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We are in a big migration project at work and one of the goals is to rewrite all 30 or so WordPress sites into Astro. It’s so much fun to cut out all the blackbox plugins with paid features and cruft, and just have something work as I intended. I’m stoked.

It’s an interesting view. In this case you are claiming the victims are bound to the creator/vendor of the software/service, not the hacker?

To be fair, that is an hour-long trip in the best case scenario

Withdrawing from citalopram after dropping out of college was one of the worst summers of my life. Brain zaps are real.

An afterglow lasting a month or two with little to no urge to drink at all. It’s harder now, I’ll get a random urge to buy a sixer occasionally, but the benefits of stopping for me are still worth it.

After 20 years of waking up nearly every day with at least a low-grade hangover, I finally found something that works to prevent hangovers 100% of the time!

It’s called “getting surgery and experiencing anesthetic epiphany” - 15 months so far with no booze.

I’m overwhelming white ancestry but with some remnant traces of melanated ancestry (> 1%) and I tan very easily. I’ve been mistaken for hispanic or Black before during the summer. My mom is much darker than me.

We both get sunburns. My even darker grandmother got sunburns. My Black friends get sunburns. I am not sure that you are correctly correlating your experience with actual facts about the sunburn resistance offered by melanin.

Increased melanin provides some protection against burns, but it doesn’t make you immune. There’s also the aspect of UV damage without burns, which is still harmful and is not affected by melanin levels.

I don’t think this is correct, Black people still get sunburns

That’s the general idea on how Prop 13 works - what you miss is that it can simultaneously make any new development attractive relative to a frozen parcel and make dense residential development less attractive than competing land uses. Why build apartments when you can build a hotel? That’s if the incumbent wants to sell in the first place, which they historically don’t since there’s little to no economic pressure to do so.

Your parking spaces point is somewhat circular. Southern California is not uniformly dense. The major reason for why there’s so much parking is because it was mandated by the government.

I think we’re on the same path to reasoning though: status quo zoning in expensive US metropolitan areas generally sucks, Reagan-era housing tax policy also sucks.

There are a lot of conclusions which do not follow the evidence here.

You’re using similarity of bad behavior to imply similarity of harm, while simultaneously admitting you don’t have the statistics showing similarity of harm.

> Some of the various kinds of protected bike lanes make it harder for pedestrians to see car traffic, to cross in a crosswalk

Daylighting improves safety significantly, with or without a protected bike lane.

> I can tell you that, in the last two years, IME, the car drivers behave much better than the overwhelming majority of people on bikes and motorizes bikes/scooters

Stats would argue against that, as the overwhelming majority of pedestrian injuries and deaths in your city involve cars and drivers, not bicycles and cyclists. Boston sees multiple car vs ped deaths every year, whereas there was exactly one bike vs ped death, according to available data, in 2025.

> Politically, when walkers in a Masshole city start side with cars, and walkers suddenly feel a lot less solidarity with their bicyclist cousins, then you should suspect there's a big new problem

Yes, but it’s not the problem you think. Bike lanes and increased ridership simply amplify the dangers caused by car-centric infrastructure.

> It used to be that bicyclists rightly felt they had to look out for themselves, because they were in constant danger from the "I'm a car guy" mayor town drivers

This hasn’t changed at all.

Toggling to no canopy fixes it - palm trees cast little to no shade

Hi there! My office window faces east and this morning, your map showed shade from the building across the street (correct), as well as shade from my building on the lawn below my window (incorrect).

Campaign funding is generally public information. Getting true identities behind opaque PACs can take some basic OSINT knowledge but Google is still somewhat useful for things like that.

This doesn't look particularly accurate, at least not relative to what I can see right now out my window.

“Canada is north of the United States” has a higher probability of correctness than “Canada is east of Greenland.”

You're right that zoning plays a major role in housing shortages. It's just my opinion that had Prop 13 not been codified into the state constitution, residential development may have flourished under the extreme demand.

1978 was a bad year not only because of the passage of Prop 13, but the subsequent municipal votes in SF and LA to force them into compliance with the statewide zoning restrictions of the Consistency Law. CEQA became weaponized and successfully used by NIMBYs to thwart new development.

However, specific to post-1978, municipalities saw residential areas as a tax burden and enacted growth caps and levied "impact" fees. This was a direct effect on housing development as governments did not want to bring in new residents without the property tax base to support infrastructure, education, etc. It wasn't just an inclination to support restrictive zoning, it mandated lowering density. Meanwhile commercial zoning flourished as commercial taxes became more relatively viable. As a result, LA now has 1 house for every 2-3 people, and nearly 2 parking spaces for every 1 person.

Zoning is a problem. I just think that maybe it wouldn't have turned out this way without Prop 13.

Find their campaign donors, that’s almost always a fun reveal. Downballot candidates don’t really expect many people to look into their funding so it’s sometimes less opaque than big name campaigns.

Hot take: it’s generally probably less harmful psychologically to be screwed over by an identifiable individual than a faceless mega corporation. Rationalizing a bad experience as “one bad apple” feels better than ruminating over systemic oppression.

Massachusetts and Colorado arrived at expensive housing markets through other means, but as far as I know they don’t have any sort of massive lock-in incentive like Prop 13.

Prop 13 is why housing is expensive in California. Full stop. It was a bandaid over a wound and now the body has sepsis.

I do think accessibility is a great market for innovation like this, but it doesn’t mean it’s appropriate for general populations. Take electric mobility devices, for example. Electric wheelchairs are great for people who are paralyzed, but e-scooters have become a scourge for some urban residents as their users park them on sidewalks, block curb cuts, and generally get in the way of pedestrians.

Garmin has offered this for years. As a plus, the Varia taillight has a radar, so you don’t have to wear your pervert glasses on the back of your helmet to alert for incoming cars.

How on earth did you get there? My argument is that corporations should operate in the framework of the law (though evidently that is pretty fungible in the US). Are you saying you’re OK with your employer cropping 2-3% of your paycheck? The Social Security and healthcare point is even more bizarre. You make it sound like a charitable donation. That the victims of wage theft had to put up an exorbitant legal battle to collect…well, most of of what they were owed could probably be called “life-changing” for some of the victims.

You’re partially right though, a couple mil here and there is a drop in the bucket against most corporate earnings. Sort of makes you wonder if the system is operating like that purposefully, as in, a systemic attribute.

You didn’t even attempt to touch Ulta’s toxic waste problem lol

Guess I should’ve went for Fritos instead

I am definitely more triggered by the mention of ZScaler than the Gen X scope creep

If you think this guy sounds preachy now, wait ‘til he hears about bicycles.

I rode 100K on Friday, fueled entirely by Coca Cola and gummy bears. Zero direct fossil fuel consumption! It also took 5 hours.

You can also take it to mean a subset of the entire workforce, which has already lost their jobs to AI. Again, you’re the only person in this thread using the phrase “THE entire workforce” in regards to the idea that jobs will be replaced with AI. People here are telling you that that isn’t the argument being made and you keep rallying against it anyway.