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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:17 UTC

yay!

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:17 UTC

Judge orders Millburn NJ to start work on 75-unit affordable housing development. The town had promised to build it, but then reneged on the deal because of NIMBY sentiment. Judge says she will start issuing daily fines if the town doesn't get the shovels going soon. gothamist.com/news/judge-o...

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:09 UTC

With a bit of googling, I have come to the conclusion that the bot has erroneously pulled images of "Princeton-by-the-Sea", an unincorporated community in San Mateo County, CA. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princet...

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:07 UTC

Had the same thought! This Princeton looks pretty good! But, wait, where is that big sea thing?

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:13 UTC

Crying at all the people here asking "who is Mikie Sherrill??" 😂 Give Jersey some respect!!!

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:54 UTC

Silly me! I thought a primary had happened, but it was all an illusion!!

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:53 UTC

Ahhhhhhh, right! <taps head>

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:48 UTC

The race to be the Democratic Party nominee for the US Presidential election in 2024. Are these trick questions?

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:23 UTC

The one that ended like a month ago.

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:44 UTC

Third election in a row where a whole load of Democrats can't resist attacking the candidate who won the primary.

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:08 UTC

It was a very weird privatization. The rail franchises were quite often subsidiaries of public rail companies from other European countries. And they often got as much public subsidy as the old British Rail did. And the tracks were already re-nationalized over 20 years ago.

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:31 UTC

I keep thinking about how there are probably thousands of Republicans who have real serious misgivings about having Donald Trump as their candidate but they just stfu instead of going on and on and on about why the runaway winner of their primary has to drop out.

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:53 UTC

The town already spends a lot of money hiring guys with bows and arrows and guns to shoot deer. I am fine with this. Shooting them with a rifle is probably the most effective and humane way to reduce deer numbers. And too many deer is definitely a problem.

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:52 UTC

Princeton has been prevented from implementing this plan because the state doesn't really allow it. Actually the state doesn't really know if it is allowed or not, and in that vacuum of understanding, the plan is not able to be implemented.

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:50 UTC

The town of Princeton continues to push to advance its plan for non-lethal deer control, aka "shooting female deer with tranquilizer darts, then kidnapping them off to a surgery center to be sterilized". www.tapinto.net/towns/prince...

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:48 UTC

If Trump gets reelected with a trifecta, I am quite sure that he will imprison politicians and activists who he doesn't like. I could even imagine certain NY Times columnists being investigated and possibly imprisoned.

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:36 UTC

Thinking about this some more, the survey question is probably bad. Asking somebody "is your school district segregated?" is probably like asking them "are you a terrible driver?" or "do you beat your wife?" People understand that a 'yes' answer is bad, so they say 'no', even if 'yes' is truthful!

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:34 UTC

Yes, I hear you. How do you define 'segregation'? For example, people probably think that Princeton NJ is your classic honky money-town. But the school district is majority-minority...

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:33 UTC

Right. I think that New Jersey's 600 hyperlocal school districts offer something that is quite attractive to a lot of people, i.e. the ability to exclude people who are less wealthy than them, which tends to disproportionately mean Black and Hispanic people.

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:32 UTC

NJT has done it on its other lines, the ones that aren't owned by Amtrak! And, incrdibly, they have fewer overhead wire issues on those lines!

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:23 UTC

Yikes, it is happening again... "Rail service into and out of Penn Station New York is subject to up to 30-minute delays due to an Amtrak overhead wire issue near Secaucus."

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:16 UTC

...because there are quite a lot of Asians of various kinds living in the neighborhood now, so there really are quite a lot of non-white people.

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:15 UTC

For example, the neighborhood where I live in Princeton was founded as an integrated neighborhood, and residents here are very proud of that. But there is now only one Black family living here, and zero Hispanic families. But I don't think people consider there to be any segregation problem...

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:08 UTC

I'm also open to the idea that the experts are measuring something different to what regular people think of when it comes to diversity?

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:07 UTC

The simplest answer is probably "people are very racist", right?

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:06 UTC

Experts say that public schools in New Jersey are more segregated than in Alabama, but in a recent poll, only 12% of NJ residents said they thought their schools were segregated, and only 19% want more racial diversity in their neighborhood. What's going on? www.nj.com/opinion/2024...

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 20:00 UTC

We're getting hardly anything either. Looking forward to a bit of Beryl to be honest.

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 19:48 UTC

😂

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 19:34 UTC

It's normal. Nothing defines the left better than bickering with people who are politically in agreement with them on most things.

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 19:31 UTC

Give him another $6 billion that should fix it

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 16:46 UTC

yeah

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 16:43 UTC

Or they might turn out to be really bad for you if you take them for a long time, like HRT...

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 16:42 UTC

Not seeing it mein self...

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 12:40 UTC

I just heard a story that the electrical utility was doing maintenance on lines in a small village and they had to run a generator to keep everyone's power on while they were doing it, but somebody objected to the noise of the generator, so now nobody has any electricity until 4.30 p.m.

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 21:08 UTC

If big corporations think that housing is a great investment with no downside, that is usually a sign that there is an artificial scarcity problem. We should build lots more housing so there is enough housing for everybody and rentier corporations can't make easy money by investing in it.

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 20:55 UTC

I'm a bit skeptical about this "get hedge funds out of housing and families into housing" idea. I mean, what do hedge funds and corporations do with all the housing that they own? Surely they...rent it to families? On further inspection, the Jersey City bill appears to just be anti-renter:

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 20:53 UTC

Apparently the feds are considering a bill to prevent hedge funds and large corporations from buying homes. Jersey City might ban it even sooner... www.nj.com/hudson/2024/...

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 20:30 UTC

It has come to my attention that Krystal Knapp at 'Planet Princeton' is an avid follower of my Bsky posts, despite blocking me at her website and on twitter. All I can say is, Krystal, I appreciate the attention! I hope you are also reading the very good reporting at 'Walkable Princeton dot com"! 😂

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 18:26 UTC

Brittany delightfully fash-free despite being pretty rural a lot.

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:53 UTC

It is quite pleasing, I have to say. It's interesting that she's the person who has done the best in terms of politics, as opposed to the various lefty anti-fees people who were around at the time. Or, heaven help us, Will Straw.

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:41 UTC

I am going to take credit for inventing the bike lane when Princeton finally stripes one.

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Central NJ Yimby @princetonyimby.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:33 UTC

I saw a post on Nextdoor dot com about how HOAs were terrible and 95% of the comments in response were along the lines of "no, actually, HOAs are good. you need rules".

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