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

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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.

submitted 46 minutes ago • 0 comments

Both happened and the far right won.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

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

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

Remember this guy? “Good” times…

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

We need AVs yesterday.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

This but actually.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

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.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

LIKE I SAID

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 1102 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 294 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

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??

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

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?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Like Emily, Jerina and I chose a smaller home in exchange for living in the city. But it’s weird that’s a tradeoff at all. 2,000 sqft here should cost the same as 2,000 sqft in the suburbs. Physics says it should cost less (less material per sqft), but the regulations make it cost waaaay more.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

The problem here is an oppressive building code. I don’t know why we keep ending up just trying to make it easier to break dumb laws, than to get rid of the dumb laws.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments