I'll have to remember what I was reading, but something saying that the NYS attempt at an equity regulation was hopeless, because to get a license you both needed to have a marijuana arrest on your record and have successfully run a legitimate small business for several years, and basically no one meets those two criteria. Business owners don't get arrested for marijuana crimes, and kids who get arrested for marijuana crimes don't end up owning businesses.
Irrelevant quibble:
what historian Ira Katznelson calls "white affirmative action"
I don't much like that phrase. What he is describing here is more accurately described as "white supremacy." Today, there are advocates for affirmative action. There are very few advocates for "Black supremacy."
White supremacy aside, legal weed was oversold on basically every front. It solves the problem of people getting arrested for having weed very well, but it's not going to fix a broken city except where not arresting people will fix it.
As a nervously law-abiding person who doesn't like ingesting unregulated products sold by criminals, legal weed has let me figure out that actually, under the right circumstances I quite enjoy edibles.
Irrelevant and wrong. WAA is a good description for social aid everyone should have access to but that has been only available to WP (yes, because white supremacy).
4: Good point. I'd also be very afraid of black market weed vapes.
And then I remember the significant number of people who would respond to the phrase WAA with "it's about time".
Yeah, this all seems like a dumb impractical policy. If you want to compensate people for being arrested for marijuana just do that, don't set up some complicated Rube Goldberg program. It's dumb and is setting people up for failure.
3: Legal weed delivers on the criterion I care about: being able to buy weed in a safe legal fashion. Really miss living in CA for a semester and hope we get legal weed here some day.
3: AFAICT, a surprising (to me anyway) outcome of legal weed is that use basically doesn't spread, but you do start to see the classic power rule distribution, with heavy users becoming really heavy users. But from my understanding, regular users* haven't meaningfully increased in number where it's become legalized.
*like, once a month or more, not nec. daily or weekly.
Seems like a really well-reported article; thank you for sharing it. I continue to marvel at the transformation of TNR.
Particular love for "Illusion of inclusion/I'mma trap till the wheels fall off" guy at the end.
on Netflix shows inter alia Big Weed eating poor white people too. Equal opportunity!
For some reason I'm going to guess 13 is lw. Am I right???
Selling weed used to be a great opportunity for small entrepreneurs who didn't need a lot of capital to make a good business of it. They would provide a high level of customer service, bringing dope to your house.
Except for being legal, the new system of a few giant players running pot cartels from centralized grow and dispensary operations isn't really better.
The Feds have a whole body of law dealing with set-asides that seeks to prevent token and/or exploitive arrangements. (I've had some cases over the years dealing with SBA's affiliation rules.) It's kind of wild to see people reinventing the wheel, and trying to see if maybe square will work this time.
Rhetoric about equity is great, but the simple truth is that if a spigot is going to be turned on, a whole lot of people try to find ways to get their bucket under it. Each pushed, as if by an invisible hand, to limit other folks' access to the thing.
The Feds have a whole body of law dealing with set-asides that seeks to prevent token and/or exploitive arrangements. (I've had some cases over the years dealing with SBA's affiliation rules.)
Yeah, as another example, HUD recently revised their Section 3 regulations, which try to ensure that projects employ people from the groups supposed to benefit from them, in part to focus on hours worked rather than number of new hires. (This affects my own work pretty directly because it changes how we need to report things.) There's a whole big evolving body of knowledge around these issues.
Rhetoric about equity is great, but the simple truth is that if a spigot is going to be turned on, a whole lot of people try to find ways to get their bucket under it. Each pushed, as if by an invisible hand, to limit other folks' access to the thing.
This is true.
Also the word spigot feels like a mash-up of as many racist or problematic epithets as possible.
Not that I want to enforce Kohler-out culture.
Really just seems like another way unequitable distribution compensated for by mountains of paperwork to ensure 'equity' is a poor equilibrium. And i'm not sure dealer (a mix of direct marketing and legal avoidance) is really the same skill set as shop owner (hiring low wage customer service people, advertising, accounting).
