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BurdensomeCount
Unable to escape TheMotte's cycle of Samsara...
2d ago
If your grocery store is 2 minutes down the road going to it multiple times a week is not an issue. In fact it's preferable because you can get stuff when you want it and not have it clogging up space in your home.
Skeletor
2d ago
I will absolutely tear down civilization before I live in the world Europoors and "walkable cities" types want for me. If I have to visit the grocery store more than once a week you won't need to use public transit to see someone get set the hell on fire.
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
2d ago
In fairness to the "Elon is unique" theory, he does seem to be a locus of "I don't care what problems you encountered, we're doing sci-fi shit, so shut the fuck up and figure it out" energy. This doesn't always work out, but it appears to be a load-bearing reason for why SpaceX is SpaceX instead of "failed aerospace subsidy farm #28".
hooser
2d ago
We are talking about value an employee brings to a business, which is more straightforward to measure.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
They’ll travel, it just costs more. And really I’d expect transit to be concentrated in the same places as union halls anyways.
BlindDeafRat
2d ago
A lot of those Italian buildings are centuries old. Where as most of California's cities rose up in the last two centuries, especially the last one.
So why not compare it with China instead? They've created cities even faster than USA, and their cities are still much closer to California's design and Italy's.
This is one of those things that sounds easy in theory, but in practice, with the needs of the city you will rarely get city design of Europe unless that's the goal you want to achieve from the start. Which would probably require extremely restrictive building laws.
And speaking of roads, I know people shit on "Just one more lane" road design, but in my experience driving in Italy it has the opposite problem of roads which really do need an extra lane or two, because on a two lane road, one is full of trucks, so you're constantly stuck in traffic. And in general the quality of their roads is much worse than the surrounding countries'.
Thoroughlygruntled
2d ago
You just unearthed repressed memories of me trying to get home from college and my pants falling down from the weight of all those damn Susan B. Anthony and Sacagwea coins from the train station.
Thoroughlygruntled
2d ago
Honestly, I think most of them are probably sitting in desk drawers and piggy banks because people think they're uncommon enough to be cool and not worth spending over two $1 bills. I remember my parents often using $2 bills for fun little things like the tooth fairy or hiding them in easter eggs.
Thoroughlygruntled
2d ago
I would like to selfishly use your post to get on my own personal numismatic hobby horse: we should stop putting real people on our money (I might be willing to make a singular exception with George Washington). It's monarchical and anti-American. The only people on our money should be idealized personifications of American values like Lady Liberty, Columbia, and Blind Justice, joined by other American symbols like the Bald Eagle, Buffalo, and Liberty Bell.
The quarter should be replaced with Benjamin Franklin's original "Mind Your Business" cent design, the first and best designed coin in American history.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
2d ago
He means six figures, because once you make 100+ it's "triple digit" because the trailing 000 is assumed
Making 75,000 would be "double digit" I guess because it's "75"
I've never seen that before, but if a friend asked my salary I would respond with "I make 95" not "I make 95,000" so it makes sense
Thoroughlygruntled
2d ago
Ancient Indians seem to have had an uncanny ability to locate their sacred spaces directly on top of valuable mineral resources. Perhaps we should be hiring native shamans to do our mineral surveying for us.
phailyoor
2d ago
You posted a picture of an industrial park, which is full of factories and warehouses. Italy has those too but you didn't post a picture of that. Italy also has highways but you didn't post a picture of those either.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
2d ago
Great question!
This is a tic that makes me think LLM these days. Not necessarily accusing you of using one here, more commenting on the sad closing of the linguistic frontier as various phrasings become associated with "artificial" text.
HereAndGone
2d ago
Yeah, but why is it subconsciously affecting him? What's the peril the sister might be in? You haven't established that sufficiently, the set-up sounds like he would have reacted the same way even if there was no ferry with a sister on it tomorrow. "Whoops, oh crap, what do I do? Manual says get in touch with other person to do the dual key turn", not "I better sort this out now or else my sister's ferry will blow up in the middle of World War Three". I might be thinking "Huh, my sister is going to go down the town to do grocery shopping tomorrow" but that's not making me rush to do something in my job that isn't standard procedure. If there's no danger, there's no reason to be het-up and reacting irrationally.
The tiny scale manipulation seems to be "put pressure on by popping up message never encountered before", not "heh heh dumb fleshbag and his emotional attachments".
I'm asking "so why is it important the sister was going to be on a ferry?" and you're answering "it's not important, she was perfectly safe, that's why he reacted irrationally" and I'm going "whut?"
