The housing crisis is not about immigrants.

It's also not about private equity gobbling up neighborhoods.

The housing crisis is about the refusal to build enough housing, which is largely a problem of regulatory capture by entrenched NIMBY homeowners, some of whom have "everyone is welcome" signs.

I just completed "Laboratories" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/7

I just completed "Trash Compactor" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/6

I just completed "Playground" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/8

I just completed "Printing Department" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/4

I just completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/3

I just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/2

I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1

Upgrading my OctoPrint setup to OctoPi 1.1.0 (with Debian Bookworm) is going well. Now to eat my own dogfood and install OctoDash from scratch!

I'd really like to see the chief executive actually be appointed by Congress (like the UK and others) 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

Why do web developers disable pasting into password fields? From my perspective it just makes using password managers harder and makes me less likely to use a good password

Slightly dimish a band: The National Forests

Berger's three laws of chatbotics:

1) The bot should never express emotions.

2) The bot should never praise the user.

3) The bot should never say it understands the user's mental state.

There's no use case for these things, and they're obviously problematic.

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I dusted off my copy of Betrayal Legacy that hasn't seen action since finishing the campaign 5+ years ago. Played a session with most of the original party and it was quite the treat revisiting some of our old decisions (mostly involving snarky flavor rather than game mechanics) #boardgames

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

@smbrnsn.bsky.social so I was looking over my LDS church tax donation report and found "The Church provided no goods or services in consideration, in whole or in part, for the contributions detailed below but only intangible religious benefits."

Is there a legal purpose for that last clause?

My 9yo nephew has apparently never used a computer mouse. Just touchpads