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What if I'm nostalgic for the golden age of uncontrolled immigration into the United States
August 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
What if I'm nostalgic for the golden age of uncontrolled immigration into the United States
This map relies on the fundamentally wrong idea that cities should be amputated from their surrounding regions. This is precisely the opposite of correct.
Instead: start with Travel-To-Work regions, and iteratively merge regions with the most-crossed borders, until you have 10 regions or so.
Instead: start with Travel-To-Work regions, and iteratively merge regions with the most-crossed borders, until you have 10 regions or so.
July 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This map relies on the fundamentally wrong idea that cities should be amputated from their surrounding regions. This is precisely the opposite of correct.
Instead: start with Travel-To-Work regions, and iteratively merge regions with the most-crossed borders, until you have 10 regions or so.
Instead: start with Travel-To-Work regions, and iteratively merge regions with the most-crossed borders, until you have 10 regions or so.
November substack is up! Not as fun as the past few: motivated mostly by exhaustion, and a righteous disdain for millionaire rural landowners.
Nevertheless, HERE'S a budget with some chest hair (Property Tax, UBI, and nerd stuff)
open.substack.com/pub/distants...
Nevertheless, HERE'S a budget with some chest hair (Property Tax, UBI, and nerd stuff)
open.substack.com/pub/distants...
November 22, 2024 at 5:14 PM
November substack is up! Not as fun as the past few: motivated mostly by exhaustion, and a righteous disdain for millionaire rural landowners.
Nevertheless, HERE'S a budget with some chest hair (Property Tax, UBI, and nerd stuff)
open.substack.com/pub/distants...
Nevertheless, HERE'S a budget with some chest hair (Property Tax, UBI, and nerd stuff)
open.substack.com/pub/distants...
Join the dakotas and cut new jersey in half.
Benefits:
1. Bipartisan. Each party loses 2 senators
2. Dakota would be soooo big
3. Solve the bob menendez bribe scandal
4. New Jersey dumb state anyway
Benefits:
1. Bipartisan. Each party loses 2 senators
2. Dakota would be soooo big
3. Solve the bob menendez bribe scandal
4. New Jersey dumb state anyway
September 28, 2023 at 9:04 PM
Join the dakotas and cut new jersey in half.
Benefits:
1. Bipartisan. Each party loses 2 senators
2. Dakota would be soooo big
3. Solve the bob menendez bribe scandal
4. New Jersey dumb state anyway
Benefits:
1. Bipartisan. Each party loses 2 senators
2. Dakota would be soooo big
3. Solve the bob menendez bribe scandal
4. New Jersey dumb state anyway