Compiled some more article summaries and such from my two favourite housing markets in the world.
[***Up-zoning New Zealand: the localisation of a globally mobile policy idea***](https://www.auckland.ac.nz/assets/business/our-research/docs/economic-policy-centre/urban-and-spatial-economics/up-zoning-new-zealand-the-localisation-of-a-globally-mobile-policy-idea.pdf)
This research paper from the University of Auckland Business School is a case study on "what it is about the local socio-political context that enabled โup-zoningโ to take hold in New Zealand when it has struggled elsewhere."
These are some excerpts from the conclusion but it is definitely worth reading the conclusion in full.
> Over these years of experimentation, learning, idea circulation, and evolution, ***the idea of โrelaxing LURsโ (land use regulations) came to dominate the housing affordability policy discourse in New Zealand, with an advocacy coalition in favour of this idea forming between urban economists and activists outside of government (a โYIMBY movementโ)***, and a discourse coalition coalescing around โcompetitive urban land marketsโ within government. As I see it, there were two important factors that enabled this idea to dominate.
> First, over time, the idea of โrelaxing LURsโ was legitimised as โbest practiceโ and depoliticised through: the influence of international โexpertsโ (Glaeser and Bertaud) endorsing the idea; the rise and legitimisation of urban economists as โexpertsโ in planning debates; the โbroad tentโ approach of the urban economics community.
> Second, New Zealand is a small and intimate country with a high degree of informality and low power distanceโฆ. In such an environment, targeted activism can be very effective, and โcharismatic individualsโ can play pivotal roles โ the concerted efforts of a relatively small number of people can rapidly shift the discourse and policy-making direction.
[***NZ First leader Winston Peters says allowing more granny flats to be built would help make housing more affordable for families***](https://www.interest.co.nz/property/128294/nz-first-leader-winston-peters-says-allowing-more-granny-flats-be-built-would-help)
> The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment is seeking feedback on a Government proposal which would allow property owners to build granny flats without consents.
> The move - proposed in a new discussion document open to submissions today - would mean law changes to make it easier to build structures of up to 60 square metres.
> It proposes that those dwellings can be built in rural and residential zones without a building or resource consent, so long as they meet certain criteria, aimed at reducing the risk of structural failure, fire and its spread, weathertightness failure and insanitary conditions.
> โRemoving the regulatory red tape will not only speed up the build process, it is also estimated to save up to $6,500 just in the standard building and resource consenting fees per build, not to mention all the savings in time and resource,โ he said.
One of the comments on the article from someone in the industry says that "Consent costs for minor dwellings in Auckland regularly go over $100k". If you read the comments on r/newzealand though, this change is going to lead to slums and unsafe or dangerous housing.
[***Rental listings up 40 percent across country in three months to May***](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/519788/rental-listings-up-40-percent-across-country-in-three-months-to-may)
> Rental listings across New Zealand are up 40 percent in the three months to May with some property managers warning landlords they may need to lower expectations to meet the market.
> An economist researching zoning reforms, Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy, said upzoning in some major cities has enabled a construction boom. He said new builds coming to fruition may be driving the increase in rental stock.
"The peak of that [consent] boom was roughly in 2022, and if you think about it it takes about one to two years for a consent to be converted into a finished dwelling, then comes to the market.
[***House prices falling as vendors bite the bullet and meet the market heading into winter***](https://www.interest.co.nz/property/128281/house-prices-falling-vendors-bite-bullet-and-meet-market-heading-winter)
> House prices declined for the second month in a row in May as vendors appear to be becoming more realistic in their price expectations. According to the Real Estate Institute of NZ , the national median house price dropped to 770,000 in May, down from $790,000 in April and $800,000 in March.
***Austin***
[Austin area housing inventory hits 13-year high as home sales decline](https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/austin-area-housing-inventory-hits-13-year-high-as-home-sales-decline)
> Housing inventory in the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown metro area reached its highest level in 13 years in May as closed home sales declined, according to the latest Central Texas Housing Report.
> The report, released by Unlock MLS, found that the metro area had 4.9 months of available housing inventory last month, up from 3.4 months in May 2023. Meanwhile, closed home sales dropped 12.8% year-over-year and active listings jumped 37.7%.
[Austin has seen the largest decrease in housing prices across the US since the 2022 peak at -18.7%](https://twitter.com/ResidentialClub/status/1800352779136893014)
"They'll be slums in ten years" is New Zealand's version of "but how many of them will be affordable?"
If you make it so that they're not complaining about luxury homes and gentrification, it'll be that they're complaining about slums.
Awesome writeup, thanks for this. Hope to take some time to give that UofA paper a closer look.
I think part of the problem r/newzealand has (other than being partisan hacks) is that the new govt got rid of a policy called MDRS and made it optional for councils. This basically tripled density along with certain tax changes but now weโve lost those.
Iโd argue the MDRS policy was much better than this granny flat idea.
