Jacob Olenick
@jakeolenick
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Same handle in the other place. Jake, interested in: 🟩 more homes 🟩 more public transport 🟩 more democracy 🟩 bake goods 🟩 learn languages
NYC🇺🇲 ➡️ London🇬🇧
Joined March 2018
UK upgraded to merely second worst rail system in Europe! 🥳🇬🇧🥳🇬🇧.
The Deutsche Bahn is so dysfunctional it's nearing collapse. It had to pay *€200 million* in compensation to passengers in 2024, an increase of €70 million over the year before. Everyone knows the crisis is getting worse, but nobody can fix it.
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Lastly, to nitpick: it is not "workers" who pay interest rates, but borrowers. A bartender who pays rent is less affected by high interest rates than a lawyer with student loans and a mortgage. The truth is we'll probably have another interest rate cut this year.
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The third image here makes 3 claims, all false or absurd. In my opinion, neither climate breakdown nor geopolitical conflict are "permanent". Capitalist systems can obviously handle long-term inflation. RPI stayed above 2% every year from 1963 to 1993. In 1975 it hit 24.2%.
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When I was young, I did this with "anadidi", a superior word I invented for "elephant".
Child says "Lellow" instead of "Yellow", but it turns out she knows how to say "Yellow" and just likes saying "Lellow" more. Not sure if this is better or worse.
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RT @duncanrobinson: Making planning reform a pillar of your growth strategy and then gutting it would be soooooooo "all pain, no gain".
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In Japan, everything real is good, and everything fake is real!.
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Havin a BRAT summer (eating banana, rice, apple, and toast, cause I have a stomach bug).
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The UK has 30.5 million homes. But 31 million homes is unrealistic?. France (smaller population) has 37 million homes, by the way. Should be disqualifying for a Conservative politician to assert that the UK cannot compete with France.
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If you have a problem with immigration, then it's either the immigrants, or you're lying! Tell the voters what you think about immigrants, and they'll decide if they agree!. Instead, we're told that London can't achieve what Paris already has (embarrassing! Unpatriotic!).
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Conservatives here managing cowardice and NIMBYism at the same time. Jenrick says the UK is a wittle baby country that really wants to build 500,000 homes, but just can't!. In Paris, 2 million people live 5km from the centre. In London, 1 million. Birmingham, 500k. Just build!.
Londoners are paying an estimated £216 extra a month in rent because of immigration levels since 2001. Across England that figure is approximately £132. Mass migration is making young people poorer.
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London's urban fabric allows orgone energy to waft out into the air, helping keep us Londoners focused on work
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Parisian apartments enclose a central courtyard in layers of organic and inorganic matter, thereby accumulating orgone energy and elevating the otherwise deficient French libido.
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(presumably he was imagining a loch ness monster situation, like the lake had been freshly drained and the loch ness monster was suddenly exposed).
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Got curious about this and checked. Dickens was writing (1852-1853) when people basically had no idea what a Megalosaurus was, other than "very large".
Fantastic article, looking at a study that examines college English majors trying and failing to read Dickens. Highly recommended.
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And lo, though there was but 1% battery life, it did burn for 8 whole minutes in the Maccabus from Elephant & Temple.
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RT @AngelaRayner: We cannot end the housing crisis and build the 1.5m homes we need without London. Today the Mayor is setting out bold p….
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RT @s8mb: What if I told you there was a city that has built a new tramway 🚋 in eight weeks for just £15m/km? 💷 . You'd no doubt assume it….
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