@distributionat @SlopHq @Aella_Girl @pangram that is a deliberate and surprisingly good yimby slop account, its the whole gimmick
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@AbsentHog
some short and sharp, and some long and arcane takes on nz law, housing, policy and politics longer thoughts here https://t.co/76P9BspmQp
Katılım Ağustos 2018
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Why and how is it like this? Like clearly something has gone wrong in the sf government but what went wrong specifically?
clara the urbanist@SlopHq
it took san francisco nineteen years and $346 million to put a two mile bus lane on van ness, a street the city already owned. the planning process outlasted the construction of the hoover dam by over a decade
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In 2026 i am going to fumble a pharmacist baddy by saying chemist warehouse is good and the pharmacists guild is had. A matyr for my beliefs
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@AbsentHog The last thing we should do is let the likes of Coles and Woolies in on the pharmacy game...
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I hate the pharmacy guild, all right minded people should hate the pharmacy guild, and we should make pharmacists compete with each other and with new entrants, not gorge on protectionism and public money abc.net.au/news/2026-07-1…
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Bafflingly after writing a post like that, I have a vacancy for a sheila in my life
Get in before the bumble baes do
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This is why my main variable to optimise for is good chat. Everything else can be satisfisced but convo chemistry is the maximand
valentine@valawakened
I read somewhere that "When you choose a life partner you're choosing your eating companion for about 20,000 meals, your travel companion for about 70 vacations, your retirement friend, career therapist, & someone whose day you'll hear about 18,000 times" and I really can't stress this enough.
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@actsmaniac This is a lot of housing policy innit?
Urban economists usually were sidelined for some mix of planning, architecture, vibes etc
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what's funny about housing in Europe is that it's considered its own branch of social policy so sociology professors get consulted first before regular economists
of course leading to terrible policy outcomes.
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@db_econ @econoadabsurdam @hillfolkAU The difference between expertise (status and role) and expertise (good at concrete knowing, analysing and predicting things in the world) is fairly stark on housing
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@econoadabsurdam @hillfolkAU 4 full time reporters from the national broadcaster vs 2 nerds in their spare time
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@Shybaltesh Lol whatever the comics sans, the cases and hot take emails from edelman 30 years ago are both great
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And the worst part is that they could get AI to help them customize their explanation to individual needs.
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Very few people know the amount of useful work that the current models can do in Code/Codex/etc. with the right setup
This is not a "rah rah you are so early" post, this is a "AI companies are doing a really bad job explaining what their systems actually do in a clear way" post.
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@henrycooke Feel like there'll be a random explainer from the 1980s treasury and a now semi retired geezer who was the junior analyst on it
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is there a good book on the full history of NZ's electricity system?
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Law is easy, liability is easy, proving quantum fucking suuuuucks
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@davejac Its a number 8 wire approach to landing a fta with a billion person country, may as well give it a whirl because even a doomed FTA is better than no FTA
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@davejac Deliberately landing ambiguous language so both sides can claim a win, then leaving it for later, is a strong pragmatic tactic
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@HowardFMaclean Its not even the nicest park nor any of the nicest buildings in the area. I have a solution
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People are discovering the World Heritage Environs Area from first principles.
Matt Seymour@seemorematt
zoning atlas reminding me of me fav example of the arbitrariness of our planning vagaries. south of the line? big skyscrapers. north of it? like 2 stories. Of what use were the rules if they brought us to this?
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@MiddleMoney yeah this makes sense its just a good addition to townhouse and activity center expansion, not an alternative
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@AbsentHog Hello Jess Wilson (not that it's a bad idea) abc.net.au/news/2026-02-2…
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Melbourne doesn't have an absolutely liberal planning regime, just relatively so. Job's not done. Need skyscrapers in Fitzroy
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Jonathan O'Brien@jonobri
More than *three quarters* of all residential land across Australian capital cities is highly restricted. Today we @yimbymelbourne launch the Australian Zoning Atlas: the first nation-wide analysis of land use planning controls.
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i like charlii's music but what she needs to really cement her post-brat status as the greatest pop artist around is to replace all her themes and lyrics about driving with the joys of walkable urban living
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Sufficiently high density actually does mean planning is probably a constraint so fitzroy is unlikely to get skyscrapers
But its a sign of bad rules that box hill and coburg have high rises while fitzroy doesn't
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