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Toots on housing policy, economics, computing.
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Jeff Bezos was leaving a large event hall rushing down stairs as I was going up, and he said I should hurry because the crowd was coming. Event just got out.

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Buying this lot, bulldozing the house, and replacing it with an 8 unit stacked flat of larger units (1,200SF) would cost $950,000 each and triple the property tax revenue Or we can leave this 1,000SF run down house there and sell it for $2,880,000 and miss out

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

The incredible variety and availability of fresh produce, far beyond your ancestors’ wildest dreams, is brought to you by…immigrants!

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

The Doge cuts bill, Rep Randall (WA’s 6th CD) didn’t bother to show. Vote passed by 2 with 4 Dems not voting. Anyone know if she has a good excuse?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

One thing I like about the abundance mindset is that if you want to 10x per capita energy usage (you should, the last 10x-ing made humans a LOT better off), there’s literally no possible way to do it with anything other than solar.

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NIMBY CM will do anything but allow more housing. I wonder if this has anything to do with the high rents. 🤔🤔🤔

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

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

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 2 days ago • 0 comments

Both happened and the far right won.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 3 days ago • 8 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Remember this guy? “Good” times…

submitted 3 days 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 3 days ago • 1 comment

We need AVs yesterday.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This but actually.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 3 days 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.

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LIKE I SAID

submitted 3 days 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 3 days ago • 1101 comments

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

submitted 3 days 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 4 days ago • 31 comments