Yep and half of the seasonal workforce lives in RVs or camps in the winter. There is the legendary the snow cave complex (in deep years) that was reasonably comfortable given CA NIMBYs

I don't know for sure but would guess CEQA/Forest Service permits.

And Mammoth was central to CEQA becoming the super law that covered private development. That non profit is still around.

CAL-OSHA investigates deaths and I'm shocked that the automated pods weren't put in after the Feb 2025 death

California's vetocracy explains it. CEQA and discretionary review.

For the second time in two winters a patroller at Mammoth was injured doing manual avalanche control that is automated at resorts in Utah.

That was probably Sierra Trading Post with their crude catalogs selling overstocked Patagonia.

They sold to TJ Maxx and it is enshittified now. The marquee outdoor brands have other outlets

That is why the city taxes people and provides parks in cities.

Parks aren't Nature they are human created and managed.

Suburban pastoralism isn't nature either.

Risk of Ruin podcast just did a great episode that included Portland's courtyard cottages.

"Let them eat Cake".

It is nice to see YIMBYs crossing over with "advantage players" aka smarter gambling types.

Yes, suburban pastoralism is fake pastoralism.

Suburban pastoralism is just another name for NIMBYs.

No you should pay a land value tax to help get that yard/land into a better and higher use in an urban infill location

Your old threads on where do you and your comrades drill/train and how many comrades do you have were bangers.

with prison sentences for many former politicians

All hierarchical orgs are subject to the principal-agent conflict.

Some manage to minimize. Some manage to maximize the conflict.

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USC econ professor was just asking about papers studying this.

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you act like you're doing something brave and radical. you produce the signifiers of doing something brave and radical. if asked to account for the successes of your movement you will describe different kinds of meeting which you have held.

"...focus on outcomes, consciousness and resources to the domains that can accelerate transformation at scale"

www.policylink.org/about

How do you measure consciousness? You aren't going to make 30% of the population that is born authoritarian into a different consciousness

"Nothing is more dangerous for man's private morality than the habit of command. The best man, the most intelligent, disinterested, generous, pure, will infallibly and always be spoiled at this trade."

Brother printers are the only ones.