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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 1d

My fear is that they'll try to slow down subs to fit in ads, which is the beginning of the end.

Matt Staub @staubio.com · 5d

I think we're going to get exposed on transportation as well. Hard to find a bandaid big enough for Arrowhead and our general land use patterns, but I'll keep my fingers firmly crossed.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 5d

My guess is that they'll even gatekeep watch parties so aggressively that we'll all be locked at home watching matches.

That assumes folks will even want or be able to visit in the first place.

What a huge missed opportunity this will be for a real festival atmosphere in our city.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 5d

I have also found a cheap fix! 🚲🚌🚊🚝

The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 5d

Tires (not straws) are a top source of microplastic #pollution.

As they wear down, toxic particles wash from roads into waterways and harm wildlife. But scientists have found a cheap fix: biofilters made from wood chips and plant waste.

One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires

Rain storms wash those tire shards into streams and ultimately into lakes and oceans. That’s bad news for fish and other aquatic life.

buff.ly

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Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance @kcrta.bsky.social · 6d

🚨ADVOCACY ALERT!🚨 KCRTA polling shows majority voter support for transit funding across the Kansas City region! 🧵 1 of 4:

Image from KCRTA. The text reads: "We believe that public transit funding is a REGIONAL problem. So we decided to hire the top transit pollster in the country to ask real voters in Jackson, Johnson, Clay, and Wyandotte Counties if they would vote to approve a sales tax that would fund a regional bus system. Here is what a majority of voters told us..."

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 6d

My college logistics professor was a former Navy Seabee and dude was brilliant. This is real competitive strength for our country.

Ask Russia how important logistics are to the war effort.

Chicken Puppet @chickenpuppet.online · 6d

I know these guys are all dumber than a sack of hammers, but it is fascinating to see the military decide “logistics are gay” in real time

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 6d

What an amazing coup of capitalism that they sold burying yourself under $60k of debt on a rapidly depreciating asset as "rugged individualism."

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 6d

I hope folks like you who were there before it was cool feel good about where things have ended up. You helped build this, and as a person who was slower than he should have been to appreciate the women's game, I am grateful for the dedication.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 6d

I would love to see a size- and weight-based tax structure that actually starts to put the costs these vehicles dump on society back on the people who cause them.

Safety, infrastructure damage, storage space, etc. Price it correctly.

Matt Staub @staubio.com · 6d

My grandfather had several through the years, and they did real work on the farm.

Now trucks are to make office workers feel rugged. I really do think the road safety epidemic is partly a symptom of the crisis of masculinity. What are we if not big strong builders?

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 6d

I would bet actual money that that little Ford Ranger has done more work than those vanity tanks that are too expensive to scratch.

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 6d

You might think that the mayor of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's vast Northwest Territories, would be a fan of giant pickups.

Nope. He's disgusted by car bloat.

www.linkedin.com/posts/benjam...

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 6d

Maybe the Republicans are unwittingly executing the left-NIMBY housing strategy for healthcare: so profoundly break the private market that the resulting crisis requires a social response.

The pending impact on costs and coverage will leave millions more without care.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 8d

Such contempt for flyover country that they even do a jump edit to get to the west coast on their map animation. 😂

Matt Staub @staubio.com · 10d

I'll generally agree with you here. Not that impressed with the line of reasoning in the interview. But I think some of his ideas have merit, and this isn't necessarily indicative of them more broadly.

The idea that there are things all of us want and can have is the broader and compelling one.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 10d

And also, I'm not going to cancel him over it. Abundance is good politics.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 10d

While I think this is broadly true, I don't think it is universal or certain.

The bigger problem is the mealy-mouthed equivocation we tend to get mired in on the left. That's why straight shooters like Bernie resonated in more places.

Ezra can be wrong on these fronts, but it is worth discussing.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 10d

I too was disgusted by the headlines of his opinion pieces re: Kirk. The substance of his argument was still not compelling but it thought-provoking, and that's the job.

His take, as I understand it: stop being so pure and losing. The best way to protect people and causes is winning by any means.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 10d

Thanks for sharing. Realizing this is why everyone is freshly hating on Ezra. Just listened.

I am glad Ezra platformed his friend (and brilliant thinker) so he could illuminate the shortcomings of his takes. I think that's exactly the kind of thing you were advocating for.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 10d

I appreciate that.

And while we don't agree on the imperative of hating Ezra Klein, I suspect we agree on most things. That's sorta the entire point I'm making.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 10d

What about me specifically are you talking about? That I don't hate a particular journalist enough? Because that seems to be the only thing you know about me from this thread.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 11d

I agree with that! The ivory tower I know better thing is not going to work. But interestingly, that's exactly what Trump is. In uncertain times, people wanted a strongman who tells them what to think

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 11d

They don't have to listen to anyone they don't want to. Just don't have such a precious view of who can be part of the team. We're facing down the threat of the death of America and we're sniping each other over a journalist.

Matt Staub @staubio.com · 11d

I'm very familiar with the impacts of neoliberalism.

The book, to me, was about building. Which btw, we don't do in any meaningful way.

I want to live in an America with housing and trains. I've worked on projects for both, and he's right, they're too hard to do.

Matt Staub @staubio.com · 11d

Yet you seem to be quite fixated on him.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 11d

I didn't even call myself a fan. I just don't think hating him is a winning strategy or a personality.

It certainly isn't building a winning coalition.

Good luck in your crusade.

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