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Meanwhile in the UK pedestrian deaths are down despite the number of miles walked increasing.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-pedestrian-factsheet-2024/reported-road-casualties-in-great-britain-pedestrian-factsheet-2024

You've been fed and are repeating racist bullshit. People buying houses for their own use aren't what's driving up prices, it's people buying up houses they don't live in. Being "local" or "foreign" is an irrelevant distraction designed to feed into mistrust of people who are different to you.

I'm reading this after coming from a thread in which people were mocking or handwringing over an article that suggested the official poverty line was unrealistically low.

Yeah, I wish they'd made the second graph show percentage point difference instead of percentage growth.

Instinctively I feel like doing that is a bad idea, since it makes it easier for scammers to create documents that have the feel of authority when trying to con people.

How is using the default font wasteful? Apart from anything else I'm pretty sure it uses less ink.

“laughable,” arguing that you can’t declare the majority of Americans impoverished because the suburbs they choose to live in are expensive, which is what Green did when he used the middle class suburb of Caldwell, New Jersey, as his median.

Yeah you're right, this is verging on dishonest. The whole point of him picking Caldwell, NJ was to find an extremely median place to live and avoid accusations of cherry-picking San Francisco or Manhattan prices. Essex county is 13th out of 21 counties in NJ for income, NJ is the 11th largest state by population. I'm sure you could find something more mundane, but not that would affect the final numbers to any significant degree unless you were cherry-picking in the other direction.

Sure there's lots of states with much lower property values, but you have to weight it based on where people actually live. Telling poor people to move to Buttfuck, ID and get a job there instead doesn't work.

ISTG there are more commenters up in here who obviously didn't read the article than ones who did.

until this administration is long gone

Based on past performance, the next Democrat administration will repeal maybe 50% of these changes at most.

Did you read the text? She told him she was 14. This isn't one of those "hey it's legal in my state" cases.

If it's only morons that use it "wrong", then it does indeed become right, but still gains the added subtext of "by the way I'm also a moron"

Pete Hegseth is a dickhead