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Both of these pictures show how carless families would buy groceries.
Figure 1 [Image of a 1920s-ish vibrant pedestrians streetscape (left) next to an empty, contemporary bus stop on a suburban artery (right)]
By any reasonable statistical measure, the people on the left were poorer than a person who might be sitting at that bus stop surfing the internet on their smartphone. Are the statistics that say the right picture is better wrong or are the vibes that say it may not be better wrong?](media_attachments/files/115/713/572/286/003/589/original/99ef40bd5ffcaeab.jpeg)
Text: Both of these pictures show how carless families would buy groceries. Figure 1 [Image of a 1920s-ish vibrant pedestrians streetscape (left) next to an empty, contemporary bus stop on a suburban artery (right)] By any reasonable statistical measure, the people on the left were poorer than a person who might be sitting at that bus stop surfing the internet on their smartphone. Are the statistics that say the right picture is better wrong or are the vibes that say it may not be better wrong?
@chrisp perhaps one implies the other, in either direction!
we talk so much about making the world safe for democracy; we should talk more about making the world sane for democracy.
maybe we should amend the Constitution to repeal Article 2, and leave it to the legislature to establish executive agencies.
@GuerillaOntologist I didn’t intend it to be, but I loved Bloom County as a kid!
that you support a thing doesn’t mean you support every implication of the thing. i support highway speeds faster than 40 mph, which may well imply more traffic fatalities. but that doesn’t mean i am for traffic fatalities.
@phillmv thanks for all the work you did researching and writing it!
An amazingly rich and thorough long read on rent control as an institution and the importance of security of tenure to the formation of public goods like vibrant and secure neighborhoods, by @phillmv.
One of the best things I’ve ever read on rent control and the issues surrounding it.
https://okayfail.com/2018/rent-control-great-security-of-tenure.html
i for one think we should bring the second best available evidence to the problem.
@landley @astonc maybe if someone in the industry gives him a gold piss prize.
"the public sector ought to have, and in practice generally does have, a much lower discount rate than the private sector. This used to be a big part of debates on the economics of climate change. But it’s also relevant to housing." (see also CA Prop 13)
an excellent post by @jwmason
https://jwmason.org/slackwire/what-kind-of-housing-is-being-built-in-new-york/
we so often see the first person where there is no person.
what distinguishes Elon Musk from his peers is an incapacity to keep his work — on projects they often share — discreet.
Donald Trump is very much like the typical working man, who also can’t be impeached and convicted by Congress.
“the sellers of addictive products that skirt regulations and ruin lives should be summarily executed.”
~social media ceos and investors
