adamold.bsky.social
Cities, Transit, Housing, Ecology, Art, Neurobiology, Clouds, Rivers
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Wrong path and he’s gonna be operating a centrifuge.
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Bro
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For municipally-owned areas it is difficult to find landscapers that will *maintain* a pleasant native garden who can also climb through the city procurement system. Nice initial plantings start to look haggard when they’re cared for by landscapers that are used to grass and annuals.
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Democrats should not be exclusively ~~reactive~~ to polling. They should aim to frame the conversation in a way that allows polling to make their priorities clear.
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This is because Democratic leadership has been failing to actually put forward a media agenda about ~~democracy~~ (or anything, really). Look at the Rightwing media pushing…[checks notes…] ~~trans sports~~… as their huge wedge issue, and here we are.
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All the money in the world won't convince some people to drive a smaller more efficient vehicle.
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Miami figured it cost more to collect fares for its Metromover than the farebox revenue, so it made it free. It is pretty well used and makes living downtown easier without a car.
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I think the graph would show increasing ridership as price of fares decrease. There are probably sweet spots at which you collect more or same amount of farebox revenue for a decrease in price.
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Seems pretty hard to have all of this conversation without a graph of ridership vs. fare price.
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What if it were someone more aligned like George Santos?
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Probably had Davis-Bacon wage requirements, Section 504 accessible, etc.
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To me, there is an important neighborhood resilience in having multiple small property owners who own different buildings built and rehabbed at different times—in various states of filtration, instead of a few large buildings, that take decades to assemble and all build during a single rezoning.
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spent the last few years trying to help build small (< 50 units) affordable buildings. They’re the best way to let local property owners improve their own neighborhoods. Can be rehabs, new buildings on infill lots, no parking, mixed use, etc. slowly improving the existing neighborhood.
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Hoagies & Grinders
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But where will they park?!
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Pretty sure that’s the building where they send the lady back to become impregnated with the future leader who will save all humanity.
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It’s the Liberal “woke” discourse. Neither side really knows what either term means, so it lets us fight amongst ourselves passionately while we all agree on almost everything.
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Can you explain who you are talking about here?
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Miami-Dade Schools has constructed a pilot on land (in dense Brickell neighborhood) formerly owned by Public Housing, with residential units on top. They are trying to figure out how to get more up but there isn’t a template yet.
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I wonder what accounts for the higher rates of crashes for non-white travelers outside of their neighborhoods? Can you look at the time differences of when crashes occurred. Maybe white bike/peds tend to walk/bike at different times?
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I mistook the title of the book as “EAT AUK” which it looks like the skua has done, from the next photo.
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DON’T RANK McDICHAEL
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And where will they park?!
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lol, I was reading this as the percentage of $M homes that are not rented out and are instead occupied by their owners.
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What if there are no $million+ homes? 0% or 100%?
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Urban Dance Squad!
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Nobody goes to Miami Beach any more though, it’s too crowded.
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Physics anomaly water in foreground.
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The difference here is that conservative media has a 30 year head start, with FOX as the base, and AM radio with salacious political griefers now morphed into podcasting. The difficult lifting of legislating a society is slow, awkward, full of compromise, and leaves people out—easy to rail against!
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Then we end up with 5 weeks of articles back and forth about how asking for regulatory changes to reduce the freeboard height in the zoning code is somehow fascism.
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US liberals should fight for habeas corpus, due process, the separation of powers, respect for institutions, etc—all foundational for liberalism. When progressives see their liberal members not standing up to fight for those things, it feels like impotence, which rubs off on the policies.
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This fight keeps being described as between progressivism and liberalism, and some of it is circular squad stuff, but what ppl actually want is for pols to stand up and fight back against what we all know is the wrong things—to stop being scared and waiting for the ship to right itself.
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Trying to be kind, but also sort of a dick—you know…
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cool, good luck out there.
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You are wanting me to provide evidence that people won’t generally vote for the high-road candidate with great policy ideas?
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What if the person was baby Hitler though?
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Well, no. They won’t.
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It needs a beckoning clown hand.
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Those reps are getting hard primaried and dragged around on FOX.
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Reducing Regulatory garbage will never build very-low-income or homeless transitional units. They lose money every year, even when the land is donated.
That’s ok—Fixing regulation helps the government build those units faster and more quickly.
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The regulatory regime allowing entrenched homeowners to prevent new construction is not marginal—it exists across the country.
You’re not fighting with capital—money will always move into anything and everything happening: new development, home value increases, even affordable or public housing.
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I think using the NPC tiktoks is misleading because it seems to say “look how messed up the incentive structures are, to have produced this shocking aberration” but shocking weirdness has always been a role of new art. Historically the incentives have rarely matched—Van Gogh died a pauper.
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Patronage and non-creative incentive structures have shaped artistic expression since at least the Renaissance. Are the algorithms more or less perverse than the whims of the Medici?
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I don’t think it follows that converting every biome to unshaded wetland would net you more total biodiversity than having a diversity of biomes, though.
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What if, instead of an example of the degeneration and degeneracy of consensus reality, this was just an example of a new form of experimental theater created from the juxtaposition of artistic elements from two new forms of media in a way that allows the creators to make a living through their art?
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The worst is space-en-dash-space, wtf people come on get real.
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Great story, fantastical world.