If you read what I wrote again, you’ll see that no petty theft was brought before us. They waited until substantially more than that was stolen before they brought the person in. That was me warning you that might not be able to keep up what you’re doing, if your county works like mine does.

I was trying to do you a solid, but okay. Keep on doing what you do, I guess.

I didn’t say whether I indicted or not. I’m saying that just because you think you’re getting away with it, it doesn’t mean you actually are.

I served on a grand jury, and this is how a number of cases ended up in front of me. At least in my corner of the world, it is how it works.

The authorities have you on camera and are waiting for you to do this more times so that they can charge you with something more than petty theft.

Isn’t it though? If my choice is to pay 200% of the value of the property annually or to not have insurance, why would I opt to have insurance? The best they could do is pay out less than I paid them.

If you don’t cap prices on something the insurer is expecting to be destroyed, wouldn’t they just set the price of the policy to be the price of the thing it insures, effectively making it worthless?

You’d pay about $12 on mass transit ($2.90 PATH and $2.90 MTA in each direction), and the reasons for the government to incentivize one versus the other are numerous, not the least of which are safety, noise, air quality, and efficiency.

It only takes one asshole in a crowded subway car to ruin it for everyone. I like to read on the subway, but they’re basically telling me that if I want to drown out their tiktok videos, I need to bring something with me with my own audio to listen to over headphones, just to not hear them.

It’s quite useful in the one part of the country where the service is good: the Northeast Corridor. It makes traveling by plane downright stupid in a lot of cases. If only more of country’s rail were even that good, which isn’t even a high bar to clear.

He’s asked all sorts of people to do all sorts of terrible things, and though some stood in his way, usually tendering their resignation in doing so, I think that’s reason enough to take it very seriously. There are supporters of his who absolutely seriously suggest instating him as president permanently, and with control of every branch of government, there’s opportunity to do so.

This community only believes the news when it’s bad.

Though he introduced a new rule against using a term he deems overly liberal: “cisgender.”

It’s so funny that the bias of plant based news can’t be detected by a media bias fact checker.

That’s awesome. I live in an apartment that’s only a smidge more than 600 sqft, so that’s a good size for one person or a couple.

They didn’t drop it. You didn’t read the article.

There are signs those efforts might be helping buyers get in the door: The median sales price of existing homes jumped to $426,900 in June, according to the National Association of Realtors, while the median price of new homes in June was $417,300, according to the US Census Bureau.

I didn’t mean to imply that denser housing was being built illegally, only that the availability of it is a product of zoning codes forbidding it in most places. I don’t expect dollars per square foot to scale linearly in either case, and in my personal experience, when I ran the numbers about 7 years ago, moving from suburbia to a dense city ended up costing me almost exactly the same, because I no longer need a car here. You think differently about how much space you actually need when your social space is no longer a back yard or a living room and is instead a park or a nearby bar or something.

Building like that on those lots is often against zoning code. About 3/4 of all residential lots in the US are zoned for single family homes only, and though this is changing, you’re correct that it’s not fast enough. I’d be happy to get less than what my parents bought, when I’m ready to buy. As empty nesters now, they’ve easily got 4 times as much house as they actually need or use, and my mom in particular refuses to move. Friends of mine bought a place at the market rock bottom back in about 2012, and with no kids themselves, they also have far too much house, but that’s what was available.

If they did that, they just might alleviate the massive supply shortage we ran into. That would actually be great.

For most of recent history, Americans have also wanted bigger homes — but now that’s changing.

For most of recent history, there were no other options. We codified a lot of this into regulations.