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Malcolm MacMahon@amacmahon.bsky.social |
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Writer, public employee, cyclist
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Malcolm MacMahon
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Also, in terms of propaganda of the deed - you'll still get a parking ticket, but you have to take a photo of the meter or call the city, then go to court to fight the ticket. Going to small claims court to fight a ticket is way more class war than paying a few dollars to park.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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One of the rare instances where Americans pretend their politics is like Canadian/European politics instead of the opposite. (The other is where they imagine the president can pass legislation like a prime minister)
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Malcolm MacMahon
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Out with Seussical the musical, in with Goku-ssical the musical
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Malcolm MacMahon
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I think the silver lining is that if the pricing fee can get rolled out, maybe it can be adjusted in the future to change behaviour. But considering how much is done in legislation and not regulation, seems unlikely.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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Me as the supreme Court makes it illegal to breathe: it's actually a 3-3-3 court
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Malcolm MacMahon
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I was looking at the wiki, which lists RN at 34% and the union of the far right at an additional 4, then another 4% for diverse droit (not necessarily allies), then 6% for LR. But there's still lots of editing in the wiki, so could be wrong. Euronews says 33.2% for RN+allies
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Malcolm MacMahon
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LFI have already said they'll deselect any candidates who are 3rd and make the runoff, and macron's called for a Republican front. Still, 34% (or I saw 38% with the far right Republican splinter group) is really close to majority territory.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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I agree with the dumb contrarian opinion that candidate Beto is either sub 200 electoral votes or 400+. Red New Jersey or Blue Montana.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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Touching the lathe of heaven and summoning the west Virginia tipping point map into existence.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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Of the dem governors that I (a Canadian) know, only Hochul is definitely worse? Polis is on his level. Whitmer, Beshear, Kelly, Evers, Pritzker, Cooper, Kotek, Shapiro, Inslee...none of them are as slimy.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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Spitting image!
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Malcolm MacMahon
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Jamelle and John talked about liberal patriotism on their most recent episode of Unclear and Present Danger, and the recurring line was "we'll miss it when it's gone". Corporate LGBT energy feels like that - the UK is really experiencing that loss with trans rights.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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EU votes are also usually more right wing than national parliaments, because of the responsibilities and desire to not redistribute to lower income EU countries. I think he wants to take wind out of RN's sails. (Also, NUPES are struggling due to disagreements re: Gaza).
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Malcolm MacMahon
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Great work Ned. I think you've touched on this, but from Ontario's perspective, social housing needs YIMBY reforms, because our co-op and public providers need to go through the arduous planning process. Singapore and Vienna are more YIMBY than Toronto and San Fran. It's a natural alliance.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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Most buildings built today are one-off deregulations through variances, plan amendments, zoning changes, essentially purchased by capitalists through influence, bribes, or some kind of graft. Minneapolis' 2040 rezoning was much more "socialist" in the sense that it planned for growth!
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Malcolm MacMahon
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Writing a compelling 2:30 movie with 8 major characters is almost impossible. And they want 60? Washed. This corporation is absolutely washed.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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With how comparatively easy EVs are, and how many engineering graduates we have, we could do actual industrial strategy and make the Avro Arrow EV, but the tories/libs/dippers would never.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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Nice article. One concern I have for EV tariffs is Carbon pricing. It's a mixed signal if we tax people who are trying to reduce carbon. It'd be nice if we could assemble Chinese EVs here - the jobs would be lower pay than US autos and the prices higher than imports, but maybe a good compromise.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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Damn, this rules.
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If he's larger than Reacher, by the Reacher logic he must also have better deduction and investigation skills. We'll have to invent a larger Reacher for the next season.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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It's a years long journey to get online leftists to understand what Khrushchev knew implicitly - you need to build apartments in the socially productive places, or you're inviting speculation and bad actors.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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Look, California, New York, these are low income/low wealth societies with too much time off and work/life balance. They don't have the dynamism and innovation of the Mediterranean coast, so they can't build apartments like this.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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"Ask again later, Dave"
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Malcolm MacMahon
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Did this building do a wind study? What about a parking study? I'm gonna need an arborists report, shadow study obviously, and we should also levy some development charges.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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The new progressive mayor of Toronto has repeatedly had the police threaten her job, attack her in policies in public, continually tweet about her. And they also have been making public statements against our courts! It's uhh...kinda bad.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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Are there good peer reviewed studies on median parliamentarian vs. The average voter? I've seen some discourse about the median congressman vs. median American. Our stronger whips and more ideological parties probably makes that tougher to parse.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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Cool how the permit charge, the machine charge, and the 3 hour charge were amended differently. Not inflation, not rationale, but McKelvie determining penalties entirely by vibes.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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Works in sales and enjoys the outdoors. Keeps saying Chucky Arla but that seems immaterial to the case.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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I listen to 5-4, and I think making fun of British people is literally in the Constitution (I'm Canadian, I unfortunately do not have that right).
