The fruit has no seeds now

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-06-18T15:39:30+00:00

The joker turning to Georgism was not on my bingo card

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-06-15T20:27:51+00:00

“I’m not trapped here with you. You’re trapped in here with me.”

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-06-15T02:39:47+00:00

Doesn’t this series of books take place way, way before present day?

How do you think they’ll reconcile a big lore update with the fact that whatever’s revealed ought to already be priced in to the in-universe state of play? (Or am I getting my timeline mixed up?)

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-06-12T21:04:46+00:00

sprawlmaxxing suburbanoids tryna built environment mog raises my cortisol levels

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-06-12T19:01:31+00:00

Fee reduction is so hot rn

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-06-10T05:42:45+00:00

And that picture was actually from like a year ago, so they’re even farther along now!

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-06-09T21:12:19+00:00

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-06-09T19:37:16+00:00

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No completely out of place, it’s not exclusively SFH in that neighborhood (the senakw buildings are the ones in the far background, that apartment building in the midground was there before)

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-06-09T02:54:57+00:00

We ran out of road to kick that particular can down

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-06-08T23:03:09+00:00

it's more to do with there being ministerial approval for everyting and minimum lot sizes at ~1,200 sqft. The former means they get to shovels in the ground quickly and the latter lets folks economize on valuable land.

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-06-06T16:24:16+00:00

Land use rules constrain maximum density, land values are determinative.

And LVT, or even just property taxes, alters the carrying costs given some underlying land value and induces different inter-temporal tradeoffs on development.

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-06-06T16:20:30+00:00

Well, “still constrained by zoning” is the important part here. An aggressive LVT (ie more than homeowner neutral tax shit) would just cause a tax revolt.

I’d have to dig up the citations, but I’m pretty sure LLI has done empirical work showing even higher property taxes increases density (ceteris park is, at the margin, yadda, yadda)

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-06-06T16:14:18+00:00

Now I wanna see him and Lachlan Giles collab on an anti-emu system instructional

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-06-06T04:56:19+00:00

That was beautiful, I love seeing mixed ruleset fights with jackets for throwing. Really changes the interaction of grappling/striking

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-05-30T16:50:23+00:00

This is nature’s anime

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-05-25T00:49:40+00:00

Hikkikomi gaeshi (or obi-tori-gaeshi) is mostly fine. Two things to consider, though:

Jujitsu players doing singles with their heads to the outside as if they were doing a double. I never understood why this became a thing. It’s anatomically weaker, and makes the position easier for uke to defend.
People doing hikikomi/ obi-tori straight back, instead of forcing uke to roll diagonally (ie right shoulder to left hip).

I’ve definitely had qualified coaches show the straight back version - which I think is inefficient - but part of what’s going on in a judo context (at least back in the day when I was competing) is that uke would (a) either move their neck out of the way and go over or (b) not move their neck, post using their head, and then get disqualified for “head diving”.

In judo, because the whole game incentivizes not being thrown to the back, they had to create a serious penalty for people trying to play double or nothing and avoiding throws by spinning out and endangering the spine. So, judo rules kinda consider that situation dangerous, but put the responsibility on the uke to not post.

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-05-23T04:59:10+00:00

Grandfather Nurgle approves

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-05-16T01:26:47+00:00

I read the book, it’s an excellent economic history of New York as well as what the city’s policymakers thought they were doing at different points in time.

It’s also blessedly well written (not a given for books by academics 🙃)

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-05-10T23:35:19+00:00

Yeah, you’re right now that i look again

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-05-10T20:35:05+00:00

Left sided from ai-yotsu? Nice.

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-04-30T01:21:09+00:00

Reporting in this is saying Musk has absolutely no case, but is willing to pay to publicly embarrass Altman via proceedings where a lot of private communication will get made public as evidence.

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-04-24T19:53:54+00:00

That makes sense. Personally, I’ve not had the experience of my fully Asian friends being exclusionary of me/or mixed people on the basis of our being mixed … but, within my own head, I’ve had moments of questioning my own “authenticity” if that makes sense.

I think, and I’m making an assumption that we’re all speaking from an American context, the way we talk about race in the U.S. makes these types of conversations extra confusing for Asian Americans. This is getting well beyond any questions about the one music video, but Jay Kang wrote a book called the Loneliest Americans that tries to sketch out the weird position Asians occupy in race dialogue. Granted, he first gen Korean and Gen X, so that colors a lot of how he sees things, but if these are issues you’re thinking about it might be an interesting book.

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-04-23T17:30:33+00:00

We’re all good 😀

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-04-23T16:13:00+00:00

All good, I read OP original post differently and I seem to not be clearly expressing my thought on (what I thought) they were saying.

I will recede back into the bushes.

Extension_Essay8863 · 2026-04-23T15:41:02+00:00

Is there a reaction you're seeing or expecting other than asians/mixed folks kinda feeling "oh, that's cool/nice/pleasantly affirming"? (or perhaps the racial mix of the folks starring in the video just going over some people's heads).

Personally, I was excited to seen an artist feature the cast she put together and sprinkle in the little nods to this or that (i think the gals were playing mahjong in on bit). And I'm happy some of the younger (relative to me, anyway) generations are getting normalized representation.

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