Software Dev in Penn’s Woods. Interests 🤓: psychology, computing, comedy, politics, complex adaptive systems. Cable news abolitionist. Soda de-polarizer.
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Ryan Shaw retweeted
we don’t talk about how horrible rent control is
because you can’t move
if your neighbor starts harassing you, you get a stalker, you need a larger apartment because you’re raising a family
or you have a 2-3 bed but are now an empty nester there’s no incentive to move!
rent control is a disease that should be eliminated
“A kid-hating crone has turned a luxury Upper East Side building into a living hell for her upstairs neighbors — driving at least three families out of their apartments all while racking up nearly $88,000 in unpaid rent, a new lawsuit claims.
Anne Stockton, 72, is being sued by the owner of 85 East End Avenue for allegedly tormenting the family of five currently living in the unit directly above her cushy, $1,775-a-month rent-stabilized apartment on the 10th floor.”
nypost.com/2026/10/30/us-new…
Ryan Shaw retweeted
Not only has New York State been increasing public school spending while decreasing teaching quality, it removed the standardized testing requirement that would have forced accountability for this incompetency:
NYC public schools deceived me into thinking my son was a straight-A math student - but he can't do fractions, basic algebra trib.al/pWwmbHR
Ryan Shaw retweeted
I’m sick of people telling me how horrible life is now.
By every single metric, it’s the greatest time in human history to be alive.
It’s the best time to be alive, you just have to start living man
One of the most interesting things that Patrick Stewart did is this journey of reconciliation with the memory of his abusive father, where he learns about his father’s heroism, leadership, and endurance of hellish nightmares in WW2.
youtu.be/epts0YC74pg
Ryan Shaw retweeted
In a devastating 1rst-person piece, NYC education advocate and mom Adriana Aviles tells how her son received the highest grades in math throughout elementary and middle school in Queens’ District 26, the best in the city.
Yet now in high school, she soon discovered, “He couldn’t solve basic algebra. He couldn’t do geometry. He couldn’t compute elementary-school fractions."
“My shock soon gave way to heartbreak, then anger. The NYC education system had betrayed my son to make itself look better."
“I failed too. I didn’t scrutinize his work closely or check his performance on state test scores because I figured if his report cards were good then everything was fine.”
“I looked back and discovered he was deemed ‘not proficient’ in math on a 7th-grade state exam.”
nypost.com/2026/10/31/us-new…
Ryan Shaw retweeted
Everyone knows that China is lapping us in building out electricity generation.
But I didn’t realize the US & China spend roughly ***the same amount of money on the grid per year***
Our regulatory system is so broken.
There are a couple of like little mini questions I'd like to ask as a baselining of BAAJA debates:
A) Why do you believe that the US is spending ~ the same on the grid as China and getting 20x less capacity?
B) How much electricity does it take to full electrify the economy? How much grid does it take? How much less land does it take if you use higher voltage lines?
C) What are the current sources of capacity value, and how do they saturate to maintain resource adequacy?
D) Map out for me what 90% clean looks like with just wind, solar, batteries, and gas. How much gas capacity do you need to maintain grid reliability?
E) What if the tariffs go away and you add emissions policy down the line. What is possible per dollar in 3 years with and without permitting reform?
F) The permitting laws being reformed only apply to major federal projects. Should it be harder to build public infrastructure or private infrastructure?
Ryan Shaw retweeted
Vance’s claim bothers me not only because it is misleading, but because he and what I understand to be his faction of the right increasingly sound like socialists.
They don’t think about prosperity as a function of good policy and good incentives, they think of it in terms of classes of people and divide them up as ones who steal and the ones who produce.
You can never convince a leftist that “greedy landlords” aren’t the reason their rents are high, even though, of course greedy landlords exist, as does exploitation.
The right is falling into a similar trace—they are convinced that the pie can’t grow and will forward policy that ensures it.
I'm trying to get you to meditate on these basic realities, held together:
1. Texas hosts the most illegal aliens proportionally maybe even absolutely compared to any other state
AND
2. Texas has gained domestic residents moving over from other states throughout the decade
BUT
3. Texas is still more affordable than most states, and is currently mostly a buyer's market with prices continuing to fall in major metro areas.
