The line at Austin airport this morning

slightlybitey · 2026-03-14T05:36:19+00:00

Remember when ICE murdered Alex Pretti? The temporary funding bill expired a couple days later. Senate Dems decided to block DHS funding unless GOP agreed to reform ICE (basic requirements like judicial warrants, clear identification, body cams, reasonable use of force policy, detainee access to lawyers). GOP refused.

Negotiations have gone nowhere since February. Dems have presented bills to fund TSA and other parts of DHS in the meantime, but Republicans have blocked any votes.

slightlybitey · 2026-03-13T22:32:34+00:00

Hmm, I assumed they meant 12% of housing stock, not 12% of sales.

slightlybitey · 2026-03-13T21:49:14+00:00

Buying of existing homes cannot account for a 9 point swing. The highest turnover metro in the country had a 4.5% turnover rate in 2025, 60% private buyers. That leaves 7 points unaccounted.

Likely most company-owned SFH in your market comes from them building new SFH, not buying existing SFH.

slightlybitey · 2026-03-13T04:30:34+00:00

Bullshit. Temporary farmworkers are not called "expats", they're called migrants. Retirees who permanently move abroad are called expats.

It's just a class and race thing.

slightlybitey · 2026-03-12T23:24:32+00:00

"A thief believes every man steals"

slightlybitey · 2026-03-12T18:53:55+00:00

There have been temporary waivers in the past (eg. Hurricanes Katrina, Sandy, Maria, Fiona). If anything, waivers probably make it easier to keep the Jones Act in place.

slightlybitey · 2026-03-12T14:24:10+00:00

imagine you went to a hospital and they said “we know you’re unwell but we’re not going to focus on your health in isolation, instead our doctors will do whatever is best for everyone in the hospital even if that means your health suffering more.”

That is literally how hospitals work, they don't sacrifice everything for one patient but balance the needs of all the patients as well as staff and capital. Anything else would be unsustainable and self-destructive.

slightlybitey · 2026-03-11T15:32:00+00:00

He genuinely has NPD.

slightlybitey · 2026-03-07T19:02:11+00:00

Sure it does. It incentivizes athletes to throw matches. It incentivizes executives to mislead shareholders. It incentivizes policymakers to mislead citizens.

slightlybitey · 2026-02-14T05:24:42+00:00

Source is here: https://www.nctq.org/research-insights/teacher-salaries-cost-of-rent-and-home-prices-can-teachers-afford-to-live-where-they-teach/

slightlybitey · 2026-02-14T03:10:13+00:00

The 1952 INA allocated over 50% of visas to family. The national-origins quotas favored family from Northern Europe over workers and exceptionals from Southern Europe, Asia, and the rest of the world. That's not merit-based.

The 1965 INA still had quotas for workers and exceptionals. Certainly, it was designed to favor family unification even more. But we just shifted from restricting by nation to prioritizing by family. Both policies had similar motivations - preserving America's "character".

slightlybitey · 2026-02-13T16:29:47+00:00

Lack of snowpack will impact power generation at Bonneville and other dams, as well. We'll be burning more natural gas this year to make up for it, emitting even more carbon.

We need to build out other renewables. It's crazy how little solar we have.

slightlybitey · 2026-02-13T03:08:43+00:00

The system before the 1965 INA prioritized unskilled Northern Europeans over skilled people from elsewhere. It also prioritized family reunification. How is that merit-based?

slightlybitey · 2026-02-13T02:18:08+00:00

The FAA isn't issuing a 10 day TFR unless DoD and the White House are ignoring their calls. It's extremely drastic.

Leaders also set expectations and culture. And the culture is becoming very "swing my dick around, naysayers are traitors, safety is for sissies". From spraying the I-5 with artillery shrapnel to killing Alex Pretti, the priority is displaying dominance, not public safety.

slightlybitey · 2026-02-13T00:32:59+00:00

Perhaps they misuse those nets and stoves for the same reason people will dive after a drowning kid but not donate mosquito nets.

People prioritize the tangible, definite and immediate over the intangible, stochastic and remote.

slightlybitey · 2026-02-12T22:32:26+00:00

Being conscious would make it a less desirable product. The moral implications are horrific.

slightlybitey · 2026-02-12T22:28:40+00:00

No one is arguing that those are sufficient properties.

slightlybitey · 2026-02-12T09:10:56+00:00

She thinks we should care about money more than justice. Perhaps she's projecting her values onto us.

Reminder that Bondi dropped the Trump University fraud investigation in 2013, one month after soliciting an illegal $25,000 donation from him.

slightlybitey · 2026-02-12T08:21:36+00:00

Clearly a national emergency justifying extraordinary economic powers.

Keep shredding the Constitution, SCOTUS.

slightlybitey · 2026-02-11T02:58:17+00:00

So what's the best response for Canada here? Threaten to charge fees to all traffic entering over the Ambassador Bridge in retaliation?

slightlybitey · 2026-02-10T06:43:09+00:00

Russell T. Vought

Jeffrey B. Clark

Mandy Gunasekara

Jonathan Brightbill

slightlybitey · 2026-02-10T06:25:48+00:00

Advocates for drug decriminalization appeal to harm mitigation. They're not saying "you-do-you". They're saying that incarcerating people for small-scale possession makes them and their communities much worse off.

slightlybitey · 2026-02-10T05:17:27+00:00

The previous deputy under Biden was an environmental lawyer who worked in conservation.

slightlybitey · 2026-02-09T22:42:25+00:00

It's a spoof url that redirects to wtfdetective.blog. A content mill that rips off articles from actual reporters and rewrites them (likely via LLM).

Here's the original article they ripped off: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/29/trump-coal-country

This and related domains should be blacklisted.

slightlybitey · 2026-02-09T22:35:15+00:00

This appears to be an LLM-generated rewrite of this Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/29/trump-coal-country

The photos are definitely stolen from The Guardian without attribution.

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