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@matthewswspence @AURAatx I’m sorry what subset of Austin homes had a median sales price of 1.58 million?

Austins HOME zoning reform cut the price per bedroom from $395,000 to $250,000. *That* is how you make a meaningful dent in housing affordability.

Had a dream where I went into a record store and bought a copy of Pornography by the Cure. I should go to a record store and get Pornography by the Cure.

@shagbark_hick Ireland and the UK have had this for centuries and their housing costs are still out of control

Conversely, suppose you created a "mobile de-gentrification unit". A fleet of rusty RV's inhabited by drunkards, pit bull owners, petty criminals, and so on. You roll up on a heavily-gentrified area, park the RV's, and commence creating havoc. That'd fix housing cost issue very quickly. I'm not even joking. A thousand ruffians in RV's, liquored up, engaging in petty crime, keeping the police consistently overworked, causing mass-scale pearl-clutching amongst the propertied. Besiege them long enough and houses start to go up on the market quickly. Then you buy them up and pay your ruffians to move on to the next target. If you're mad about the price of housing, why not take some ACTION? I'm sure it'd work in many places. Total chaos.

@TaupeAvenger Be serious, California would perhaps be able to build a single transmission line for 20 billion

For about $20B, California could build 3 more nuclear reactors and completely eliminate our use of fossil fuels for electricity. Of course instead we’re closing the two at Diablo Canyon for no good reason.

@Noahpinion Some will: in the same way it was impossible to be so physically inactive as to reach 500lbs a century ago, AI will allow the laziest to reach depths of mental inactivity that were previously unfathomable.

Yes. One thing I'm NOT worried about, with regards to AI, is that humans will stop thinking. AI will prompt us to think all the time.

@strnglft wait what does the moon look like?

I slipped through some sort of crevice or portal. Not sure how else to explain it.

@jamesrambin Yes of course I do — I paid 800k for an east side bungalow built in 1954, what do expect of me?

i’m concerned that some of you have a gas leak in your house

@the_P_God Giving up hate crimes for 40 days ain’t easy

@JacksonsSoul88 @Cincinnatus56 Oh phew, I’m glad we don’t have to think about this anymore!

@Cincinnatus56 We will have unsupervised full self driving cars doing most of the driving in 5 years. In 20 years driving tests and drivers licenses wont be a thing anymore.

In the next 20 years there is going to be a massive debate as aging boomers refuse to give up their keys despite being completely incapable of driving safely. You’ll see laws get passed which ban driving tests for seniors and tax credits for seniors who buy a car over 80

@cullenroche en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%2…

@TheStalwart Jensen Huang said something similar in a recent interview - it turns out that many of the things we *thought* require great intelligence (math, coding, etc) are the easiest ones for a simple AI model to automate away.... Have we misinterpreted what intelligence is all this time?

Seeing a lot of posts from software engineers that are like "AI is devouring my job and soon it will happen to everyone". And it's like maybe, but just because you have an easy job doesn't mean everyone else does.

@reinerg6 what if you hadn't eaten breakfast this morning?

@watilo @SouthwestAir It wasn't like that the last time I flew

my wife and two kids (5 and 2) are flying @SouthwestAir today. and because i refuse to pay for seats, their seats were auto assigned. my 2 year old in his own row without his mom or sister. i sorta figured when the websites breaks out age 0-4, they'd factor this in but nah...

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@agreatdayinnc Even if you were completely sold down the river?

Forgive your parents Trust me

@shagbark_hick I'm assuming you visited Snake and Jake's during your time in the New Orleans area, no?

This is what a desirable social club looks like IMO. To have a real "scene" that is durable and high-quality, you can't run places entirely on the up-and-up. They've got to be a little "ratchet," have a little character, be a little busted-down. If an NPR "jazz dad" would be comfortable in your place, it's likely not a place that is capable of being culturally generative on net. You want minimal codes and inspections, junk out front, a very strange layout, and irregular hours. You want to attract a clientele that isn't finicky and rates high on the "weirdness scale". None of this can be cultivated -- it has to emerge organically. When this kind of thing happens naturally, it becomes a little notorious. Eccentrics hang there -- the place becomes more of an organism than a well-regulated instutition. Such a place can easily have a magnetic draw far more intense than more polished clubs would ever have. True enough, the high-dollar clientele might be scared away by the roughness. But so what?

@cinderlenin Don’t forget cop and social worker

Ya'll want these teachers to be your child's therapist, entertainment, best friend, nurse, parent, brain, and everything else my god

'We were promised flying cars!' Bitch if they came out with flying cars today you'd hate them and be trying to get em banned

@skooookum Milk chocolate

Is stir-fry the only dish where the instructions are in the name

@ConorKenny I do believe this and voted against prop Q but I would actually love to be wrong about it. What's the evidence that increased services do not attract out-of-town homeless?

Every major metro uses CoC dollars to fund permanent supportive housing, and each major metro has a faction convinced that their city is attracting homeless folks from other cities *because* they fund too many services. (Major belief of anti-propQ folks in Austin.)

@Avalancado @GayBearRes Smoke em if ya got em kids

Had a relative burn through 400K plus waterfront house sale in 3 years to die broke in an SNF (Skilled Nursing Facility). Your parents may not get lucky and just die, but lose their faculties slowly for a decade requiring years of assistance. Some say they don't believe in the least worst choice and I want to give them a hug, b/c there are some choices on that far off horizon that will change you.

Long term care providers

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