The drying rack? Really?

> No. of issues: 25

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Couples costume Knight and Hornet

They are both NIMBYs and left-wing. And their arguments for NIMBYism are specifically left-wing. As for Austin, house prices are way up but still not as high as west-coast prices. Moreover, rental rates are much more flat. COVID had bizarro effects on house prices.

Seattle metro area has been unusually and uniquely better about responding to demand increase with construction than other left-leaning metro areas, but you appear to be conflating building some housing with building enough housing. Seattle still has a housing shortage.

I assume you’re referring to the relatively low density increases in Texas metro areas? They also built a ton of lower-density sprawl, much of it in neighboring counties. You can see where the rate of housing increase has matched the rate of population increase and where it has not.

The author admits there’s nothing actually objectionable about the book. The closest thing they have to a criticism is that various less savory characters also like the ideas. Which should come as no surprise, because the idea of “do more good things” is simple and obviously good.

While true, there is some incredible content here.

“Our two characters, Michaelmas Term and Lord Chancellor, have encountered a giant lizard in the street.”

A curiosity of US imprisonment statistics is that at any time roughly the same number of people are imprisoned for each of assault, robbery, rape, and murder. Each crime has roughly the same (inverse) relationship between sentence length and conviction frequency.

Gemini 1.5 Flash has a funny and technically correct answer.

The “firebomb a walmart” tweet is a solid contender.

All good stuff and great to see, but on the whole it seems pretty marginal given the narrow exemption criteria. Only ~7,000 units of such “passive housing” currently exist.

BUT, all we have to do is persuade www.phius.org to add a new certification tier with no requirements, and we’re in business.