Here is a Berkeley professor claiming Prop 40 tax is "one-time" (source: trust me bro) while Prop 3 on the exact same ballot is about making a previous "one-time" tax permanent.
They lie like they breathe.
Look. I don’t want to overstate it. But when you look at contemporary SF — the cults of rationality and dialogue, powerful men having sex with their male mentees, an obsession with “first principles” thinking — it’s hard not to notice some parallels with ancient Athens.
one reason to be against affordable housing / income restricted housing / subsidized housing units in an otherwise non-public building, is that all these squish economics into weirder shapes.
Anything distortionary makes building housing harder, but it also makes fraud easier.
The cosmic horrors of San Jose's built environment, public realm, & bad transport are:
1. A warning to urbanists--innovation is a *metropolitan* phenomenon, not inherently an *urbanist* phenomenon
2. An indictment of claims that banning density = more beauty or higher quality
This is also how the cost of living causes DoorDash discourse - few people are going hungry, but many people feel like The Treats are being taken from them
A good rule of history: if you find yourself opposing a student movement while siding with the ruling class, you're wrong. Every time, in every era, whatever the issue.
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@wotancore I tried to set it so I only bring my phone with me when I leave the house but a lot of 2factor stuff still pings it. I’ll probably try again it worked pretty well
The European version of the Manhattan Project is assembling a team of the continent’s most brilliant lawyers to spend 2% of GDP clearing the permitting gauntlet in record time (36 months).