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god i hate this style of sentence. claude uses it far too much. my teammates have been writing PRDs that are filled to the brim with this sentence structure. absolutely maddening.

why is it unhealthy?

i mean, you can just have AI still do the work, you’re just doing data entry with a type writer.

“Professionals” in traffic engineering still religiously cling to “standards” that are largely based on BS served up by auto companies pre 1940.

Many such cases of this, it seems.

nothing in this comment is rooted in reality

I used to be highly addicted to scrolling. Tiktok, reddit, instagram, everything. It nearly cost me my relationship and I swore it off ever since. I’ve been offline those apps for a few months now, and have never felt better. Cant believe what i was allowing to happen to my attention!

Because people want to live in cities again. Lot of people do not want to live in suburbs / exurbs. they want walkability. bikability. community. car-lite living. It’s high in demand, short on supply.

I feel it’s a bit disingenuous to discuss that a developer might pay more for a lot with a house on it, to build more houses, but you don’t really touch on, at all, how much the resulting housing might cost. Surely 20 units on a single lot will be cheaper than the single family house.

Now you have potentially 20 families, or at least 20 individuals, paying taxes, participating in the local economy, etc instead of just one single family. Lots of economic benefits to consider here but saying “downzoning good, actually” because a developer might pay more? Idk. seems pretty poorly thought out.

this is wrong for the same reason using single letter variable names to keep things concise is usually wrong.

i’d rather something a bit more verbose and clear than cryptic and confusing. there are many actors in the world with different brains.