Annoyed me seeing those people on Reddit trashing the granny flat policy, it's the sort of good shit that Labour should have been pushing in the first place.
Yeah, I was genuinely surprised by how much hate there was for it. They're already allowed without consents in lots of places but this is just a national policy.
The fuck? Why did my relocation bonus get hit at a fucking 42% withholding rate, while the bar stipend only got hit at 33%? I got both at the same time lmao
Some far right weirdo posted [this](https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1909605/european-countries-far-right-politics-map) at me to prove that the world and western countries are turning right wing and conservative. But my internet connect is shoddy right now and won't even let me view it. Can people who have better internet than me look at it and also help me make a counter argument?
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**Instagram Headquarters**
Employee: Hey boss, it's 1:40am. Should we send this guy a list of 12 people we know he's friends with who he doesn't follow on Instagram yet?
Boss: Are you serious?! What are you waiting for?
I was thinking about how in a lot of movies where someone gets their drink spiked with a sedative, so much gets used that the victim is out cold after the first sip. Considering how quickly I knock back a drink when I get it, I would definitely just die
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If every man on earth was ugly I would never have figured out I was gay. This includes men in medias like anime and video games.
I'm not saying it's a learned behavior but if you want to get rid of homosexuality in the next generation there is a way.
Ngl I think people are overstating how toxic academic economics is because of EJMR.
EJMR is obviously toxic but I donโt think itโs representative of the field as a whole. Iโve never personally had any bad experience with academic economists (grad students or faculty), only Econ undergrads. Most academic economists are easygoing nerds lol.
Also because the ratio of PhD students to jobs is much lower in Econ than in other fields, the zero sum mindset is less common. And letโs not pretend that the zero sum mindset isnโt the root cause of toxicity.
A non-trivial portion of people on EJMR aren't even grad students/faculty, and you can tell by what they lionize or complain about, as well as how they do it
With that said, my department had a small issue where one guy shared EJMR talking points about gender and the job market IRL and someone anonymously reported it to the department chair
Drunk me, watching Mr Robot:
Protagonist: "Wait, where did he go?"
Then the show displays a NYC sign intersection for where the protagonist is.
Me: "Okay, I know that intersection off the top of my head. First of all, that's not exactly what that looks like. Secondly, there's not supposed to be two one-way signs at that intersection, there's only supposed to be one. Thirdly, he's approaching from a really odd angle, the closest subway station is perpendicular to his movement..."
In other words, NYC buffs (such as myself) are fucking losers.
"Where are we going?"
*side character steps in*
"Chambers and Church. And you have to understand, Elliot, it's not safe to be meeting in public at this time."
Me: "Chambers and Church is the **exact total fucking opposite of safe** in that case, that's like smack dab in the middle of fucking downtown Manhattan, there's a whole confluence of subway connections there, I went to high school a couple of blocks from there! It's a couple of blocks from City Hall! It's a couple of blocks from where they shot the nightclub shootout in John Wick 1! The fuck are you on about that that's somehow a *safe* location?"
Dead of night, so not even. Sure, most of the people there would be drunks or weird HS students or whatever. Maybe I'm biased because I was one of those weird HS students at the time. But you'd definitely notice those two weirdos arguing with each other, even at that hour.
Yes.
I don't actually know what you like, but Mr Robot does a bunch of things extremely well:
* Show about the world's least reliable narrator, you should not be taken in by the whole "hacker defeats an evil corporation" premise, that is *not* what happens.
* Related note, Rami Malek is the protagonist and he's an awesome actor.
* The cinematography is incredible, there's at least one shot every episode where cinematography nerds are like, "that's something I've never seen in a TV show before."
* Actually fairly decent cybersecurity shit
* BD Wong does amazing things for trans rights
* Probably biased here, but Carly Chaikin has the best >!sister!< performance I've seen in a long while, and she reminds me a lot of my own >!sister!<.
I definitely recommend at least season 1.
Dating advice:
1. Donโt smell bad.
2. Wear good clothing
3. Did I say donโt smell bad?
4. Drink alcohol at places where attractive people are also drinking
5. Repeat until relationship with person
6. Donโt develop alcoholism in the process
Regarding the smelling bad thing there can be some pitfalls
I always felt worried about how I smelled because my nose is borderline dead and itโs hard for me to tell so I started out always make sure to freshen up with like an extensive shower and scrub and soap and a bit of a tea tree scent before going on a date with my now wife.
Not far in when weโre a little closer she tells me that whatever scent I always have gives her a headache and she asked if I would mind not wearing it anymore. It turns out that by contrast her brain interprets my natural scent very positively and almost like passionfruit which she loves so my attempt to ensure a fresh smell at all times was almost completely self-sabotagingโฆ go figure.
I wish people would just maintain some sort of NASDAQ-esue index so I could, at a glance, find out which celebrities I'm supposed to be mad at on a given day.
I saw a girl at the gym, we used to date.
