Whats notable about this Austin rent trend is that its coinciding with massive tech worker growth. Illustrating that it wasnt a given an in-migrarion of tech workers into San Francisco would lead to non stop rent spikes for 20 years.

In American culture, permanently giving up a parking spot for the dead is like crying ('giving water to the dead') in Fremen culture

So now that the economy of San Francisco is destroyed and most of the techies have fled, it's become affordable, right? Right????

This NYC primary election map is a devastating rebuke to the argument that 'gentrification' is too ill-defined & fraught a term to have any useful definition

I still don't know what 'gentrification' means, but it clearly has something to do with Maya Wiley voters

Look imma be honest i support the tiktok ban because i hate kids and like obstructing things they like. Thats it. Im not gonna pretend its about espionage or whatever.

Self driving cars will not eliminate traffic. In fact, they will make sitting in traffic more pleasant. The result will be even more traffic.

Notice how lower housing prices & rents are described as 'disaster' & 'distress'

Lower housing prices are AMAZING! For young people, poor people, and families

Lower prices are bad for are Wall Street & homeowners, whose perspectives are the only ones represented in the press

It is impossible for me to describe just how much I am driven mad by street parking in major urban cores.

It’s like a conspiracy where everyone else is doing something obviously crazy but somehow I am the insane one for noticing.

Let me give you an example. In DC, Massachusetts…

you need to be 737 maxxing. you need to have a few screws loose. you need to be dramatically throwing open doors to feel the fresh air outside. you need to be keeping yourself grounded. you need to be lighting yourself on fire occasionally just to feel something.