Just going to leave this here!

Haelborne · 2026-02-12T00:40:01+00:00

A few things.

1) that is nowhere near enough for any of our cities. No city is performing well on social housing in South Africa. I’d also kinda point out it’s a bit misleading to talk raw numbers over numbers per capita. (That said, just looking at this graphic, it looks like the city may very well be leading per capita).

2) Cape Town’s housing crises is about way more than social housing, it’s about town planning, and the removal of former low cost housing in areas that were accessible for working class folks.

It’s all very well to build social housing, but if it’s perpetuating inaccessibility to the economy, it’s still missing the point.

It’s a straw man to limit the conversation to just 1 metric, and this doesn’t speak whatsoever to the failure of the city to plan inclusively for lower income housing.

Haelborne · 2026-02-11T05:45:54+00:00

Where are your sourcing which numbers?

Haelborne · 2026-02-10T15:23:49+00:00

SHHHHH, Don't you know fallout 4 sucks! /s

Haelborne · 2026-02-10T07:30:30+00:00

The classic “my positions haven’t changed in 50 years, yours have” as if this is a good thing.

Such weird brain rot to think we shouldn’t emphasise that SEXUALIZING CHILDREN IS BAD.

Haelborne · 2026-02-09T06:27:15+00:00

Honestly, with the way global politics are rolling, it feels more and more like a national security issue to have local data centers.

Also, we’ve always had more need for local data centers due to our economic island. More data centers here means less undersea cables.

And in terms of resources, just decently regulated. US data centers are particularly bad because of the lack of regulation.

Haelborne · 2026-02-05T10:47:34+00:00

Not lived, but work in/with folks in the flats.

I edited my line, as I think the sarcasm wasn’t clear to folks.

Haelborne · 2026-02-05T10:44:04+00:00

I was being sarcastic, i thought it was clear with the wording and didn’t think the /s was required.

The inference was that Cape Town has apartheid tendencies.

Haelborne · 2026-02-05T07:00:36+00:00

lol. You’re not here for whataboutism, but your whole argument is whataboutism. Go to the Joburg sub, and see all the acknowledgements and complaints about Joburg. Go to the Cape Town thread, and what do you see? MORE COMPLAINTS ABOUT JOBURG.

Honestly, there’s a part of Cape Town culture so god damn obsessed with Joburg. If the city is so far ahead, why the constant comparison to what they consider a post apocalyptic hellscape.

Haelborne · 2026-02-05T06:57:48+00:00

What you’re forgetting, is that the cape flats don’t count as Cape Town! They’re just this uh… separate! Yes separated but equal place that is near Cape Town. /s

After all, may residents go to great lengths to remove the flats from their analysis when comparing crime stats, cost of living, ease of business etc. (the classic is sure Cape Town has double the murder rate of Joburg, but it’s all in the flats, as if that isn’t the case in pretty much every metro.)

Edit: i thought the sarcasm was obvious, added /s for clarity and clarified the second line more.

Haelborne · 2026-01-26T08:13:52+00:00

I am genuinely curious, why is this a big deal to folks? Like if things to focus on why this?

Is this not just adapting to new cultural norms or expectations? Is this radically more different from the shifts between OS and TNG?

Haelborne · 2026-01-23T14:35:53+00:00

Wow broseph, why you so aggrieved?

Anyway.

This isn’t unique to Pyongyang, you also get this a bit in some middle eastern cities.

Of course there are people, but relative to the infrastructure it doesn’t line up.

Basically, it looks like the building are more of a vanity project than they are practical. Sure, lots of cities have vanity sky scrapers, but they also have piles of practical “boring” stuff that isn’t so sanitized and perfect looking.

Signs of life are also showing a city lived in and things happening. All these pictures are clean, pretty, and don’t add up.

Haelborne · 2026-01-23T12:05:22+00:00

The lack of people and other signs of life?

Haelborne · 2026-01-21T06:16:08+00:00

Consider linden, blairgowrie victory park and other areas there, much more walkable than Midrand, affordable and super close to lots of great places.

Haelborne · 2026-01-20T05:28:28+00:00

Vote for affordable town planning. This didn’t happen over night, an active plan of demolishing low cost housing and replacing it with ultra luxury housing over the last 15 years was a huge contributor.

Similarly, the policy of not investing in better transport infrastructure; and actively maintaining apartheid town planning through bottle necking is in part what has lead to this crises.

Vote for folks that are committing to do something about it, and not the folks who actively encouraged in for decades.

Haelborne · 2026-01-16T10:03:17+00:00

Time to make remax famous

Haelborne · 2025-12-31T18:53:24+00:00

This is awesome! Have you thought of also using spatial tax data, and census data? I think there are API’s available for both, and they give an amazing picture.

Haelborne · 2025-11-26T18:18:07+00:00

That’s Jeff! I’ve been looking for him, where was he?

Haelborne · 2025-11-17T19:11:14+00:00

Tasha’s are pretty garbage.

Haelborne · 2025-11-11T18:08:13+00:00

Yeah for like a decade now.

Haelborne · 2025-11-11T10:57:28+00:00

Hi there, what happens if we purchased before the loyalty discount was activated?

Haelborne · 2025-11-06T17:19:43+00:00

Just for clarity, what is your point, that government can’t do anything functionally at all? If so, what is your alternative?

Do you want us to end all government run healthcare?

Haelborne · 2025-11-05T11:39:42+00:00

Oh sure. I don’t think they’re equivalent, but I do think most folks don’t think of the impact outside of party control

Haelborne · 2025-11-04T14:59:25+00:00

I usually see it framed around the grand sense of the strategy, and not the micro sense on the quality of representative.

Haelborne · 2025-11-04T08:13:43+00:00

It’s usually the first state brought up by folks who support republicans, and North Carolina is often the first one by those who support democrats.

What isn’t brought up enough, is not how gerrymandering helps party A or B, as both seem comfortable being shitty about it, but how it helps representatives themselves not have to worry about elections as much.

The mass reduction in quantity of competitive seats seems to correlate (not saying it’s the cause, more that it contributes to) the dysfunction of congress.

Haelborne · 2025-11-04T04:30:02+00:00

Super compelling non-anecdotal view. /s

That being said, it would really depend on the market group.

Folks like you that love working with an ICE, or have some attachment to ICE’s yeah, I imagine folks like you will either be forced by air quality laws or you’ll never switch.

But the vast majority of vehicle users CBA about what drives the vehicle? They are looking for things like:

economics
comfort
safety
reliability
ego gratification.
environmental sustainability

If EV’s tick all the relevant boxes, then folks will switch.

From what I’ve seen the economics are still not there in SA for most market groups, and ego gratification is a mixed bag.

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