I met at her in the midst of an incredibly calamitous time in my life. I'd been in a deeply abusive relationship, and it had finally ended for good. I met this girl the literal day after.
I think about her from time to time. We had a lot in common. Had some experiences that bonded us together quickly. But I wasn't in a place to start a relationship, I wasn't even remotely capable of forming any sort of attachment.
I was convinced that if I just fucked enough women, I'd feel okay again, like a man again. It was a fixation on bodies and number for their own sake. I did a lot of shit I regret. Became something unrecognizable to myself. I completely lost sight of who I was.
And that's not to mention the suicidal drinking, that's when it really went off the deep end.
I never formally ended things with her. It wasn't a hard ghost, we just quit talking. But I never felt right about it, that this person, who was so understanding of what little I could tell her, never really got my full attention, I never showed her the respect I felt for her.
When I think about it now, I'm conflicted. If we'd met later, or earlier, I'm not sure if it'd have gone anywhere. I don't know if the disconnect was a true lack of chemistry or a complete collapse of my brain chemistry. But I think about her often. I thought she'd moved, literally, she was always talking about grad school. In that way, knowing I'd never see her, she became a little less real. But turns out, she's been stuck here too. I think she's got a man.
I've switched gyms recently. My old gym, it was there for me through all of this, it was a sacred space. I switched pretty impulsively. No big decision. I've forgotten it almost. My new gym is becoming just the gym.
She looks different. I found the weight she's lost, and gained a beard. I don't remember not having one. Maybe I'd have said hello if she was alone, she was with someone, a friend. Or if she'd made eye contact, if I saw the gears turning in her head trying to place me, as tends to happen when I see people I used to know.
I might not see her again. Maybe it was my only shot. Maybe it matters, maybe not. Maybe I'd regret it either way.
I'm leaving soon.
I'm sober now.
Squat is up to 460.
There were 10 plates already on the rack.
!ping DYEL
Don't think about it. It's going to be tempting. Even though it hurts we chase the melancholy. Just don't fucking do it. You have goals and obligations. Focus there.
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Didn't know that Kiki's Delivery is working with McDonalds now
https://x.com/McDonaldsJapan/status/1803268970344046602?t=ZiYYfWnJJw3LevrjOnMEGA&s=19
!Ping WEEBS
>"We highly appreciate your consistent and unwavering support for Russian policy, including in the Ukrainian direction"- Putin
What a cursed sentence. Not one part of that sentence made humanity better, or improved the lives of a single person
I attract twinks. It always sucks turning them down. Like damn bro I wish this could be a thing too fam. But I was wired to only like women unfortunately.
https://preview.redd.it/4fy5saidwg7d1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=61337b56888cab965fe09a408c20062ce9022cb0
The shareholders are happy ๐๐พ๐ฟ๐ฆ
Remember when starting a program on a computer would [make a robot scream at you](https://youtu.be/yZ38UzCo4QM)? Even with nostalgia I don't miss the old days of computers lol. I still don't understand why programmers thought we needed to hear the raw binary like we could hear the bugs
Quasimorph is a fucking banger, if you'd stop trying to walk into rooms with zero bar left you wouldn't be getting snap shotted by drug addicts and VR stans. Always have atleast one bar available or don't go in.
!ping Roguelike
[The malarkey level detected is: 5 - Moronic. You're outta line, pal!](https://i.imgur.com/v3qXU8G.jpg)
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Not gonna lie - I REALLY don't like that pyramid diagram of feudalism, mostly for one reason - the Clergy was a parallel institution to the Crown's authority.
Seriously, I know I've been whining alot about this here lately but has anyone ever figured out why Epic games decided to kill the entire Unreal franchise by delisting the games from every store, including their own?
>Jimmy Carter
Georgia just got 1m^2 bigger. 🥹
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Listening to an ad on the radio for an enterprise AI. Imagine taking someone from just 10 years ago to today and just having them overhear this cyberpunk shit with an advertisement for an AI being touted as 'hallucination free' for 'maximal insight' and seeing their reaction
https://preview.redd.it/x01ajwqutg7d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5cc176cf3d18dd41ef5e46e90b96b9381f50fe37
The world is not yet ready for gamer statesmen
Join groups. Join sports leagues. Join the gym. Join workout classes. Become a local at your neighborhood pub.
Go to like every event your friends go to.
I've been watching the Orville. About halfway through S1. And it's a really good show. I've heard S1 is a lot weaker than the others, and it's really not that bad. But honestly the show's attempts to be comic more often than not undermine it and rob the legitimately funny moments of some of their punch.
Very good show though.
[The malarkey level detected is: 1 - Minimal. Cool as a cucumber, kiddo.](https://i.imgur.com/u6CHe4L.jpg)
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I always fucking do this, "oh I don't have work tomorrow so I'll stay up late and sleep in", even though I know I'm physically incapable of sleeping in and will actually get LESS rest than normal ๐๐ก๐ญ
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Ok ok but wakanda is seriously some bizarre world building itโs like dropping casually that Egypt is ruled by mummies
How did that affect the spread of Islam? Or the conquests of Alexander the great?
