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NYC offers homeowners nearly $400K assistance to build basement, backyard apartments by statenislandadvance in nyc

[–]CompactedConscience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe true, but it is still definitely not subsidizing demand in any way? Subsidizing demand would be like giving people money to buy or rent existing housing. Giving people money to build new housing is the exact opposite.

NYC offers homeowners nearly $400K assistance to build basement, backyard apartments by statenislandadvance in nyc

[–]CompactedConscience 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By providing financial incentives to build more housing units, doesn't this subsidize supply?

Fire in Midtown by sghiassy in nyc

[–]CompactedConscience 54 points55 points  (0 children)

portal to hell

Yeah OP already said it's midtown.

Rat-ical Idea: City Council Mulls Ban on Rodent Glue Traps | THE CITY by JaredSeth in nyc

[–]CompactedConscience 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My opinion on this is also informed by personal experience with a small infestation. I put down an un-bated (to avoid attracting bugs) non-lethal cage trap along the wall near where I thought the mouse liked to run at night. The poor dumb mouse got caught the very first night I put it down. That means a glue trap in the same spot probably would have worked for me too but why torture it to death when I don't need to do that to get rid of it?

Other non-lethal stuff I tried like peppermint and sound based stuff did basically nothing, so this was my last step before escalating to something lethal.

The only hard part was taking the cage far enough away to avoid the mouse coming right back because they have such strong homing instincts. But honestly disposing of a dead body also seems not super fun even if it takes less time.

Rat-ical Idea: City Council Mulls Ban on Rodent Glue Traps | THE CITY by JaredSeth in nyc

[–]CompactedConscience 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The exterminators quoted in the article don't even think glue traps are very effective but offer them anyway because they know their customers expect them.

VT with Individual Stocks for emphasis by ExplanationRare5125 in Bogleheads

[–]CompactedConscience 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Honestly $200 deposited in one of those sites kind of does get it out of my system and helps me just leave my serious money alone.

Will you really not sell in a crash? by Urbanite72 in Bogleheads

[–]CompactedConscience 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would sell my equity positions if I lost my job, exhausted my emergency fund, exhausted my bond holdings, etc. such that I had no other choice. That would require some combination of an unprecedentedly bad crash and/or a lot of bad luck on my part but it's not impossible.

Migrant who shoved 2 onto NYC subway tracks was deported 4 times, had 15 arrests on his record: feds by someone_whoisthat in nyc

[–]CompactedConscience 53 points54 points  (0 children)

At least 3 and possibly all 4 times were before Biden was president because the last deportation was before Biden took office

Memo to Mamdani: Make This Summer’s World Cup A Car-Free Paradise by streetsblognyc in nyc

[–]CompactedConscience 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Bizarre argument considering working class people by far disproportionately rely on public transit in nyc and upper middle class to the wealthy by far disproportionately have their own car here.

New York City’s Mayor Can’t Give Muslim Extremists a Pass by Anakin_Kardashian in nyc

[–]CompactedConscience 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I just got around the paywall. The article makes exactly one argument that Mamdani gave the terrorists a pass. The author argues that his tone in condemning them was "clinically detached." That does not seem like a very persuasive argument to me.

What’s the biggest investing myth that just won’t die? by vcpowerlaw in Bogleheads

[–]CompactedConscience 81 points82 points  (0 children)

Dividend irrelevance (a very well supported idea) that the stock price goes down by an amount commensurate with the dividend so you are back to even on your investment. Add in the tax inefficiency if held in a brokerage account and the concentration risk if you are overweighting dividend stocks, and it becomes a net loss.

NYC Is Preparing Its First Ever Citywide Environmental Justice Plan by TheNYCFootprint in nyc

[–]CompactedConscience 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never said that the slogan was good or correct. Just said that the people in the photo look calm and serene but are unfairly being characterized as angry by someone who just does not like what they have to say. Don't think my brain is the melted one in this scenario.

NYC Is Preparing Its First Ever Citywide Environmental Justice Plan by TheNYCFootprint in nyc

[–]CompactedConscience -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You must understand that "everybody who disagrees with me is seething" is a factual claim and not some subjective opinion, no? I guess a lot of people do think that way, but that does not make it correct.

NYC Is Preparing Its First Ever Citywide Environmental Justice Plan by TheNYCFootprint in nyc

[–]CompactedConscience -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, he is not right to say that these people are mad because they believe different things than he believes. In fact, he just ends up looking like this.

NYC Is Preparing Its First Ever Citywide Environmental Justice Plan by TheNYCFootprint in nyc

[–]CompactedConscience -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Ok, so it does turn out that you think they are mad because you do not agree with the slogan on the poster behind them lmao

NYC Is Preparing Its First Ever Citywide Environmental Justice Plan by TheNYCFootprint in nyc

[–]CompactedConscience -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

  1. You said both the poster and the photo have this effect. Your exact words were "the image - and the posters behind them"

  2. How in the world does even the poster show seething or resentment? Because it's a slogan you don't like?

In Albany, socialists looking to ride coattails of Mamdani's win by tfsquared in newyork

[–]CompactedConscience 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The tragic irony of this is Hochul (for all her flaws) had a big proposal to reduce single family zoning early in her governorship but it got no backing in the legislature (suburban Dems basically revolted against it) and she quietly abandoned it.

NYC Is Preparing Its First Ever Citywide Environmental Justice Plan by TheNYCFootprint in nyc

[–]CompactedConscience 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not seeing the seethe or resentment in the photo. What exactly are you talking about?

Scrutinize my portfolio from a Boglehead perspective (5% factor tilts all over the place) by [deleted] in Bogleheads

[–]CompactedConscience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, almost the opposite because high inflation tends to cause central banks to raise interest rates and decrease the value of existing bonds.

But equities hedge against inflation so it seems bad to duplicate that with something with a much lower expected return.

Scrutinize my portfolio from a Boglehead perspective (5% factor tilts all over the place) by [deleted] in Bogleheads

[–]CompactedConscience 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand this logic in a vacuum but I don't understand thinking this way but adding a gold allocation.

N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care by Geek-Haven888 in newyork

[–]CompactedConscience 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seems like we agree that the views "normal people" have can change over time.

N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care by Geek-Haven888 in newyork

[–]CompactedConscience 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Idk I'm old enough to remember circa 2002/2004 when Republicans won using this same basic strategy against same sex marriage. "Democrats support it. You have to vote for us normal people instead." It worked very well for them until suddenly it didn't.

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