@UMUOMORAWR@DiracGhost Yes but haven’t looked deeply yet! My sense is that a space harboring undecidability requires it to have pockets with infinite resolution or space itself growing infinitely. The GoI captures this w replacement and copying…
@sam_d_1995@ryderkessler I spoke to Siffert directly and he’s primarily concerned that letting developers build ultra-expensive housing might not have as much of a ladder effect. NYC is a different market: are new $5-10m+ units bought in cash by foreign money helping house people?
@77_lyon That’s why it’s hard to care about local nobilities in the colonial era: Indians, Qajars, Egyptians — closer to being rent seekers than actual men if they nation.
@JeffreyKotyk The other shocking thing for me is that Buddhism was aniconic for several centuries, up til the early first millennium, I believe. Hard to believe given how abundant images of the Buddha are.
@GroovySciFi In the New World, we’re free to create new signifiers - a Pandora’s box opened. But that very unmooring creates a deep sense of instability, as if everything is unreal.
@sihir_sains The handles are the weak point for rolling luggage. Doesn’t matter if the shell is aluminium if the pulley thing is gonna break on you mid trip (happened to me twice).
@hermit_hwarang They can maximize sales by making a villain of a country that won’t buy their game. Profit motive -> media villain -> market propaganda -> political consequences.