...and scottish people are quite bigoted about the english! You know I have to remind them of the incredible english sophistication, tolerance and sense of humor! Which they need to get over their impotence and pointlessness.
You build them city apartments and suddenly you have a nightmare on you hands of demand outstripping supply, astronomical cost, and the homeless subletting their free homes due to market pressure....
city apartments don't work, but not really for this reason
we have terms like the projects, the councils, etc. for the simple reason that if you're building city apartments to segregate the homeless because homeless people are unpleasant to be around for everyone else, then there's no real will to make said apartments actually appealing to live in. instead they become guinea pigs for intelligentsia fashions du jour, like brutalism or modernism
this is not even taking into account the greater, rather than lesser, need for state support to substitute for community support in the typically chaotic lifestyles of the very low-income
you're changing the parameters of the discussion at the point that you bring in "there's no real will." Our discussion was 'king-for-a-day' out of necessity.
fair. I do point out that in discussions that presume king-for-a-day-ity, it's nonetheless still very common for the list of suggested features for low-cost housing to expand to cover a great number of middle-class anxieties (it must be GREEN! it must be SUSTAINABLE! it must be WALKABLE! it must be built from RECYCLED MATERIALS!) rather than, say, creature comforts, maintainability at low cost, or sheer quantity
the entirely expected result is a dynamic where the political desire to do something is satiated by politicians building one or two blocks of low-cost housing, in whatever contemporary fashion, and ignoring the issue thereafter. this is, in a sense, what we are revealed to truly desire
sure, good note, worth trying to avoid such things; I disagree with your last sentence. Do you have any thoughts on how you might provide large quantities of low-cost housing with low-cost maintainability and creature comforts, given large amounts of tax revenue to play with?
I would avoid building low-cost housing; I would seek neighbourhood planning with the intention to publicly house most of the lower third, a majority of the middle third in housing that they find desirable, and a minority slice of the upper third in houses considered competitive with private housing. I do not think there is any other way to maintain the political consensus or distribute the low-income sufficiently widely so that their neighbourhood impacts are not concentrated.
Cost suppression is largely a matter of land reform - density and prefabrication techniques do matter, but across East Asia, the largest gains mostly entailed expropriation. One sensible way to control its political impact is to legislatively limit due compensation to the prevailing price at some fixed date, on the intuitive argument that further appreciation generated by state investment is not earned by the landowner and is therefore not really owed to them. This does conflict straightforwardly with Fifth Amendment jurisprudence.
I'd build neighbourhoods very densely; in that way, housing value can be boosted through planning control over public transport and schools. School added value should be oriented toward quantity; niche top/bottom-5% cases can go voucher/fund themselves - the schools that parents will buy housing to get their kid into should be those which churn out thousand-strong cohorts.
Legacy neighbourhoods should be aggressively razed. Their locations are often valuable, and their prevailing prices often cheap compared to what could be built. Claims to historic value should be rationed and limited to a fixed cap (i.e., listing a building should not require merely justifying its artistic or historical merit, but justifying why one would delist an existing listed building).
Architecturally: slums are an everpresent risk. let's quote.
1. Natural Surveillance – A design concept directed primarily at keeping intruders easily observable. Promoted by features that maximize visibility of people, parking areas and building entrances: doors and windows that look out on to streets and parking areas; pedestrian-friendly sidewalks and streets; front porches; adequate nighttime lighting.
2. Territorial Reinforcement – Physical design can create or extend a sphere of influence. Users then develop a sense of territorial control while potential offenders, perceiving this control, are discouraged. Promoted by features that define property lines and distinguish private spaces from public spaces using landscape plantings, pavement designs, gateway treatments, and “CPTED” fences.
3. Natural Access Control – A design concept directed primarily at decreasing crime opportunity by denying access to crime targets and creating in offenders a perception of risk. Gained by designing streets, sidewalks, building entrances and neighborhood gateways to clearly indicate public routes and discouraging access to private areas with structural elements.
4. Target Hardening – Accomplished by features that prohibit entry or access: window locks, dead bolts for doors, interior door hinges.
sight lines matter. This is probably easier to achieve in a warm climate than a temperate one.
Instead of buying a dark grey suit my last suit was more of a casual medium grey that's summer-friendly
Instead of navy the next suit I buy will be a cheerful and intense blue, also summer-friendly
The police can't stop me
What color do you mean by intense blue?
My suit is maybe medium grey? Lighter than charcoal, anyway. All-seasons appropriate. I love my suit (and recommend the Boston-based 9tailors as a company to get a custom suit if you find yourself wanting one.)
I don't know exactly what you call it -- it's a sort of saturated electric blue
It was the hot thing of the moment like two years ago but I think lively colors are sticking around
this sort of thing? That's a beautiful color. (Although that guy's singlasses are obnoxious).
Yeah, maybe a bit lighter than this
Maybe even in ... Linen?
*lifts a mimosa to all the bankers and salesmen on the east coast in navy suits and overcoats*
@Elldren yeah Gim nailed it. For 2 years in the WWF, King was feuding with Hart and King was the heel during that, plus ge was a heel on commentarg for a long time.
