The more I think about it, the more I think 2013-era morality is pretty much correct:
* free speech good
* starting companies and making good products good
* monopolies bad, vendor lock-in bad
* democracy good
* greed bad
* trying to achieve national security through oppressing people bad
* cosmopolitan humanitarian values, caring about faraway people, etc good
Things we've "learned" since then have been harmful more than helpful
BREAKING: Sacramento is finalizing a trade to send De'Aaron Fox to the San Antonio Spurs in a multi-team trade that moves Chicago Bulls' Zach LaVine to the Kings, sources tell ESPN.
Theory of CEQA: Consider alternatives before doing something big & risky.
Practice of CEQA (via today's Executive Dir.): Expedite massive rebuild of sprawl in toxin-soaked firelands.
No study, no alts: E.D. applies only if you're rebuilding same structure in same place.
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It is kind of insane that the explicit public policy of California is “after a massive horrendous fire, we will expedite building the same exact kind of fire prone structure in exactly the same fire prone area but NOT fire resistant apartments in non-fire prone areas”
For all the normies out there, this post is good because it calls out the defining fallacy of California's ruling anti-housing, Not-In-My-Backyard Democrat class (the "Left-NIMBYs").
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