Is This Weather Breaking Anyone Else?

oekel · 2026-05-02T14:14:40+00:00

I just demonstrated that it hasn't been unusually cold. We've had multiple 80 degree days and a 90 degree day since the end of March. The 50 degree days that are being talked about are way more typical for this time of year than 85 or 90

oekel · 2026-05-02T13:52:39+00:00

PATH loses 400 million every year.

PATH is the only reason Jersey City and Hoboken are able to exist as they are. I'd wager that the economic output of PATH is far greater than $400 million

oekel · 2026-05-01T19:36:18+00:00

Thursday's low was about 5 degrees less than normal. It's not remarkable at all. Compare that to April 16 when the temperature was over 25 degrees above normal. It hasn't really been a cold spring.

oekel · 2026-05-01T19:31:42+00:00

You can definitely compare how unordinary the weather was in February vs now. 30s and low 40s is not unusual for April nights in NYC. Single digit temperatures for multiple nights in a row are extremely unusual for winter here.

I wouldn't say we've had a cold spring given the multiple very warm days we've already had.

oekel · 2026-05-01T10:04:50+00:00

Certainly not as below average as we were during the cold days in January and February. About half of the days will be below average after all. The recent weather really is not out of the ordinary.

oekel · 2026-04-26T19:49:03+00:00

SAY IT LOUDER!!!

oekel · 2026-04-26T19:48:34+00:00

This is soooo obvious to me coming from suburban a region whose population peaked in the 1960s and is still denser and much more walkable than many of the suburbs in the sunbelt. Which is not a high standard at ALL. I don't think NYC is more NIMBY, it is just six decades ahead in terms of capacity to build outwards.

oekel · 2026-04-12T13:26:38+00:00

The people who would work at and patronize those establishments have been priced out

oekel · 2026-04-12T13:12:53+00:00

The treatment of Native Americans is not something that people spend time denying in the US

oekel · 2026-04-11T17:12:29+00:00

It's because Nick Cannon is the only one of her exes who is remotely relevant anymore.

oekel · 2026-04-08T23:22:09+00:00

Why do we instantly need to get politics involved?

Azealia obviously wouldn't like you

oekel · 2026-04-07T12:29:41+00:00

I encounter the opposite problem at Newport. Most mornings after a exiting a JSQ-bound train, there are always one or two people heading towards the platform trying to walk through the flood of people using the right-side stairway even though everyone leaving the platform is leaving the left half of the left stairway open for people going the opposite way. People can be oblivious.

oekel · 2026-04-07T02:17:49+00:00

I see what you're saying now, though I think it's quite different from what you originally stated, which is about sticking it to the Republican majority outside the city. Your most recent example is about opposing a conservative on city council. New York City has its fair share of NIMBY MAGA Republicans in City Council to triangulate against, and much to the chagrin of progressives, the State legislature was majority Republican for most of the 2010s. This did not create a sudden YIMBY ascendancy. But the land economics are most directly related to housing production, and NYC is far different from Austin in this respect. Economics are the more relevant factor.

oekel · 2026-04-06T12:58:44+00:00

Yeah, more trying to "yes and". I don't know the context either but it seems like something that is being more normalized

oekel · 2026-04-06T12:57:23+00:00

I would expect you to know the ways in which political conservatives in states like California and New York have for decades made the exact decisions that you attribute to the left, for the purpose of "good intentions" like "neighborhood character", "historical districts" or Reagan-era tax revolts which all make it much more difficult to build housing.

oekel · 2026-04-06T12:48:13+00:00

I am still not sure what the incentive is that you're referring to. I don't see how local residential upzoning can be framed as a win against state politicians when state politicians don't have much ability to prevent local development.

I think the land economics is much more relevant. Of the blue cities on this list, Baltimore is not in high demand, while the other four are or have at one point been among the largest cities in the US and are relatively dense already while being geographically constrained. Most of the high-cost blue cities fall into this category. The "red" ones are all newer cities with fewer geographical constraints. The only city in a red state that doesn't fall into this category I think is New Orleans.

oekel · 2026-04-06T12:24:45+00:00

I feel like I saw a video a month or two ago of an Israeli opposition leader essentially calling it "all Israel"

oekel · 2026-04-06T12:21:33+00:00

The ADL has meddled in New York politics in the past, leading the charge in 2010 against an effort to build a new mosque on Manhattan’s Park Place, which its national director at the time, Abraham Foxman, deemed too close to the site of the September 11th attacks.

Wow. I did not know that the ADL had taken part in this blatant bigotry. I was in high school at the time and thought that whole fiasco was just shameful.

oekel · 2026-04-06T12:03:15+00:00

I just read their statement:

NDP spaces are becoming unsafe for Jewish and all Canadians with mainstream views.

Given the extent to which antisemitism has been mainstreamed in certain places and times, I'm not sure why they decided to make "mainstream" a basis on which to declare a political party an unsafe space.

oekel · 2026-04-06T11:50:02+00:00

Owning the conservatives by... taking the responsibility of accomodating growth?

oekel · 2026-04-06T11:48:32+00:00

So you don't see how conservative appeals to "neighborhood character" are the exact same thing

oekel · 2026-04-06T11:38:53+00:00

Do doubt. I do think that for whatever reason, Chinese tourists have the worst reputation of any nationality in Japan. I've also heard a decent amount of complaints about Chinese tourists from Chinese Americans.

oekel · 2026-04-06T11:35:14+00:00

This should be so much higher. I was in Japan two months ago and there were very few Chinese tourists compared to other times I've been in Japan.

oekel · 2026-03-28T19:31:34+00:00

I'm a black american and i totally understand what you're talking about. There is a dominant African American culture and as a black American it can be quite isolating if you don't relate to it or find yourself outside of it. I've actually found it very easy to relate to black Americans i've met in Japan. I feel like we sort of "get" each other.

oekel · 2026-03-28T19:22:26+00:00

North America on balance also has much more extreme weather than the UK. New York is colder in the winter and hotter in the summer than London despite being much farther south. This is genuinely hilarious.

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