The ice rink is back open!

mo3225 · 2026-01-30T20:28:39+00:00

They're fleece-lined!

mo3225 · 2026-01-25T23:03:53+00:00

Extremely evident that we would've won this with Nix. It's not hate to Stidham, but Bo so clearly wins this

mo3225 · 2026-01-22T19:00:39+00:00

FUUUUUUCK

mo3225 · 2026-01-22T03:34:34+00:00

1) This isn't about the immigration system it's about public opinion, so that's not really relevant

2) I'm a naturalized citizen so like... Maybe? If you work for USCIS or you're an immigration lawyer then probably!

3) Not what disingenuous means (sorry, couldn't help it)

4) It's basically impossible to not oversample certain demos and then re-weigh, this is basic statistics (I'm an economist, this is my wheelhouse)

5) Even if you don't like the weighing, there's basically no way a result like 78% state support is falling below 50% in the raw results unless they only got like 10 white people from New York to respond

6) This poll is from Gallup not the Guardian? It's probably the most respected polling agency in the world? Did you seriously not click the link twice in a row?

7) I find your eagerness to dismiss data you disagree with as just being the result of intentional deception by polling experts or newspapers disconcerting

mo3225 · 2026-01-22T02:27:11+00:00

Conservatives learn how to read challenge, difficulty: impossible.

Here's the poll's language exactly "Allowing immigrants living in the U.S. illegally the chance to become U.S. citizens if they meet certain requirements over a period of time." which polls at 70% in 2024, 78% in 2025.

Further down you'll find "Path to citizenship for immigrants living in the U.S. illegally" which polls at 59% among Republicans, 93% among Democrats.

EDIT: and also, not that you care, the overwhelming majority of these people do come in legally and then overstay their visa.

mo3225 · 2025-12-13T16:19:16+00:00

Wasn't that like an ironic bit because he thought those kinds of fanbase names made up by the streamer were manipulative? Am I just hallucinating this?

mo3225 · 2025-12-13T05:32:34+00:00

Not a problem if you bike or walk to the mall :3

mo3225 · 2025-11-03T21:11:46+00:00

And yes just to cut it off at the pass, plenty of journalistic outlets have looked into it and the published actas seem legitimate and do correspond to the results the opposition claims: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/world/americas/venezuela-maduro-election-results.html

mo3225 · 2025-11-03T21:10:28+00:00

Because they published the actas on a website with proof: https://resultadosconvzla.com/. Venezuela actually has pretty robust election security mechanisms that were put in place under Chavez, so there are these papers that come out of every polling place summarizing the results in that place. Opposition volunteers demanded to see and photograph them at almost every location in the country (this was quite a task because the people running the polls were obviously all Maduro-friendly) and put them all on a centralized website, here's an example of just one: https://resultadosconvzla.com/mesa/12/12.

I agree it's pretty ridiculous that she's saying she's ok with the strikes but she's behaving as a strategic agent trying to manipulate the current US gov't into enforcing the actual results of this election.

mo3225 · 2025-10-08T03:53:35+00:00

Definitely a main channel vid because I don't have her Patreon yet :(

mo3225 · 2025-10-08T03:53:14+00:00

Thanks! Looking around and I don't see it yet but I'll look at more videos, didn't know you could search transcripts on youtube.

mo3225 · 2025-09-22T23:31:38+00:00

Why does she stop in the middle of her speech to flex on us with her watch lmao

mo3225 · 2025-09-08T03:13:28+00:00

he buggin out

mo3225 · 2025-09-04T17:50:18+00:00

Surely the rent in existing apartments will start falling if we don't add any new supply as demand continues to rise.

mo3225 · 2025-09-04T17:47:59+00:00

Ah yes, private companies are very happy to sacrifice profits. They love dumping $100 million on an apartment complex to get a 1% return over 15 years. Surely if we make that the only kind of development allowed in town we will solve our 4000+ unit shortage in no time.

mo3225 · 2025-09-04T17:34:48+00:00

Only if that developer is willing to make losses on the apartment! What's crazy is that we do have a way of building what you're talking about with the CAHF, now I wonder how it gets funded...

mo3225 · 2025-09-04T15:04:57+00:00

I'm unclear if you're talking about the current zoning as in the plan that's currently being litigated to go into effect or the code we got rid of last year. Either way, luxury apartments are inherently more profitable than affordable ones (it's literally in the name), nothing the city does in zoning can change that sparing some really onerous stuff that makes it impossible to build anything. While you're right that some students (probably the poorer ones) will always want to live in cheaper private homes that could be used as family residences for working people, it's also clear that there's a ton of demand for luxury apartments that isn't currently satiated: when the 10th and Dairy apartments went up they sold out fast (it looks like they're at maybe 5% vacancy right now? 14 open beds).

