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Gamergate is a major milestone in their pathologies as well.

Insert what could a banana cost Michael, $10 meme.

CalFire has zero regard for the costs imposed by their policies.

"sprawl is a distraction and a ponzi scheme" is the one good point Strong Towns had.

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

The Enshittificator Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

This informational video on enshittification by the Norwegian Consumer Council is absolutely glorious.

Just left higher ed.

The lightness I feel from being out of that toxicity is infinite.

The fire marshal career track inside the fire service is a jobs program for firefighters injured or disabled from fire fighting. Or getting numbers of people who cannot cut it in traditional firefighting roles.

Lots of trauma response and sadness in the fire marshal ranks.

If California and other relatively LGBT-friendly states want to be helpful, they're going to need to build a lot more housing.

To end a housing crisis, you have to want to end it "Streamline Sacramento" and the importance of a city government that truly cares

Great piece on why Sacramento has succeeded on housing when most other cities in this state failed and what city council is doing to keep up the momentum to reduce rents.

housesac.substack.com/p/to-end-a-h...

Putting aside the story of what Dems could or couldn't do post 1/6, I think the broader story of American elites is that they believe themselves to be precariously in their positions and thus are extremely averse to upsetting the status quo. Better to be elite in fascism than a plebe in democracy.

Long Beach eats Huntington Beach across county lines.

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

The world went insane in the decade immediately after the last global respiratory pandemic of their type (Spanish flu), I think there's something about this kind of collective trauma in modern societies that had managed to reduce that kind of mass mortality that does this to politics.

Then short-cycling the equipment shortening its life and annoying the occupants.

Utterly predictable conduct from CalFIRE.

Stupid rules in the legislature just burned 2 years on a study bill and the report is late and does the bare minimum.

Pedocon theory remains undeafeted.

Given how damaging the Epstein Files have been to Donald Trump specifically it’s political malpractice the Biden admin didn’t release them to the public.

CA Supreme Court has denied review / depublication of Save Our Access v. City of San Diego.

This means that worst CEQA opinion of the last two decades is binding law on superior court judges statewide.

Leg attention needed!

Yep and half of the seasonal workforce lives in RVs or camps in the winter. There is the legendary the snow cave complex (in deep years) that was reasonably comfortable given CA NIMBYs

I don't know for sure but would guess CEQA/Forest Service permits.

And Mammoth was central to CEQA becoming the super law that covered private development. That non profit is still around.

CAL-OSHA investigates deaths and I'm shocked that the automated pods weren't put in after the Feb 2025 death

California's vetocracy explains it. CEQA and discretionary review.

For the second time in two winters a patroller at Mammoth was injured doing manual avalanche control that is automated at resorts in Utah.

That was probably Sierra Trading Post with their crude catalogs selling overstocked Patagonia.

They sold to TJ Maxx and it is enshittified now. The marquee outdoor brands have other outlets

Short version: chasing the hardline party’s voters without any real principles of your own makes you lose your own base and convince fence-sitters to support the hardline party, not you.

That is why the city taxes people and provides parks in cities.

Parks aren't Nature they are human created and managed.

Suburban pastoralism isn't nature either.

Risk of Ruin podcast just did a great episode that included Portland's courtyard cottages.

"Let them eat Cake".

It is nice to see YIMBYs crossing over with "advantage players" aka smarter gambling types.

Yes, suburban pastoralism is fake pastoralism.

Suburban pastoralism is just another name for NIMBYs.

No you should pay a land value tax to help get that yard/land into a better and higher use in an urban infill location

I call this the Dream Vampire Economic Model. It also exists in the arts, publishing, and every other somewhat prestigious industry that young people want to work in.

As someone who just ended 15 years in public higher education, this is 100% correct.

Time to put on my Eatin Pants

Your old threads on where do you and your comrades drill/train and how many comrades do you have were bangers.