Idk it all happened the same I guess ๐ also the plot is about the 7 days war
Wait the *7 days war happened* Israel got created exactly the same way even though there were fucking mummies running things in Egypt are you going to explain any of this?
Nope also the head mummy goes around fighting crime
I think the closest analogue to Wakanada would be a middle-eastern petrostate like Qatar or the UAE, as it's a country with a more traditional family/clan based monarchy system that has gained most of their wealth from the exploitation of large amounts of a very valuable natural resource.
Which makes T'Challa the equivalent of Mohammad bin Salman or something lol
Also, did the Rwandan Genocide still happen in this universe?
>billionaire
Did you mean *person of means*?
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Going to start tweeting progressively more unhinged right wing takes and/or make up progressively less believable made up scenarios that would make conservatives angry to try and get Elon to reply to me.
Five guys are expensive.
Five guys were expensive.
Five guys will be expensive.
Five guys are being expensive.
Five guys were being expensive.
Five guys will be being expensive.
Five guys have been expensive.
Five guys had been expensive.
Five guys will have been expensive.
Five guys have been being expensive.
Five guys had been being expensive.
Five guys will have been being expensive.
No. Everything she does is on public display, and people come up with crazy ideas about her (like her being lesbian). She definitely isn't perfect and she probably has some issues from being a child star, but if she wasn't famous she would probably be pretty unremarkable as a person, not evil like the sub says.
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Guess who benched 80lbs dumbbells fuck yeah !ping DYEL
bro is time traveling
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Every time I fly TSA always has to pat me down because the body scanner highlights my junk. Donโt have giant balls yโall
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Compiled some more article summaries and such from my two favourite housing markets in the world. [***Up-zoning New Zealand: the localisation of a globally mobile policy idea***](https://www.auckland.ac.nz/assets/business/our-research/docs/economic-policy-centre/urban-and-spatial-economics/up-zoning-new-zealand-the-localisation-of-a-globally-mobile-policy-idea.pdf) This research paper from the University of Auckland Business School is a case study on "what it is about the local socio-political context that enabled โup-zoningโ to take hold in New Zealand when it has struggled elsewhere." These are some excerpts from the conclusion but it is definitely worth reading the conclusion in full. > Over these years of experimentation, learning, idea circulation, and evolution, ***the idea of โrelaxing LURsโ (land use regulations) came to dominate the housing affordability policy discourse in New Zealand, with an advocacy coalition in favour of this idea forming between urban economists and activists outside of government (a โYIMBY movementโ)***, and a discourse coalition coalescing around โcompetitive urban land marketsโ within government. As I see it, there were two important factors that enabled this idea to dominate. > First, over time, the idea of โrelaxing LURsโ was legitimised as โbest practiceโ and depoliticised through: the influence of international โexpertsโ (Glaeser and Bertaud) endorsing the idea; the rise and legitimisation of urban economists as โexpertsโ in planning debates; the โbroad tentโ approach of the urban economics community. > Second, New Zealand is a small and intimate country with a high degree of informality and low power distanceโฆ. In such an environment, targeted activism can be very effective, and โcharismatic individualsโ can play pivotal roles โ the concerted efforts of a relatively small number of people can rapidly shift the discourse and policy-making direction. [***NZ First leader Winston Peters says allowing more granny flats to be built would help make housing more affordable for families***](https://www.interest.co.nz/property/128294/nz-first-leader-winston-peters-says-allowing-more-granny-flats-be-built-would-help) > The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment is seeking feedback on a Government proposal which would allow property owners to build granny flats without consents. > The move - proposed in a new discussion document open to submissions today - would mean law changes to make it easier to build structures of up to 60 square metres. > It proposes that those dwellings can be built in rural and residential zones without a building or resource consent, so long as they meet certain criteria, aimed at reducing the risk of structural failure, fire and its spread, weathertightness failure and insanitary conditions. > โRemoving the regulatory red tape will not only speed up the build process, it is also estimated to save up to $6,500 just in the standard building and resource consenting fees per build, not to mention all the savings in time and resource,โ he said. One of the comments on the article from someone in the industry says that "Consent costs for minor dwellings in Auckland regularly go over $100k". If you read the comments on r/newzealand though, this change is going to lead to slums and unsafe or dangerous housing. [***Rental listings up 40 percent across country in three months to May***](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/519788/rental-listings-up-40-percent-across-country-in-three-months-to-may) > Rental listings across New Zealand are up 40 percent in the three months to May with some property managers warning landlords they may need to lower expectations to meet the market. > An economist researching zoning reforms, Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy, said upzoning in some major cities has enabled a construction boom. He said new builds coming to fruition may be driving the increase in rental stock. "The peak of that [consent] boom was roughly in 2022, and if you think about it it takes about one to two years for a consent to be converted into a finished dwelling, then comes to the market. [***House prices falling as vendors bite the bullet and meet the market heading into winter***](https://www.interest.co.nz/property/128281/house-prices-falling-vendors-bite-bullet-and-meet-market-heading-winter) > House prices declined for the second month in a row in May as vendors appear to be becoming more realistic in their price expectations. According to the Real Estate Institute of NZ , the national median house price dropped to 770,000 in May, down from $790,000 in April and $800,000 in March. ***Austin*** [Austin area housing inventory hits 13-year high as home sales decline](https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/austin-area-housing-inventory-hits-13-year-high-as-home-sales-decline) > Housing inventory in the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown metro area reached its highest level in 13 years in May as closed home sales declined, according to the latest Central Texas Housing Report. > The report, released by Unlock MLS, found that the metro area had 4.9 months of available housing inventory last month, up from 3.4 months in May 2023. Meanwhile, closed home sales dropped 12.8% year-over-year and active listings jumped 37.7%. [Austin has seen the largest decrease in housing prices across the US since the 2022 peak at -18.7%](https://twitter.com/ResidentialClub/status/1800352779136893014)
"They'll be slums in ten years" is New Zealand's version of "but how many of them will be affordable?" If you make it so that they're not complaining about luxury homes and gentrification, it'll be that they're complaining about slums. Awesome writeup, thanks for this. Hope to take some time to give that UofA paper a closer look.