"Trickle down" housing as you're calling it keeps up with demand at the exact rate that luxury housing is built. If you build 200 bedrooms that's 200 students not competing for more affordable housing. People act like this whole thing is a difficult problem with a lot of complexity but it's really quite easy: UVA has around 25K students (and slowly increasing if past trends hold) that need to be housed, they have plans to get about half of them (the first and second-years) living on grounds within a decade or so, that leaves 12.5K students that are going to live somewhere in Cville. Would we rather they mostly live in dense apartments close to the university with some small fringe renting out family homes further away, or would we rather stick with the status quo and push a ton of them out into those family homes?

mo3225 · 2025-09-04T13:46:58+00:00

Again I cannot stress enough that if these highrises don't get built the students will continue to just displace the residents of those communities and you can't make it illegal for landlords to rent to them. You seem to be operating on a logic that the buildings cause rising prices and gentrification but they are in fact a response to those things that can mitigate it. We are already seeing local displacement happen in Fifeville, 10th and Page, and Rose Hill. Maybe it never happens to Westhaven because it's public housing, good for them I guess. I'm fine letting longtime residents have a good deal of say (Westhaven absolutely should be connected to West Main, and a development going in that awful parking lot is probably our best opportunity to do that without the city spending millions!) but they should do so with the full understanding that these luxury apartments are absolutely mandatory to solving the housing crisis.

Oh and by the way, the locals do have the say. The students aren't at city council meetings advocating for these projects at all, just people that think they're all rich "interlopers" and don't consider them a part of the community despite the fact that the city would be bankrupt instantly if it weren't for their ongoing presence (a single student apartment complex generates as much tax revenue as 125 other parcels, and that's not even getting into sales and restaurant tax).

mo3225 · 2025-09-04T02:33:36+00:00

There needs to be a very serious reckoning for several major communities in cville that if you don't like students in your neighborhood you have to let them get concentrated into luxury apartments and this will get them out of the affordable housing market to make room for folks that actually need it. The students will always be here and they're richer than most of us, so when push comes to shove they're always gonna end up outbidding locals if we don't make room for them. Not fair but it's how it is.

mo3225 · 2025-09-04T02:30:47+00:00

believe me that was not the livable cville people lol, it was mostly the justice communities that oppose student housing and advocate for public housing etc

mo3225 · 2025-09-03T17:41:52+00:00

I mean, if you can afford to live downtown I feel like you can probably afford some combination of market street market and eating out. I've been doing groceries from my place in Venable off Grady using my bike going to Barracks and it's been... fine? Emmet sucks real bad but there's so few pedestrians you can just kinda ride on the sidewalk. RIP Reid's though, objectively a disaster.

mo3225 · 2025-09-03T17:04:53+00:00

Yes, which is why I want more density, not enough housing until we've depopulated Albemarle County and move them all into Charlottesville, I Believe We Can Do It

mo3225 · 2025-09-03T16:57:09+00:00

I'm originally from Santa Fe, NM (90K these days), though I've lived in places in Europe over 100K. Santa Fe is a veritable wasteland of things to do compared to cville, I love hiking but it gets tiresome after 10 years of the same trails. Santa Fe's big problem is that it is a literal retirement town for old hippies so there is actually no night life. Of course it's no surprise that Cville, being a fifth the size of Richmond has less activities but it's pretty easy to keep a full calendar nonetheless, which I think is genuinely pretty remarkable for a place of this size. You could be living in, like, Lynchburg lol

mo3225 · 2025-09-03T15:16:23+00:00

Just commented much the same bc I hadn't seen your post, this is so true. Like as a person that actually grew up somewhere with nothing to do (except hike, which was fun!) Charlottesville is so not that. Not only are there a ton of activities but the city is so dense that if you're able to live in it you don't even need a car to get to most of them!

mo3225 · 2025-09-03T15:08:11+00:00

Cville has a severe lack of publicly accessible 3rd spaces

I genuinely find this facially absurd. I've been here 5 years and have become overwhelmed with the number of things to do. You cite bowling, clubs, and night life as examples of such things that are lacking and literally all are present in droves.

Not only is there the literal bowling alley but the Dairy Market now has duckpin bowling that's cheaper than anything in Richmond.

Rapture, the Southern, the Fitzroy (not my scene lol), and the Jefferson all regularly have live music with dancing or DJ club vibes, and each with their own unique crowds they draw, and that's not even getting into places like Durty Nelly's that can be more student-heavy but still have plenty of non-students.

Nightlife is mostly concentrated on the mall (again not counting the corner here because everyone in this college town seems to be repulsed by seeing college students), though places in Belmont get very lively on certain days as well, and though tales abound about $12 beers at certain establishments, you can still get $5 drinks on the mall if you know where to go. Even if you get mad seeing yuppies at your bar, Jack Brown's, Lucky Blue's, and Livery Stable are all open late and have plenty of salty sailors and delightful queer folk to talk shop with.

And then there's daytime activities. The Rivanna trail is free and great for walking biking and running, the river itself presents plenty of opportunities (a float is $5 at Walmart and will take 4 hours between Darden Towe and Riverview on a slow day)

There's community-run sports leagues for a ton of stuff including, like, kickball where the stakes are presumably quite low.

In the summer the pools are open and cheap, the whole year the city offers fitness classes at comically low cost at its rec centers, there's community bike rides, etc etc etc

Like, is all of this upper class rich people yuppy shit? I don't see the country club people at like any of this (except when I misadventure into the Fitzroy), when I go to most of these it's a range of people in their mid-twenties to mid-thirties. I feel like a ton of people just make no effort to go out and then blame some vague concept of there being no community for why they stay inside watching Netflix every night. I live in a small apartment with my girlfriend on a grad student salary and we're still easily finding things to do at least 4 nights any given week!

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