One use of AI models like Midjourney right now would be to create images of imported food and other necessary products priced ridiculously high.

Imagine paying $40 for 6 bananas, or $5,000 for one car tire. It's a bit hyperbolic but it would get the point across.

There's not even really a right to be heard, only to speak. In the marketplace of ideas, people choose who they listen to just as they choose which stalls they buy from in a regular marketplace. If people are not listening to you, it's your responsibility to make your wares more appealing.

You'll never know how strong your skull is until a four year old is using it as a springboard.

One of the worst effects of car dependant city design isn't that there are a lots of cars, it's the valuable urban land given up to thick roads and parking... in order to make a city accessible to cars, it has to basically stop being a city.

Believing in a robust social safety net is not being opposed to a free market. In fact, I believe it is quite the opposite — a robust safety net is a critical component of individual participation in a free market system.

I'm not usually super online, so there probably won't be a lot of posting here.

Although, who knows, maybe I'll get trapped in here if the community is strong enough.