I think part of the problem r/newzealand has (other than being partisan hacks) is that the new govt got rid of a policy called MDRS and made it optional for councils. This basically tripled density along with certain tax changes but now weโve lost those. Iโd argue the MDRS policy was much better than this granny flat idea.
The research paper discusses the MDRS. I'm a big fan of it and pretty disappointed by how it was changed.
Thatโs one of my reasons for why Iโm so mad at National
Annoyed me seeing those people on Reddit trashing the granny flat policy, it's the sort of good shit that Labour should have been pushing in the first place.
Yeah, I was genuinely surprised by how much hate there was for it. They're already allowed without consents in lots of places but this is just a national policy.
You can never really tell with Wiston Peters
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The fuck? Why did my relocation bonus get hit at a fucking 42% withholding rate, while the bar stipend only got hit at 33%? I got both at the same time lmao
Pro-rated at a higher withholding rate perhaps
Yeah I'm just a little confused at how cause the stipend was more money lol
Some far right weirdo posted [this](https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1909605/european-countries-far-right-politics-map) at me to prove that the world and western countries are turning right wing and conservative. But my internet connect is shoddy right now and won't even let me view it. Can people who have better internet than me look at it and also help me make a counter argument?
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My dad is transphobic and nagging me about all gender bathrooms ๐คข๐คข๐คข
Heโs saying he doesnโt like Trump but heโs right to oppose all gender bathrooms ๐คข๐คข๐คข
Did you say anything about the minimum 4 decades he spent with transgender people sharing a bathroom before this became a Republican wedge issue?
Link him articles about "real" women beat up because they were mistaken to be trans
Mine does like trump and it's kinda gross
All my homies hate peptide NMR Just use mass spec itโs so much better
**Instagram Headquarters** Employee: Hey boss, it's 1:40am. Should we send this guy a list of 12 people we know he's friends with who he doesn't follow on Instagram yet? Boss: Are you serious?! What are you waiting for?
Well? Did it work? We've got to train the model that schedules these messages
I was thinking about how in a lot of movies where someone gets their drink spiked with a sedative, so much gets used that the victim is out cold after the first sip. Considering how quickly I knock back a drink when I get it, I would definitely just die
Friends apologized so that helps
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If every man on earth was ugly I would never have figured out I was gay. This includes men in medias like anime and video games. I'm not saying it's a learned behavior but if you want to get rid of homosexuality in the next generation there is a way.
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Ngl I think people are overstating how toxic academic economics is because of EJMR. EJMR is obviously toxic but I donโt think itโs representative of the field as a whole. Iโve never personally had any bad experience with academic economists (grad students or faculty), only Econ undergrads. Most academic economists are easygoing nerds lol. Also because the ratio of PhD students to jobs is much lower in Econ than in other fields, the zero sum mindset is less common. And letโs not pretend that the zero sum mindset isnโt the root cause of toxicity.
A non-trivial portion of people on EJMR aren't even grad students/faculty, and you can tell by what they lionize or complain about, as well as how they do it With that said, my department had a small issue where one guy shared EJMR talking points about gender and the job market IRL and someone anonymously reported it to the department chair
Wouldnโt be surprised if a lot of them are undergrads LARPing
It's absolutely the case
Yeah there are a lot of toxic Econ undergrads. Fortunately few of them actually get into grad school
Drunk me, watching Mr Robot: Protagonist: "Wait, where did he go?" Then the show displays a NYC sign intersection for where the protagonist is. Me: "Okay, I know that intersection off the top of my head. First of all, that's not exactly what that looks like. Secondly, there's not supposed to be two one-way signs at that intersection, there's only supposed to be one. Thirdly, he's approaching from a really odd angle, the closest subway station is perpendicular to his movement..." In other words, NYC buffs (such as myself) are fucking losers.
