prison pie, is that a thing?

...do it

It's possible this is only of interest to me, but I enjoyed this article on the Vietnam draft lottery and the use of natural experiments in the social sciences.

George making an entry

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/04/78484...an-100-million

For both the draft and behavioral “science”....

https://youtu.be/QFKECo0P_NI

Jewel heist ends in rush hour shootout in Miami with 4 dead including a kidnapped UPS driver and an innocent just chilling in their car.

Videos NSFW, could contain disturbing contact

https://youtu.be/3o-LYONsWwc
https://v.redd.it/1uq5q2rkg1341

These ****ing morons were literally using civilian cars as cover

There is definitely an argument the accusations are true, although it seems the media played a big part of this. I remember watching the story unfold in the media in real time, and then afterwords reading what actually happened. And the media was extremely dishonest and did not portray the incident accurately at all.

I dont know if the prosecution was equally dishonest, but it wouldn't surprise me; given how politics works.

Trump the populist.

Article by the Hill.

It's quite ironic that some see trumps incivility as a good thing.

Strangely I though of the end of Pink Floyds Final Cut. Two suns in the sunset:

I noticed AOC is tweeting a lot about Amazon leasing some office space in Manhattan. Correct me if I am wrong. But how is Amazon leasing office space in Manhattan a "win" for AOC, as opposed to building a giant campus in Queens, that would have entailed revitalizing an economically depressed area?

I mean, if you believe that stopping them from the proposed project was a good thing, because the costs would outweigh the benefits, that is one fine. But I dont really see how them deciding to open shop in Manhattan is something AOC should be taking victory laps for. Because that is what NYC really needs, is more commercial development in Manhattan?

both republicans bashing her and her saying republicans are exagg is corect.

I do believe AOC is correct that it would crate 25k jobs over 8-10 years not the immediate yea they said.

repubs bashing her because it would have created 1.5k jobs and it would have been sooner than she said but idk about that.

overal if its true it woudl have taken amazon 5-6 years to create 25k jobs thats too long, no ****ign way should taxpayers be paying for that

It was a win for the idea that a lost cities shouldn’t be giving out corporate welfare. Amazon is leasing 350,000 sq feet and adding 1500 jobs immediately for free, vs the possible projection of 25k jobs over ten to fifteen years for the lic plant at a cost of 3bn dollars in tax credits and giveaways.

Multi billion dollar Corporations shouldn’t be given welfare handouts to do business in places they already want to do business.


Also ask Foxconn about how often those crazy high projections to get corporate welfare tend to actually workout. Foxconn was gifted 4.5billion for 13k jobs. After three years they have around 200 jobs and no facility. Sure inso will come in here and tout dumbass Scott walkers line about no money will be spent if they don’t meet the target but the state has already paid out tens of millions for land and construction and if Foxconn meets the paltry 260 job total for this year Wisconsin will owe them somewhere around 300k-500k per job.

It's almost like if you'd actually read her tweets, you'd know what the victory was.

Women aren’t allowed to gloat when they’re right and/or when they win. Everybody knows that.

How would AOC even know she was right if she hadn't left the kitchen?

yea as someon said ealier better articulated than me, problem was taxpayers shouldnt have to pay in order for 25k jobs to come about in 5-8 years. needs to happen within a year if possible but even then I dont feel good about having taxpayers pay for that to happen. amazon doesnt need the funding that bad

You guys are missing the point. The point is that Amazon is moving to Manhattan, as opposed to Queens. So the rich get richer. Whatever you think of the original Queens deal, a multibillion dollar company setting up shop in what is already the richest real estate in the nation doesn't exactly sound like much of a win for the little guy to me.

Who was going to get richer by Amazon being in Queens vs Manhattan... Do you think it’s going to have a major effect on property values? Do you think people in Queens won’t take the #7 train to Manhattan for those jobs? Do you know how anything works, Kelhus?

Um...

also

sup bros

Hi 6ixy

Is there a YooToobe that explains how the NYC subway system works?

Maybe I am wrong. But when you are a representative for Queens, and a company is planning to develop and in the process revitalize a virtually abandoned and dilapidated portion of your district; and you wage a PR campaign against them and they decide to take their ball and go to Manhattan instead, it doesn't seem like much of a win.

Maybe having that area stay as abandoned warehouses really is actually better for Queens. I look forward to the upcoming Vox article explaining how this is the case.

Di Blasio seems insanely progressive to me, to a fault. When even that guy is criticizing you that you are going too far with your PR campaign and peacocking, and it may be doing more harm than good, maybe there is something there.

Maybe they can turn those warehouses into something productive with the $3billion that they are no longer putting into the pockets of the richest man in the world.

In other low content news attacking the progressive left. The current President of Mexico, who champions himself as a populist progressive, has managed to preside over a Mexican economy that is tanking while the US one is thriving, which is virtually impossible and unprecedented, given how intertwined the 2 economies are. And it seems the consensus opinion is this is due to his anti business moves.

Again, it is one thing to say all the right things and win the twitter wars. But where is the evidence that things are actually getting better from all this divisive rhetoric. It seems like the new wave of populist progressivism is the Ying to Trump's Yang, and the results dont seem too promising so far.