Travis Adams

Boot straps for thee, too big to fail for me.

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@emilykmay "daycare is not forever" yeah but those years only happen once.

It is a cost, but it's a cost either way.

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@fawfulfan Depends on how it happened. Could have happened with mom home. The kid called for help, like he was supposed to. The system worked.

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@LoveCodeTrade That's what you don't get - you can make another bus. You can't make another san francisco.

Property changes character across scales and quality.

This has been widely covered amongst the political theorists who birthed the Age of Enlightenment.

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@xwanyex Property rights are a human fabrication to mediate human interaction as it relates to the material world.

Whatever set of rules reduce the friction in those interactions is good.

Property rights have been under development since at least the invention of language.

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@MattStark5 @LoveCodeTrade it's not just the zoning piece, but yes, all the factors together say "when you finally get permission you try to meet as much demand as possible in this single place"

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@LoveCodeTrade @MattStark5 it's because you stood in the way of gradual change for so long, now you're going to end up with transformational change

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@jasonc_nc @yhdistyminen Rather than putting it in human hands to turn a SFH into a 10 bedroom apartment

These things need to be taken out of the realm of politics and be put into the ol' boring administrative execution of government bucket

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@jasonc_nc @yhdistyminen AND transformational. Some cities genuinely need it, but I think in most places we should push for a zoning code revolution, rather than upzoning. To me its way more important to create a durable, predictable set of rules for how we can evolve slowly

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@roycearonie @yhdistyminen it's because SF provides the clearest examples, and cities don't operate in vacuums. Most cities don't want to be the first to do anything. And so American goes, to quite a large degree, as places like SF and NYC go

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@NY_LBSS @bobbyfijan then you have to deal with some moron dad doing stupid shit and yelling at your children, if the rec/intramural stuff was chill vibes and just playing, sure, but too many of the leagues are clusterfucks

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@CryptoGeorgist @Empty_America

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@BlueRepublik And you don't repair public trust by continuing to do unpopular things.

So.. idk. We're in a tricky situation.

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@BlueRepublik I think politicians should be equal parts leader and representative, and probably MattY leans too much towards "just do what is popular", but I think the real issue is that the government has lost public trust.

You can't change people's minds when they don't trust you.

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@sp6runderrated @18dixiedean78 Well, you're talking to John C Calhoun and he died in 1850 so he didn't know about the civil war.

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@Flatt0pH8r @nobodyknows2322 not entirely wrong, not entirely right

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@RizomaSchool Trunk or treat is a way to have trick or treating with a group that isn't your neighborhood. Your church, you sports team, etc, etc.

It usually doesn't replace the night of Halloween, it's an accessory.

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@gamespotting @LoveCodeTrade I was being obnoxiously hyperbolic.

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@inarchus @mattyglesias I wish I could see the full thing but paying to watch it feels like setting money on fire.

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@inarchus @mattyglesias I tried to show my wife a clip to make fun of Matt speaking his high register which makes him look more dishonest than he is, and the clip was like 85% Mehdi talking over Matt trying to answer the question.

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@LoveCodeTrade @_giacomo_volpe_ They have vans because of the roads, not the other way around. We had plumbers before cars. Your logic assumes a car-oriented society.