Plus all these things - > are objectively good (well except the suburban favoritism in the mortgage loans).
14. This is my first appearance in this thread.
9. NJ pretty soon.
22-24: Something something Pfister something
I suppose the canonical form would have been: Pfister? I barely know her!
I get along fine with my parents, we don't live near each other so we don't interact very regularly, but we enjoy each others company when we visit. They'd probably be more involved with my life if I had kids or if I were still Christian, but it's fine. On the other hand, the whole "having a partner lets you see the way your parents are crazy" really resonates. It doesn't negatively effect me too much, but it's been sort of interesting to realize the various ways things about my mom that are very much not normal. I legitimately spent most of my life believing that a small spill of juice requires washing the entire floor because otherwise it'll stay sticky somewhere. And there's just a lot of stuff around her inability to ever say no causing everyone to have to be careful to not ask her for things. Nothing particularly unpleasant or anywhere near something where I'd reduce contact, but it's been interesting to learn "wait, that's not normal."
Ugh, wrong thread.
OK one more, just for this thread: https://www.sweethome247.com/products/kitchen-faucet-single-handle-one-hole-electroplated-standard-spout-centerset-contemporary-kitchen-taps
Are we abruptly in favor of "building generational wealth," which if memory serves was a phrase that the T/r/m/p offspring used as cliché camouflage for their Russian money laundering capitalization? Will this become the next "taking up space"?
34: "Taking up space" ? I only know this as the horrible punch line that follows, "My brother is studying to be an astronaut"
35: I may be oversensitive to the aggression of repetition.
I think we're in favor of promoting racial equity in the opportunity to build generational wealth. There's an awful lot of white people out there who have inherited houses and small businesses and so on -- not Trump wealth, but wealth, and many fewer black people.
That's been illegal for 150 years.
37: These programs don't seem tuned for either equity or opportunity.
Yeah, these specific programs are probably hopeless. But the goal is worth attending to.
Did TNR stop sucking?
Not exactly, but they started running significantly more articles I actually wanted to read during the last... wow, decade? (I also didn't know Spackerman got fired for being an asshole, which is very funny to me.)
I'm sure we talked about the Spackerman firing here at the time. Ah yes. Probably other threads around that time too.
Indeed. My goodness, the Bush years are all uncanny valley at this point: the combination of direct memory and disinterested reflection-with-hindsight... (I worry that the latter interferes too much with the former, actually.)
idk, maybe this expectation that literally any single policy proposal, no matter how recondite, must solve literally all known problems is bad.
Her great-great-grandparents owned land in Rappahannock County, Virginia, and operated a store. White neighbors did not want them there
.....i know, legal pot? I think this comes from pitch culture. if your theory of victory is that you successfully pitch some idea to a grantmaking authority, well, you're going to pack in as many imaginable benefits as possible because that's better than fewer, in the same way as you always put more goodies into your Personal Statement.
people used to complain about single issue politics, but we've moved from single issue politics to single-instruction, multiple-data politics, where like doing a cycle lane is also meant to dismantle the concept of truth and bring peace to the Middle East.
OK, that's an unusually entertaining spambot. (For the record, it's posting a succession of anecdotes about self-experimentation under different nicks pointing to the same target site, emulating an eclectic web magazine. I think it might have scraped them from some past comments thread.)
It is a very bad and very prolific spambot. I just deleted hundreds of comments.
I used to be able to ban IP addresses, but the site seems to hang up when I try now.
Yes, it's to the point where it's not spam so much as an attack on the blog.
Either it's stopped or someone other than me did something less primitive than just deleting the comments to make it stop.
Oh yikes, maybe "funny" links to crappy commercial sites are a bad idea--- screenshotting and linking to those would be better from that point of view, but that means just a link to twitter or reddit or something.
50 is now funny as it seems to refer to 48 and 49, and actually I had to stop and pause for a sec.
33: Your faucet designers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
Meanwhile, I'm now wondering what very long instruction-width politics would be like.