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The plumbing and electrical codes are loaded down with so much garbage, in my (limited) experience.

Once when I was young, Seattle had 90 consecutive days of rain. Overcast the whole time. I don’t want to hear it.

The people who get harmed when a city constrains market rate housing construction are the lowest income earners that live in market rate housing; they get squeezed out first. In Seattle, that’s ~90% of the population, so it’s lower middle class families that get most harmed.

Both happened and the far right won.

This is terrorism. This is brownshirt behavior. This is patently unconstitutional. Basta!

The Confederates were traitors and should be treated as such. You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to them.

Yeah, the vibe is not good here, I’m sorry. It’s not good anywhere right now, so part of it is *gestures at world*, but BS is very rigid and hostile. It’s a bummer.

I think abundance is important because so many government agencies are captured by boomers who are simply incapable of imagining a better world (in this case, operating a frequent regional rail network). And this is in Canada! It’s not just an American issue.

This seems really bad. What do we think is going on here?

Remember this guy? “Good” times…

Bloomberg isn’t a moron and also has experience running the city, so this likely says more about how much he hates the other options.

We need AVs yesterday.

This but actually.

There’s a reason ICE is raiding hotels in a blue city and not ag facilities in South Dakota.

In 1960, a typical person might do 20 mental math calcs/day. Today, they still do, but then their computing hardware does another 100,000,000,000 on their behalf so we can have cool stuff like pretend physical sliders.

LIKE I SAID

Watching the right now oppose the part of the second amendment that guarantees a well regulated militia under state control is… something.

Eric Adams. Sucks but it’s better than Cuomo.

I was skeptical of Waymo et al because I thought it was vaporware designed to undermine support for public transit and urbanism. Then I actually rode in the cars, looked at the data, and realized they’re safer than human drivers. Now it’s obvious that the opposition is just anti-tech culture war.

she’s like 15 feet away. absolutely that man’s whole thought process was: “I’m gonna shoot that woman”

Nothing gets a reporter fired faster than honest descriptions of conservatives.

Took Max on the cargo bike along the waterfront to the sculpture garden to watch the trains. Beautiful ride on a beautiful day. But our experience was RUINED by this ice cream sign that was TOO BIG for the historical character of Pioneer Square. How could the historical district let this happen??

Sonoma County doing the hard work of making sure more people are homeless. 🫡🫡🫡

I’m looking forward to reading this one. I think it maybe has more explanatory power than intended. Imagine you’re in coalition with an ostensible partner that flies off the handle every time you bring up your complimentary priorities b/c how dare you have an opinion. Who would tolerate that?