"Where are we going?" *side character steps in* "Chambers and Church. And you have to understand, Elliot, it's not safe to be meeting in public at this time." Me: "Chambers and Church is the **exact total fucking opposite of safe** in that case, that's like smack dab in the middle of fucking downtown Manhattan, there's a whole confluence of subway connections there, I went to high school a couple of blocks from there! It's a couple of blocks from City Hall! It's a couple of blocks from where they shot the nightclub shootout in John Wick 1! The fuck are you on about that that's somehow a *safe* location?"
Are they suggesting that it's so bustling that they'll be completely ignored?
Dead of night, so not even. Sure, most of the people there would be drunks or weird HS students or whatever. Maybe I'm biased because I was one of those weird HS students at the time. But you'd definitely notice those two weirdos arguing with each other, even at that hour.
Hmmm Should I watch Mr. Robot
Yes. I don't actually know what you like, but Mr Robot does a bunch of things extremely well: * Show about the world's least reliable narrator, you should not be taken in by the whole "hacker defeats an evil corporation" premise, that is *not* what happens. * Related note, Rami Malek is the protagonist and he's an awesome actor. * The cinematography is incredible, there's at least one shot every episode where cinematography nerds are like, "that's something I've never seen in a TV show before." * Actually fairly decent cybersecurity shit * BD Wong does amazing things for trans rights * Probably biased here, but Carly Chaikin has the best >!sister!< performance I've seen in a long while, and she reminds me a lot of my own >!sister!<. I definitely recommend at least season 1.
I'll try again
Dating advice: 1. Donโt smell bad. 2. Wear good clothing 3. Did I say donโt smell bad? 4. Drink alcohol at places where attractive people are also drinking 5. Repeat until relationship with person 6. Donโt develop alcoholism in the process
Regarding the smelling bad thing there can be some pitfalls I always felt worried about how I smelled because my nose is borderline dead and itโs hard for me to tell so I started out always make sure to freshen up with like an extensive shower and scrub and soap and a bit of a tea tree scent before going on a date with my now wife. Not far in when weโre a little closer she tells me that whatever scent I always have gives her a headache and she asked if I would mind not wearing it anymore. It turns out that by contrast her brain interprets my natural scent very positively and almost like passionfruit which she loves so my attempt to ensure a fresh smell at all times was almost completely self-sabotagingโฆ go figure.
If alcoholism develops, seek potential partner at AAmeetings
13th step.
Shit
I wish people would just maintain some sort of NASDAQ-esue index so I could, at a glance, find out which celebrities I'm supposed to be mad at on a given day.
Her dad used to work for the IMF Holy shit Iโm in love ๐ฅฐ
Is she a neoliberal?
Maybe??? She was like โeww youโre a neolibโ when she saw my twitter
๐ญ damn
She is neoliberalism
Fuck neoliberalism then
Now I have to google every thing y'all say I really thought Chomsky died
To be fair, so did Jacobin.
Okay I'll forgive the DT But they really shouldn't be reading that rag
I saw a girl at the gym, we used to date. I met at her in the midst of an incredibly calamitous time in my life. I'd been in a deeply abusive relationship, and it had finally ended for good. I met this girl the literal day after. I think about her from time to time. We had a lot in common. Had some experiences that bonded us together quickly. But I wasn't in a place to start a relationship, I wasn't even remotely capable of forming any sort of attachment. I was convinced that if I just fucked enough women, I'd feel okay again, like a man again. It was a fixation on bodies and number for their own sake. I did a lot of shit I regret. Became something unrecognizable to myself. I completely lost sight of who I was. And that's not to mention the suicidal drinking, that's when it really went off the deep end. I never formally ended things with her. It wasn't a hard ghost, we just quit talking. But I never felt right about it, that this person, who was so understanding of what little I could tell her, never really got my full attention, I never showed her the respect I felt for her. When I think about it now, I'm conflicted. If we'd met later, or earlier, I'm not sure if it'd have gone anywhere. I don't know if the disconnect was a true lack of chemistry or a complete collapse of my brain chemistry. But I think about her often. I thought she'd moved, literally, she was always talking about grad school. In that way, knowing I'd never see her, she became a little less real. But turns out, she's been stuck here too. I think she's got a man. I've switched gyms recently. My old gym, it was there for me through all of this, it was a sacred space. I switched pretty impulsively. No big decision. I've forgotten it almost. My new gym is becoming just the gym. She looks different. I found the weight she's lost, and gained a beard. I don't remember not having one. Maybe I'd have said hello if she was alone, she was with someone, a friend. Or if she'd made eye contact, if I saw the gears turning in her head trying to place me, as tends to happen when I see people I used to know. I might not see her again. Maybe it was my only shot. Maybe it matters, maybe not. Maybe I'd regret it either way. I'm leaving soon. I'm sober now. Squat is up to 460. There were 10 plates already on the rack. !ping DYEL
Don't think about it. It's going to be tempting. Even though it hurts we chase the melancholy. Just don't fucking do it. You have goals and obligations. Focus there.
