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Author of fantasy novels. Refugee from https://twitter.com/DjangoWexler My stuff at https://djangowexler.com/

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · May 27

EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD EXCEPT ME is out today!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DMNHMKRJ/

This is book two of the DARK LORD DAVI duology, the thrilling conclusion!

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 3h

So, yes, our houses are better than the Victorians, but they're not so much better than 1972 that the increased quality is the bottleneck. (Actually construction costs are *down* in real terms since 1972.)

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 3h

Here's housing starts over total population. This is the problem -- more people, not enough houses.

fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgr...

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 3h

f.e. private housing starts peaked at almost 2.5m in 1972 and are currently 1.3m.

fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST

New Privately-Owned Housing Units Started: Total Units

fred.stlouisfed.org

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 3h

So, yes that's true, and it's also true in a lot of other areas, including food!

The actual cause of the housing crisis is a bit out of scope for me but we *can and did* build housing cheaper and faster in the relatively recent past.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 4h

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Anthony Ryan @anthonyryan.bsky.social · 6h

Work. Of. Genius.

David M. Bennett MD (FAAOS, FPOSNA, DABOS) @davembmd.bsky.social · 8h

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. @aptshadow.bsky.social @abraham.bsky.social

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 6h

Just a basic sourdough!

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 6h

(In practice it means multiple wage earners are required.) But I have no idea what the dynamic would be like in Scrooge's day.

Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 6h

I'm really curious what the same analysis would show for housing, which seems to be the pressure point for (US) poverty today. A rent-controlled apartment in Seattle (impossible to get, people hold them to the death) might cost $1,000/mo for a 1 BR, 78% of that income.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 6h

Good-looking bread today

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 6h

Honestly in the right context that would be pretty funny!

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Boxes also work on bobcats

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 10h

All entities deserve moral standing, even imaginary ones

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 20h

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · Nov 15

gotta bring this classic over here

a tweet from my old twitter account reading “[historian voice] it has always sucked ass to be alive”

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah the manliness thing goes waaaaaay back. As far back as there is, probably.

Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 22h

Fight me marble statue bros

Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 22h

I need a sign to tap that says "Civilization isn't going downhill, you're just old", most of all to make sure *I* don't forget

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 22h

The people whose slogan was "don't trust anyone over 30" became the hectoring elders of the Nirvana generation, who are now telling the post-9/11 kids they're not working hard enough

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 22h

Different things, that's the problem! It's all basically old people mad that young people are doing it differently

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 22h

It has been kind of amazing, in my own lifetime, to see Gen X, Millennials, and now Gen Z all accused of *exactly* the same or sometimes opposite things, with the accused becoming the accusers with no self-awareness whatsoever.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 22h

People are basically people, same as they ever have been. They respond to *current circumstances* but usually return to the mean pretty quickly.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 23h

If you worry that the new generation is [too/not enough] [whatever], I have good news! You can stop worrying because it's bullshit.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 23h

I love retrospectives like this. We are obsessed with the same imaginary problems, generation after generation

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

Not to say there's NO environmental impact (the warm water would change marine life in the immediate area for sure) but humans can't produce power on a "warm the oceans directly" scale.

(Our problem is we produce CO2 and then let the sun do it for us.)

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

The orders of magnitude here are very different. There's just a LOT of water.

Back of the envelope -- to heat up Puget Sound (my local body of water) 1 degree in a *year* would take ~3,000 TWatts of power, or about 10% of total world production.

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