Jesse Harber
@harber.co.za
Transport planner in South Africa. Infrastructure, public transport, walking and cycling, better streets for better cities. Focused on the big questions, like “why are you building that?”. Skeets in my personal capacity.
Gonna take the bait and say there’s no contest. Sephardi food ranges from North African to Persian, Indian, and others of the world’s great cuisines. Whereas, per Claudia Roden:
May 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Gonna take the bait and say there’s no contest. Sephardi food ranges from North African to Persian, Indian, and others of the world’s great cuisines. Whereas, per Claudia Roden:
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A philosopher has hitherto only interpreted a diaper in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
May 24, 2025 at 2:33 AM
A philosopher has hitherto only interpreted a diaper in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
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Dads make diaper changes, but they do not do it as they please; they do not change diapers under self-selected circumstances, but respond to diaper circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. Remnants of past feedings weigh like a nightmare on the diapers of the living.
May 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Dads make diaper changes, but they do not do it as they please; they do not change diapers under self-selected circumstances, but respond to diaper circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. Remnants of past feedings weigh like a nightmare on the diapers of the living.
Not my area but I know our engineers fret about drainage. The roadway carries runoff along the kerbs and into the stormwater system. Changing the size/shape of the roadway or removing it requires engineering another solution.
May 16, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Not my area but I know our engineers fret about drainage. The roadway carries runoff along the kerbs and into the stormwater system. Changing the size/shape of the roadway or removing it requires engineering another solution.
Got it. So another victim of bizarrely high infrastructure costs.
May 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Got it. So another victim of bizarrely high infrastructure costs.
That’s so strange. Does NYC have no geometric designers on staff, or is it a matter of priority?
May 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
That’s so strange. Does NYC have no geometric designers on staff, or is it a matter of priority?
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What is the Jewish relationship to places that expelled us or made us flee? I don't even know. But it's not nothing, you know?
May 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
What is the Jewish relationship to places that expelled us or made us flee? I don't even know. But it's not nothing, you know?
I can’t begrudge anyone making the choice they feel is best. I’m a multiple migrant, presently back in SA with no plans to move, but if I was unhappy or scared then why wouldn’t I try my luck?
Crooks and liars have convinced people that SA is no place for them. They’re the problem imo
Crooks and liars have convinced people that SA is no place for them. They’re the problem imo
May 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I can’t begrudge anyone making the choice they feel is best. I’m a multiple migrant, presently back in SA with no plans to move, but if I was unhappy or scared then why wouldn’t I try my luck?
Crooks and liars have convinced people that SA is no place for them. They’re the problem imo
Crooks and liars have convinced people that SA is no place for them. They’re the problem imo
Did you see the documentary, the Boers at the End of the World? I thought it was excellent, and very sympathetic to the community that’s there
May 13, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Did you see the documentary, the Boers at the End of the World? I thought it was excellent, and very sympathetic to the community that’s there
No disagreement from me there
May 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
No disagreement from me there
So did extra-democratic rule! Nonetheless they both took forms after 48 that I think are qualitatively different to what came before.
Re the two-way influence: did you read Karayiannides on Musk and the intertwined socio-technical histories of the US and SA? I thought it was fascinating.
Re the two-way influence: did you read Karayiannides on Musk and the intertwined socio-technical histories of the US and SA? I thought it was fascinating.
May 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
So did extra-democratic rule! Nonetheless they both took forms after 48 that I think are qualitatively different to what came before.
Re the two-way influence: did you read Karayiannides on Musk and the intertwined socio-technical histories of the US and SA? I thought it was fascinating.
Re the two-way influence: did you read Karayiannides on Musk and the intertwined socio-technical histories of the US and SA? I thought it was fascinating.
And spatial means. Apartheid was a novel, racialised regulation of space as much as anything else. Influenced by US ideas of suburbanisation and urban renewal.
May 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
And spatial means. Apartheid was a novel, racialised regulation of space as much as anything else. Influenced by US ideas of suburbanisation and urban renewal.
I regret that this thread was how I had to learn about your book but now I want to read it. I can’t find a hard copy in South Africa. Is there an ebook?
May 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I regret that this thread was how I had to learn about your book but now I want to read it. I can’t find a hard copy in South Africa. Is there an ebook?
Don’t threaten me with a good time
May 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Don’t threaten me with a good time
Know Your Enemy did an early ep on it which is a nice rundown.
April 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Know Your Enemy did an early ep on it which is a nice rundown.
Have you read Hirschman’s Rhetoric of Reaction?
April 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Have you read Hirschman’s Rhetoric of Reaction?
Broke: taking selfies at the fish counter in la Boqueria
Woke: getting there at opening time and the avocado man already has some good ones set aside for you
Woke: getting there at opening time and the avocado man already has some good ones set aside for you
April 20, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Broke: taking selfies at the fish counter in la Boqueria
Woke: getting there at opening time and the avocado man already has some good ones set aside for you
Woke: getting there at opening time and the avocado man already has some good ones set aside for you
tfw your social categories are definitely ontological
April 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
tfw your social categories are definitely ontological
Think that’s when Burawoy was there too?
April 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Think that’s when Burawoy was there too?
I just finished watching the extraordinary Say Nothing, which gave me a renewed appreciation for the miraculousness of SA’s transition and demilitarisation.
March 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I just finished watching the extraordinary Say Nothing, which gave me a renewed appreciation for the miraculousness of SA’s transition and demilitarisation.
Could be, but there really were paramilitary training schools for children. Still are, in fact. The documentary Fatherland is well worth tracking down.
March 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Could be, but there really were paramilitary training schools for children. Still are, in fact. The documentary Fatherland is well worth tracking down.