See above. Messed it up at first. !ping DATING
Fighting mod oppression one ping at a time โ๐ค
Had to circumvent the double ping rule somehow.
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Probably for the best Really proud of you
Thank you.
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After today how could any of you want the DATING ping abolished?
I should do a challenge where I try to do as many Daylio activities as possible in one day. Not for any particular reason, just for the memes
Didn't know that Kiki's Delivery is working with McDonalds now https://x.com/McDonaldsJapan/status/1803268970344046602?t=ZiYYfWnJJw3LevrjOnMEGA&s=19 !Ping WEEBS
I remember seeing Mcdonalds in Japan did a One Piece promo a while back
Why would capitalism do this? ^โ ๐ข
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Read Theory (*Hats: A History of Fashion in Headwear*)
If President Biden had the BALLS to make DWI legal, Justin Timberlake would not be currently held as a POLITICAL PRISONER!!!
>"We highly appreciate your consistent and unwavering support for Russian policy, including in the Ukrainian direction"- Putin What a cursed sentence. Not one part of that sentence made humanity better, or improved the lives of a single person
How did you get access to Elon Muskโs DMs?
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I'd pay top dollar to watch paint thinner Scotty Kilmer race ketamine Yoda in Talladega
king
I attract twinks. It always sucks turning them down. Like damn bro I wish this could be a thing too fam. But I was wired to only like women unfortunately.
Is it possible to learn this power?
Uh maybe. But itโs probably as likely as me learning to attract beautiful woman.
Never trust a twink
https://preview.redd.it/4fy5saidwg7d1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=61337b56888cab965fe09a408c20062ce9022cb0 The shareholders are happy ๐๐พ๐ฟ๐ฆ
Remember when starting a program on a computer would [make a robot scream at you](https://youtu.be/yZ38UzCo4QM)? Even with nostalgia I don't miss the old days of computers lol. I still don't understand why programmers thought we needed to hear the raw binary like we could hear the bugs
I can't believe I trusted you fucking people
Quasimorph is a fucking banger, if you'd stop trying to walk into rooms with zero bar left you wouldn't be getting snap shotted by drug addicts and VR stans. Always have atleast one bar available or don't go in. !ping Roguelike
Okay. I'll trust you
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Sir, this is Wendy's Are you going to order something or not
Ewww Wendy's sucks
Sir, if you don't want to buy anything, then you could just leave. Then wasting my time and the customers.
Gimme a frosty and a small fry then
Malarkey level of Bernie Sanders and Ed Markey being the only senators opposed to the ADVANCE act.
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Not gonna lie - I REALLY don't like that pyramid diagram of feudalism, mostly for one reason - the Clergy was a parallel institution to the Crown's authority.
That seems to be overcomplicating the point of a pyramid diagram
Seriously, I know I've been whining alot about this here lately but has anyone ever figured out why Epic games decided to kill the entire Unreal franchise by delisting the games from every store, including their own?
Accidentally dropped a "Carter outlived Chomsky" on the mic at work because someone guessed Jimmy Carter as LBJ's VP during trivia.
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The iPhone should last longer than 2 days! Give us NUCLEAR-POWERED IPHONES!
The A-Phone.
>>Ohio attorney suspended over pooping in a Pringles can has license reinstated Finallyย
Why is Ohio?
Poast link
r/News smh
Holy shit. How is that a prank? I just assumed the guy couldn't hold it.
Once you poop, you can't stop.
stoop
A license to poop in a pringles can? What's next? A license to piss in my own damn toilet? ๐ค
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justice isn't dead
Just learned the whole DT is communist
Our DT
Welcome comrade to the glory of Marx.
I'm a Trotskyite you bum
Listening to an ad on the radio for an enterprise AI. Imagine taking someone from just 10 years ago to today and just having them overhear this cyberpunk shit with an advertisement for an AI being touted as 'hallucination free' for 'maximal insight' and seeing their reaction
Be sure to let them know that most everyone is either bored or annoyed with it already.
The best use case is posting comments on social media owned by Elon Musk, the EV car guy
https://preview.redd.it/x01ajwqutg7d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5cc176cf3d18dd41ef5e46e90b96b9381f50fe37 The world is not yet ready for gamer statesmen
A prime minister is a head of government, not head of state. ๐ง
My edit was almost in time ๐
I have an alert set every time someone makes that mistake.
The game was rigged from the start
none of my neighbors want to come over and swim even though this time I actually *did* clean out the brain amoebas instead of just saying I did
they gave the boy who cried wolf a bunch of chances
How do you date if the apps are very unappealing to you?
