“To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.” ~ bell hooks
Because of induced demand, this Sisyphean struggle against congestion is an expensive boondoggle
this could be written about Barrie’s own Allandale and the 400: ‘but it’s really a divider—because it isolates Allendale.’
The iron law of congestion is an endless cycle in which congestion leads to highway expansion, which invites more peak-hour trips, which brings back traffic, and so on.
Because of induced demand, this Sisyphean struggle against congestion is an expensive boondoggle. Worse, the added miles of highway lanes act as an accelerant for climate change.
With so many forces pushing for roadway expansions, opposing them requires political bravery.
https://slate.com/business/2024/08/construction-traffic-cars-driving-transportation-highway.html
Lessons from Andy Grove
What you’re seeing today is a very, very rapid evolution of an industry where the milieu is better understood by people who grew up in the same time frame as the industry. A lot of the years that many of us have spent in business before this time are of only limited relevance.
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a1449/learned-andy-grove-0500
friend with kids and aging parents, this app could really come in handy!
‘Flush Toilet Finder is the quickest, simplest way of finding a public bathroom or restroom.’
Just a couple of bike flips on a moving train
i might as well face it, i’m addicted to cycling
I backpedal on the days I plan to rest — I’ll just go for a quick one right now and take tomorrow off instead.
I don’t know what I’m going to do this winter without it.
https://kottke.org/24/11/might-as-well-face-it-youre-addicted-to-running
Political Power != Cultural Power
“Now that Trump won people have to like and agree with me and not tell me I suck anymore.”
‘These folks are going to be permanently resentful because they’re seeking political power as a substitute for cultural power, and it’s never going to give them what they actually want.’
Listen, if you can stomach it, to a random MAGA grievance rant & ask yourself “how much of what they’re most upset about is something public policy can realistically address?”
‘Elon Musk has all the money in the world and can’t buy one minute of cool.’
The work of obtaining facts has a major economic disadvantage against the production of bullshit
The destruction of patience is one of the most dramatic cultural shifts we’ll probably experience of our lifetimes.
Democracy is more than the absence of czars, more than freedom, more than equal opportunity. It is a way of life, a use of freedom, an embrace of opportunity.
https://mattdpearce.substack.com/p/journalisms-fight-for-survival-in
he is not only taking care of his mother and younger brother but also those around him as a nurse.
conservatism has long been surrounded by an enormous shimmering halo of pseudo-philosophy
Frank Wilhoit: ‘Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”’
What I have taken advantage of is what so many, many, many, many other people have taken advantage of, which is today the total disintermediation of the public discourse. There is no longer any gatekeeping whatsoever.
https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html