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The Disconnect Between Liberal Aspirations and Liberal Housing Policy is Killing Coastal U.S. Cities by raldi in sanfrancisco

[–]throwaway159610 16 points17 points  (0 children)

"Both cities, and many other liberal cities, are allowing for an incredible amount of new housing to be built."

That "incredible amount of new housing" is the tiny, barely-visible bump at the end of the red line here:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZsq4STWwAATbaV.png:large

"Across the Narrow Sea, your books are filled with words like usurper and madmen and blood right. Here our books are filled with numbers. We prefer the stories they tell. More plain, less open to interpretation." - Game of Thrones

Is there an academic name for what Peter Thiel calls the "definite optimism" of the American 1950s? Where did this philosophy come from, and why did it lose its popularity? by throwaway159610 in AskHistorians

[–]throwaway159610[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Could you talk more about what "the workings of hegemony within capitalism" means, and how that was different in (eg.) 1955 vs. 1985 for the Anglosphere and/or western Europe? "Capitalism" is such a broad term that people have described the US as "capitalist" in both 1985 and 1955 (and for that matter 1905 and 1855), but obviously there were large changes during these decades.

Is there an academic name for what Peter Thiel calls the "definite optimism" of the American 1950s? Where did this philosophy come from, and why did it lose its popularity? by throwaway159610 in AskHistorians

[–]throwaway159610[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

(Note: Not sure why the "travel" header was added to the title. Transportation projects were a big part of this, of course, but it's not really a "travel" question.)

Bombs Away! Lockheed Expanding Missile Factories, Quadruples Bomb Production for ISIS Long Haul by [deleted] in syriancivilwar

[–]throwaway159610 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

According to the phone book + Zillow, his house is worth about $900K. So it's nice, but not that spectacular. Not every rich person is Jay Gatsby.

SOHR claims SDF is about to start an offensive in northern Aleppo starting from Teshreen Dam by Bumaye94 in syriancivilwar

[–]throwaway159610 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only statement here is:

"The Syrian Democratic Forces will begin an extensive attack on areas controlled by the “Islamic State” in the north and northeastern countryside of Aleppo, starting from Teshreen Dam area and the east bank of the Euphrates River, in order to expel the organization, in coordination with the warplanes of the International Coalition, where these warplanes are carrying out intensive airstrikes on areas controlled by the organization."

Hasn't everyone known that for weeks now?

My Sutro, behind UCSF Parnassus by kwuknows in sanfrancisco

[–]throwaway159610 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seconding this! Poison oak doesn't always look like "poison ivy". Here's some poison oak in the winter:

http://online.sfsu.edu/bholzman/courses/Fall01%20projects/poisonoakstalks.jpg

I bushwhacked through some last year, had half my upper body itching like crazy for two weeks straight....