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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 27m

Embrace the absurd

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 6h

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 1h

You wouldn't be able to change anything bc you would have to assume people would continue to just use tp like they always have. You would have to wait for widespread disadoption of tp before you could make changes.

Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 1h

Detached single family has always been the architecture of exclusionary and segregation this is gross revisionism.

Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 1h

Yes land prices increase when cities create jobs and amenities. The way land price increases are moderated is by allowing more housing units on each unit of land.

Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 1h

Oh god not Condon.

Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 1h

This is posting the same laughable Storper stuff for the 3rd time.

Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 1h

This hinges on property tax assessments and property tax assessments are inherently broken in high demand cities. Property value and improvement values frequently do not correspond to even neighboring vacant property values.

Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 1h

Oh god you're actually citing Storper's Urban Studies paper that is so riddled with basic errors that's it's laughable and has been thoroughly debunked. I almost feel embarrassed for you.

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 1h

Oh dear are you seriously citing Storper? That's so embarrassing.

Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 3h

The space savings also means bikes are symbiotic with transit instead of mutually exclusive

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 4h

This sounds like schismogenesis

Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 4h

Oh cool good thing they are making AI for stock trading. What could possibly go wrong?

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 4h

I thought they were replacing it with PV

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 4h

The Great Khan needs to up his shitposting game

Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 5h

Housing does not induce demand like freeway construction does. Housing shortages facilitate wealth transfer.

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 5h

Wage earners have always had to compete with investors. It's simply easier to compete when there is a surplus of supply.

Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 5h

That is not correct. None of the projects where a developer gets a density bonus or a zoning variance for building affordable housing are considered public housing.

Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 5h

That study doesn't actually contradict YIMBYs. It just says that weak efforts to increase zoned capacity yield weak results. We need zoned capacities to be 5-10x more than the current population like we did in the 1920s.

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 5h

Homeowners control the market

Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 5h

You do not need public housing for housing to be affordable. We artists were able to afford housing in the 90s when rents were a lot lower without public housing. Also, the biggest impediment to public housing in CA is not funding but Article 34 of the CA Const giving NIMBY homeowners a veto vote.

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 5h

No it is not. It is caused by our regressive land use regulations.

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 5h

SF arts are struggling for the exact same reason the arts are struggling in every high demand city, they can't afford to make art in the city. Housing scarcity makes the rent too high. It used to be that you could have a roof over your head with a part time gig at a bar. Those days are long gone.

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 5h

There is more impermeable surface area per capita in the suburbs than the city. Impermeable surface area is the driver of flooding and surface water pollution. Those backyards don't make up for all those harms.

Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 18h

It feels like the frogs are breaking containment

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