Meanwhile, California *lost* residents on net, but its home prices still rose!
If you can look at all that and still think "illegals are the reason housing is unaffordable", you are retarded.
Ryan Shaw retweeted
Stanford University student Elsa Johnson became a target of the Chinese Communist Party in 2024.
Elsa attended a private school as a child with a heavy focus on foreign languages and became fluent in Mandarin Chinese while still in elementary school. Years later after she was accepted to Stanford, she studied international relations and researched Chinese industry and military tactics while working at the Hoover Institution on campus.
She soon came to the attention of members of the Chinese Communist Party, which has a heavy presence at Stanford and throughout Southern California. There are currently more than 1,000 Chinese students attending Stanford each year, and the university has received more than $64,000,000 in private donations from Chinese individuals and organizations since 2010.
In June 2024, a man claiming to be a fellow Stanford student named Charles Chen contacted her online. She was not initially suspicious as they had many mutual associates, and his photos and posts appeared to be centered on campus. But his questions and requests quickly put her on edge as he invited her on a paid trip to China. And he seemingly knew details about her that she had never shared with him.
When she tried to disengage with him, she began receiving threatening phone calls by Chinese speakers. Elsa contacted Stanford administrators and the FBI, who told her Charles was likely affiliated with the Ministry of State Security, had been posing as a Stanford student for years, and had targeted at least ten other female students since 2020 in a similar manner. They also told her she was under physical surveillance on campus by the Chinese Communist Party.
Elsa wrote articles in the Stanford Review and The Free Press about Chinese influence on campus, and in March 2026 testified about espionage threats on college campuses before the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
For episode 270 of the Spycraft 101 podcast I spoke with Elsa about being targeted by a foreign government right in the middle of a US college campus. The episode is available now.
#stanford #college #student #china #hooverinstitute
open.spotify.com/episode/6KO…
Ryan Shaw retweeted
NYT Editorial 3/21/10: "With so many mechanisms available to hold down medical costs, it’s hard to believe that they won’t bear fruit, if not in the next several years then in the decade thereafter." nytimes.com/2010/03/22/opini…
Breaking News: Obamacare premiums will rise by 13% next year, hitting middle-income people already struggling with health care costs. nyti.ms/4sCuytF
Ryan Shaw retweeted
The original sin of the American health insurance crisis is that it has anything to do with one’s employer.
If I were tasked to fix health insurance, the first thing I’d do is make it illegal for companies to offer health insurance as part of compensation.
Ryan Shaw retweeted
Good luck, California!
We asked Xavier Becerra if he identifies as a NIMBY or a YIMBY and I am still dying over his answer. Great interview by @SophiaBollag, who tried to get him to say literally anything substantive.
Ryan Shaw retweeted
What’s a polite way to tell someone, “I’m not discussing this with you because your entire understanding of the subject is built on so many interconnected misconceptions that correcting them would require uninstalling your current worldview and starting the tutorial from birth”?
Ryan Shaw retweeted
Hmm. Have they tried subsidizing demand?
(WSJ) - The U.S. is in a desperate battle to lower the cost to build housing. It’s losing.
@WSJ $XHB
wsj.com/economy/housing/just…
Ryan Shaw retweeted
There are so many great scenes I could point out where Sir Patrick Stewart was playing extraordinarily, but one of my most favorite scenes is him narrating Earth’s oldest known literature, the Gilgamesh Epos, in the TNG episode “Darmok”, while the alien captain played by late Paul Winfield passed away.
Shaka, when the walls fell!
Rest in Power, Captain.
Ryan Shaw retweeted
Just like at Salem, many of the accused in the Satanic Panic chose to tell the truth at great personal cost, refusing sweetheart deals with no prison time if they would just lie carolinajournal.com/opinion/…
Ryan Shaw retweeted
What Vance should explain is why housing is so affordable in Texas, but unaffordable in California.
Both are brimming with illegal aliens, which indicates that the big "why" behind it all has little to do with them.
Q: How does the right and yourself expect us to start families young when the average price of a home in America costs more than $415,000 which feels out of reach for us.
Vance: The reason why housing exploded is in part because we allowed 20 million illegal aliens into our country to buy homes that ought by right go to American citizens.