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2 months agoI also recommend In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson. It follows the US ambassador to Germany in the 30s and how he tries to warn his counterparts back home how bad things are getting. Again, many parallels.
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5·2 months agoWorld of Illusion (Genesis)
2·2 months agoI’m still not sure if we’re disagreeing even. Yeah, there are lots of issues at play, and I don’t have strong feelings about stairs either way. I just think among all the issues, start with the most egregious, which is the commodification of housing. Beyond that, sure, tackle all the issues of inefficiency including outdated stair laws. The stair issue just feels like a scapegoat to avoid talking about societal issues.
I don’t dispute any of that. More housing, modular construction, all great. It’s just separate from the issue of this staircase requirement. I don’t have any stake in staircases. If building technology makes the requirement obsolete, great. If the fire department is happy with one staircase, great. It just doesn’t sound plausible that 6-15% premium for additional staircases is a root cause of the housing crisis, when developer profit opportunity is clearly the greater constraint.
17·2 months agoI wonder if it’s an early response to the talk of breaking up Google and Chrome. MS gets more people onboarded to Edge and Google still gets your browser level metrics.
It’s true, it’s still a bit more expensive to build, but the profit motive is removed. Public housing doesn’t need to recoup its costs. People need housing, you build housing.
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San Fransiscodevelopers can’t build more housing. They take for granted that new housing needs to be profitable for developers. Public housing should also be in the conversation.
What is with TV superheroes like Kevin Sorbo, Dean Cain, and Levi turning out to be huge dicks? You’d think they’d have absorbed some of their source material. Pretty sad.
7·3 months agoNo, that wasn’t quite the metaphor. The metaphor was that this is all nonsense technobabble strung together to almost sound like real language, but none of it means anything. It’s not that your idea is novel or confusing, it’s that these are barely coherent sentences.
For real though, this whole post is an AI exercise, right?
Probably the better meme to have posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
My company offers something similar, but I worry it’s a short term incentive to get more people onto HDPs and then quietly make that the only option.
15·2 years agoIf they can tell you when and how many of your friend’s posts were blocked, they could just as easily not block them.
12·2 years agoPulsar was forked from Atom and lives on!
Government is the things we choose to do together. If the people choose healthy chocolate, then that’s the job.