Again, in Texas I haven’t found this to be true anecdotally, because the heat seems to radiate from areas where there is little tree coverage. This manifests under trees in light colored asphalt parking lots I’m imagining that asphalt effectively more strongly radiates heat to surrounding areas?

Which one causes sidewalks to feel more hot? I’m in Texas and can’t imagine a form of asphalt cooler than concrete sidewalks

I’m just bothered by the fact they couldn’t put the private bathrooms inside the bedrooms. 😆

Funny enough, I was part of an extremely close group at UT that would have totally rented that.

I’m partial to this design of the 3¢ silver (1851-1853)

Other coins we used to mint that nobody thinks about today:
- 1/2¢ coin
- 2¢ coin
- 3¢ coin
- 20¢ coin
- $1 gold coin (literally 90% gold)
- $1 silver coin (literally 90% silver)
- $2.50 coin

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_o...

I’m an abundant pro-housing guy!
Of course! Here more people can benefit from lower home prices than higher home prices. Culturally we still need to diversify our personal wealth creation increasingly beyond real estate. Housing should be a commodity, not an investment for the masses.

My worry is the quantity of overleveraged now-suffering people in debt would be enough to call it a proper “collapse”

Counterpoint. China has built a deep culture of buying real estate overleveraged as a way to invest, which means that a great number of middle class people have quickly moved into deep debt and poverty. Though of course, falling home prices is a good thing in general.

Affordability requirements is how this policy becomes palatable. I’m more worried about the definition of “affordable unit” potentially changing to be built one and the same as a market unit. That will absolutely break the economics and result in fewer market and affordable units.

Frankly, the US’s immigration system under Trump is now more progressive than many European progressive nations.

And that’s really scary.

#truefinns #europeanimmigration

Like 5-over-1s, density bonuses & overlay districts will do a lot of the heavy lifting.

Below is a single-stair massing render from a presentation @chrants.bsky.social gave on Thursday at City Council for a specific 3,970 sqft. lot that will be inside the UNO expansion boundary—6 stories, 18-units

Many men view a conception of masculinity as existentially important. It’s therefore imperative that we on the left embed in our discourse a new, more free and more healthy vision for masculinity. One that can coexist with equality, our changing society, and yes, even feminism.

Andrew Tate Masculinity only continues the trend away from “Traditional Family Masculinity,” which instead prizes the ability to be self-sufficient and act as a stable provider for the family unit. #toxicmasculinity

How social platforms influence ideology using this framework -
Fascism => X, Facebook, Instagram
Liberal democracy => Discord, Bluesky Feeds, Reddit, activist communities
🧵(2 of 2) #philosophy #theory #acidcommunism #fascism

Think Twitch streaming and Only Fans, fueling unhealthy parasocial "connections" (more like obsessions). Where are the social institutions that foster deep, meaningful connections between participants? We need a new kind of third place, a not for profit return of social institutions. 🧵 (2 of 2)