HereAndGone
2d ago
Apparently that's the Big Mac; it has two 1/10th of a pound patties to the Quarter-Pounder's one 1/4 of a pound patty. 2/10ths = 1/5th, so that's the 1/5 burger right there!
People pick either Quarter Pounders or Big Mac for reasons other than amount of meat; the Big Mac has more options while the Quarter Pounder is plain meat-and-bun (and cheese and condiments). Depends if you want the flavour of the pickles and sauce versus just 'gimme the meat' (and give it to me raw?)
Maybe they failed because they were trying to copy McDonalds too closely? Skip the "we give you a third of a pound for the same price as a quarter of a pound" and instead emphasise "fresh beef, better taste, superior value".
The Third Pound just sounds like really bad marketing, because they were chasing the established hold McDonalds had with their quarter-pounders. I could easily see someone going "but I don't want more meat in my burger; a quarter-pounder is big enough for me!" or if they did want more meat, then they'd go for two burgers.
It's like someone trying to compete against Coke by going "we're just like Coke only we have bigger bottles" - that's not different enough to make me switch from Coke. What's unique about your product?
That anecdote does sound too much like "it can't be our fault the product failed, it was the dumb consumers!" Tell that to New Coke 😁 Even if your customers are dumb, they are still your (potential) customers so if this approach isn't working, scrap it and go for one that does: "bigger and better for the same price!" Don't call it a third pounder, compare "we have over 5 ounces of prime fresh beef in every burger versus 4 ounces of processed meat in our rivals" to sell it, not mess around with trying to copy the brand name of a McDonalds product that is already well-established. Call it the Big Beautiful Burger! 🤣
grendel-khan
i'm sorry, but it's more complicated than that
2d ago
California's constitution, Article IV, Section 9:
A statute shall embrace but one subject, which shall be expressed in its title. If a statute embraces a subject not expressed in its title, only the part not expressed is void.
(More details here.) And even still, this is, unfortunately, the way the sausage is made, because bagel toppings are baked into the progressive mindset, it seems. But ADU laws, for example, have been successful precisely because they were straightforward simplifications or liberalizations of the law, with few or no compensating tradeoffs. Chris Elmendorf has a good law review article about this.
I think to the extent that something is a big change or faces stiff opposition, this kind of nonsense will creep in. Here, it's not because apartments near transit are anathema per se, but because "local governments know best" is an article of faith here, despite where it's led us, and more importantly for progressives, a lot of new construction means a lot of business for builders, and it's very important ideologically that the benefit the legislature produces be appropriately socialized rather than captured by developers. The mistake being made here is that the benefit is homes for people to live in, and the benefits are already going to incumbent homeowners.
On the gripping hand, much as with ADU law, there will be simplifications and cleanups in future sessions.
Onystri
2d ago
6 years ago Riot Games released KDA kpop song. I liked it way more than Golden.
HereAndGone
2d ago
Maybe X produces more social and community value by providing cookies to family and neighbours than Y does by profiteering off potheads?
Throwaway05
2d ago
Uhhhhhh let's see. Lose weight, stay hydrated, have muscles. I believe staying warm and avoiding activity before hand also help.
Ultimately some people just be like that though.
If that's you I'd avoid blood donations - you know it's going to present a challenge and you know you'll have an increased risk of complications.
Unless you have a rare blood type I'd try and do some good by nagging someone else to go in your stead b/c it isn't super viable for you.
HereAndGone
2d ago
But in a modern economy, it is perfectly possible for an exceptional man to produce 1000x the value of a regular man.
But is the CEO of Starbucks that man?
The perceived injustice is "He and the other execs get to vote themselves a 10% pay increase Because They're Worth It, at the same time they are slashing headcount because 'labour costs too high'. Belt-tightening somehow always means the guys on the shop floor, not the managers. And yet the managers get way more perks just for sitting at a desk".
yestrusocialist
2d ago
Maybe the CEO is a specialist in managing decline.
A regular CEO might be able to extract $10B profit from a declining company, but he can extract $15B before it dies. If I were on the board of a declining company, I would surely want to hire this guy.
I have the same reaction, but I see it less as a left/right thing than as a "videogame turned politics streamer" thing. I just think that niche tends to run more right-wing in general. It's the product of a generation of commentators raised on 4chan shitposting rather than Walter Cronkite. Content aside, this guy gives me the same sense of revulsion I get from Hasan Piker.
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