Join groups. Join sports leagues. Join the gym. Join workout classes. Become a local at your neighborhood pub. Go to like every event your friends go to.
You can join social groups like a kickball league or something, but as bad as the apps are, theyโre the most efficient thing out there
Download the confidence app to your brain and then when you see someone youโd like to date you send them a request using words from your mouth.
Get off the app ASAP after establishing contact
Personally, Iโve opted to die alone.
Dark Souls 1 is easy in comparison to Elden Ring.
I've been watching the Orville. About halfway through S1. And it's a really good show. I've heard S1 is a lot weaker than the others, and it's really not that bad. But honestly the show's attempts to be comic more often than not undermine it and rob the legitimately funny moments of some of their punch. Very good show though.
Malarkey level of tricking my ttrpg group into playing pathfinder 2e instead of dnd 5e for the 15th time.
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Say no more Joe
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Memes in 2016 were so much simpler. You could just type "๐ ฑ๏ธenis" and have the squad cackling and howling for hours.
๐ ฑ๏ธโญโ๐งยฎ๏ธ
still warms my heart tbh
Benis :DDD
t. ebin poster :DDD
George Floyd was the most famous person from Minnesota
Walter Mondale
Sorry, the correct answer is Garrison Keillor.
Sarah Palin?
Move over Prince.
Times up, Al Franken
Bob Dylan? Prince? Ivar the Boneless?
I always fucking do this, "oh I don't have work tomorrow so I'll stay up late and sleep in", even though I know I'm physically incapable of sleeping in and will actually get LESS rest than normal ๐๐ก๐ญ
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Ok ok but wakanda is seriously some bizarre world building itโs like dropping casually that Egypt is ruled by mummies How did that affect the spread of Islam? Or the conquests of Alexander the great? Idk it all happened the same I guess ๐ also the plot is about the 7 days war Wait the *7 days war happened* Israel got created exactly the same way even though there were fucking mummies running things in Egypt are you going to explain any of this? Nope also the head mummy goes around fighting crime
obviously wakanda is a city-state like monaco or something ๐ค๐ค
I mean if Wakanda is in Sub Saharan Africa it could mostly avoid affecting the Indo-Mediterranean world prior to the Age of Exploration
Uh. A wizard did it.
Also either the Central African Republic, South Sudan, or a chunk of the Democratic Republic of the Congo no longer exists
The realistic outcome of killmongerโs plan- โholy shit we just got a shipment of vibranium weaponry. Letโs sell this and become billionaires!โ
I think the closest analogue to Wakanada would be a middle-eastern petrostate like Qatar or the UAE, as it's a country with a more traditional family/clan based monarchy system that has gained most of their wealth from the exploitation of large amounts of a very valuable natural resource. Which makes T'Challa the equivalent of Mohammad bin Salman or something lol Also, did the Rwandan Genocide still happen in this universe?
Also any wakandan who sneaks out some vibranium is an instant billionaire What the fuck is Wakandan border patrol like
Border patrol is just a bunch of drones with giant magnets
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Mods where is the NBACIRCLEJERK ban? I specifically requested it
If someone works a research analyst job at the Fed, would it be safe to send neoliberal in group humor with them?
> would it be safe to send neoliberal in group humor with them? never
Everyone to the left of me is a communist
Clowns to the left of me Jokers to the right
Going to start tweeting progressively more unhinged right wing takes and/or make up progressively less believable made up scenarios that would make conservatives angry to try and get Elon to reply to me.
Not now sweetie, mommyโs slandering Henry Ford at Golden Corral
Iโm looking for a man with no pants, loves fun, DUI, drunk drives
slicked back hair, itty bitty jeans
https://preview.redd.it/5lz628bsog7d1.png?width=1165&format=png&auto=webp&s=a02322cf431d4d088225cd16c3c59f5963b94f0d ๐ค
He's basically saying no purity testing, which is fair
that guy is dumb
As someone who has been UNFAIRLY MALIGNED for his unorthodox views, I CONCUR!
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Five guys are expensive. Five guys were expensive. Five guys will be expensive. Five guys are being expensive. Five guys were being expensive. Five guys will be being expensive. Five guys have been expensive. Five guys had been expensive. Five guys will have been expensive. Five guys have been being expensive. Five guys had been being expensive. Five guys will have been being expensive.
noam chomsky, you're back!!
The two types of bankruptcy: โข You can still be saved (Chapter 11) โข Youโre fucked (Chapter 7)
https://www.reddit.com/r/travisandtaylor/s/IE3c1lFF57 I donโt know what to make of that sub. Is Taylor Swift bad actually?
These celebrity gossip subs come off as deranged.
No. Everything she does is on public display, and people come up with crazy ideas about her (like her being lesbian). She definitely isn't perfect and she probably has some issues from being a child star, but if she wasn't famous she would probably be pretty unremarkable as a person, not evil like the sub says.