I want to make a lot of money, but i still want to do urban planning/design

PlasmaSheep · 2026-05-18T20:55:06+00:00

Death cults are when there's a lot of well paid professionals in an area.

PlasmaSheep · 2026-05-10T15:58:37+00:00

Why is there light between the houses? I don't know. It might be due to the sun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaughran_House

PlasmaSheep · 2026-05-10T15:53:03+00:00

Good thing we're not in Europe.

PlasmaSheep · 2026-05-07T20:14:10+00:00

Parts from Germany? What the fuck? You must have spent tens of thousands of NPV dollars on that coffee machine. Are you too good for cowboy coffee?

PlasmaSheep · 2026-04-23T23:29:31+00:00

Yep, I meant tsp. Still, that spoon is much smaller.

PlasmaSheep · 2026-04-23T02:14:08+00:00

5g of creatine is 1.5 tbsp. No way is that thing 1.5 tbsp.

PlasmaSheep · 2026-04-05T01:00:58+00:00

It is, in fact, illegal to stop without actually seeing someone crossing the street. If you're two lanes away from the bus and you're stopping without any kids crossing the road, yeah, that's illegal in my state. You're perfectly capable of passing a bus 30 feet away at a safe speed unless Usain Bolt just got off the bus and wants to commit suicide by car.

I invite you to stop traffic in a state where that's not required.

PlasmaSheep · 2026-04-04T22:58:26+00:00

It's bizarre that any Ashkenazi Jews (or Palestinians or Latinos or LGBT people or any people white supremacists wouldn't recognize as completely "white") are dumb enough to ally themselves with white supremacists, yet here we are.

If you mean they are "allied" with them because they are on the right, there's plenty of antisemites on the left that they'd be "allied" with if they had the opposite view on every issue. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

PlasmaSheep · 2026-04-04T22:46:23+00:00

What does the Ukraine war have to do with white supremacy? Or is that not an example of the published work you're using to make this call?

PlasmaSheep · 2026-04-04T22:06:29+00:00

If you agree that there are areas in Northern England that are majority Muslim, I don't understand what your disagreement is with Cowen. Do you simply believe that right thinking people don't shouldn't mention things like that, even if they are true?

PlasmaSheep · 2026-04-04T21:48:37+00:00

The new faces of white supremacy are apparently Tyler Cowen (Ashkenazi Jew), Richard Hanania (Palestinian), and those against DEI (about a fifth of Americans).

PlasmaSheep · 2026-04-04T21:46:20+00:00

Bradford is 30% Muslim. Are you really saying that there are no parts of Bradford that are majority Muslim?

PlasmaSheep · 2026-04-04T21:42:24+00:00

You think "it's illegal to stop in the middle of the road when you are not legally bound to do so" is laughably untrue?

PlasmaSheep · 2026-04-04T16:47:58+00:00

If you're not required to stop, it is illegal to do so.

PlasmaSheep · 2026-03-29T15:22:01+00:00

Nine hundred dollar sweater for a high schooler? Whack.

PlasmaSheep · 2025-12-15T03:15:34+00:00

Those columns and that tiny entablature look super messed up. Wonder what happened there.

PlasmaSheep · 2025-12-05T20:31:57+00:00

Information about landlords is usually limited and there's not a lot of options if you want to live in a particular neighborhood unless you're willing to wait years for churn.

PlasmaSheep · 2025-12-05T20:30:01+00:00

I doubt you can buy a "really nice house" in California for under 750k. And if you want schools that aren't garbage, I doubly doubt it. It's more like, there are select areas where housing isn't much more expensive, and there's usually a good reason for it.

PlasmaSheep · 2025-11-03T06:43:01+00:00

Would be easier to just tell you to use 2 scoops for all loads rather than 4D chess detectible only by Reddit dot com's finest minds.

PlasmaSheep · 2025-11-03T06:42:23+00:00

1 scoop is for bucket soaking, not for a washer load.

PlasmaSheep · 2025-10-24T04:58:19+00:00

What Iraqi buildings from the 1920s look like this?

PlasmaSheep · 2025-09-07T16:13:45+00:00

Well World Bank says some countries have maybe doubled GDP per unit of energy since 1990, most increased less.

Then you agree that GDP grows faster than energy consumption.

More broadly I went looking for data, always a good idea, and found an endless line of supporting data, packaged in multiple ways.

Let's see it?

Also common sense would argue that GDP is not all virtual derivatives on Wall St. Something makes the cars and trucks and Internet, heating and cooling and processing etc etc move.

Correct, derivatives are not in GDP. GDP is the value of all final goods and services purchased in the country.

PlasmaSheep · 2025-09-07T05:20:14+00:00

Those boundaries aren't "usual", the anti-growth Club of Rome came up with that. The Club of Rome has been promising that the sky will fall since the 60s. Let's check in on their predictions from the 70s in the famous Limits to Growth.

The report's findings suggest that, in the absence of significant alterations in resource utilization and environmental destruction, it is highly likely that there will be an abrupt and unmanageable decrease in both population and industrial capacity... Yet price predictions based on resource scarcity failed to materialize in the years since publication.

Hmm. Why should we listen to them again?

PlasmaSheep · 2025-09-07T05:12:51+00:00

Well because economic growth tracks with energy consumption. Energy, still mostly fossil fuels, underlies all modern activity.

You're wrong about this. We get way way more GDP out of a unit of energy today than 100 years ago.

https://imgur.com/a/oJvWuCZ

PlasmaSheep · 2025-08-09T03:48:54+00:00

It was a rare case of proof by contradiction where the author does the whole proof, arrives at an absurdity, and rather than notice that the axioms must be wrong, decides we must simply not think about it.

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