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Everyone in a high-rise likes elevators; everyone especially likes elevators that do not regularly have addicts and drunks peeing in them. Social tolerance of bohemians evolves to match.
Taller ceilings mean drop ceilings; drop ceilings means that apartments can rearrange for attached bathrooms or whatnot as income allows.
The walkability problem posed by tower blocks is neatly resolved by void decks.
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I told myself this quarter that I really had to get myself off this Mon through Fri class schedule
Sign up for classes today
Mon-fri again, but this time classes at 8 am every day. And then another class at 2pm.
/sad trombone
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Microwaves emit radio waves at 2.4ghz, so it's a wifi jammer.
yeah, that's true, but unless your microwave is like literally in the line of sight between your wifi router/access point and your computer, it shouldn't be kicking you entirely offline
this would make me worried that the shielding inside the microwave isn't working very well
Yeah that is a leaky shield, and given that a microwave is a kilowatt transmitter... might want to get a new one, or at least not stand too close while it's on
I realize this is like 20 pages back, but microwave is non-ionizing phyphor no worries, you could bust open the door and stick your junk right next to it if you want.
Yeah I know that, but I was more thinking along the lines of microwaves emit a lot of power at frequencies designed to be maximally absorbed by water. If one leaked a significant amount and your body absorbed that in a relatively small area you could get burned - potentially without even knowing as AFAIK heat sensing is done at the skin but the heating would be done below
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I would avoid building low-cost housing; I would seek neighbourhood planning with the intention to publicly house most of the lower third, a majority of the middle third in housing that they find desirable, and a minority slice of the upper third in houses considered competitive with private housing. I do not think there is any other way to maintain the political consensus or distribute the low-income sufficiently widely so that their neighbourhood impacts are not concentrated.
Cost suppression is largely a matter of land reform - density and prefabrication techniques do matter, but across East Asia, the largest gains mostly entailed expropriation. One sensible way to control its political impact is to legislatively limit due compensation to the prevailing price at some fixed date, on the intuitive argument that further appreciation generated by state investment is not earned by the landowner and is therefore not really owed to them. This does conflict straightforwardly with Fifth Amendment jurisprudence.
I'd build neighbourhoods very densely; in that way, housing value can be boosted through planning control over public transport and schools. School added value should be oriented toward quantity; niche top/bottom-5% cases can go voucher/fund themselves - the schools that parents will buy housing to get their kid into should be those which churn out thousand-strong cohorts.
Legacy neighbourhoods should be aggressively razed. Their locations are often valuable, and their prevailing prices often cheap compared to what could be built. Claims to historic value should be rationed and limited to a fixed cap (i.e., listing a building should not require merely justifying its artistic or historical merit, but justifying why one would delist an existing listed building).
Architecturally: slums are an everpresent risk. let's quote.
sight lines matter. This is probably easier to achieve in a warm climate than a temperate one.
Ah yes the true Boston experience
Yeah, maybe a bit lighter than this
Maybe even in ... Linen?
*lifts a mimosa to all the bankers and salesmen on the east coast in navy suits and overcoats*
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This was a bad idea because I laughed so hard I lost my breath and fell off the treadmill.
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Actually speaking of Ray Bans I am looking for sunglasses beyond my $5 target aviators
Should I buy Ray bans chat
I see them a lot but it seems kind of dumb how their logo is on the lens
Hmm aviators vs wayfarers
counterpoint: dolphin's noses kind of looks like a dick
be careful what you wish for
monkey's paw dick, curse of the magi, etc
the liklihood that your glasses will be immediately and completely obliterated in a random freak accident rises
pretty much 1:1 with the price
Taller ceilings mean drop ceilings; drop ceilings means that apartments can rearrange for attached bathrooms or whatnot as income allows.
The walkability problem posed by tower blocks is neatly resolved by void decks.
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I'm hungry. someone suggest a 1am snack
yo i got some tortoise new wayfarers and they are the bomb dot com
True
I've had my target ones for like 4 years
They are getting loose and wobbly and bent tho
cheap ones i dont care about so i never put them in a case or whatever
expensive ones get treated like they are irreplaceable
*weeps single tear*
Soup
pizza burger deluxe pizza
Now to wait 5 years for X-COM 3.
I'm not sure why.
I do have wontons... or should I go with chicken noodles?
or replay xcom 2 endlessly, it's p good
Heavy water+ irradiated eyeholes QED
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i have a huge fuck off jar of yeast and 20 lubs of flour.
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Your mutant abilities are activating. Keep an eye out for giant purple robots and bald men in wheelchairs.
Sign up for classes today
Mon-fri again, but this time classes at 8 am every day. And then another class at 2pm.
/sad trombone
Yeah I know that, but I was more thinking along the lines of microwaves emit a lot of power at frequencies designed to be maximally absorbed by water. If one leaked a significant amount and your body absorbed that in a relatively small area you could get burned - potentially without even knowing as AFAIK heat sensing is done at the skin but the heating would be done below
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