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Malcolm MacMahon
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Toronto has streetcar suburbs which are reasonably dense, complex communities. The mid century re-zonings are bad, but if you can afford them they're incredible. They're not dense enough to solve the housing crisis NOW, but if we'd allowed them everywhere, things would be fine.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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That's a name I've not heard in a long time.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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Genuinely curious - by what metrics? Adipose tissue, heart health, digestion? Seems like there's a couple reasons why it'd be good, but interested to know why the split between male and female bodies.
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DC Pierson
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Podcasting, at its worst, uses how lonely we are to exploit how dumb we are
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Malcolm MacMahon
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The same people who push all-STEM education don't want to do the industrial policy that would make those degrees socially productive. They just want math inclined kids to do physics degrees so they can be quants at hedge funds. Cursed society.
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lanyardigan
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Gimme Magritte, boys, and free my soul / Ceci n’est pas une rock ‘n’ roll / Green apple face
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Malcolm MacMahon
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I'm also embarking in a fools errand comparing the US tax rates, which can vary by city (NYC has a local income tax above the state tax) vs the UK, which basically has the one level of tax. (Plus council, but those seem pretty low compared to US property taxes).
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Malcolm MacMahon
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I think taxes are good, and I'm happy paying relatively high rates. The US effective rate is similar to UK's, but there are lots of deductions (which is biased for the wealthy). I'm just baffled by, minus the NHS, the UK's tax levels, wages, and govt services. Tories fucked up!
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Malcolm MacMahon
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To a degree yes (hate the tories, love the NHS, simple as) but the UK has a higher tax rate. At £40k in London you're paying an effective 15% rate just in income, while in NYC at $80k your effective rate is gonna be about $17%. UK has managed the triad of high taxes, low wages, bad services.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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I went in 2014 and 2022. The difference was shocking. It's no Amsterdam yet, but so much progress has been made.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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Sinclair's "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it" also applies to left wing writers who write the same anti dem/labour/NDP article every election. (Thankfully Canada has nobody who cares about our elections, thus fewer articles)
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Malcolm MacMahon
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This is British Labour politics, even under Corbyn. (Admittedly, their police are better trained, not as militarized, kill fewer people, and have essentially been defunded, so...different in the ways that matter)
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Malcolm MacMahon
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For foreign languages, Brits have the best grammar instruction in the anglosphere, and the absolute worst phonemes. I've heard Brits speak advanced French like they're 1995 Microsoft Sam. Baffling. Me llamo Tim Kaine would destroy the entire country.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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British Columbia had an election in 1972 that created just about all of their social democratic structure. But I guess pretty well known to people interested in social democracy.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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There's a great local bar/community space in Toronto that did PowerPoint parties, but you were assigned a subject at random that you knew nothing about (and was low stakes). The job stuff seems... not that way.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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My employer has sent out eclipse safety instructions every day for the past two weeks. They REALLY don't want me to gain the gift of prophecy.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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This is the argument against popularism and for moral leadership leftism - polling on hypotheticals has a strong status quo bias. Medicare in Canada produced strikes among doctors, and now it's Canada's most popular policy, even with many implementation/funding problems.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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Michael J. Fox is Mike Flaherty in the new hit show about the Dublin Mayor's office, Sinn City.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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Conservatives abolish the 22nd amendment to run a fascist, the Progressives run a popular 2-term former president is a top-tier Costco novel.
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Malcolm MacMahon
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I don't count the supreme court, the house, odds on for the senate in 8 months, Chambers of Commerce, the majority of millionaires and billionaires, 23 state trifectas, and thousands of towns and cities as institutional power. The real sources of institutional power: student unions and forum mods.
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