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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d

HE LITERALLY SURRENDERED TO THE TALIBAN. My god

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

He could’ve fought, but he faked bone spurs. So someone else had to go in his place - most likely a working class kid whose daddy couldn’t afford to bribe a doctor. Now he’s talking shit about how it should’ve been fought.

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 2d

It has to be the latter. I refuse to believe otherwise.

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 2d

You wanna get ahead?

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 3d

When I was a kid, my parents paid some guy more than that to come to the house and fix our 32" CRT TV.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 5d

We really need to stop siting our public schools this way. Schools should be at the center of town.

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 5d

(10+1 is for ES. 20/30+1 for MS/HS was already settled 6-7 years before that.)

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 5d

About 10 years after the final 10 acre plus 1 per 100 pupils standard was established is when active Transportation to school starts collapsing.

(I can't prove it's causal, but it's my belief that these standards + desegregation + suburban land use patterns generally that killed walk/bike.)

Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · Sep 3

Bus is down 25% from 35 years ago, which is a LOT, but what's truly nuts is the utter collapse in active transportation to school.

You can basically see the collapse 50 years ago go straight to car and then the fall in bus go straight to car 15 years later.

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 5d

There are.

Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 5d

Recommended school sizes began to show up in the 1920s, themselves larger than what came before, they exploded after the war, and the long prevailing (massive) standard size recommendations for middle and high schools were already reached by 1957-1958.
mcdonald.web.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

mcdonald.web.unc.edu

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 5d

(In other words, the idea that you need 20+/30+ acres for MS/HS was already defined as the standard before class size reforms and Title IX.)

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 5d

Recommended school sizes began to show up in the 1920s, themselves larger than what came before, they exploded after the war, and the long prevailing (massive) standard size recommendations for middle and high schools were already reached by 1957-1958.
mcdonald.web.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

mcdonald.web.unc.edu

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 5d

(Many people are saying.)
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 5d

We really need to stop siting our public schools this way. Schools should be at the center of town.

Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 5d

A. Always
B. Be.
C. Combing.

Always. Be. Combing.

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 5d

"Second prize is a set of hair plugs."

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 5d

Glengarry Hair Loss

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5d

You can't raid and arrest everyone in an entire apartment building, or even legitimately get a warrant to do that, any more than you could for a whole neighborhood. That would be a general warrant. This is the most specific core the-British-did-it-to-us thing the Fourth Amendment is written to ban.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 7d

NEW — An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in an overnight raid in South Shore, a predominantly-Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side.

A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community.

thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...

Feds detain dozens of immigrants in 'massive' South Shore apartment building raid in Chicago • The TRiiBE

An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in the course of the overnight raid in the predominately-Black neighborhood.

thetriibe.com

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 5d

(Baumol's cost disease is a disease of labour intensive industries, as the pièce points out, but certain agencies and the MTA in particular have been resistant to labour-saving innovations.)

Benjamin Schneider @benschneider.bsky.social · 8d

Across the US, transit agencies are staring down huge 'fiscal cliffs.' The popular explanation is Covid and inflation.

But experts say there are other, longer-term forces in play, from declining gas tax revenues to 'Baumol's cost disease.'

www.planetizen.com/features/136...

The Wave of Transit ‘Fiscal Cliffs,’ Explained

Covid and inflation played a role. But for many agencies, the crisis goes much deeper.

www.planetizen.com

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 5d

(That ULCCs can't offer a premium product, as you mentioned, makes this even worse, because not only does that space get a revenue premium on mainline but on ULCCs it means lower and lower marginal fares to fill it.)

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 5d

Segmentation has been successful at selling basic tickets to basic passengers while still getting premium revenue for premium pax within the same cabin type, and ULCCs can't compete with an all-basic revenue mix when rising pilot comp (and broken planes) is eroding their cost advantage.

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 5d

This is really in the weeds but I also think that mainlines just became really good at merchandising and product segmentation, which probably matters more than not having the premium products that revenge travelers want. (I can get wifi, TV and a snack for the same price!)

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 5d

Lots of people do this which is why airlines charge more for it!

I just mean people are at least familiar with the concept.

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 5d

I think that the goal of long distance trains should primarily be to serve intermediate journeys along the way and not primarily for land cruises across the whole length.

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 5d

IIRC Medicare doesn't use cost effectiveness in National Coverage Determinations.

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 5d

Anyway, it's weird that people find it surprising they need to change trains, since we make them change planes all the time.

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 5d

I'm not sure our rail planning decisions should cater to people for whom the purpose of an Amtrak trip is an Amtrak trip itself.

(I say this as, at times, one of those people.)

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 5d

I think the bigger issue is that any centralization of this in the US will receive calls of DEATH PANELS.

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