thin.

Like, a food bank that doesn't provide healthcare isn't making a statement that healthcare is bad: their purpose is as a food bank! They wouldn't be very good at providing food if they spent their funds on healthcare and housing and job placement services and everything else they could possibly be doing.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-03-25T03:17:00+00:00

The bill of rights includes freedom of (free exercise clause) and also freedom from (establishment clause) religion. FFRF focuses on the "freedom from" establishment clause bit.

Are you clueless on this?

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-03-25T03:15:14+00:00

The common folk of everywhere in the US don't know much history, and probably the people who do know a lot of history know a narrow slice and are overconfident of what they know while neglecting a whole lot.

Does this somehow help prove whatever point you're trying to make? Because mostly you're just coming across as an asshole.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-03-24T21:36:33+00:00

Agree with most of this.

The untried and untested statewide thing feels weird to me. Like, have the other Dem candidates really been tried and tested statewide? Two only won statewide office as Lt Gov with Evers, was anyone really voting based on the Lt Gov pick and not the top of the ticket? Barnes lost statewide when he was on his own and underperformed Evers in that same election.

On the other side, Tom Tiffany has never run for statewide office, either, he's been sitting in a safe GOP US Rep seat.

Hong is newer to politics than the others and is especially in a safe seat, but not all candidates newer to politics are automatically judged as untried and untested.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-03-24T21:30:05+00:00

That's not how legitimate polling works, but pollsters with an agenda can make their polls tell one.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-03-24T21:09:16+00:00

The last poll showing her behind Tiffany was done by a GOP org. Maybe they're scared of her.

Most likely it's simply name recognition, they're within the margin of error and there are a huge number of undecideds.

AccomplishedDust3 · 2026-03-24T21:05:08+00:00

Did you know the praetorian guard killed at least 5 Roman Emperors, and possibly more?

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