Attempting to build the world of GATTACA from the seminal sci-fi classic don’t build the world from GATTACA

Rail $395 million Public transit $753 million Debt $1.7 billion Highway upgrades $5.3 billion someone who is good at transportation planning please help me budget this. my state is dying

Seattle’s Link Light Rail (1 Line) is crazy long. 66 kilometres (41 miles) in one mostly straight line!

“...at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the paramount challenge facing American cities is how to add density to the 50’-wide lots of single-family homes nestled in greenery.” - @maxpodemski.bsky.social in "A Paradise of Small Houses" When we're ready to take the leap beyond duplexes...

it's kind of funny from a economic policy perspective, Bidenomics was actually fairly successful (full employment, IRA + other state-driven investment) he just... never really managed to figure out how to sell any of it with comms

I met my current girlfriend through my sister but we got to know each other on group bike rides, boardgame nights and stuff! You can build a lot of rapport and intimacy doing stuff like that even if it isn’t initially romantic. Impossible to do so on dating apps.

If you want to take one thing away from the art of the New Deal it is - in my humble opinion - that throwing money at *NORMAL* artists to decorate public buildings makes the world a much nicer place, particularly if you charge them with making the decorations evoke the history of where they are.

also like. we did. the us is scattered with new deal monumental architecture

I'd argue the numbers are irrelevant: all three will likely command large numbers of people. But revealed preferences show that huge numbers of people choose to live in cities. Even more would if the prices were lower; even more would if not prohibit by law.

'public health is a capitalist scheme'

Incredibly funny bit of discourse how a lot of the defenses of the "woke" position has been to reinvent neoliberalism from first principles and a lot of the anti-woke position has been to reinvent wokeness. Truly incredible stuff

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welcome to the resistance ... *checks notes* minneapolis police department

Judge-maxing is imo the one that in one reform touches upon the most possible areas of dysfunction. We have to get court processing times and judicial caseloads down. So much dysfunction in so many areas is built upon court cases taking so long.

Northern and Southern Baptists, no more distinctiveness in the built environments. American history ends with the same polyvinyl siding on the same low-rise apartments on the same stroads on the same outskirts of the same exurbs and micropolitan areas

Train over traffic this Christmas. 🚈🏙️🎄🎅🏻

was curious about the scale of distance of Metra's network compared to where I grew up, so here it is centered on Minneapolis, and duplicated and rotated 180 deg to center on St. Paul (rotated 180deg). Too bad about northstar

I made friends riding on the school bus in the morning

Even on this continent -- I remember seeing children going to school on the 99 B-Line in Vancouver! (and yes, distinguishing from the UBC students as well 😂)

(there is sometimes an implication that poorer children or minorities are more likely to be on the bus)

Really from this logic, the spirit of Daqing calls upon the glorious People's Army to liberate the oilfields of Texas and North Dakota (oil was discovered in Manchuria in the 1950s, but these reserves have been dwindling in recent years)

A 1400sf 3Br + Den Flat. 1 Br can work as a lock-off suite. Windows on 4 sides. This is a townhouse, but without all the stairs.

same goes for many of the asian grocery stores along university ave. in saint paul -- they carry many of the staples you'd also find at target, or in the case of the midway cub (rip), still be open

We really should just ban the Republican Party the same way Germany banned the Nazi Party. Conservatives who are anti-dictatorship can resurrect the Whigs or something.

hmm

From my brief time on the capitol complex in one of the health/welfare ministries, one issue I saw was state initatives/policies being implemented primarily through state grants to nonprofits (with attendant applications, review, management, etc.), rather than through public implementation directly

lol

Anecdotally, I'm curious about implications for job sprawl in schools/education as well -- assuming suburban sprawl, urban stagnation/decline, and then schools following where children live -- how distributed are teaching jobs in cities vs. the suburbs?

If I ever have a child, they'll be forced to follow in my footsteps: go to the no name state school that offers the biggest scholarship

Snapchat's continuing existence is a testimony to digital vice

imo part and parcel with the general polarisation/min-maxxing of society in general --

it's like housing where the in a properly functioning political economy one side's failures of governance would be an easy political layup for a sane opposition party. unfortunately the other parties proposed solutions are to stop trying to govern or to make the problem actively worse.

this may or may not be related to the sick-ass posters made for local distribution

My take on the 2028 primary (and in fact every primary) is that you should just vote for whoever you like the best

Hell yeah

apropos of nothing --

it always comes back to this

This is a point I keep coming back to. You cannot defend a high trust society by orchestrating hate campaigns and moral panics against disfavored groups and harassing the populace with masked paramilitary thugs.

coming in as less reliable than jeep is certainly an accomplishment, albeit of the ignoble variety

Interesting single stair report from MN coming out - where they did a whole lot of data analysis and comparative life safety modeling. In short, it adds substance to what we’ve been arguing: Single stair is a lot safer than two stair buildings with long hallways, and much safer than single fam

Called it 😞

old twitter was like a place in interwar berlin, paris, or shanghai people have romantic memories about in spite of witnessing knife fights between prostitutes daily and heroin junkies overdosing

Now I'm curious if James C. Scott was ever aware of Hearts of Iron/Victoria/Civilization (and had any thoughts on their potrayals of legilbility/simplifications)

Postscript: Heart of Atlanta Motel was purchased and shut down in 2022, and the site has been redeveloped into an affordable housing complex called Ralph David House. The complex is named for civil rights leader Ralph David Abernathy, whose autobiography is titled And the Walls Came Tumbling Down.

I shudder to think of where St. Paul would be without Asian-American entrepreneurs. www.startribune.com/khues-kitche...

The Tired City (Early Morning, Paris), by Everett Shinn American, 1876-1953 1901 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/152342