Honestly this seems totally fine to me. Obviously there are shades of gray, specific extenuating circumstances, limits to this proposal, different approaches at different ages, etc, but broadly speaking it’s fine. Kids will not starve themselves. If there’s food available, they’ll eat it.
Yes but we need to find a new term for it. It’s not meaningfully NIMBYism when the opposition is to private landowners refusing to internalize their externalities. People (apartments, residents, neighbors) are not pollution, but methane emissions, unceasing noise, and electric grid disruption are.
I think the attitude towards him here is less about his chances of winning and more about the chance that if he becomes president he will pivot right, let the past be the past, decline to prosecute criminality, and otherwise govern with the aim of pleasing The Atlantic editorial board.
I don’t grade inflation is at the root of major problems. But it does seem a symptom of the conversion of universities from educational institutions to businesses, of students from learners to customers. The customer, after all, is always right.
What are some examples? Never seen this before.
Edmonton, like Auckland, seems to be proving that in many North American/Australasian contexts if you legalize townhouses in lots of places, they will meet a lot of housing demand. Dispersed rowhomes reduce pressure on how much housing you need to get out of larger apartment buildings
I don’t think billionaires are going to give more money to the museum if the socialist mayor is there. Probably the opposite.
Even in fantasy there’s a massive parking garage.
Lately, there has been a lot of frank discourse about what YIMBYism has accomplished in California. I think this impatience, even after big wins, is good and healthy—but it misses the early signs of success in front of us. In a new post, I offer a YIMBY hopepill:
open.substack.com/pub/mnolangr...
“I like people who got better than fifth in their swimming races.”
To be fair, the argument is more like “Everyone is mad because anger-inducing political content is being fed to them on their phones 24/7,” not that they personally are arguing.
Hm, they also didn’t tell you about his treatment of his ex wife.
I mean, it’s far better for Hungary and the world that he won, but this guy is former Fidesz, very conservative, and probably untrustworthy at the very least…
Thank you!
Is there an expected time when electoral results will be known?
The what now
If you watch the (hours long) YouTube videos that originated the theory a few years ago, the evidence is pretty overwhelming.
Not saying you need to, the mystery here is deeply unimportant. But it’s basically a settled question.
Rewatched it about a year ago. Still adored everything about it except the makeup choices!
So ELI units are maximized at 25% IZ. Makes it a tricky political argument for low info voters who see new “luxury” units as harmful.
What is with the five exclamation points and the capitalized ANDs and the fake folksy “cookin’ with gas”?
I hate this style of writing. I never read Shrill but I used to read her on the Stranger and have read a few essays elsewhere. I remember her being a much better writer?
Consider Chuck Schumer making a big speech on the senate floor calling Netanyahu the obstacle to peace, and then not changing his politics on the issue in any other way.
This reads to me like he’s going to try to dance the “anti-Netanyahu pro-Israel line.”
I think that will make him tie himself in knots (as you note re: American politics who support 2SS in name but not any action to get there), but it’s not actually as big a change for him as you’re thinking, IMO.
It’s literally just white supremacy. If “western civilization” today means anything, it’s Enlightenment political philosophy and the scientific method. That’s not threatened by brown people trying to become citizens and attend our universities. It’s strengthened by them.
Well this doesn’t sound fun to me at all…
He sees his relationship with his wife comparable to the US government’s relationship with Iran?
Well yes, if there were a significant chance of him achieving his goals (turning Iran into a failed state). But not if it were much more likely the opposite would happen (Iran strengthened and Israel turned into a scapegoat). Seems to me he’s pretty irrational, or maybe just stupid.
NYT article which says the founder of Bitcoin is a guy named Adam Back who was involved from the earliest days.
Reading between the lines, where he actually started was a long YouTube video with huge numbers of views that figured it out years ago. I saw the video a couple years ago and the evidence was overwhelming.
