When ag isn't well capitalized, it can't use the best tech, so it perversely becomes *more* land extensive and is less productive. This is the case in Brazil, Argentina, and the like.

Immigration to France from North Africa dates from the '60s too; the migration question was already there in 1990.

The problem is that agriculture is only highly productive with large scale, heavily mechanized, lots of tech use farms. Smallholding is bad! You need only kulaks.

It's called pollarding and it's the traditional thing to do with plane trees. Still see it all the time. Certain types of trees grow back stronger with it. Picture must be from winter.

www.themarthablog.com/2024/12/poll...

I really don't get this. The people that are going to be great at large engineering projects are not going to be academics. They're going to be people who deliver large engineering projects. Many of which are in the private sector.

Yeah I mean it's just totally not true at all in any technical industry. Maybe if academia ate up the top 50% of grads but we're talking about 10% at most

Never forget they harassed and tried to get rid of the grad student who dared to question their ridiculous claims.

What’s better than a tax on “luxury” second homes? A tax on expensive land, not dependent on who owns it.

I don't think it's there anymore. The swampy area on the east side of puffer pond is full of tall dead trees that they would like to nest in and where one had been before

I was looking for the heron rookery.

Oh. I was there yesterday. I was wondering what was going on with the embanked paths and ruins of habitation....

[LA Metro fare inspections per month]
2015: >600k
2017: >300k
2019: <50k
Now: <10k

Aaaaanyway, where did all the crime and disorder on LA Metro come from?

I've seen this in rural Maine.

Dogs on playgrounds are a major no-no. Great way to spread disease, too.

Nothing that a couple several hundred dollar tickets can't fix.

Two Connecticut towns at the center of growing opposition of solar farms take case to Lamont “Ten percent of East Windsor’s total acreage has been or is in the process of being approved for grid-scale solar,” one official said.

Connecticut: no, you can’t build solar farms or clean energy infrastructure.

No, you can’t build battery storage.

No, you can’t build homes.

No, you can’t sell your farm even if it’s no longer viable.

No, your kids can’t attend our schools.
www.ctinsider.com/politics/art...

It's amazing right? An almond farmer might compete for the marginal gallon of water. No way an alfalfa farmer.

Delivery drivers are unloading in the Washington St bike lane 😬. People who bike in Boston deserve better. This kind of malpractice is not an inconvenience, it's endangerment @mayorwu.boston.gov @streets.boston.gov @mohammedmissouri.bsky.social @lizbreadon.bsky.social @edflynnforboston.bsky.social

The anti yimby left and even some of the neutral on housing left deeply oppose integration, often in the name of opposing gentrification. It's astounding to see land use policies sold as equity that only prolong the deepest segregation in otherwise prosperous cities.

The anti yimby left and even some of the neutral on housing left deeply oppose integration, often in the name of opposing gentrification. It's astounding to see land use policies sold as equity that only prolong the deepest segregation in otherwise prosperous cities.

This is correct. I think the underlying issue this piece kinda of elides tho is that a bunch of Americans online are convinced that they are communists, when they are actually just libertarians who use leftist rhetoric to rationalize their libertarianism.

Wu to transit: Drop Dead

Columbus ave in this area is massively wide and has ~no abutters. If you can't put bus lanes here, you can't do anything.

Decline of poetry is due to replacing smoked opiates with weed as drug of choice. Opium gave us Baudelaire and Coleridge Taylor, weed has given us nothing.

Yeah, her chief of streets was crippled for years in being able to effect policy change even before the election. Charles St and Congress Street in the seaport are classic examples.

Some embassies too. Went to a gorgeous private clinic here to get a covid test back in the day.

Also home of some excellent scenes in Javier Marias novels.

New paper showing that much of the apparent success of protein language models in predicting mutational effects is a mirage: These models mostly memorize sites. 1/
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Well it turns out that the submarine is full of degenerate gamblers and missionaries trying to save their souls....

Sit down, you're rocking das Boot!

It's a musical

There's an invisible line in Maine, that when you cross it, the politicians names all become French. Levesque, Poliquin, LePage, etc. It's hard to unsee.

Matt Mahan's platform is OK but the problem is I don't trust him personally on this stuff. San Jose has been out-built by San Diego and Sacramento, and even places like Santa Rosa, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz. Why doesn't his housing platform translate to results for San Jose?

@jarjoh.bsky.social