Eric Panzer

See, these houses make me angry because they are *so cute* but somehow we mostly can't get stuff like this in the Bay Area because too many architects/developers consider more traditionalist designs and materials beneath them

And don't tell me about brick and seismic. It's called brick veneer.

No, it is absolutely not just incompetence. How is it that progressives are the only ones who ever have agency in these discussions? Republicans and the media also have control of their actions. And the media decided to cover Biden's mental state but not Trump's. They decided not to cover Epstein

I am fully ready for First Nations Futurism and would like to please request a helping of it for the Bay Area

I was so tired of human hosts/hostesses telling me that I'd have to wait for a table. Now Host GP-Eat just generates whatever seating my party requires.

Can't imagine that has anything to do with the fact that everyone younger than MTV is bone tired of getting donation solicitations by email, text message, sidewalk fundraisers, and carrier pigeons

Vulture capitalists ruin everything, exhibit ZZ-175a(ix)

Pacifica Republic

The Tsunami Watch has been changed to an advisory for the SF Bay Area.

While strong currents and waves are possible, inundation is not currently expected in the SF Bay region:

forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.ph...

Apparently my least YIMBY opinion is that Victorians are great, beautiful, and eat most contemporary architecture for breakfast

Yes, I know they didn't traditionally look like this and that they are expensive as hell to maintain, but that doesn't stop them being great

I will die on this hill

I don't know how to talk about what's happening in Gaza anymore, because words fail to capture the extent of the depravity.

What's being done there in our name is a sin against God and the memory of our ancestors. It's the greatest crime committed in the history of our people.

I don't think that fixes it either

As an editor, I would write in red ink, "Sentence unclear, consider rephrasing"

Strunk & White most definitely did *not* approve this message

The way that I was raised, being Jewish meant believing that every human life was sacred; to save a single human life meant saving all of humanity. That no law or ritual was more important than saving a single human life.

It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.

I've heard that some people have pre-evacuated in the past, but I think we're going to need to make sure those calls are rare to keep people interested in doing so

Also seems like we need stronger messaging around go bags and getting the hell out of Dodge if there is an actual fire approaching

Or just sticking with "Columbia" since they are named for Columbus, who was a genocidal white supremacist before it was American

Seems somehow fitting that an elitist private institution named for notable genocidal madman Christopher Columbus would bow to white supremacists

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Take meta-analyses with a grain of salt, but this study found an *enormous* benefit for going from 2000 steps per day to 7000

Of course, as someone interested in housing & transit policy, my immediate response is:

Holy shit, our anti-housing and pro-car policies impose a huge disease burden!

Last I checked, the subway runs 24/7, and there are subway-accessible neighborhoods that are at least modestly more affordable

But even New York has seen a diminution of its 24/7 establishments

Great observations, but one item you didn't include is the effect of high housing costs and poor late night transit on bar and restaurant workers

Bars and restaurants can't keep their kitchens open late if their workers can't get home after midnight

You need good late transit or cheap homes nearby

Just a reminder that the media could have talked endlessly about pretty much all of the Trump/Epstein stuff we are discussing now

But they decided to focus instead on whether Biden was too old, Kamala laughed too loud, and the exact timing of a 1980s trip to China by Tim Walz

The media want Trump

The irony is that traditional design often emphasizes simpler building massing, which saves on construction costs, reduces the risk of defects, and lowers energy use

But many cities require random-ass facade articulation, which gives us weird, unnecessary building forms

Compare and contrast:

And that's totally fine. I don't want to prohibit any style outright, even if it's not my taste.

That said, if my goal is to promote housing, I want to give the people what they want. Therefore I'm a big fan of incentivizing the production of what they want.

And we know traditional is popular

I agree the buildings in the second image look perfectly fine and IMO much better than the corrugated-steel adorned boxes that were popular for a while

It's wild to me that some YIMBYs are so affronted/challenged by the idea that architectural principles and preferences can even exist

But I'm done arguing about this will y'all because I'm trying to be constructive and sincere while y'all seem intent on turning it into a snarky dick-measuring contest, which I have no interest in

It's actually possible to characterize in relatively objective terms what elements contribute to a building appearing more traditionalist

The fact that architects can reliably produce buildings in a particular style means these things can be characterized, communicated, and formalized to a degree

No, I specifically said fee "rebate" which means what the word "rebate" means, which is returning or discounting other existing fees

I'm not sure why you're trying to straw man me and put words in my mouth

Don't be an asshole to people who have been fighting for housing for decades

I prefer traditional architecture, but I also don't want to gum the works or be proscriptive

My preferred approach is thus some sort of bonus expediting and/or fee rebates if one uses traditional design judged through an administrative, rubric-based process which is minimally or not appealable

Would greatly value seeing this all laid out rigorously somewhere :D

I think that smoke and falling embers probably are a good reason not to evacuate on foot, but I still think there are many instances where it may still make sense to do so.

Since you're digging into this, could you figure out why walking/biking are not considered viable evacuation methods (at least for most people) when those were probably the most popular evacuation methods in the 1923 fire, in which no one died and which was their historical model for a future fire?

Overall I just see it as a tool. It can help a human do human things and/or help a human make a computer do things, but it is rarely if ever a replacement for a human

And when it is, we should make sure the person whose job is being obviated has ample support and economic/educational opportunity