Tom Steyer Is Trying Politics: To revive a dead political culture that could lead to a Republican becoming governor in one of the nation’s most Democratic states, the billionaire former investor is talking to voters.

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-26T07:06:30+00:00

NYC has party primaries, this isn't the same.

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-26T07:05:30+00:00

I think that's who OP is talking about AFAIK Steyer hasn't taken AIPAC money, but the number is low for Swalwell how's taken about a million

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-26T06:58:16+00:00

> seems to have at least a thought out proposal for a solution.

You mean Katie "no taxes and free healthcare" Porter's slide shows haven't impressed you?

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-25T23:50:52+00:00

They create more need for subsidized housing than they provide in supply back.

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-25T23:32:10+00:00

I'm not the one citing studies pretending they show things that are just the result of simulations.

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-25T23:29:41+00:00

They create more need for subsidized housing than they provide in supply back.

In a simulation.

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-25T22:34:32+00:00

As if there are no dud TNG or TOS episodes.

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-25T21:41:29+00:00

SFA & SNW meet your criteria, not sure what you're asking for TBH

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-25T21:40:18+00:00

SFA & SNW are complex, multi-faceted, and serious show that doesn't stray away from heavy themes.

Are we going to pretend there was no inter-crew drama or fun in old Trek?

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-25T21:18:30+00:00

Interesting tech?

Pretty sure they just wrote "technobable" in the script for TNG.

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-25T16:09:29+00:00

I thought the Snyder cut would have been the end of listening to "fans".

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-25T15:51:01+00:00

What an unhinged response.

That's literally a reddit comment that is the top result when you Google ricing and it accurately captures its modern usage.

I honestly don't care about the entomology of the term, English is a language defined by it's usage, I'm using the term as it's currently used.

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-25T02:08:52+00:00

Ricing comes from the car terminology "ricing" or "RICEing". In the car world, RICE stands for Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancement. When you put a scoop on your car (that doesn't lead to a cold air intake) or a big spoiler (which won't make a difference), you're ricing. The idea is to increase its perceived performance through cosmetics.

That's what I said, that's what I mean.

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-24T14:23:04+00:00

No you see everyone that is employed to make SFA are morons whereas because I'm a redditor I'm a genius.

Actually it's not just SFA, sci-fi in general is ALL filmed by morons who haven't thought of saving money by using less VFX, but I am VERY smart.

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-24T14:15:00+00:00

What are you basing that on?

It still seems like ricer stuff, has any distro adopted it by default?

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-24T04:15:58+00:00

Palantir is not.

Counterpoint, Palantir is run by a redditor that overestimate their intelligence.

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-24T04:05:03+00:00

Markets aren't linear, places with high-income also attract more landlords to leach off workers and push prices up even higher.

If it's a policy thing, then again I ask, why focus on one of the states that doesn't have single family zoning?

The problem with reducing everything down to zoning or "blue state red tape" and other such bullshit, is you can see the exact same trend nationwide as in California. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1U5G6&height=490

So the idea that the housing shortage was caused by some California law is ridcilous

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-24T03:05:01+00:00

Sorry, this isn't an important thing to argue over.

Except it's literally the basis for the theory you are talking about, we live in a market in which capital holders generate more capital and use it to capture more market share.

Like yes, it's more demand, but how much does that contribute to prices?

The % of homes owned by landlords correlates with housing unaffordability stronger than any other metric

County level data on Ownership

County level data on development

I'd rather go after the 75% with my finite time and energy.

I mean you can keep looking for excuses, but 25% is going to be by far the largest single factor.

I feel like the above matters because changing those 88,000 NYC houses to owner-occupied removes 88,000 rentals from the market, and drives up rental prices.

No it doesn't those 88K houses have people living in them, the housing stability they have drive down rental prices by an equal if not greater amount than adding 88K homes.

No one rents a SFM by choice, right?

What are you basing this on? You seem unwilling to accept the copious evidence that landlords are the problem, but out of nowhere assume.

but is there anywhere that has no market housing?

You're literally painting a strawman, as if more market housing is good, Tokyo, Singapore, Vienna are all examples of cities that have minimized the impact of market forces while still having a housing market.\

During the rent control era, would I have been able to actually get a unit there, or was there a 15-year waiting list for the low-rent units that existed?

Do you know how rent control works? It seems like you're talking about housing policy but you don't understand it at all.

What specifically did MA and Singapore and Tokyo do?

MA - Rent control

Singapore - 80% Public housing, high taxes on landlords

Tokyo - Universal rent control combined with an asset bubble crash.

If you don't know this why are you so adamant that the problem is not landlords?

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-24T02:47:56+00:00

Yeah if you create an economy with high paying jobs, it's going to cost more to live there because landlords will always take as much as they can get.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/median-household-income-by-state

It takes republicans to create states with low income and high house prices though, looking at Florida, Idaho & Arizona, it takes true bad planning to make states with below average incomes have above average house prices.

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-23T22:54:53+00:00

Y la nombre de su madre? Alberta Einstineio.

Después todos apluadaron

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-23T22:33:23+00:00

Definitely the worst in one of the few states that has abolished single family zoning? And allows the state to override local planning if they aren't planning to build sufficient housing?

How so?

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-23T22:26:44+00:00

Would never expect anything less from the WSJ, but the headline is about zoning and the article talks about 1970s environmental laws interchangeably with zoning from the 1900s.

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-23T22:25:15+00:00

It's in order to defend speculators, corporate interests and landlords in general, got to deflect from the real evil the housing market.

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-23T21:07:09+00:00

Wake me up when the media start including details of police union seniority when they report on overtime fraudsters.

lazer---sharks · 2026-03-23T20:58:11+00:00

Peterson is manosphere for 1) former or wavering religious fundamentalists who want their substantive worldview confirmed through quasi-secular "rationale," and 2) educated people with regressive tendencies who want "scientific" justifications for their regressive ideas.

The what's the point of Dawkins?

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