This is why architecture struggles. Drawing is thinking and the computer does a lot of it now.

Florida is mogging most of the county architect totally because it’s required to build out of CMU. Really solid stuff here

Fire truck fascism might make the least sense in Florida. Everything is made of CMU block wall and yet fire truck lane size is still gargantuan. A place made of stone still spatially built as if stick frame.

I think the basic underlying desire here is the absence of property rights. We can reconstruct this *feeling* and functional freedom through legal frameworks like public lands, easements, right to roam. But these are simulacra of true raw freedom from property rights.

This did actually work

The fairly common occurrence of wives taking over their husbands seats or historically the men’s children suggests the monarchic aristocratic tendency is strong

“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates” Henry Thoreau

American grifts; or Government Enforced Monopoly Behavior Car dealerships Window Manufacturing Underwriter Laboratory Compliance for building assemblies

Who’s written the most comprehensive argument for the old people are forming a coalition and voting themselves more money? I’m curious what the most cogent data says

Baked a lot of breads. Baguette might be lowest effort to quality.

Unlike the Chinese propaganda videos this one’s a bit closer to the human scale. It still oddly relies on ‘modern’ electric lighting making it feel ‘modern’

It’s also notable that if SA does become a failed state how legitimate is the ideology of Truth and Reconciliation? If the end result is dysfunction, poverty and a high murder rate we should wonder what exactly all the committee accomplished.

Texas is leading the nation.

It’s likely the opposite. The Europeans in general have gotten a lot quieter.

As other countries age and pursue Degrowth we will see that Japan has dealt with structural problems better than most.

Had to show the intern how to use CTRL ALT DELETE. Interesting times we live in

This does seem to be central to current politics. I don’t think it always was. People seem VERY unwilling to be critical of the party they most closely identify with.

Public donations by wealthy and successful was so critical to the ancient western world that historians have argued Rome fell because they ran out of space for donated triumphal arch’s and bathhouses. Probably not good we disdain successful ppl who donate today.