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Matt Edens
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Downtown dweller. True crime writer. Transplanted Tennessean.
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Nothing says "I denounce antisemitism" like dropping a "globalist class" dog whistle.
This is the way...
Everybody's talking about Dem strategy, so here's something to add to the mix.

I start with this premise: The best and most reliable indicator of whether someone will vote red or blue is the density of the place they live. More dense, more likely to be blue, & vice versa.
"If we all got angry together something might be done."
We're not trying to kill the project, all we're asking is that the developers reduce the number of units...until the project is no longer viable.
"When we optimize places for cars, they end up not working well (or working at all) for any other mode. They become car-only places..."

postsuburban.substack.com/p/the-geomet...
The Geometry Problem
Suburbia doesn't scale
postsuburban.substack.com
"The conspicuously consuming celebrities and jet-setting cosmopolitans of popular imagination exist, but they are far outnumbered by a less exalted and less discussed elite group, one that sits at the pinnacle of the local hierarchies..."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
American Gentry
The jet-setting cosmopolitans of popular imagination exist, but they are far outnumbered by a less exalted and less discussed elite group, one that sits at the pinnacle of America’s local hierarchies.
www.theatlantic.com
Remember when Cracker Barrel changed their logo and a bunch of people got mad?
"One solution is to eliminate interaction among those modes by giving robotaxis dedicated space reserved for their use..."

Congratulations, you have just invented trains.
“They all think he’s a righteous dude…”
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You know what’s one of the great things about the No Kings protests today?

No one is going to storm the U.S. Capitol.
America's land use pattern underpins a lot of problems:

"Curbside car rentals thrive in dense, walkable cities where residents don’t already own cars and where demand is steady within a few blocks... "

millennialdream.substack.com/p/the-failur...
The Failure of Curbside Car Rentals
Why this Business Model fails again and again in the US
millennialdream.substack.com
Reposted by Matt Edens
So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers

www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
Re: Annie Potts - Duckie is an idiot.
Was gonna say: in a whole lot of ways, post-Tito Yugoslavia isn't something to aspire to.
Pardon me?
Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."
Similar to how they expected street battles with ANTIFA on Jan. 6th...
At the Planning Commission meeting for the Galleria and a couple commissioners got uptight about the parking requirements for the restaurant space - one parking space per four seats in the dining room "wasn't realistic."

We're talking downtown mixed-use project, not an Applebees at the mall.
I grew up in a small town in Tennessee, so people had guns and hunted, but one thing you didn't see:

Grown-ass adults dressing up and playing army.
Ah, the other side of the bridge, then.
Is the streetcar museum still planning to take over the olf Ma&Pa roundhouse?