@ERCboxoffice
Certainly got the gold, but honestly I only hear about CODA in reference to “most forgettable best picture winner ever; feels like a TV movie; etc”
@Calkent
A key reason Finland is able to pursue a vigorous, transformative path to housing everybody is that they generally *don't* allow private speculation via fee-simple landownership
Our braindead non-profit class only know how to do one thing: instinctively oppose any reform
It's so harmful that they take "mandated parking" as the baseline, from which to extract concessions
This is such a broken, utterly harmful form of "value capture"
@smokeismedicine
He’s right when concerning cars and other large vehicles, he’s wrong when concerning pedestrians
Pedestrians can always do whatever the hell they want, jaywalking is fake, etc
@ByYourLogic
I went to a museum in fourth grade where they *still* had a model demonstrating the tongue map, but had a sign up next to it saying "this model is now understood not to be true"
Baffling to me that they didn't just remove the exhibit
@JabariBrisport
Saying "we won't build anything until external subsidies arise" isn't very serious: this is why EZ proponents in rich areas push for a *maximum* of subsidized units: they know nothing will get built
@supermarke
One of the funniest things people do is try to make anti-migrant sentiment seem woke by pretending it only affects yuppies
Consider for all of three seconds how badly *low-income* migrants are affected by administered unaffordability
@Down_So_Low
@TribTowerViews
@daveweigel
The purpose of a home is to provide a place to live, and stability. The idea that it also needs to magically accrue in value is bizarre, considering that the flip side of housing being more valuable is *others* finding housing more unaffordable
@TreyWilli
@_wayneburkett
@Capittalism
Check out this map of Cincinnati with the map of its streetcar system at its peak
That's a dense, vibrant city several decades before cars murdered it
@kiangoh
Kian, I’m so sorry that people are dunking on your thread, simply because the things you said are untrue and flatter a very harmful status quo
People can be so rude
@UrbanLandRent
I think part of it was that the Greatest/Silent generation folks were pioneers to the suburbs, and brought their feeling of community to it, with Canasta nights and other shit
Boomers were bred in the isolation
@carterforva
America is *unusually* suburbanized (as a result of very direct policies that continue to be in place, such as the 80:20 federal transpo budget favored towards roadways)
Any sort of sustainable and livable future depends upon undoing this, not taking it as a given
@marcelemoran
It’s worth noting that supermarkets as such did not exist until suburban trends took hold
Smaller footprints that catered to urban residents were the norm up to the 1920s (and which generally featured delivery as a first-class feature)
@jdcmedlock
One of the most insightful and inspiring things Matt has commented on is the Finnish general strike of a few years ago, and how it necessarily depended upon the solidarity of many, many people *who were not cool at all*: a leftism only for cool people is a non-starter
@aquaimperium8
I have more faith in the people who have developed a religious zeal of going to the ballot box, as opposed to the people who think every election is transparently rigged
@skip_sf
@DeanPreston
This is one of the big "whoa" things that is kind of obvious when you think about it, but so many people miss:
High vacancy rates are *good* for tenants, and it's really just puritan mindset that makes us think otherwise
I fucking love science
(A CEQA-mandated 187-page report about "aesthetics and visual quality", required for moving the high-speed rail project forward)
@BearCurd
Sounds like an argument that we need more nimble policies to stabilize fast food prices in order to protect social democracy and prevent fascism
@policyfailure
People who threaten to move to Europe if Trump gets re-elected: suck it up, stop whining, try to make your corner of the world better
People who threaten to move to Europe because America's entrenched urban planning failures: okay, I get your point
@ctbeiser
I read a lot of archived newspapers, and I really miss what we lost (a heavily curated and cultivated and processed sort of *official channel*), but what we gained is this
Our brains are all struggling with the transition, imo
@PierreDelect
@mindyisser
Your tweets are indistinguishable from a pro-cop psyop
People don't want to see other people blow smoke into an infant's face, if you're gonna frame this as regressive carceralism, I think you're basically gonna lose everybody
@ojblanchard1
Means-testing simply isn't worth the administrative overhead necessary to achieve very dubious ends (at best, it's probably counterproductive, for moral hazard reasons alone)
@artisanrocky
It just shows how nationalism is a hollow framework
"Oh, we should only respect the *real* nations, not the *fake* ones"
Dude, they're all fake, everything is ultimately fake
@be9a0013
@cushbomb
The weirdest thing is that Jimmy Wales was inspired by objectivism to found Wikipedia, which feels like the least objectivist institution out there
@seanmc_99
@IDoTheThinking
I like how your “maximally revolutionary” proposal is all about acquisition and distribution, but not at all about production
Such a fundamentally babyish way of thinking