obsidianop

Can you talk about weekly cycles of anxiety? I work myself into absolute anxious misery every Sunday and Monday morning worrying about the work week. Sometimes it's hard (that's life) but usually it's fine by Monday at noon. This has been true since I was a child. How can a person break this cycle?

Yeah basically why isn't there a mode that says "NEVER CHANGE A CORRECTLY SPELLED WORD". Incorrectly changing its to it's just because the latter is more common makes my blood boil. I'm using it correctly, why are you gaslighting me?!

I'm always impressed how well the LoTR movies still look and I'm really happy they weren't made like 5 years earlier.

This whole thing has taught me that people (myself included I suppose) are just big balls of priors. All this data, and trying to find any real nuanced discussion is hard. Basically we have one group of people tut-tutting at anyone who suggests that anything but a hard-lockdown, zero case attempt was a reasonable approach (and if you suggest such a thing you are a Very Bad Person), and another group who childishly ignores the whole thing. It's been exasperating to watch.

Hi Chuck, long time supporter with a follow up question. I've thought a lot about how big an "increment" is in the context of what I advocate for in my neighborhood (I understand that Strong Towns has a nuanced view that goes beyond the basic Y/NIMBY conversation, but as a matter of practice, I generally advocate with the YIMBY crowd).

It strikes me that an increment should be large enough to make it worthwhile to adsorb the costs of land and tearing down the old building across the new units; in other words, there's not many situations in which someone would tear down a single family home to build a triplex, unless it was about to fall over anyways.

This seems to end up with me having a larger definition of "increment" than you do. Can you comment on this? How do we get SFHs to turn into triplexes if each new unit has a $100k+ burden imposed on it to cover the prior structure and teardown?